1. firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Maintaining your competitive advantage in today’s wired world

2.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Death by PowerPoint Death by PowerPoint http://www.dilbert.com/

3.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  Martini effect  CMC systems 3 MLEs  MLE features Reach, richness, affiliation Reach, richness, affiliation Paradigm grid for online learning Paradigm grid for online learning  Critical success factors  My experiences  Monday morning … and if you don’t…?  References Agenda

4.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  Martini effect “Anytime, anyplace, anywhere”

5.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  CMC systems SynchronousAsynchronous E-mail www Newsgroups Chat & MOO Audioconferencing Videoconferencing Messaging tools Whiteboard environment CMC: “Computer-mediated communication”

6.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  E-mail http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/

7.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestonewww http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/

8.     firestone@esade.eduJason FirestoneNewsgroups http://groups.google.com/

9.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone MOO MOO http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888/

10.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Messaging tools http://messenger.msn.co.uk/ http://messenger.yahoo.com/ http://www.mobile.terra.es/

11.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  Chat, audio & videoconferencing http://chat.yahoo.com/

12.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Interactive whiteboard

13.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone http://www.blackboard.com 3 MLEs http://groups.yahoo.com/ Managed Learning Environments: “Range of information systems that contribute to learning & the management of that learning in an educational environment.” http://www.esade.es/intranet/

14.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Announcements Course Information Staff Information Course Documents Assignments Communication External Links Student Tools Announcements Information Documents Assignments Threads Discussions Assessments Web management  MLE features Messages Chat Files Photos Bookmarks Database Polls Members Calendar  Buy  Build  Free

15.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone

16.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Affiliation Reach Richness The Three Dimensions of Competitive Advantage for Navigators Phillip Evans & Thomas Wurster. Blown to Bits. Reach, richness, affiliation Reach, richness, affiliation

17.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone Paradigm grid for online learning Paradigm grid for online learning Good Practices Open-ended, strategic Specified learning activities Learner- managed Teacher- determined NW NE SWSE 1.Dialogue 2.Involvement 3.Support 4.Control

18.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  Critical success factors ScopeScope Time  Quality   Resources

19.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  MLEs motivating medium for teacher & student  Learning curve - steep or shallow depending on IT literacy (yours and your students’)  Time consuming – but you should keep at it  Useful for content based courses as the course delivery tool  Useful as a supplement to other course types  Integration into the course is key if a supplement  Return On Investment - is it worth it?  My experiences

20.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone http://www.blackboard.com/  Monday morning http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://www.becta.org.uk/technology/infosheets/html/ mle.html http://www.geocities.com/jason_firestone http://www.jisc.ac.uk/mle/reps/infopack.html

21.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone … and if you don’t…?

22.     firestone@esade.eduJason Firestone  Evans, P. & Wurster, T. (2000). Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy. Harvard Business School Press.  Coomey, M. & Stephenson, J. (2002). Online learning: it is all about dialogue, involvement, support and control – according to the research. In Teaching & Learning Online. Pedagogies for New Technologies. Kogan Page.  References