REACHING OUT COMING IN QUALITY LEARNING

Dr. Janet Poley
Madison, Wisconsin
August 4, 2000

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  1. REACHING OUT COMING IN QUALITY LEARNING
    Up Close and Personal
    Who Cares Anyway?
  2. Distance Education
    • Taking learning opp. to the people
    • Taking learning opp. to the wealthy
    • Taking learning opp. to the suburbs
    • Taking learning opp. to the educated
    • -D.C., Silicon Valley, Austin, Seattle,
  3. The Digital Divide
    • Falling through the Net
    • Have Nots are Growing Over Time
  4. Heterick Comments on DD
    • “We should worry about the unhappily slow roll-out and high cost of high speed digital connectivity. To produce really compelling learning applications, we will most often require megabit access."
  5. The Real Digital Divide
    • “At the current roll-out rate of our phone companies’ digital subscriber line technology and the cable companies symmetrical broadband services, we will be severely limited in what we can design in the way of new learning environments for quite some time to come.”

  6. ADEC Vision
    • No More Back Roads
    • Reach into communities less than 25,000
    • HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic Serving
    • Developing Countries

  7. Who Do Most of Underserved Schemes Really Serve?
    • Not the “distant”
    • Not the place bound
    • Not the less educated
    • Not the educators
    • Not the national interest
    • Not universal in service
  8. Pretty Good Internet
    • DSL
    • Satellite Wireless
    • LMDS
    • Radio wireless
    • Protocols

  9. Do We Need…..
    INTERNET 3….
    -Learning
    -Global Relationships

  10. Improving Access and Applications
    • Bandwidth offers “realism” with instructional potential for more concrete and complex symbols and visuals
    • Bandwidth offers “voice” and affect
    • Two-way offers active engagement and adaptation to learners
    • Synchronous offers immediacy and responsiveness

  11. The Four Ethical Issues
    • Privacy
    • Accuracy
    • Property
    • Accessibility

  12. It’s A Big World After All
    • Globalization
    • Privacy
    • Security
    • Weak/strong encryption
    • Languages
    • Culture
    • Free Speech

  13. Learning Oriented Policies in A Bandwidth Crazy World

  14. Effects of Internet Based Instruction on Learning
    • In many institutions the change to an Internet based system has been instituted with little or no consideration for the impact on student learning.
      Edwin M. Garten
      S.W. Missouri State

  15. Learning is About Making Connections
    • Neurological
    • Cognitive
    • Social
    • Experiential
      K. Patricia Cross
      University of California - Berkley

  16. Technology, Learning, Community
    • “Learning has many ends.”
    • “Teaching has one end - to enable learning.”
    • It is important to create more learner centered colleges and universities
      Mark Milliron & Cindy Miles
  17. Organizational Renewal NOT Just Money on Bandwidth
    • 1996 Telecom Act Flawed
    • Greater Concentration/Megamergers
    • Increased Costs
    • Focused Capital Away from Access and Service Innovation -Favors Network Infrastructure
    • More Connectivity than Uses
  18. Bandwidth Supply and Demand
    • Assuming new applications and 30% annual growth in usage for current applications there will be a 20 fold increase in bandwidth demand by 2001 - there is a severe oversupply: 400 times increase in supply
      Mark Bruneau and Pascal Aquirre: Renaissance Worldwide
  19. We Should Care About Scholarship/Access/Innovation
    • Relationships
    • Ethics
    • Values
    • Collaboration
    • Service
    • Globalization
  20. Creating Succes
    • “The most successful educational organizations - the ones that others will want to emulate - will be establishing design sensibilities that create new ideas for marketplaces as well as marketplaces for ideas.”
      Michael Schrage Educom Review
  21. The Full Motion Video Myth for Learning Applications
    • Television & Internet Convergence
    • 50 Years of Television Research - What Makes A Difference?
    • Sight, Sound, Text, Cueing
    • Content,Packaging,Dissemination, Manipulation,Terminals
    • Attribute Analysis, Virtual Reality
  22. ADEC “IDEAL” Distance Education Initiative
    • “Be it resolved that ADEC will promote multi-institutional collaboration and develop a climate to better define interconnected educational and business practices and procedures….draw upon our collective resources more efficiently through collaborative efforts.” Handout: IDEAL Paper
  23. Resolutions
    • Better respond to the needs and priorities of our clientele as we use advanced communication technologies together
    • Use ADEC financial resources to support programs consistent with interconnection, interoperability and collaboration
  24. Framework for Successful Change
    • In Colleges/Universities top-down bureaucratic,centralized corporate strategies don’t work and are counterproductive
    • Scarce resource today is not Bandwidth, but people who can create and innovate in the knowledge age
      R. Birnbaum
      How Academic Leadership Works - Jossey Bass
  25. Maslow Had It Right
    • The more evolved people get, the more psychologically healthy they get. More enlightened management policy is necessary in order to survive in competition, and the more handicapped an enterprise with an authoritarian policy will be.
      A. H. Maslow
      Maslow On Management - John Wiley

  26. The Four Cultures of the Academy
    • Collegial
    • Managerial
    • Developmental
    • Negotiating
      William Bergquist
      Jossey-Bass

  27. Birnbaum’s Shared Leadership
    • Structurally Congruent
    • Values Quality and Civility
    • Politics Enabling not Disabling
    • Collegial-ideas, decisions and behaviors of many not just ascribed positions
    • Must be Shared Responsibility
    • Committed, Loyal to Organization
  28. Successful Collaborative Outcomes
    • Competence
    • Shared, Understood Goal
    • Mutual Respect, Tolerance & Trust
    • Creation and Manipulation of Shared Spaces
    • Multiple Forms of Representation
    • Continuous Communication

  29. Collaboration (cont.)
    • Formal and Informal Environments
    • Clear Lines of Responsibility but Not Restrictive Boundaries
    • Decisions Not by Consensus
    • Physical Presence Not Necessary
    • Selective Use of Outsiders for Insights
      Michael Schrage
      No More Teams

  30. Oh Where Shall We Go?
    • The Waiting Place?
    • Some Really Scary Place?
    • Fishing?
    • Mountain Climbing?
    • Opt Out?
    • Opt In?
    • Oh - Where Shall We Go??????????????.