[Air-l] Technology Transforming Education

[Mary-Helen Ward]

I'm not clear who 'we' are  (people on this list? Academics?) or why we 
would limit this engagement to the US. Shifts in the technologies of 
learning are happening worldwide.

Teaching is always being redesigned - the classrooms my children sat in 
in the 70s and 80s bore little resemblance to the classrooms I sat in 
the 1950s. The classrooms my grandchildren sit in today are very 
different again

M-H in Australia.



Steve Jones wrote:

><nostalgia>That takes me back to my UIUC days, and PLATO...Programmed  
>Logic for Automated Teaching Operations.</nostalgia>
>
>(That probably gives away my age as much as admitting I have a  
>"record collection.")
>
>These are the kinds of discussions in which I wish we could engage  
>many U.S. faculty and administrators. One of the things I'm seeing on  
>a lot of campuses the last couple of years is excitement among  
>administrators about "blended" learning because it promises to free  
>up classroom space, which ties into two important administrative  
>matters, namely an interest in increasing enrollment as a means of  
>increasing revenue, and an interest in keeping a lid on construction  
>costs (or, in some cases, the cost of leased space). I agree that  
>those are important matters, but I disagree that they are sufficient  
>reasons to "re-design" teaching (though maybe in really dire  
>circumstances, along the lines, say, of what happened in New Orleans  
>and along the Gulf Coast due to Hurricane Katrina, it would be  
>justifiable as a temporary solution to buildings that must be  
>rehabbed and are unusable in the meantime).
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