Jane M. Bachnik is Professor of Anthropology at the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Chiba, Japan.

Since Japan has promoted IT more intensively than almost any other country, and is itself a leading producer, it is telling that actual implementation has been slow. Jane Bachnik and her colleagues find the reasons not just in bureaucracy and individual intransigence, but in deeper social contradictions. The analyses in this book not only inform our understanding of IT and of Japanese society, but illuminate the relationship between culture and the pressure for practical change in any context.

• Part 1 Introduction: Social Challenges to the IT Revolution in Japanese EducationPart 2 Reluctant Providers, Hesitant Users: IT Support ServicesChapter 3 A Nationwide Assessment of IT Implementation in Higher EducationChapter 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being an IT Service Provider: A Case StudyChapter 5 No Faculty Service Stations on the Information Highway: A Case StudyChapter 6 Do IT Yourself: Short-circuits in Technical Support ServicesChapter 7 Social and Structural Barriers to the IT Revolution in High-Tech IndustriesPart 8 Open Circuits and Closed Doors: Institutional BarriersChapter 9 Cyberstructure, Society, and Education in JapanChapter 10 Barriers to Educational Use of the Internet in a Japanese UniversityChapter 11 Lessons from a Program to Develop Faculty IT SkillsChapter 12 Developing a University Website: A Webmaster's PerspectiveChapter 13 Implementing IT in the "Perfect Bureaucracy"Part 14 Pedagogy: More than TechnologyChapter 15 Teaching, Learning, and Computing in Japan and the United StatesChapter 16 The Significance of Off-line Learning for On-line ProjectsChapter 17 On-line Technology Isn't Enough: Transforming the Teacher-Student Learning ProcessChapter 18 Three Critical Gaps in Computer LiteracyChapter 19 Technology and the Tyranny of Tradition in Japanese Higher EducationPart 20 Conclusion: Technology and the Status Quo: The Paradox of Reform

Jane M. Bachnik is Professor of Anthropology at the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Chiba, Japan.

Since Japan has promoted IT more intensively than almost any other country, and is itself a leading producer, it is telling that actual implementation has been slow. Jane Bachnik and her colleagues find the reasons not just in bureaucracy and individual intransigence, but in deeper social contradictions. The analyses in this book not only inform our understanding of IT and of Japanese society, but illuminate the relationship between culture and the pressure for practical change in any context.

• Part 1 Introduction: Social Challenges to the IT Revolution in Japanese EducationPart 2 Reluctant Providers, Hesitant Users: IT Support ServicesChapter 3 A Nationwide Assessment of IT Implementation in Higher EducationChapter 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being an IT Service Provider: A Case StudyChapter 5 No Faculty Service Stations on the Information Highway: A Case StudyChapter 6 Do IT Yourself: Short-circuits in Technical Support ServicesChapter 7 Social and Structural Barriers to the IT Revolution in High-Tech IndustriesPart 8 Open Circuits and Closed Doors: Institutional BarriersChapter 9 Cyberstructure, Society, and Education in JapanChapter 10 Barriers to Educational Use of the Internet in a Japanese UniversityChapter 11 Lessons from a Program to Develop Faculty IT SkillsChapter 12 Developing a University Website: A Webmaster's PerspectiveChapter 13 Implementing IT in the "Perfect Bureaucracy"Part 14 Pedagogy: More than TechnologyChapter 15 Teaching, Learning, and Computing in Japan and the United StatesChapter 16 The Significance of Off-line Learning for On-line ProjectsChapter 17 On-line Technology Isn't Enough: Transforming the Teacher-Student Learning ProcessChapter 18 Three Critical Gaps in Computer LiteracyChapter 19 Technology and the Tyranny of Tradition in Japanese Higher EducationPart 20 Conclusion: Technology and the Status Quo: The Paradox of Reform

Jane M. Bachnik is Professor of Anthropology at the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Chiba, Japan.

Since Japan has promoted IT more intensively than almost any other country, and is itself a leading producer, it is telling that actual implementation has been slow. Jane Bachnik and her colleagues find the reasons not just in bureaucracy and individual intransigence, but in deeper social contradictions. The analyses in this book not only inform our understanding of IT and of Japanese society, but illuminate the relationship between culture and the pressure for practical change in any context.

• Part 1 Introduction: Social Challenges to the IT Revolution in Japanese EducationPart 2 Reluctant Providers, Hesitant Users: IT Support ServicesChapter 3 A Nationwide Assessment of IT Implementation in Higher EducationChapter 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being an IT Service Provider: A Case StudyChapter 5 No Faculty Service Stations on the Information Highway: A Case StudyChapter 6 Do IT Yourself: Short-circuits in Technical Support ServicesChapter 7 Social and Structural Barriers to the IT Revolution in High-Tech IndustriesPart 8 Open Circuits and Closed Doors: Institutional BarriersChapter 9 Cyberstructure, Society, and Education in JapanChapter 10 Barriers to Educational Use of the Internet in a Japanese UniversityChapter 11 Lessons from a Program to Develop Faculty IT SkillsChapter 12 Developing a University Website: A Webmaster's PerspectiveChapter 13 Implementing IT in the "Perfect Bureaucracy"Part 14 Pedagogy: More than TechnologyChapter 15 Teaching, Learning, and Computing in Japan and the United StatesChapter 16 The Significance of Off-line Learning for On-line ProjectsChapter 17 On-line Technology Isn't Enough: Transforming the Teacher-Student Learning ProcessChapter 18 Three Critical Gaps in Computer LiteracyChapter 19 Technology and the Tyranny of Tradition in Japanese Higher EducationPart 20 Conclusion: Technology and the Status Quo: The Paradox of Reform