Six influences that cut across the literature are identified: faculty member's interactions with technology, academic workload, institutional environment, interactions with students, the instructor's attitudes and beliefs about teaching, and opportunities for professional development.
Launched in February 1999 with the aim of significantly increasing the number of women in top science, engineering, and technology academic posts by 2007, the project has made 12 grants to institutions so far for individual activities to promote Athena's goals.
As law and technology academic Julia Powles, who co-wrote a research paper on DeepMind's health foray with the New Scientist journalist, Hal Hodson, who obtained and published the original (now defunct) patient data-sharing agreement, noted via Twitter: "This isn't transparency, it's trust demolition".
Yet as with many previous new technologies, academic discussion and debate remains largely speculative rather than well-informed and certain...That there are clear disparities between the educational rhetoric and education realities of social media use should come as little surprise.
While their students might embrace new technology, many academics have been reluctant to bring it into the classroom.
The UK has only just seen the launch of 4G (fourth generation) mobile communication technology, but academics at Surrey University are already looking at its successor.
A key finding from ECAR's recent undergraduate IT study shows that "meaningful and intuitive use of technology for academics cannot be assumed, even when a technology is widely available or used by students in other contexts" (Dahlstrom et al., 2015, p. 6).
Many Web4Dev speakers – including technology experts, academics, UN agency officials and innovators from the development and private sectors – cautioned against rushing into developing countries without first asking some tough questions.
Technology experts, academics, UN agency officials and innovators from the development and private sectors are joining forces at the conference to explore concrete ways of deploying new and existing mobile and online technologies to address poverty and disease in the poorest areas of the world.
Technology companies, academic institutions and other interested parties have until March 16 to submit proposals for the $10 million project, but anger about it has been growing both inside and outside Pakistan.
