1. Education/Collaboration: Break out summary HCC Retreat 4/7/00

2. Perception of Inclusion in a Community How to integrate students –by interests –randomly –dormitory (Oxford model) On-line interactions –e.g. "Ask Dr. Math" (http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/) at the Math Forum (http://forum.swarthmore.edu) People just observing can feel included (listserves, e-mail)

3. Richer Capture of Learning Spaces at Many Levels Campuses-- intra and inter campus collaboration networks Classrooms-- breaking up lectures for rapid 5-10 min. computer mediated class interactions Office Hours-- let students outside the door have access to answered questions Tutorials/discussion-- TA has access to most discussed questions Lounges-- opportunistic learning with smart boards and machine matching of remote groups Cafes-- access to course materials, improved visibility of instructors leads to perceived accessibility by students

4. Increase Feedback: real time controls Student response dials: –far left = red = "slow down I'm confused!" –far right = green = "I understand please speed up!" (anywhere in between accordingly) –Similarly, car pedals: break, ok, speed up Individual or aggregate time function reported to faculty Question validation/ranking, polls, quizzes e.g. Stanford's Televised Video Instruction shows that mediated use of video tapes can improve student learning over live classroom instruction

5. Timely Feedback: not all interaction has to be real time Hyperlinks to educational materials and digital libraries can be made as instructor discovers them Instructor reviews classroom data at end of semester to improve course materials Data is recorded for fast indexing of course materials by students (e.g. highlighting difficult areas for later viewing of taped lecture videos)

6. Information Overload? Need for improved filtering/search –Can students self moderate their questions? –When should professors listen to the class and who should they listen to? –Give students multiple means of expression-- green/red switch on their desk, icons on chat boards, vote for questions –Epiphany Management Tools (local and global) –Inequity Management Tools!

7. Peer Learning Moderating (but challenges for maintaining threaded discussions in large groups) How to recognize good questions/answers by students Teaching is just as instrumental to learning as listening Student Organizations/Social Activities

8. What to Teach? Don’t overly emphasize technology –More can be less –Particular technologies change Failures-- Petrosky Project collaboration What role should non-academic experiences play in developing life skills? –design team competitions –student organizations