Teaching High-Tech History: Who Needs Professors in Cyberspace?

Abstract

In 1996, Acadia University embarked on the “Acadia Advantage” (AA) programme. The university began wiring ail classrooms and residences for Internet access, invested in a variety of high technologies, and enrolled approximately one- third of the first-year students in specially designated courses in several disciplines that required the use of notebook computers in and out of class. In September of this year, ail first- year students leased a standard notebook computer. By the year 2000, mobile-computing technology will be an integral and inescapable feature of the campus.