- Posted 03/06/2001
Contact: Andrew Svec, 218-281-8435
UMC Featured in Online Learning Magazine
The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) is featured in an article entitled “Laptop Lessons,” appearing in the March 2001 issue of Online Learning Magazine. The Minneapolis-based magazine focuses on innovative strategies for business and education.
The article debates the merits and challenges of colleges providing notebook computers to students. Doug Knowlton, UMC’s Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, relays UMC’s success in infusing technology into the curriculum. The end result is that UMC students gain a very high level of technological skill along with their college degree.
The article is available in print and also online at www.onlinelearningmag.com (click March 2001 issue, or go directly to www.onlinelearningmag.com/new/mar01/feature4.htm). Photos of UMC’s technology-rich campus environment are also featured prominently in the print version of the article.
Widely regarded as the first college to provide every student and faculty member with a notebook computer, UMC began its technology initiatives in September of 1993. More information about UMC’s technology initiatives is available at the college’s website: www.umcrookston.edu.