1. L689C Stanford Class Design 1999-2000 Martin Lee
Project Overview
L689C Stanford Class Design
Martin Lee

2. Stanford University
Of all of the issues facing higher education at the end of the twentieth century, none is more intriguing and more puzzling than the role of information technology in teaching, learning, and research.
Gerhard Casper
Case of the University, 1997

3. Education Concern

4. Project Goals The conceptual design of L689C Considering
Expand learning from Academia Purposes to Life-long purposes
Learning from most updated resources
Learning based on previous knowledge
Parallel learning, Domain knowledge + Language/culture
Expand learning possibilities by cutting geographical limitation and time issues

5. Class Content? Generalist vs. Specialist Ad hoc curriculum
Core knowledge go deeper
Sub material for reference
Not memory but access
FOR MORE INFO...

6. The same Learning • Work is different ... • Tools are different ...
• Communication is different ...
• Information is different ...
• People are different ...
And Learning Is Different???

7. Is tool itself a learning problem?
A TOOL for educational use.
A TOOL that could be shaped to extend the scope of education in knowledge-based economy.
A TOOL based on cutting-age technology that would maximize the benefit given by the technology for better learning.
A TOOL that address the demand for life-long learning and anywhere anytime learning.
A TOOL that could be used by non-technical teachers to perform different subject teaching.
A TOOL that does not address any particular problem instead it could satisfy a wide range of educational needs.
Design A TOOL that facilitates learning, or design Learning that facilitates the use of a tool?

8. Who to Believe to?
"Don't believe anyone who tells you that web-based education is experimental or untested. The number of web-based learners was recently estimated at 1.6 million!"
Source: Kaplan

9. Learning Problems Project based Doing for doing (too engaged in doing)
Weaknesses in Constructivist
Facing problem of reconstruction

10. Technology New technology being used Standards being adopted
Correspondence education
Standards being adopted
Asynchronous WBT Drawbacks & benefits
Standards specifically being ignored
Value of Real Classrooms

11. Design What is a technology design What is a learning design
Design constraints
Design Limitation
The users

12. The Standards Movement Addresses What Subjects
Students Should Know from Content Source: ISTE
The use of technology as a tool for discovering and applying content knowledge in authentic contexts for:
• solving problems
• making decisions
• exchanging information and
• communicating
have not been addressed in the content standards.

13. • construct new understandings,
"Knowing content" is not sufficient in itself -- rather, students must apply knowledge to:
• construct new understandings,
• solve problems
•  make decisions
• develop products and
• communicate
Technology can facilitate this type of learning
Source: ISTE

14. Technology in Schools Many good computers
Little creditable instructional software
Mistakes in making assumptions
Good technology will be flourished by educators
School can produce Commercial quality software

15. Problems How to overcome Skepticism? Theoretical Foundation
Research and References
Empirical Data
Complete Evaluation
How to overcome Resistance?
Resistance to Change
Resistance to Technology
Resistance to any unfamiliar things

16. can provide solutions for better
Final Question
Do educators believe
Businesses
can provide solutions for better
Education?