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eCompany features CCNMTL Executive Director, Frank Moretti in article on the transformation of the university by new media technologies

Home > News & Updates > eCompany features CCNMTL Executive Director, Frank Moretti in article on the transformation of the university by new media technologies

November 22, 2000. eCompany (December 2000), a new media industry magazine, published the feature story, "The Web is Transforming the University. How and Why?", describing the current debate surrounding technology and how it is changing the university as we know it. Dr. Moretti? picture is accompanied by the following text:

"This is the third great paradigmatic shift in learning history," argues Frank Moretti, head of the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University, one of the leaders in embracing the Web. (The first two great paradigmatic shifts were the inventions of the Greek alphabet in the eight century B.C. and Gutenberg's press in the 15th century.) "Now we have the chance to reinvent education and create something better," Moretti adds.

Full text of the article is available at eCompany.com