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To be effective, online courses must do two things, says Fernando Senior, an instructional designer recently hired by the University of Minnesota’s distance-education department. They must focus on learners, and they must capitalize on the medium. In other words, students should demonstrate learning in different ways than they might in a classroom, because they have at hand the tools to do so.
… Constructing such rich learning environments wouldn’t be possible without technology, say its enthusiasts, but to make courses this sophisticated, schools are tapping project-management teams. And these bring their own set of pros and cons to education.
On the plus side, instructors say that working with teams makes them better teachers, and that different perspectives enhance their courses. They say they also see a difference in what students take away from their work: “Students take much more responsibility for their own learning and use the online environment to supplement and enhance their learning experiences,” says Trisha Swan
Wisdom here. Good article.
The site it comes from is worth noting too: ComputerUser
Many articles on file and I can flick them straight into the Palm! Beautifully done.
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This is a WELL conference visible to the whole web. Good stuff coming up on it!
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INHABITING INFORMATION – THE ARCHITECTURE OF COGNITIVE AMPLIFICATION
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American Experience in Vietnam: Home Page An ACS Online Interdisciplinary Course
This is a good example of a web page + webboard online course. Here is another one, both use webboard for discussion. Associated Colleges of the South | Sunoikisis I quite like it!
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Berge Collins Associates are consultants in online and web-based teaching and learning at a distance.
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EDUCAUSE Publications
A list of books that suddenly seem important!
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I did buy that paper in the link below. Looks interesting enough, but
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It is in a pdf file which is hard to read online IMO. I am used to the commands and formatting of HTML on the web, I have control over the presentation. All that is lost with prf. Of course they see this as a strength, that is the whole point. It is WYSIWYG locked in. Quite the opposite of say XML or whatever is being developed so that we can “write once view everywhere”. I can get uprotected pdfs onto my palm or convert them to HTML, but not this one – protected so that i cant even quote a paragraph with cut and paste – gone is the very thing that the web can do so well – allow me to do, cut and paste and so on – all disabled at great trouble and expense. I can see the point – payment for content – but it defies the marvels of sharing info for free. Open content will win out I think, has to be the way to go!
How then do we reward those who create? I’d never want anything i wrote locked up like this. Maybe a one off payment, but then I’d allow anyone to share it. Problems i know. Stephen King uses an honour system – maybe that will only work if you are that famous.
Rewarding the famous has always been out of proportion to rewarding the norm and day to day creator. The unpopular visible hand of the non-market might need to be called in.
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Since the late 1980’s, we’ve been hearing about the coming “convergence” of existing media with emerging media. From Hypercard hype, to George Gilder’s groundbreaking treatise on new media, Life Beyond Television, to the present day hype fest surrounding convergence, broadband, interactive, and other flavor of the month terms, there has been a hope and promise of media one day “bridging the proscenium” of the broadcast model and delivering true narrowcast content. Until very recently, this promise has fallen flat on its face when it comes to actual delivery.
The landscape is littered with the corpses of abandoned interactive T.V., integrated “tele-puter”, and on demand media projects.
Is it any wonder that interactive media professionals, investors, and consumers alike are jaded to the near quarterly output of the mainstream medias “next biggest thing? However, media professionals should not let the media’s proclivity to drive terms and concepts into the ground cause them to lose sight of the fact that a lot of these ideas are fundamentally good, potentially profitable, and moreover, almost certainly ripe with the potential of changing the way we communicate with each other, receive and process information and entertainment, and by extrapolation, view and relate to the world around us.
Looks interesting… also interesting is Mightywords where one can publich papers like this.