EDC&I 505 Online and
Distance Learning
Provocations
from TBA Articles
Allen & Seaman Online
Nation (Sloan Consortium –
October 2007)
Linda M:
Online enrollments continue to grow at a rate (12.9%) far exceeding the overall
higher education enrollments (1.2%).
Kleinberg Convergence of social and technological networks (Comcns of
ACM 2008)
Scott D.: New media have led to changes in how we
communicate and have also produced very rich data with which we can now test
longstanding theories and principles of social interaction.
Villano Collaboration Tools (Campus Technology
Ryan C.: The ability to intervene in that fashion
["just-in-time" teaching, to facilitate more intimate and timely
instructor/student interaction] and work with the student in real time is
incredibly powerful. It could change everything about the way we teach
Back to (Virtual) School (Educause Review September-October 2008)
Michael I: Virtual worlds take e-learning one step
further by capitalizing on a mixture of content and activity to support
learners who respond best to auditory, visual or kinesthetic modes of
instruction.
Miller
et al. School's Over
(European Commission – Joint Research Centre – 2008)
Kelvin J.: This report is a refinement of a conceptual
21st Century Learning-intensive Society where Learning Spaces replace
traditional classroom-based models.
Mizuko Ito et al. Living and Learning with New Media (MacArthur Fndn –
November, 2008)
Sara F.: Adults who stand on the other side of a
generation gap can see these new practices as mystifying and, at times,
threatening to existing social norms and educational standards
Kriplean
et al. Articulations of WikiWork
(CSCW’08,
Punie Socio-economic Impact of Social Computing (EC – Joint
Research Centre – 2008)
Dori W: There might not even be a next wave of social
computing as major changes
do
not emerge automatically or at frequent intervals.