“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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