Subject: IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest - 9 May 2003 to 10 May 2003 (#2003-13)
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1. IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest - 8 May 2003 to 9 May 2003 (#2003-12) (2)
2. Time to create content
3. IFETS - Learning Science
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:32:58 EDT
From: MWEISBURGH@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest - 8 May 2003 to 9 May 2003 (#2003-12)
A company called Campus Computing has been making a 10 year study of the
effects of online learning on Higher Ed. The head of the company is Casey
Green and his email is cgreen@campuscomputing.net.
He'd be an interesting person for you to talk to and you can use my name. I
worked with him on a project for the SIIA.
Mitchell Weisburgh
http://www.pilotonlinelearning.com
mitch.weisburgh@collegepilot.com
914 833-0273 voice
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:34:44 -0600
From: Deirdre Bonnycastle <Deirdre.Bonnycastle@EXTFC.USASK.CA>
Subject: Time to create content
I always find this question interesting because there is no
single standard. Curriculum varies from simple text with
links that can be done in a couple of hours to highly
interactive multimedia that would take 200 hours. The other
issue is are we talking about new content or are we talking
about something that requires converting from one media to
another. New written content is always problematic, because
the ability to write content quickly varies tremendously
from person to person and between disciplines.
A good instructional design is a key component in
determining how much time will be required.
Deirdre Bonnycastle
Faculty
Instructional Design Group
Extension Division
University of Saskatchewan
Deirdre.Bonnycastle@usask.ca
(306) 966-1803
What matters most is not the moment when the student uses
the technology, but how that use promotes improvement in
that student's education. - S. Ehrmann
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:23:28 -0700
From: Clark Quinn <clark@OTTERSURF.COM>
Subject: IFETS - Learning Science
There was an earlier question/discussion about whether there was a need to
start thinking about Learning Sciences as a overarching/new area within
which to categorize learning technology.
I had recalled seeing, and have now found, the information about a new
society on Learning Sciences. Check out:
All the best, -- Clark
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 09:25:15 +1200 From: "Nelson, Dennis" <Dennis.Nelson@NY.NGB.ARMY.MIL> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest - 8 May 2003 to 9 May 2003 (#2003-12)
Technology helps us do more quickly and effectively what we already are doing.
If what we are doing is wrong or on a wrong path, technology will help us realize the impact of the wrongs or wrong paths with greater speed and probably magnitude.
Too often steps are taken in stove pipe fashion with too little consideration of related factors.
A holistic approach recognizing the interdependencies of all that exists helps to minimize the wrongness of steps or paths.
While labeling fields and other activities helps develop speedier jargons and understandings between members of the fields and activities, it tends both to isolate those members from others outside the field and to cause the members to lose site of the holistic issues.
This contributes to the current social state where people forget they have a holistic responsibility for their existence. They unfairly expect "government" to take care of some things, "military" to take care of others, "doctors" "teachers" "mechanics" etc., to take care of each of their respective areas.
The truth is that holistically we each need to have a minimal holistic base in every area in order to make collective decisions about resource allocations, values, etc., else we tend to be combative and either or - ish; rather than to collective seek the truth and what is best, we seek what our biases and perceptions lead us to believe is the truth and the best, when we have a most limited perspective because we lacked a holistic upbringing.
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