“Cybercy” and the Curriculum
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This morning’s topics
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Learning technologies
So why digital technology?
Discussion:
External pressure to use
technology
Internal pressure to use
technology
Demotivators and
disincentives
Motivators and incentives
Desired outcomes
Desired outcomes
Traditional relationships
Traditional relationships
New learning communities
Infrastructure for learning
communities
Institutional goals
Quality in higher education
Cost-effectiveness in higher
education
Does technology do this?
Discussion:
New learning technologies
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
New tools - same old issues
Curricular change
One institutional balancing
act
Change and the individual
Resistance to change (James O’Toole)
Changes in technology drive
changes in...
Discussion:
Change is not new
The rate of change is new
The diffusion of
technology (Everett Rogers)
Again, why technology?
Communication and
collaboration
Communication and
collaboration
Information access - the Internet
Discussion:
The World Wide Web
A web of documents
A web of more documents
A web of even more documents
A web of more and more
and...
Hyper...Hyper...Hyper
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical
Investigations 1953
The landscape of the Web
Web browsers - the
“operating system” of the Internet?
Internet multimedia
Conventional wisdom of the
“new media”
New uses of the new media
The New Information Literacy
The New Information Literacy
Fork in the road? High-tech
or No-tech?
Assess costs
Assess benefits
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