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The Road to Distance Learning May Be Closer Than You Think….. Polley Ann McClure Vice President, Information Technologies Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Cornell University

Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Change

New Needs

“Going to college…” (Moffatt, 1989; Astin,1992)

Traditional Culture Learning as a social good Teaching, research, outreach Social critique Search for truth Structure A community “At a slight angle to the universe” (Bowen, 2001)

“Taking, as a starting point, 1530, when the Lutheran Church was founded, some 66 institutions that existed then still exist today in the Western World in recognizable form; the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the parliaments of Iceland and the Isle of Man, and 62 universities….They have experienced wars, revolutions, depressions, and industrial transformations, and have come out less changed than almost any other segment of their societies.” Clark Kerr (1980)

Reach More Students New groups of students Convenience Productivity enhancement Capital vs. labor

Improved Learning Expectations of “n-gen” Multi-media brains Visualization Learning styles Active learning Personalization

Two Cultures: Faculty and Technologists (Brown & Jackson, 2001) Both: fascination with new ideas Technologists: Liberal presumption about change Faculty: Conservative presumption about change

Cornell University Founded colleges A private university with a land-grant mission

Cornell University 13,500 undergraduates 5,900 graduate and professional 2,300 faculty 9,000 staff 192,000 living alumni

eCornell Founded September, 2000 Wholly owned by Cornell Funded by Cornell at $36 million Offices in Ithaca and NYC 50 employees

eCornell Specialize in professional/ career education Focus on specialties where we have deep knowledge Work with Cornell’s top-rated schools

eCornell

Innovation in Teaching Grants 20 x $40,000 grants Professional support team Assessment Seminars “Narrow and deep”

Technology Assistants “Broad and shallow” undergraduates 100 hrs training Assigned to academic units Supervised by Instructional Technology staff

DL Classroom Partnership Facilitate standards Facilitate sharing Matching funds

Faculty Speak… This slide contained a video of faculty members sharing their experiences with distributed learning technologies. For more information, please contact Dr. McClure at

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