Designing for Global Distance Learning

ACE/NETC '97
Cleveland, Ohio
July 15, 1997

Presented by Dr. Janet K. Poley

• TASK: PART I
  

  It is 20006. You are living in the "Global Village". Half of you live in the North. Half of you in the South. Later you will be participating in a distance learning "hook up" between your two villages. Take 15 minutes and create your village.

• TASK: PART I: QUESTIONS
  

  Who are all of you? What is the climate in your village? The economy? The technology? What do you do during the 24 hours a day? What do you wear?

  What kind of community do you have? What do you eat? What will your children or grandchildren do when they grow up? What socio-cultural & technological facts would you like to share with your counterpart village?

• TASK: PART II
  

  Prepare to participate in a distance learning hook-up with your counterpart village. How will you connect? What considerations will be necessary? What do you want to learn from them? What will they want to know from you? Be prepared to share your vision and aspirations for the future of the Global Village......

• TASK: PART II
  • Many are now advocating that KNOWLEDGE - not war and weapons - should be the organizing principle for the world.
  • How far has your village come in this direction?
  • How have you shifted the use of technology from defense to learning success?
  • What remains to be accomplished?

• Where are we now?
  • State of Knowledge
  • State of Technology
  • State of Humanity
  • State of Environment

• ADEC Webpage
  • Global Knowledge 97 notes

• Space? Where are we? What Next?
  • Satellites for Defense
  • Satellites for Communication
  • Satellites for Learning - Internet

• Intelsat - privatizing
  • Worldspace - Radio
  • CNN Penetration

• Computer Appliance

• Competition versus Collaboration
  Learning Program Development

• Divide into two groups
  • The Competitive Approach
  • The Collaborative Approach

  Describe the Virtual University Describe the Databases - Virtual Libraries Describe the approach to teaching, learning, distance learning program development Describe the language considerations

  Describe the financial arrangements Describe the intellectual property considerations Describe the winners and losers