"The University of Florida has faced sweeping budget cuts from the State Legislature totaling 25 percent over three years. That is a main reason the university is moving aggressively to offer more online instruction. "We see this as the future of higher education," said Joe Glover, the university provost."
"In January 2009, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post disparagingly labeled the call for new media literacy and 21st Century skills "the latest doomed pedagogical fad,"..."
University refits student halls with Wifi and iPads for all. The aim "...to teach students 'IT IQ'-the ability to understand when a piece of technology is useful and when it isn't."