Web and Education

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IACT303 INTI 2005 World Wide Networking

• Web and Education
• University of Wollongong

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Introduction

• Access to learning
• Distance education models
• Types of Virtual Universities
• Limitations and benefits
• Where does S I M fit in this scheme?

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What the web offers

• Distributed multimedia hypertext system
• Facilitating teaching and learning
• Publish, retrieve, communicate
• Different learning environment
• New learning model
• New instructional practices

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Shared responsibility

• Flexible and convenient learning opportunities
• Intellectual communities are enhanced through
  more interactive communication ie from books to
  email to live chat.
• Students experience greater autonomy in learning

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What is Online learning?

• sub-set of flexible teaching and learning that
  seeks to provide greater access to learning for
  all students.
• An online learning environment provides for
  different ways of learning and a potentially
  richer learning environment
• Caters for different learning styles as well as
  allowing for greater diversification in access to
  learning.

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• An online learning environment can include any or
  all of a number of aspects ranging from
  administration details relevant to the class to
  learning experiences mediated through interactive
  multimedia to a total course delivered via the
  Internet.

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Flexible teaching and learning

• Flexible teaching seeks to provide educational
  programs in ways that meet the changing needs of
  learners.
• The learning opportunities of students are
  optimised by the expert shaping of learning
  environments within a particular course or
  program of study.

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Flexible teaching and learning

• Flexible teaching includes conventional teaching
  practices and learning modes as well as
  alternatives and options provided by various
  media including, but not exclusive to, the recent
  developments in communications and information
  technology.

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Flexible Access to learning

• when they want - computer servers do not care
  when they are accessed
• at their own pace adjusted for learning style,
  ability, available time etc.
• wherever they want next door or across the
  world from the server or university

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Consumer quality of experience

• student empowerment and responsibility the
  student has the right to learn when they want
• mass customisation allows the learning
  offering to be tailored to individual student
  learning
• styles, goals, abilities, hopefully leading to an
  improved outcome
• enabling student access to vast quantities of
  information

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Courses can be delivered over the Web

• Internet based course delivery leads to price
  competition between providers, a wider range of
  choice, or greater flexibility in delivery
• Education becomes a commodity

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Models of Distance Education
Source Taylor (2003)
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Emerging Organisational Models

• Hanna (from the readings) discovers that the
  distance education model is just one form of
  change in educational delivery that has taken
  place.

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Emerging Organisational Models

• Hanna describes 7 models that challenge the
  traditional model of residential, on campus
  higher education.

• Corporate university
• University/industry strategic alliance
• Degree/certification competency-based university
• Global multinational universities

• Extended traditional university
• For profit adult centred universities
• Distance education/technology based university

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Emerging Organisational Models

• Each of the models are compared using the
  following criteria

• Philosophy
• Mission
• Funding
• Curricula
• Instruction
• Faculty
• Library

• Students
• Learning Technology
• Physical Facilities
• Productivity Outcomes
• Governance
• Accreditation.

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Emerging Organisational Models

• His findings are summarised in Tables 2, 3a, 3b,
  4 5.

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Home work Due Tutorial 2

• Your goal is to find three educational
  institutions that correspond to three of the 8
  models described by Hanna.

• Corporate university
• University/industry strategic alliance
• Degree/certification competency-based university
• Global multinational universities

• Traditional University
• Extended traditional university
• For profit adult centred universities
• Distance education/technology based university

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Home work Due Tutorial 2

• Justify your selections by using the input
  criteria used by Hanna.

• Philosophy
• Mission
• Funding
• Curricula
• Instruction
• Faculty
• Library

• Students
• Learning Technology
• Physical Facilities
• Productivity Outcomes
• Governance
• Accreditation.

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Home work Due Tutorial 2

• If you find that you cannot fully resolve one of
  your institutions to a single model indicate the
  criteria which are creating problems for you.
• Can you suggest a better way to rate different
  organisational models

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References

• Hanna, D. E. (1998) Higher Education in an Era of
  Digital Competition Emerging Organizational
  Models, Journal of Asynchronous Learning
  Networks, Vol. 2, Issue 1 March, pp. 66-95.
• Global Alliance Limited(1997), Australian higher
  education in the era of mass customization
  http//www.nexted.com/nexted/white-papers/
• Kilmurray J. (2003), e-Learning Its more than
  automation, available from http//ts.mivu.org
• Owston R.D. (1997), The World Wide Web A
  Technology to enhance Teaching and Learning?
  Available at http//www.edu.yorku.ca8080/rowston
  /article.html
• Taylor JC (2003), Distance Education
  Technologies The fourth generation, available at
  http//www.nexted.com/nexted/white-papers/5/defaul
  t.asp