--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- | Maricopa Community Colleges | I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Date: 30-Apr-1999 11:11am MST From: webs-eye webs-eye@lists.maricopa.edu@PMDF@DIST Dept: Tel No: TO: Multiple recipients of list WEBS-EY ( webs-eye@lists.maricopa.edu@PMDF@DIST ) Subject: web's eye view (April 29, 1999) __ __ __ __ __ __ web's eye view (April 29, 1999) | | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / / alan levine | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction |__/ |__/ |__/|__/ |__/|__/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/ ============================================================================ The Bag of URLs has been analyzed to be free of all viral materials. A fresh bag of URLs is ready for pickup at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html The Rise and Fall of Tech Ed ============================ EDUPAGE http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html April 26, 1999 | HIGH-TECH EDUCATION NOT POPULAR | The number of college students graduating with high-tech degrees | has fallen 5 percent between 1990 and 1996, according to a new | study by the American Electronics Association, despite the | ever-increasing need for such graduates. The AEA says preliminary | results for 1997 and 1998 show that the trend in fewer high-tech | degrees is continuing. The study measured the number of students | graduating from college with engineering, physics, computer | science, and math degrees. The study also found that foreign | nationals account for a growing percentage of high-tech degrees, | and 45 percent of doctorate-level degrees. The AEA says schools | at the elementary and high school level must better prepare | students for high-tech careers. California colleges graduated | the most high-tech students, but also showed the biggest decline | from 1990 to 1996. (Associated Press 04/26/99) Conferences Sans Travel ======================= Brooke Estabrook from the CTL at Mes, shared her experience in attending two conferences recently; one a "virtual"/online conference, the other in town. She was very positive on the value of the Professioanl Development Online Confernece: http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/pdoc/ noting it helped to attend from home ro someplace where she could not be distracted from the proceedings. | Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:05:40 -0700 | From: Brooke Estabrook | Subject: news from two online conferences | | Hi. I went to 2 conferences back to back and wanted to share | with you a few of the things I learned. I will be adding to the | DL handbook so look for more later there. | | http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/ctl/DL/ | | The first conference was | http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/pdoc/ | | It was a virtual conference and once it go going it was great. | Met some neat people and here is the VERY BRIEF SUMMARY: | | Virtual Learning Communities: Joanne Golderberg: | - classes with a cooperative atmosphere have a higher retention rate. | - the two best listservs are EDTECH and DEOS | - encourage participants to post material that has been well thought | out and shows effort | - but emotional stimulation of chats is the element that make | students feel connected and part of the larger whole. | therefore...both are needed | - MOO software is very promising but a bit complex at this ime. | - VRML (3d) worlds are coming but not next week | - Instructors must maintain regular contact with students, monitoring | progress and seeking out students who are not participating! | | Web based DL program in Undergraduate business: Dana Teisan: | - ran parallel courses of online and on campus class for a semester | - had back up instructors trained in event of contingency | - key factor in development of course is to assimilate the | student into the medium | | | Integrated Online Teaching Learning Environments: Jaishree Odin: | - tries to inspire self motivated and unmotivated students so they | feel genuine desire to learn | - allow students to teach one another through publishing | content-based assignments | - must incorporate three types of interaction: | student-student, | student-teacher, | student-content interaction | - occasional intervention reassures students that instructor is | indeed monitoring. | | | Low Tech, Shoestring Budget Distance Education: David Cleveland | - instructor created audio tapes for students because this is what | served his student population ...find out what serves your | population and then help them. | | Motivating Learners Beyond Receiving Grades by Akinniyi Savage, Ph. D. | - passion, as much as it is about reason | - substance, and treating students as consumers or knowledge | - listening, questioning, being responsive, and remembering | that each student and class is different | - not always having a fixed agenda and being rigid, but being | flexible, fluid, experimenting, and having the confidence to | react and adjust to changing circumstance | - style, being entertaining | - humor very important | - caring, nurturing, and developing minds and alents | - strong and visionary leadership, and very tangible institutional | support: resources, personnel, and funds | - mentoring between senior and junior faculty, teamwork, reward, | and being recognized and promoted by one's peers T | - having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards, such | as when a student finally comprehends. | | | Conference 2: | http://www.collegeboard.org/index_this/offals/html/online/html/fact.html | | The best link so far. Speaker was dynamic and knowledgable.: | http://www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/presentations/CollegeBoard99_Links.html| | Good site to bookmark! | http://classroom.blackboard.net/courses/GTD101/ | | Overall we seem to be going in the right direction. As always if | you need any help or have any questions, feel free to come and | see me! Other topics will be highlighted in the DL handbook. | | Have a great rest of the semester.... 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