Everyone knows that conventional classroom media are dead and that computer-based technologies are the future of education. Why does DWU have so many “technology-enhanced” classrooms?
Conventional classroom technologies won’t be dead until the lecture as a form of teaching is dead. The last we checked, DWU classrooms were still full of faculty teaching and students taking notes. Conventional classroom media are still valuable for allowing students to share simultaneous learning experiences and permitting faculty to integrate these technologies into their lectures and engage the entire class in discussion of the materials viewed. Wireless technologies ultimately will enable Dakota Wesleyan faculty to extend the classroom throughout the campus, but physical classrooms will be with us for quite a while.
