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Community colleges are increasing the learning options offered to students in an effort to respond to new markets for networked and remote learning. Such alterations have implications for faculty and for faculty work as new educational technologies are embraced and institutional behaviors evolve. Educational technology has grown and evolved from correspondence in the early 1900s to more sophisticated delivery systems including videotapes, television, satellite, and eventually the Internet and the World Wide Web by the 1990s.1 Through the 1990s, however, colleges and universities underwent a major change: a shift in emphasis from the computer as a desktop tool to the computer as the communications gateway to colleagues and “content” (databases, image and text libraries, video, and the like) made increasingly accessible via computer networks.2 These developments were applied to instruction and student learning became decentralized from traditional formats, such as classroom instruction, labs, and lectures. These learning developments are expected to continue in the next decade to the extent that potentially profound and unavoidable advances in technology—particularly in computing capability, connectivity, bandwidth, software development, and digitized content—are expected to be vehicles of change for higher education.3
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Diaz, V., Cheslock, J. (2006). Faculty Use of Instructional Technology and Distributed Learning. In: Community College Faculty. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8464-7_5
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