Frank A. Dubinskas & James H. McDonald 
Electronic Technologies and Instruction [PDF ebook] 
Tools, Users, and Power

Introduction.
Knowledge Building and Knowledge Access: Teaching with
Electronic Tools (Associate Professor Frank A. Dubinskas
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan
1993, Vol. 12, No. 1: 1-11. Articles).
Interactive Courseware in Anthropology Classrooms
(Associate Professor James F. Hamill , Associate Professor Linda F.
Marchant National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 12, No. 1: 12-22).
Hypertext Indexing Applied to Computer-Mediated Conferencing
and Teaching: An Aid to Group Memory (Audrey E. Mason Weiss ,
Professor Duane G. Metzger , Assistant Professor James H. Mc Donald
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan
1993, Vol. 12, No. 1: 23-36).
Distance Education in Anthropology: Telecourses as a Teaching
Strategy (Professor Edwin S. Segal National Association for the
Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 12, No. 1:
37-48).
The Interpenetration of Technology and Institution: An
Assessment of an Educational Computer Conferencing System
(Assistant Professor James H. Mc Donald National Association for the
Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 12, No. 1:
49-65).
When Freedom of Choice Fails: Ideology and Action in a
Secondary School Hypermedia Project (Assistant Professor Gail
Bader, Assistant Professor James M. Nyce National Association for
the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 12, No. 1:
66-72. Commentaries).
Romancing the User: Hi-Tech Teaching in Anthropology and
Industry (Anna Hargreaves National Association for the Practice
of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 12, No. 1:
73-78).
Technology for Failure: Skeptical Perspectives on Alternate
and Hi-tech Teaching Methodologies (Professor Gregory F. Truex
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan
1993, Vol. 12, No. 1: 79-86. About the Contributors).
About the Contributors (National Association for the Practice
of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 12, No. 1:
87-89).

Volume Editors: Frank A. Dubinskas and James H. Mc
Donald
Frank Dubinskas is the Howard W. Alkire Chair in
International Business and Economics and associate professor of
anthropology at Hamline University, which he joined in September
1993. His research and writing include a decade of work on the
interface of technology, organizations, and culture, both in the
United States and in Europe and Japan. Much of this work has been
conducted in high-technology firms, and he has written on product
development and manufacturing in the automobile, biotechnology, and
computer industries; on concurrent engineering in manufacturing
automation; and on knowledge management and collaboration in
complex organization. His work has focused on the interactions
among users, organizations, and flexible technologies, including
electronic conferencing and other flexible software-based systems.
Publications include the volume Making Time: Ethnographies of
High-Technology Organizations (Temple University Press, 1988),
as well as articles and case studies in management and
anthropology. Before joining Hamline University, Frank Dubinskas
was assistant professor in the Carroll School of Management at
Boston College (1987-92); associate in research at the Harvard
Business School (1985-87); and Exxon Fellow and visiting scholar in
the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT (1983-85).
During 1991 and 1992, he was NEH Resident Fellow at the School of
American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working on research
materials from his (1990) field study of a manufacturing automation
project at Apple Computer, Inc. Since 1988, he served on an AAA
Panel on Disorders of Industrial Society, which will publish its
work in Diagnosing America (University of Michigan Press,
forthcoming).