- REACHING OUT COMING IN QUALITY LEARNING
Up Close and Personal
Who Cares Anyway?
- 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,
- The Digital Divide
- Falling through the Net
- Have Nots are Growing Over Time
- 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."
- 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.”
- ADEC Vision
- No More Back Roads
- Reach into communities less than 25,000
- HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic Serving
- Developing Countries
- 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
- Pretty Good Internet
- DSL
- Satellite Wireless
- LMDS
- Radio wireless
- Protocols
- Do We Need…..
INTERNET 3….
-Learning
-Global Relationships
- 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
- The Four Ethical Issues
- Privacy
- Accuracy
- Property
- Accessibility
- It’s A Big World After All
- Globalization
- Privacy
- Security
- Weak/strong encryption
- Languages
- Culture
- Free Speech
- Learning Oriented Policies in A Bandwidth
Crazy World
- 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
- Learning is About Making Connections
- Neurological
- Cognitive
- Social
- Experiential
K. Patricia Cross
University of California - Berkley
- 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
- 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
- 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
- We Should Care About Scholarship/Access/Innovation
- Relationships
- Ethics
- Values
- Collaboration
- Service
- Globalization
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Four Cultures of the Academy
- Collegial
- Managerial
- Developmental
- Negotiating
William Bergquist
Jossey-Bass
- 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
- Successful Collaborative Outcomes
- Competence
- Shared, Understood Goal
- Mutual Respect, Tolerance & Trust
- Creation and Manipulation of Shared Spaces
- Multiple Forms of Representation
- Continuous Communication
- 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
- Oh Where Shall We Go?
- The Waiting Place?
- Some Really Scary Place?
- Fishing?
- Mountain Climbing?
- Opt Out?
- Opt In?
- Oh - Where Shall We Go??????????????.
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