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Designing the Hybrid Campus: One Year Follow-up
It has been more than a year since Philip Parsons and Deepika Ross visited us for the very first Ocotillo Visioning Forum, Designing the Hybrid Campus.
Philip is still very interested in this concept and what Maricopa is doing in terms of Hybrid Learning, so he is asking for some information as to what has happened since he last visited. Please read his message below and use the Ocotillo Visioning Forum discussion tool to post your comments.
From: pparsons@sasaki.com
Date: Wed Mar 5, 2003 10:55:49 AM US/Arizona
Subject: e-mail to the Ocotillo group
Dear Ocotillos:
It's been a year since the Ocotillo workshops where Deepika and I talked
about hybrid learning, and how it might change the way we think about the
spaces we work, teach and learn in. I'm interested to learn how your
notions of hybrid possibilities have evolved, what interesting and exciting
things are actually happening, and what you think might happen in the
future.
What I have found myself as I talk to people in different institutions is
that the notions that "learning happens everywhere" and that "all learning
is fundamentally social" are taking hold more and more at all educational
levels. What is NOT apparently happening is that people moving away from
the classroom as the core locus for learning. The "everywhere learning" is
simply additive. This may be as much about credit hours, and how faculty
workload and student contact can currently be measured, as it is about
actual readiness to move to more of a "resource" model of teaching than a
model centered on formal instruction. As a result, better practice seems
to involve "more" rather than "different" - and that means more space and
resources as well as a heavier workload for faculty and staff. I'm not
sure that this is a tenable long-term model - especially with the kinds of
budget cuts we're seeing almost everywhere.
I worry that those who carry the torch of pedagogical innovation on
campuses simply take on more all the time, as technology becomes more
prevalent (rather than being able to shift from one mode to another) and
we'll have massive burnout. I struggle with the hope that we can find a
way of using the hybrid approach to have better learning AND reduced cost,
with no long-term increase in workload, rather than increased cost AND
workload, as we seem to have now, with some rare exceptions. The way I see
it, this will mean resource centers rather than classrooms; workshops for
students on learning strategies, including strategies for forming study
groups; student hours based on a combination of time logged on, time on
campus and measured performance, etc., as an alternative to time spent
sitting in the back of a classroom. Many of the strategies that have been
developed to help online students form virtual communities can be and are
adapted to help students form real life communities with face-to-face
interaction. There can be, and is for younger people, I think, a seamless
interaction between "real" and "virtual".
We will look for inspiration to places like innovative community health
centers, conference centers, retreat centers, shopping malls, campus
centers, public libraries, Starbucks, kitchen tables, and, of course,
architects' offices. I'm still seduced by the mantra that learning should
be one third sitting at a computer, one third working in a group and one
third making something. But don't take that too literally!
I was wondering the other day about the future role of handhelds in
learning as I was playing Scrabble across my kitchen at home via Bluetooth,
on two handhelds. Can the success of the IPAQ in industrial applications
teach us something?
We have to learn to be less prodigal in the physical facilities we build,
and to use the community-building possibilities of technology to maximize
the effectiveness of our physical communities. We need "more learning per
square foot."
What do you think? What have you been doing? How should we move forward?
Philip Parsons
Parsons Consulting Group
617-625-3524
parsons@parsonsconsulting.com
Answer Philip's Question via the discussion board:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/bbs/oco_tv1.pl
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