Future Extension

Balancing the Tech and the Touch

Janet Poley, President
American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

April 11,, 2001

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1. Future Extension
   Balancing the Tech and the Touch

2. 21st Century Extension
   
   • Returning to Our Roots - Kellogg Commission Reports
   • The Engaged University
   • Access
   • Learning Society
   
   

3. The Learning Society
   
   • Values and fosters habits of lifelong learning-responsive and flexible learning programs and learning networks
   • Socially inclusive - communities of interest and communities of place
   • Local-Regional-National-Global
   
   

4. Information Technologies
   
   • Tools for enriching learning by tailoring instruction to societal, organizational and individual needs.
   • Help provide equity of access to learning-wide variety of teaching and learning opportunities and approaches
   • New Partnerships
   
   

5. Engaged University (7 part test - characteristics)
   
   • Responsiveness
   • Respect for partners
   • Academic neutrality
   • Accessibility
   • Integration
   • Coordination
   • Resource Partnerships
   
   

6. Extension on the Brink?
   
   • King and Boehlje JOE article
   • “Age of Never Satisfied Customer
   • E-Extension
   • Harvard Business School - Winners and Losers - First Movers - Content, Packaging, brand identity
   
   

7. Follow-on to FACT Report:
   
   • Richness Hierarchy
   • Defining What We Must Do Together
   • Content Has Value
   • University Wide Programming
   • Not Programmed Learning
   • Open Systems - Organized
   • Personal - High Touch
   
   

8. E-Learning - Killer App?
   
   • Consortia
   • Audio
   • Educational Effectiveness
   • Trusted Source
   • MIT - Way of the Future?
   
   

9. Four Ethical Issues
   
   • Privacy
   • Access
   • Accuracy
   • Property
   
   

10. Accountability
    
    • Duplication
    • Use of Technology for Efficiency
    • Careful to Retain Concern for Individual and Personal - Local
    • Better Scheme for Extension Front Door
    
    
11. Learners Need 3 Things
    
    • Access to authentic communities of learning, interpretation, exploration and knowledge creation
    • Resources to help them work with both distal and local communities
    • Widely accepted representations for learning and work Brown and Duguid
    
    

12. AdvancedInternet Satellite Extension Project
    
    • Digital Inclusion
    
    

13. Concentration of PovertyDeconcentration of Opportunity
    
    • Inner cities and isolated rural areas
    • Lack of infrastructure in poor neighborhoods
    • Lack of investment leads to fewer economic opportunities
    
    

14. Concentration of PovertyDeconcentration of Opportunity
    
    • Relevant content
    • Social, cultural and professional activities online
    
    

15. The “Engaged” University
    
    • Outreach & Extension Important
    • Meeting Lifelong Learning Needs
    • Development of Skilled Workforce
    • New Partnerships/Relationships with Private Sector
    • Knowledge Networks -Economic Engine
    
    
16. Broadband Access to All
    
    • Rural and Remote Areas
    • Learning Centers
    • Historically Black Colleges & Universities
    • Tribal Colleges
    • Reaching Out to Overcome Distance
    
    
17. Technology Access Necessary - Not Sufficient
    
    • Applications
      • Learning Modules/Objects
      • Digital Libraries
      • Asynchronous/Synchronous Communication
      • Simulations
      • Virtual Reality
      • Teleimmersion
      
      
    
    
18. New Teaching and Learning Models
    
    • Four generations
      • Correspondence study
      • Multi-media with print
      • Online learning
      • Internet2 applications
      
      
    
    
19. New Research Models: Beyond Comparative Studies
    
    • No significant difference
    • Instructional design and operational environment
    • Media attribute theory
    
    
20. Attribute Analysis (Smith & Dillion 1999)
21. Blurring Research/Education
    
    • Collaboratories/Collaborative Worktools
    • Grand/Global Experiments
    • Participatory Research
    • Modeling
    • Instruments
    • New Creative Conceptualizations
    
    
22. Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Projec
    
    • 3 year, NSF
    • $4 million
    • Partnership
      • ADEC, Internet 2, Universities, smaller and minority serving institutions, rural and remote learners
      • Tachyon.Network
      • CAIDA, NLANR
      
      
23. Project Goals
    
    • Explore and Evaluate:
      • satellite technology to deliver Internet to underserved audiences; and
      • deployment and integration of distance education applications.
        

24. Research objectives include:
    
    • “pretty good Internet?”
    • requirements for satellite-based IP network
    • QOS issues per last mile
    • network performance measurements
    • teaching and learning applications
    • business model
      

25. Tachyon.net
26. Chart
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27. Institutions
    
    • North Carolina State/A&T Universities
    • University of Maryland
    • University of Illinois
    • University of Nebraska
    • University of California
    • Washington State University
    
    
28. References
    
    • ADEC/Tachyon Test Server
      • http://63.103.96.228/
      
      
    • Tachyon General Testing User Log
      • http://63.103.96.228/test
      
      
    • Main Street Economist - Center for the Study of Rural America – FRB of Kansas City
      • http://kc.frb.org/RuralCenter/mainstreet/MainStMain.htm
      
      
    • Business 2.0 – Milking the Net…for all it’s worth
      • http://www.business2.com/content/channels/technology/2000/06/13/1286