Chronicle of Higher Education Audio: Tech Therapy

Jose A. Bowen, a dean at Southern Methodist University, talks to the Tech Therapy team about his new book 'Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning.'

The social norms around courtship and sex are changing rapidly at colleges, and administrators shouldn?t "bury their heads in the sand" when it comes to student behavior, argues Brian Mustanski, associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University. The Tech Therapy team explores the challenges posed by student sexting and other behaviors, as well as the educational opportunities of sharing sexual-health information online.

The biggest challenges college face when designing new mobile services is over-planning, argues Cindy Bixler, CIO of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Tech Therapy team explores the challenges college face as the number of students and professors carrying smartphones and tablets grows.

Classroom response systems, or ?Clickers,? have been around for years, but only a small percentage of classes use them. Competing and incompatible brands, faculty reluctance to try new technologies, and confusion about which campus group should provide support for the devices all contribute to a slow adoption, says Derek Bruff, director of Vanderbilt University?s Center for Teaching and author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. The Tech Therapy team looks at how these gadgets can be seen as an example of how hard it is to move technology beyond the early adopter stage.

Frank Warren, founder of a site called Post Secret that invites anyone to share their darkest secrets online, talks about how the notion of privacy is changing in the digital age, based on his recent campus tour.

George Siemens, who leads Athabasca University's Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, makes the case for why colleges should experiment with inviting tens of thousands of students to participate in their courses online, for free. The model poses challenges to traditional education models, but it will it work for teaching Chaucer?

Jolene Koester, president of California State University at Northridge, admits that she doesn't know enough about technology. But she still believes IT is a key piece of her institution's future, and she tells the Tech Therapists why.

Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast talk about secure information technology and how college leaders can make their computer networks more secure by working to change campus culture.

The Chronicle's Tech Therapy podcast team checks in with Anne Margulies, Harvard University's chief information officer, about the university's renewed commitment to technology on campus and her thoughts on how campuses can help encourage innovations like Facebook, which started at the university.

The Chronicle's Tech Therapy podcast team checks in with Anne Margulies, Harvard University's chief information officer, about the university's renewed commitment to technology on campus and her thoughts on how campuses can help encourage innovations like Facebook, which started at the university.

Summer is a time for colleges to take stock of technology use on campus, but IT assessment intimidates some officials. The Tech Therapy team talks with Sondra Smith, co-CIO of St. Lawrence University, about how she uses data and other tools to gauge IT performance while avoiding anxiety.

In this month's episode of Tech Therapy, The Chronicle's monthly technology podcast, a U. of Maryland Professor describes an iPhone app he developed for his courses, and he talks about his vision for helping students prepare for a business world where smartphones will likely be the norm.

The Tech Therapy team talks with Dan Case, assistant director of learning technology at Carroll College, in Montana, about the challenges his institution's small IT staff faces as students bring more and more devices to campus.

The nation's library now archives all public Twitter messages - what's next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress about when the Twitter archive will be available to researchers, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for librarians in the information age.

Many institutions have merged their IT and library operations, sometimes resulting in a clash of cultures. Sue Stroyan, information-services librarian for Illinois Wesleyan University, talks to the Tech Therapy team about why this trend is likely to continue, and what tomorrow's college library might look like.