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Title: Without Ubiquity Computers Have Little Impact Upon Learning


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Without Ubiquity Computers Have Little Impact
Upon Learning
ICCEL Conference on Eight Models of Ubiquitous
Computing February 17, 1999
  • By David G. Brown
  • VP, Dean, and Professor of Economics
  • Wake Forest University
  • http//www.wfu.edu/brown and brown_at_wfu.edu

2
Positioning for the Future
  • What are the appropriate delivery technologies
    next year? 5 years? Etc?
  • What is a realistic staffing plan? Outsourcing?
    Support personnel? Executive leadership?
  • What institutional partnerships make sense?
  • What are your institutions strengths
    weaknesses
  • How do you determine your place in an electronic
    world?
  • What will be your primary student
    markets--program areas? Degree credit? Geographic
    span? Age?

3
Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning
Via--
Presentations Better--20
More Opportunities to Practice Analyze--35
More Access to Source Materials via Internet--43
More Communication with Faculty Colleagues,
Classmates, and Between Faculty and Students--87
4
BIG ISSUES
  • Laptop vs Desktop vs Network
  • Standard vs Threshold
  • Single Vendor vs Multiple Vendors
  • Buy vs Lease vs Student Buy
  • CourseInfo vs Web Course in Box
  • Cold Turkey vs Pilot

5
BIG ISSUES
  • Communication vs Presentation vs Analysis vs
    Access to Internet
  • Virtual Courses vs Hybrids
  • Academic vs Administrative
  • Consortia vs Going It Alone
  • Todays Students vs Alums Also
  • Mandatory vs Optional

6
WHY COMPUTERS?the institutional answer
  • Communication!
  • Level Playing Field
  • After College Use
  • Faculty/Students Demand Them
  • Customized/Personalized
  • Digitized Scholarship

7
WHY COMPUTERS?the faculty answer
  • Interactive Learning
  • Learn by Doing
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Integration of Theory and Practice
  • Visualization
  • Communication
  • Different Strokes for Different Folks

8
WHY STANDARDIZATION?WHY PORTABILITY?
  • Communication Utility! (George Gilder)
  • 99 Reliability A Must in Classroom
  • Buddies Share Hardware Knowledge
  • Better, Cheaper Support Systems
  • Alums Stay Connected
  • Students are Nomads. Study Abroad.

9
7 MODELS OFUBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
  • All Powerful Laptops Annual Refresh
  • Substitute Desktop Computers
  • Provide One Computer Per Two Beds
  • Substitute Network Computers
  • Provide Public Station Computers
  • Specify Threshold Level
  • Teach with Explicit Assumption of Access

10
6 MORE MODELS OF UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
  • Annual Lease
  • Phase in by classes
  • Phase in by programs
  • Phase in by type of program
  • Phase in by category (faculty, students, staff)
  • Hand me down
  • Loaner Pool

11
Browns First Year Seminar
  • Before Class
  • Students Find URLs Identify Criteria
  • Interactive exercises
  • Lecture Notes
  • E-mail dialogue
  • Cybershows
  • During Class
  • One Minute Quiz
  • Computer Tip Talk
  • Class Polls
  • After Class
  • Edit Drafts by Team
  • Guest Editors
  • Hyperlinks Pictures
  • Access Previous Papers
  • Other
  • Daily Announcements
  • Team Web Page
  • Personal Web Pages
  • Exams include Computer
  • Materials Forever

12
METAPHORS
  • Automobile in the Jungle
  • Teenagers Learning How to Drive
  • 1000 Times More Powerful Telephone
  • Learning a Second Language by Immersion
  • State Religion
  • House Calls

13
METAPHORS
  • Cost of the Library
  • Students as Nomads
  • Rural Electrification
  • Key to the Library
  • General Contractor
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