Bill Wolff

Biography

Bill Wolff is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, and has recently accepted an offer to join the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at Rowan University as an Assistant Professor of the Writing Arts. His dissertation, As If Students Mattered: Instructional Technology and Curriculum Development in the Anywhere Anytime Learning Environment, shifts the focus from technology itself to the student, by asking: How are students actually using instructional technology to support their learning now? How can faculty and administrators learn from students in ways that inform our teaching practices and departmental curricula? The analysis draws on theories of complex adaptive systems, examining the university itself as an ecosystem, where students, faculty, administrators, and technology interact within an ecology of learning. In this ecosystem, learning and curricular growth occur when educators become aware of the transformative impact that instructional technology has on not only what students learn, but, more importantly, how and where students learn. Through this new understanding, English departments, writing programs, and other disciplines, as well as colleges and universities on a larger scale, can more successfully meet the challenge of using new technologies to best support learning. He will defend on April 21, 2006.

EDUCAUSE Publications

  • Laptop Use in University Common Spaces
    • Article
    • Author

    Following the implementation of a wireless network at the University of Texas at Austin in fall 2000, wireless coverage by spring 2005 included approximately 80 percent of common spaces and 40 percent of classrooms.

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Status: Yes, current member