Distributed Learning

For SCA Faculty retreat 8/29/09

SCA Faculty Retreat 2009
Distance Education
"Distributed Learning"
Future Panel:
      Steve Anderson
      Scott Fisher
      Eric Furie
      Mike Patterson
      Ellen Seiter
Technology
Technology
Story / Concepts / Experience
"By 2020...students will be taking up to 60 percent of their courses entirely online."
"Colleges that have resisted putting some of their courses online will almost certainly have to expand their online programs quickly."
"The migration of most learning to computers may lead to a new kind of “dispersed university”... Why go to a bricks-and-mortar college ... when virtually all learning takes place online?"
The College of 2020: Students


...we are always already working, creating, teaching, collaborating, learning, publishing, sharing (etc.) in a distributed, networked, collaborative world. 
...instructional spaces that are fundamentally hybrid;  both synchronous and asynchronous, physical and virtual, social and networked.
Technology
Expensive / Exclusive / Constraining
Technology
Empowering / Creative / Critical
The Future of SCA:

     Hybrid

     Distributed/Networked

     Technology-enabled (not technology-driven)

     New literacies / New vernaculars (IML)

     interdivisional / interdisciplinary / international (iMAP)
IML Island in Second Life
Zemeckis Media Lab
should we really assume that
is the future?
http://vectorsjournal.net
http://criticalcommons.org
Technology and distributed creativity? 
"You're soaking in it."