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Tough Issues in Distance Learning
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World Wide Web as Distance Learning Classroom
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The Information-age University: The Future
Not an evolution.. or steady improvement of change of what we are. Rather a transformation - a new way of Being
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When you create a new context, you create a new realm of possibility, one that did not previously exist.Tracy Goss Last Word on Power
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The change to an information-age university requires...-- A change in faculty roles, -- A change in student roles, and -- New processes of interacting.
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Infrastructure Support and Environment Faculty
-- Faculty are on the frontline. We must invest in the faculty and teachers. -- Access to tools must be on desktop—or in the hand. -- Consider life-style of faculty... then consider what kind of access and support
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Distance Learning Issues - Faculty
Time for effective use of technologyAbout three years-- Use new technology to do the "old" -- Start experimenting with the tools of interactivity, simulation, and dialogue -- Rethink, reconceptualize their course content
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Distance Learning Issues - Faculty
-- Faculty Readiness -- Time to design courses for new environment -- Time to deliver and create new teaching and learning processes - Who can provide leadership here? -- Summer salaries, course release time, and mobile technologies
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Distance Learning Issues - Faculty
Support-- Psychological support - Leadership -- Career support -- Resources, equipment and support
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Distance Learning Issues - Faculty
Copyright - Intellectual Property issues -- Who owns the course? Faculty member? Institution? Other?
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Distance Learning Issues - Students
-- Student readiness-- Student Access-- Costs for programs: Who pays? How much?
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Distance Learning Issues - Academic Leaders /Admins
-- Dealing with a new way of Being - A new Context -- Funding formulas -- New Markets -- Where is the money? -- Where is the learning and teaching?
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Distance Learning Issues - Academic Leaders/Admins
Working with Academic consortiaChallenges of...-- Small classes -- Large classes -- New categories of students
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay, 1993
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Creating a New Context
-- "All men are created equal." -- "We will reach the moon by the end of the decade."
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Creating a New Context
-- What is the core belief to create a context supportive of effective life-long learning? -- Get into your groups and generate some statements of beliefs that support faculty/teachers, students, and academic administrators
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