The Web and the Liberal Arts
The Web and the Liberal Arts
We learn from differences
We create differences over
time
Many Balancing Acts
Motivations to change
Pressure to change
Change is not new - rate of
change is
CAUSE/SAC Executive
Roundtable
Lectures will endure, not
dominate
Characteristics of the web
that facilitate learning
Why Technology?
Why NOT Technology?
These are NOT binary
choices!
Bottom Line?
Institutional and personal
commitments
Slide 17
Who is “Learner?”
Student motivations
Students and technology
“Readership Skills in a
Culture of Simulation”
Slide 22
Back to the three
perspectives
Faculty Perspective
Information Services
Perspective
Traditional relationships
New partnerships
Students need a
“new information literacy”
Slide 29
Examples and Discussion
From where do our teaching
habits come?
Investment of effort to
change teaching
Substitution versus Addition
Pedagogical goals come first
How can we afford to invest
in new learning technologies?
One alternative approach
Investing precious time
Order of events - “why”
before “how”
Examples
Examples
Examples
Examples
Examples
Slide 44
Another approach: web-based
class projects
Web-based class projects -
pedagogical goals
Web-based class projects -
examples
Slide 48
Learning Goals
Challenges to success
Keys to success
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