Committee studies classroom technology
By David Burchell
Staff Reporter
A UNL campus committee is ex
amining the impact of technology in
the classroom — including everything
from transparencies to video discs.
“We’re thinking of technology
across the spectrum,” said commit
tee chairwoman Charlene Sexton,
assistant professor of Vocational and
Adult Education.
The committee, “Electronic In
formation: Use of Technology in
College Teaching,” is composed of
eight faculty members from various
departments at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
The group, known informally as
the E.I. Study Group, was created in
September by the UNL Teaching
Council, whose goal is to promote
faculty development, Sexton said.
Sexton said the group is looking at
the “educational philosophy” of
technology, as well as the technology
itself.
Among the issues being looked at
by the E.I. Study Group is the effect
of uneven access to technology among
students.
Papers typed on computers are
neater and more “beautiful” than
those produced with typewriters,
Sexton said. Professors often expect
neat, computer-generated papers, she
said, and subconsciously become
biased against those written with
typewriters.
That could give students with
computers an advantage, Sexton said.
But, she said, the group does not
research those issues directly. Instead
it takes the role of encouraging and
coordinating such studies, she said.
The group also will conduct fac
ulty workshops, support faculty re
view of software and act as a center
for educational technology material
and information.
The study group also is is sponsor
ing a national teleconference May 10
on technology in education. Called
* ‘A Look into the Future of Education
and Technology,” the teleconference
will feature national experts in edu
cational technology, Sexton said.
Topics discussed will include pri
vacy on computer systems, interac
tive video, and using voice recogni
tion on computers, where computers
respond to oral commands.
The conference will take place in
the College of Business Administra
tion auditorium.
Sexton said the committee mem
bers also are considering starting a
program in which faculty members
would study issues in educational
technology.
Ten to 12 faculty members would
apply to participate in either a one- or
two-year program, Sexton said.
She said the program still is in the
planning stages.
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faculty senate representative, objected
to narrowing the difference between
24-hour and 10-hour permits.
The 10-hour permits would free
parking spaces for students attending
night classes, Karels said.
But with only a $60 difference per
year between the two permits, “no
one will buy the 10-hour” permit,
“so we’re back to wasted space,” he
said.
Karels said he thinks the $360 for
the 24-hour permit is “underpriced,
not overpriced.” If people think the
price is too high, they can “buy
something else,” he said.
“What they’re saying is that they
want something for nothing,” he said.
The committee also discussed
changing the proposed 10-hour per
mit to a 12-hour permit, from 7 a.m.
to 7 p.m., as suggested at the dean’s
and director’s meeting in March, Burke
said.
Burke’s proposal would set reserved
parking student permits at $180 a
year. The spaces would be open all
day. Currently, students with reserved
parking permits pay $ 150 for 24-hour
parking.
Committee members in March
proposed different rates for reserved
student parking. According to the
minutes of that meeting, commuter
students could buy either a 24-hour or
a 10-hour reserved parking permit.
The 24-hour annual rate would cost
$240. The 10-hour rate would cost
$180 annually.
Students living on campus could
buy reserved spaces, on a 24-hour
basis only, for $240.
Burke’s proposal included an in
crease for regular annual student
permits to $60, from the current $50
annually. He said Goebel agreed that
if the permits were raised to $60, the
rate would not change the next year.
Karels and Wassenberg objected
to raising it because the committee
had promised UNL students that the
rate, when raised for the 1989-90
school year, would remain the same
for 1990-91.
Ron Fuller, staff assistant for the i
parking division, said the division 1
“wants to make sure we don’t come
up short” to cover expenses associ
ated with emergencies and planned
improvement projects.
Karels suggested the university not
make some of the improvements.
“I don’t hear people clamoring
they want the lots paved. I hear them
clamoring (about) raising the rales
again,” he said.
The committee agreed to review
the rates suggested by Burke and vote
on them at its meeting April 16.
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company, Andcor Companies Inc., of
Minneapolis, found that many col
lege graduates have unrealistic ex
pectations when they enter the job
market.
Most students expect to find jobs
within three months after graduation
at medium-sized or large companies,
and earn starting salaries of at least
$24,000, Andcor found after ques
tioning 692 college students in Min
nesota.
Realistically, most college gradu
ates will spend about six months look
ing for jobs that pay $15,000 to S23.000 '
a year for firms with fewer than 100
employees, said Christy Geiger, on
campus representative program coor
dinator for Andcor.
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