Integrating Technology in Higher Education contains 20 chapters that provide technology integration experiences of authors from four continents and a diversity of disciplines in higher education settings. The utilization of various hardware and software tools to facilitate teaching and learning is discussed in the chapters of this edited book. The four major themes that crisscross the chapters of the book are: infrastructure, instructional design, integration, and interaction. Chapter authors share their real-life technology integration experiences and offer tried and tested suggestions and recommendation to others who wish to integrate technologies into their own educational settings.

Streetrepreneurs are hard-working people who provide goods and services to communities and neighborhoods in developing countries. They are a group of entrepreneurs who have not been researched as much as other groups of entrepreneurs.

Thirty years ago, in 1983, the influential report A Nation At Risk was published. In that report, American public education was considered to be mediocre. As the title implies, this brief report provides current information and data that shows that public education in this country is still mediocre.

"Dr. Thiru's Golf Quiz" both asks and answers 100 fascinating questions about the game of golf. Questions encompass interesting golf trivia including the history of the game.Author Dr. M.O. Thirunarayanan, an avid golfer and university professor, provides an interesting and fun way to teach either the well-practiced or beginning golfer the little-known facts of the game of golf. Samples of included questions follow:

What is the penalty if a golf ball falls down accidentally from the tee before it is addressed?Of all the presidents until the end of the twentieth century, which president of the United States is considered to have been the best golfer?What are the odds of a golfer hitting a hole-in-one?Who won the first Women's British Open Championship?What is a "gutty"?If you just can't get enough of golf by swinging your club out in the warm sunshine, then "Dr. Thiru's Golf Quiz" will provide you with enough knowledge of the game to impress all your golfing buddies the next time you're on the course!

The World Wide Web enables us to do many things faster and easier--but has it really changed what we as human beings can accomplish in our lives? An intriguing collection of essays, "A One Thousand Dollar Web Challenge!!! Short Papers on the Use of Technology in Education" explores the impact and uses of the Web, particularly in educational settings.In a section entitled, "The Impending McMorphosis of the Global Professor," author M. O. Thirunarayanan describes a future in which learners will visit "drive-through universities" for both educational enhancement and an order of French fries. The author argues that technology-based distance education is allowing students to obtain degrees in short periods of time with little effort in "Technology and Degree Inflation.""From Clickers to Thinkers..." compares our manic clicking behavior on the Web to the pecking behavior that Skinner reinforced experimentally among his laboratory pigeons. Finally, "A One Thousand Dollar Web Challenge!!!" offers a $1,000 prize to the first reader who finds one thing that the World Wide Web has enabled them to do that they couldn't have done at all before the Web was developed.

"We human beings have successfully developed machines that can read and write, but we have met only with very limited success in our attempts to developmachines that can think and learn. Our brains are better suited to learn and thinkthan any machine that we have invented until this point in time.

"The inability of human beings to read or write should not sentence them to livesof poverty, unemployment, and continued illiteracy. "Thoughteracy for All"proposes an innovative way to improve the lives of the illiterate.

Author M. O. Thirunarayanan offers an intriguing solution to this problem.Thirunarayanan's concept, a 'Personal Thoughteracy Assistant (PTA)," aportable, and perhaps even wearable, device will be able to translate, read, write, and perform other various technological functions to help illiterate people.

With features such as searching external digital libraries, converting spokenwords into written text, and scanning text from books or written documents, thePTA will open up a new world for those struggling with illiteracy.