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Jamil, Mubashrah, and Shah, Jamil Hussain. “Technology: Its Potential Effects on Teaching in
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,
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
University. These are not very well known authors; however, their article contains good
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
Shah focus more on the positive effects of technology whereas the authors mentioned above
Jamil and Shah believe that “It is universally accepted that using A.V. aids in classrooms
“The revolutionary effects of technology are not limited to the relationships of routine
“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’