Instructional Technology as a Rosetta Stone for Higher Education

Instructional technology has the opportunity to bridge cultural divides between business and academics by leveraging and combining tools and methods that are successful in each area. For example, similar structures in academic research and project management methodologies may be combined to ensure that stakeholders in each area can participate in common initiatives with minimal communication barriers. Boise State has been experimenting with convergent models to ensure instructional technology success. Applied more broadly, this collaboration through consilient methods can serve as an example of how reconciliation might occur in broader national debates regarding the value of higher education and its future.

OUTCOMES: Explore commonalities among IT and academic disciplinary tools and methods * Discuss the potential for technology to be a change agent in higher education * Investigate scholarship on institutional culture