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Technology in Higher Education

2011· book-chapter· en· W2478749920 on OpenAlexaff
Daniel W. Surry, James R. Stefurak, Eugene Kowch

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvances in higher education and professional development book series · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrder (exchange)Unintended consequencesHigher educationTechnology educationEngineering ethicsInformation technologyPolitical scienceKnowledge managementPublic relationsEngineeringManagement scienceBusinessComputer scienceSociologyPedagogy

Abstract

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Leading technology integration in higher education requires an inquisitive, reflective approach. This chapter discusses key questions that university administrators, policy makers, faculty, and other stakeholders must address in order to effectively integrate technology into higher education. The questions are divided into three categories. First order question are conceptually simple questions that can be answered with basic information and little controversy. First order questions primarily relate to the cost, availability, and capabilities of technology. Second order questions build on first order questions and require more data, greater participation, and deeper analysis to be effectively answered. Examples of second order questions include how to effectively implement technology, the costs and benefits of technology, the unintended consequences of technology, and how to move from operational to strategic planning. Third order questions involve the most complex, controversial, and profound issues of technology and higher education. These questions will likely never be definitively answered but force us to continually reassess and evaluate our fundamental beliefs about higher education. Third order questions relate to the role of higher education in society, the control and ultimate impact of technology, and how technology affects the essential elements of the higher education experience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.050

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.007
Scholarly communication0.0080.008
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.312 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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