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| Technology,
Pedagogy, Community: Distributed Learning for the New Millennium An All Partners Conference for Those Designing, Planning, and Delivering Courses via Technology |
| It’s apparent across Indiana that a new age is dawning as distance education enrollments grow, the Access Indiana State Network (AISN) expands the range of possibilities for interaction, and the use of distributed learning technologies moves out from continuing education departments and computer labs into the wider university. This year’s All Partners Conference offers a rich opportunity to hear from nearly two dozen faculty and staff—most from Indiana—who are designing, planning, and delivering courses with technology. Come learn how they’re creating virtual communities, solving real-world problems, and embracing new opportunities. |
| Who Should Attend? |
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| Agenda Technology, Pedagogy, Community: Distributed Learning for the New Millenium 8 a.m Registration Continental Breakfast 9-9:15 a.m. Welcome Dave King, Executive Director Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System 9:15am Keynote
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| As a member of the IHETS Board of Directors, Dr. Reed will help realize IHETS’ new expanded mission “to help higher education in Indiana—working in consultation with K-12 schools, public libraries, public broadcasting stations, and other identified education and information providers—enhance the development of human capital statewide through effective use of telecommunications and information technology.” |  |
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Dr. Suellen Reed was elected Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction in November 1992 and reelected in November 1996. She is Indiana’s Chief State School Officer, serving as chair of the State Board of Education and CEO of the Indiana Department of Education. Dr. Reed has served in positions ranging from classroom teacher to superintendent, and she understands first-hand the increasing convergence of technology and pedagogy in elementary and secondary schools. With former Governor Evan Bayh, she was instrumental in inaugurating Access Indiana as a means to improve access to information and technology for educators throughout the state. Dr. Reed holds a bachelor’s degree from Hanover College and master’s and doctorate degrees from Ball State University. She has also completed graduate work at Indiana University, Purdue University, Indiana State University, and Butler University among others. She was recently appointed by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, chair of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), to the Policy and Priorities Committee, which sets direction and priorities for ECS work on education reform. She was the first chair of, and remains active with, the K-12 Compact for Learning and Citizenship, a national organization dedicated to the advancement of school-based service and service learning as integral components of K-12 education. From 1993 to 1997 she was president of the North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL), a federally-sponsored education research laboratory. A trustee of Hanover College, Dr. Reed was named 1994 Outstanding School of Education Alumna at Ball State University. Her professional memberships include Phi Delta Kappa, Pi Lambda Theta, Delta Kappa Gamma, Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, and the International Reading Association. Her areas of expertise include international education, gifted and talented education, elementary education and history, political science, and curriculum. |
| 10-10:15 a.m. Break |
| 10:15-11 am Breakouts |
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1A) Music Fundamentals
Online: The presenters describe and demonstrate Music Fundamentals Online, a self-contained, highly interactive, Web-based course being developed with funding from FIPSE (U.S. Department of Education). The project’s goal is to provide incoming music majors an opportunity for remediation before they begin college, at the same time reducing cost-of-instruction to student, school, and state. Performance data for online versus traditional students is provided. 1B) Technology, Pedagogy,
Community: Bringing It All Back Home in a Core Course Series
Distributed computer-based teaching environments pose challenges that threaten a valuable and time honored dimension of education—the learning community. The appropriate combination of technology and pedagogy, however, can serve to support the learning community and retain essential teaching-learning values. This presentation will look at three approaches, developed in Ball State core composition courses, that bring technology and pedagogy together for effective online community-based learning. 1C) Accessible Web Design
Designing for accessibility means making online information available to people whom do not or cannot use graphical browsers. Accessibility means good user design, clear communication of information, and consistent and sensible means of navigation. This workshop will demonstrate basic techniques of accessible Web design, show examples of media-rich sites designed for accessibility, and provide online references for more information. |
| 10:15 a.m.-noon Hands-on Workshop: Project IN: site for Student Web Projects |
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(optional; seating limited to 32; requires an additional fee of $10) This workshop will introduce participants to “Project IN:site.” Project IN:site is a concept intended to allow learners to make use of Web-based and other resources in student-created projects, targeting the higher order thinking skills: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The resulting projects are Web-based and may be posted or distributed via school Intranets or the World Wide Web. |
| 11-11:15 a.m. Break |
| 11:15 a.m. -noon Breakouts |
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2A) Just Who Owns Your
Internet Course? Fritz Dolak Copyright & Electronic Resources,University Libraries Ball State University You’ve spent hours and hours creating an Internet course and now you find out that your institution claims that they own it. Do they? Do you own it? Or is there joint ownership involved? A number of ownership scenarios will be discussed. 2B) Teaching a
Course through Multiple Delivery Systems: This presentation will examine the issues involved in development and delivery of course material in a multiple delivery system environment. Challenges ranging from faculty professional development to student participation/communication to course material preparation will be explored. ISU Industrial Technology Education courses simultaneously delivered via on-campus classroom, IHETS, videotape, and the Internet will serve as discussion models. 2C) Web Usability Testing
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| noon- 1:30p.m. Lunch |
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Luncheon Address:
The Challenge of the Knowledge Marketplace: The marketplace of knowledge, information, and education is changing and new competitors for public educators are cropping up all over. This presentation will present ideas to ensure long-term higher education success. |
| 1:30-2:15p.m. Breakouts |
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3A) Interaction
in Distance Education: Pedagogy to Community Callison and Jurewicz present the results of a pilot study designed to investigate the impact of a two-way video distance education delivery format on the interactions between instructor and students in a graduate course setting. Based on seven years of cooperative experience in design of instructional delivery in the traditional classroom, one-way video, and now two-way video, this team sets a historical context for the evolution of classroom interactive pedagogies as well as the evolution of distance education. The team will suggest that new communities for interactive learning are now possible. 3B) Teaching a Lab-Based
Electronic Control Systems Course on the Internet This presentation will provide an overview of the development of a distance education course that is part of a technology program at Indiana State University. The course delivery combined Internet, videotape, and lab-in-a-box technology. Each of these areas will be presented and discussed during the session. 3C) Distance Learning
Outcomes: On-campus Versus Online Students The main questions asked about the distance learning program at Purdue University Calumet concern student outcomes and the maintenance of course quality. The presenter will share the results of an analysis of student grades for on-campus and on-line courses in Computer Information Systems, Management and Organizational Behavior, and English at the end of the fall 1998 and spring 1999 semesters. |
| 1:30-3 p.m. Demonstrations and Posters Area |
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Creating Web-based Interactive Instructional
Modules: Examples in Basic Statistics The purpose of this session is to present some readily available tools for creating Web-based interactive learning modules using JavaScript and MathView®. Using these tools, instructors can create powerful interactive formulas and graphs for users over the Internet using a Web browser and a freely available plug-in. The examples are from a basic statistics course, but application to any science or math related field is possible. The Next Generation of a Course Management
System IUPUI Cyberlab staff will demonstrate and discuss the Oncourse Project now in use at IUPUI, Indiana University Bloomington, and other Indiana University campuses. Oncourse creates a Web site for every course offered at the University. The course Web sites feature communication and collaboration tools for teaching and learning—message boards, email, chat, announcements, grade books, class rosters, and library tools. Adult Learners and Computer Use: Successes
and Challenges The purpose of this session is to discuss the successes and challenges nursing students faced when using computer technology in their first course in the curriculum. Most students had minimal computer skills. The presenters will share strategies and course modifications that were made to enhance student learning. Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating
Web Pages This group, representing four different educational institutions, has all taught using Web-supported and/or Web-based courses. They will share their diverse experiences in developing, using, and evaluating the use of the Web with students and colleagues for a variety of informational and instructional purposes. |
| 2:15-2:30 p.m. Break |
| A second opportunity to visit the demonstrations and posters
area before they end at 3 p.m. |
| 2:30-3:15 p.m. Breakouts |
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4A) Copyright,
Fair Use, and Distance Education: Fresh Insights on Vexing Concerns
Copyright law can be both rigid and flexible. Save yourself a little grief by avoiding the rigidity. Discover how copyright can be flexible, and how it can help you use copyrighted works while accomplishing your teaching goals. Join the presenter for a freewheeling discussion of copyright and distance education; he will discuss copyright laws that affect your uses of technology now and also address recent national developments that may make profound changes to those laws in the near future. 4B) Teaching at a Distance:
Should I Use Video or the Internet? Should I use video or the Internet to teach at a distance? It depends. By applying basic instructional design principles, you can choose the proper delivery system for your needs. But today, your choices are no longer limited to either/or. You can do both, and a combined delivery system provides many advantages and options. 4C) Web Dangers for
Professionals: Beyond the Viruses This presentation and discussion session examines dangers associated with professionals, such as social workers, counselors, psychologists, and nurses, using the Web in a work environment. A unique four-sector model for teaching students how to safely use the Web when practicing with consumers will be presented. |
| 3:15-3:30 p.m. Break |
| 3:30-4:15 p.m. Breakouts |
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5A) Moving to Cyberspace:
Lessons to Teach and Learn in Transferring Business and Technical
Writing to a Distance/distributed Education Web-based Format
5B) Negotiated
Meanings and Encouraging Words: Bringing TCM 320 Online The presenters share their collaborative process of developing a Web-based technical writing class and the results of a pilot offering in spring 1999. Based on their experiences, the developers discuss a number of issues: learner characteristics (the audience served by the online course), technology issues, issues of authority, and the nature of teaching and learning in a Web environment. 5C) Paradigm Shift for
An Early Childhood Education Master’s Program: Synchronous and Asynchronous
Delivery Striking New Chords This presentation will highlight a multi-faceted approach to a collaborative master’s program in Early Childhood Education offered via distance education/distributed education by IUPUI and IU Bloomington School of Education in conjunction with the University of Southern Indiana School of Education. Since evaluation, both quantitative and qualitative, is a critical component of examining the effectiveness of new instructional approaches, this presentation will share its findings. Email Access
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