2. How has Penn State’s World Campus changed since 2000? What are its current needs?

3. World Campus Today

4. Current Stats

5. Current Degree Programs

6. Genesis of Distance Education at Penn State Correspondence studyDistance education Virtual learning communities Attribution and thanks: Many of the points I make in the next pages are derived from the website, blog, and presentations of Cole Camplese, World Campus designer/faculty member.

7. New design approaches: Richer media Increasingly active and collaborative learning – Web 2.0 trends – Synchronous and asynchronous communities

8. Current and planned implementations of “Digital Commons”

9. “Digital Commons” to offer 82,000 students a common platform and high-end digital audio and video equipment

10. For more information:

11. Student body is mostly “digital natives”

12. Effect on World Campus

13. How goes the commitment to faculty development and support?

14. Faculty continue to learn

15. But still feeling “behind the curve” Key ideas in this blog post (from yesterday) – Committed to cause of online learning – Want to work with developers – Always playing catch-up with technology – Once new tools are explained, faculty have “something to offer” about how to use them

16. Current learning design issues Design issues are same: make achievement of learning greater than technology “How to” is “shattered” by new social networking software and other fundamental ways we use the web

17. Active Blog for Designers In this blog: – One designer sees that online teaching practice lags behind students and technology Note: – Active sharing of design issues among the IDD (instructional design and development) group within World Campus

18. Formal website for design issues

19. One designer’s angst “In the world of the web back then, it seemed OK to build courses that were page turners – really just textbooks on the web with a few interactive (Flash) activities thrown in. Today that just seems wrong and the team on Friday came to that conclusion. If we are going to build a model for eLearning that we are proud of, then we are going to have to think very differently about how we go about doing this.”

20. So… …how Penn State’s World Campus sees its design solutions to distance education has changed… …with the times…

21. …one thing hasn’t changed: its focus on lifelong education for an information society* * Ryan, J.H & Miller, G.E., “Penn State’s World Campus: Mainstreaming a Virtual Campus Initiative”, in Petrides, L.A. Case Studies on Information Technology in Higher Education: Implications for Policy and Practice.” 2000, p. 20.