Richard Hurley, the president of the University of Mary Washington (UMW), argues that universities “need to understand how technology can enhance coursework and broaden our students’ exposure to the world. We need to help our students take command of the web and be active, not passive, digital consumers.” Hurley states that by having students working in the digital space, they are fostering the growth for their students to be “thinkers and doers, to be analyzers and synthesizers and integrators and coordinators.” UMW has created a blogging platform to maximize student engagement in the online world. Additionally, it will be urging all incoming freshmen to register personal domain names and to create their own website and e-portfolios, and will be opening an Information and Technology Convergence Center that will contain “everything from audio and video equipment to editing and broadcast studios to classrooms wired so that students can project what’s on their laptops for all to see.”
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