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Today, November 28th, is an anniversary celebration for the University of Twente. Anniversaries are happy affairs; among their many functions, they bring people together who share some common connection but represent different generations of contact with that common connection. The University of Twente, as our common connection, is not old as universities go, but as an institution it is certainly old enough to have old values, and old ways of going about its business. Today, I want to think about old and new. I want to reflect about the idea of “tele-learning” as something new at the University of Twente, and I want to speculate on what it might mean for our old values, our old ways of doing things at this university. And, because I am thinking in terms of an anniversary and of celebration, I want to use a metaphor that relates to celebrating: I want to frame my thoughts around the idea of wine: old and new, mature or still fermenting, I want to expand upon two apparently contradictory parables about wine, and draw messages from these for the University of Twente, telematics, and tele-learning.
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Collis, B. (1998). New Wine and Old Bottles? Tele-Learning, Telematics and the University of Twente. In: Verdejo, F., Davies, G. (eds) The Virtual Campus. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35352-4_1
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