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Jamil, Mubashrah, and Shah, Jamil Hussain. “Technology: Its Potential Effects on Teaching in

Higher Education.” New Horizons in Education 59.1 (2011): 38–51. Print.

The title of this source is “Technology: Its Potential Effects on Teaching in Higher

Education.” The genre of this source is online article from the UNCC library page. This article

explains how technology has facilitated higher education in Pakistan in terms of management,

communication, administration, coordination, development, collaboration, and distribution of

learning activities. However, there has also been controversy and debates as to whether the

impacts are positive or negative. A test was done to investigate the actual effects of technology

in higher education in Pakistan by surveying 336 teachers, which resulted in 74%-100% of the

sampled teachers finding technology to be rather useful due to re-usability of lectures, re-

production of question papers with minimum mistakes, and more. The intended readers of this

source are higher education students, teachers, or anyone involved in higher education. This

article is also part of New Horizons in Education, Vol.59. The authors of “Technology: Its

Potential Effects on Teaching in Higher Education” are Mubashrah Jamil and Jamil Hussain Shah

whom appear to be educators at Bahauddin Zakariya University and Mohiuddin Islamic

University. These are not very well known authors; however, their article contains good

credibility since it has been peer reviewed.

I believe that this article was a medium read due to a lot of statistical terms and

references. What really helped out in terms of understanding the text was the abstract which

summarized the topic and the results of the study, which was investigating the actual effects

technology integrated in higher education. This source is very applicable to my inquiry question

“Has Technology Affected Education in Negative or Positive Ways” since I plan to use the study
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done by Jamil and Shah as proof that technology has positively impacted higher education. The

stance of these authors is different compared to those of my other sources such as “The Effects

of Technology in Society and Education” by Brian Sutton and “Determining factors of the use of

e-learning environments by university teachers” by Hossein Mahdizadeh because Jamil and

Shah focus more on the positive effects of technology whereas the authors mentioned above

have a neutral stance.

 Jamil and Shah believe that “It is universally accepted that using A.V. aids in classrooms

develop students’ interest and motivate them towards learning. Multimedia-based

lectures helped to improve students’ attendance and understanding which ultimately

improve their GPA or grades in examinations.”

 “It also turned classroom environment from teacher-centered to student-centered and

overall the educational institution structure.”

 “The revolutionary effects of technology are not limited to the relationships of routine

life but education greatly. “

 “Young teachers exhibited more positive attitude towards uses of ICT; large majority of

teachers agreed or strongly agreed that ICT could have positive impacts for students’

motivation and attainments.”