CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Friday
9:45 — 11:00 Session A.6
Design Issues in Distance Education
RB 292
Keith Dorwick, moderator
Anne Bliss
Course Structures for the Web
This presenter has developed several online courses and has found
that a modular structure for lessons enables community building, use
of a variety of teaching techniques, flexible planning and delivery,
and means for students to adapt the materials to their individual
learning styles.
Stuart Blythe
What Do We Mean by “Design” A Critique of Development Models
for Distance Learning
In this presentation, I differentiate between the variety of practices
denoted by design and consider how those practices apply to distance
learning. I illustrate the general value of user-centered design strategies
while acknowledging the difficulties of adapting such strategies to the
development of distance learning resources.
Rick Branscomb
A Various Language: Knowledge, Online Learning, and Harcourt
College
If the Web and its prestigious educational tools such as WebCT have
the capability of both content distribution and collaborative learning,
why can’t these models of learning coexist on the Web The answer
is the convergence of two forces: the market force and the political
force. These forces come together and threaten constructivist virtual
education, and I assert that teachers must take action to overcome
the stasis in knowledge that will follow.
Temi Rose
Designing Online Learning that Supports a Psychology of Becoming
Hyperactive rates of change in information technology are an open
invitation to educators to become actively involved in the design of
electronic learning systems. As consumers, we already participate in
the creation of technology education models. As designers in our
classrooms, our distance education projects, and on the WWW, our
creativity becomes part of the paradigm, the co-construction of
electronic education.
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