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Where Computers Make a Difference in Learning
By David G. Brown
VP, Dean, and Professor of Economics
Wake Forest Universityhttp://www.wfu.edu/~brown and [email protected]
Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education
February 16, 1999
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THE WAKE FOREST PLANF96: IBM 365XD, 16RAM, 100Mhz, 810MB, CD-ROM, 14.4 modemF97: IBM 380D, 32 RAM, 130Mhz, 1.35GB, CD-ROM, 33.6 modemF98: IBM 380XD, 64 RAM, 233 Mhz, 4.1GB, CD-ROM, 56 modem
• Thinkpads for all• New Every 2 Years• Own @ Graduation• Printer for all• Wire Everything• Standard Software• Standard Template• IGN for Faculty
• 40+30 New People• 50% Faculty Trained• 75% CEI Users• +$3000 Tuition• 4 Year Phase In• Pilot Year• Plan for 2000• Now 3 Classes
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-To help communities establish and use computers to Customize Collaboration through Communication
-In Higher Ed, K-12, Businesses, and Towns
-Via Conferences, Customized Visits (to WFU), Consultancies, and Publications
-At http://iccel.wfu.edu
Wake Forest’s International Center
for Computer Enhanced Learning
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Campuses Represented in Interactive Learning: Vignettes from America’s Most Wired Campuses
American Middlebury Texas-AustinArizona Millsaps TuftsCalifornia-Davis Missouri-Rolla VanderbiltConneticut MIT VirginiaDartmouth NYU VassarEast Carolina Northwestern Wake ForestHarvard Oberlin Washington & LeeHendrix Oregon Washington StateJohns Hopkins Reed WhitmanKansas State Smith WilliamsLeMoyne SUNY-Potsdam WPIMichigan State Temple 93 Vignettes; 35
Campusess
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Positioning for the Future
• What are your institution’s strengths & weaknesses
• How do you determine your place in an electronic world?
• What will be your primary student markets--program areas? Degree credit? Geographic span? Age?
• What are the appropriate delivery technologies next year? 5 years? Etc?
• What is a realistic staffing plan? Outsourcing? Support personnel? Executive leadership?
• What institutional partnerships make sense?
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For a free copy of thismonograph, please comeup at the conclusion ofthis session and sign theroster of recipients. Please take only onecopy per institution.
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SUMMARY•Communication! Communication!
•Interactive Learning
•Ubiquitous Computing Essential
•Best Uses Easily Learned
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Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning Via--
PresentationsBetter--20%More Opportunities toPractice & Analyze--35%
More Access to SourceMaterials via Internet--43%
More Communication with Faculty Colleagues, Classmates,and Between Faculty and Students--87%
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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
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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
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Brown’s First Year Seminar• Before Class
– Students Find URLs & Identify Criteria
– Interactive exercises
– Lecture Notes
– E-mail dialogue
– Cybershows
• During Class– One Minute Quiz
– Computer Tip Talk
– Class Polls
• After Class– Edit Drafts by Team
– Guest Editors
– Hyperlinks & Pictures
– Access Previous Papers
• Other– Daily Announcements
– Team Web Page
– Personal Web Pages
– Exams include Computer
– Materials Forever
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Ways to Provide Universal Access at Less Cost
• Desktop Computers• Network Computers• Public station computers• Specified Threshold• Annual Lease• Phase in by classes• Phase in by programs• Hand me down• Loaner Pool
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The Big Three Tools for Collaborative Learning: E-mail + Web Pages for Each Course + URLs
SUMMARY
•Communication! Communication!
•Interactive Learning
•Ubiquitous Computing Essential
•Best Uses Easily Learned
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Anticipating the Future
• Digitized Scholarship
• Humanities Scholarship in Teams
• Weaker Disciplinary Boundaries
• New Typologies
• Specialized Institutions
• Collaborative Learning
• Collaborative Teaching
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Anticipating the Future (cont.)• Hybrid Courses• Guide by the Side• Globalization• Apprenticeships• Corps of Professorial Associates• Lifelong Relationships• Age of Experimentation• Age of Assessment• More Communities