New Opportunities for Teaching and Learning in a wired world

1. New Opportunitiesfor Teaching and Learningin a wired world A Presentation by David G. Brown, Dean, International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning Wake Forest University @Winston-Salem, N.C. April 25, 2000

2. New Day: Times of Rapid Change • Universal Access to the Network • From Access to Filtering a Flood of Info • Geographic barriers gone • Asynchronous Interaction • Multimedia Learners

3. New DayBig Changes for Higher Education Democratization of Access (Ubiquity) Democratization of Usage (Course Shells)

4. Heyday Because--- Universities Survive Change • 67 of the 74 oldest organizations! • Distribute authority • Tolerate Kooks • House young people with fresh ideas • House bright people with diverse views • Employ knowledge fountains

5. The economist in me says that doing business in an info-rich society will be different • Better informed buyers (web browsing) • Better informed sellers (metadata) • More data-based decisions • Faster cycle times • Less geographic loyalty • More interactive transactions • More customization • More specialization (& outsourcing)

6. Plan for 2000 Thinkpads for all Printers for all New Every 2 Years Own @ Graduation Wire Everything Standard Software Full Admin Systems IGN for Faculty 40+30 New People 75% Faculty Trained 85% CEI Users 98% E-Mail +15% Tuition ~$1500/Yr/Student 4 Year Phase In Pilot Year, Now 4 Classes THEWAKE FOREST PLAN Fresh/Junior Computer F99: IBM390, 128RAM 333Mhz, 6GB, CD-ROM, 56 modem, Netscape4.5, MapleV5.1, Windows98 Dreamweaver 2, SPSS9, MS Office Professional97

7. Students First 2 Layers: Threshold + Rapid Change Communicate/Access (Not Present/Analyze) Standardization Academic Freedom Nomadic Learners CONCEPTS BEHIND PLAN

8. CONCEPTS BEHIND PLAN • Dominant Use After College • Empower Existing Units • Eager Faculty • Students Change Agent • Exposure, Not Mandate • Partnership • Marketable Difference

9. Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning Via-- Presentations Better--20% More Opportunities to Practice & Analyze--35% More Access to Source Materials via Internet--43% More Communication with Faculty Colleagues, Classmates, and Between Faculty and Students--87%

10. Computers allow people---- • to belong to more communities • to be more actively engaged in each community • with more people • over more miles • for more months and years • TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE ICCEL -- Wake Forest University, 1999

11. With Ubiquity---The Culture Changes • Mentality shifts-- like from public phone to personal phone. • Teaching Assumptions shift-- like from readings are on reserve to everyone owns a copy of his/her own. • Timelines shift-- like from “our class meets MWF” to “we see each other all the time and MWF we meet together” • Students’ sense of access shifts-- like from “I can get that book in the library” to “I have that book in my library.” • Relationships shift-- like from a family living in many different states to all family members living in the same town

12. Examples from My Own Class • 1247 e-mails • Cybershow • One Minute Paper • Computer Tip Talk • Joint Editing

13. Beliefs of 91/93 Vignette AuthorsPedagogy and Philosophy • Interactive Learning • Learn by Doing • Collaborative Learning • Integration of Theory and Practice • Communication • Visualization • Different Strokes for Different Folks Wake Forest University, 2000

14. The educator in me says that doing business in an info-rich society will be different • More Communication • More Community Loyalty • More Collaboration • More Customization • More Interactivity

15. The teacher in me says that there are new tools and new opportunities • Collaboration & Extension • Continuous Communication • Controversy and Debate • Repetition • Alternate Materials

16. The New Education Environment • Many Tightknit Communities. Student Affinity and Bargaining Groups • Interactivity Expected. Between students and professors and among students • Information Filters Everywhere. Challenge is gaining and maintaining attention • Worldwide Specialization. Geography less relevant.

17. What’s My Role in the New World of e-Communication? Primary: Linking trusting clients with the best educational resources and motivating them to use them. Consolidator! Secondary: Creating educational resources for other “consolidators” to buy Tertiary: Selling auxiliary services such as meals, overnights, t-shirts, mailing lists

18. Therefore, I should--- • Focus on my comparative advantages • Strengthen ties with my natural constituencies • Partner with organizations that can provide outsourcers who understand my infrastructure • Build a reliable infrastructure • Enable my “team” to be interactive 7x24

19. Specific Actions to be Taken • Empower faculty with equipment, training, and support (democratize) • Partner with outsourcers like IBM • Adopt “infrastructure” usable by my students • Use fast-loading webpages that fit all screens • KISS (both faculty and students) • Collect and use Metadata

20. More Specific Actions-- • Create & Join Community Networks • Act on the 80/20 and 20/80 assumption • Customize service to natural constituency • Nurture My Clusters of Learners • Offer e-mail forwarding for life • Build monitored LISTSERVS-- especially before enrollment and after graduation • Presume that all information will be shared

28. Basic Themes • Communication • Customization • Collaboration • Community • Interactivity • Know What Business You’re in

29. David G. BrownWake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, N.C. 27109336-758-4878email: brown@wfu.eduhttp//:www.wfu.edu/~brownfax: 336-758-4875