Are We in the Right Sandbox? BOWEN, GERING
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Edward Bowen, Executive Dean, Distance Learning, Dallas TeleCollege (TX) and Carol Gering, Design Team Manager, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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With the introduction of Web 2.0 and other technologies, online course delivery is changing rapidly and dramatically. What does it mean to be literate in this new environment? How can we keep up with rapidly changing 21st Century skills? Do our current distance learning models still make sense when technology can extend access to content, experts, and peers? Join in a dialogue with two practitioners in the field of distance education to explore the boundaries of your institutional limitations.
Transcript of Are We in the Right Sandbox? BOWEN, GERING
Edward Bowen, Executive Dean, Distance Learning, Dallas TeleCollege (TX) and Carol Gering, Design Team Manager, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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Foundational Knowledge Application
Integration
Human Dimension
Caring
Learning How To Learn
Be interested in other places of the world and want to continue learning about those places via reading, the Internet, and travel.
Transactional Distance
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The level of autonomy (self-motivated learning) increases as the transactional
distance increases. To decrease transactional distance,
increase dialog.
Are we in the right Sandbox?
Ed Bowen and Carol GeringWCET Annual Conference 2009
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21st Century Skills
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21st Century Skills• life skills
• 21st century content
• core subjects
• learning and thinking skills
• information & communications technology literacy
• authentic assessment
—Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Information FluencyFriday, October 23, 2009
Tools share several signi!cant features with knowledge: they can only be fully understood through use, and using them entails both changing the user's view of the world and adopting the belief system of the culture in which they are used.
Situated Cognition and the Culture of LearningJohn Seely Brown; Allan Collins; Paul DuguidEducational Researcher, Vol. 18, No. 1. ( Jan. - Feb., 1989), pp. 32-42.
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Tools of the Culture
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Tools of the CultureFriday, October 23, 2009
Are we prepared to teach students?
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WE’RE ILLITERATE?or do students think
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Complexity, Diversity, Scaleimage by Eric Gaba – Wikimedia Commons user: Sting
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Tools of the CultureFriday, October 23, 2009
