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Kicking the Tires

Experimenting with Distance Education Technologies at the

University of Michigan School of Information

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Lija Bentley

Vlad Wielbut

[email protected]

[email protected]

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School of Information

http://www.si.umich.edu/

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Alliance for Community Technology

http://www.communitytechnology.org/

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Act 1: Winter 1998

• Course: first-year, master-level, required

• Lecturers: Maurita Holland and Thomas Finholt

• Enrolled students: 65

• Main rationale: to accommodate 5 commuting students

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Tools used:

• Placeware Auditorium 1.2

• WebBoard 2.0

• Web site

• E-mail

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Challenges:

• Hybrid environment– separate but equal?– logistical nightmare

• Bandwidth problems

• Sound

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The classroom setup

slides

PWmicrophones

black boxfloor

mixing board

internet

capture

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Remote students

• Were variably engaged with lecture

• Had diminished opportunities for “face time”

• Had concerns about visibility

• Attended office hours normally

• Could not easily contribute to in-class discussions

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Classroom students

• Had a slightly better sense of what happened during lecture

• Approved of the experiment

• Disliked the disruptive effect of the technology in the classroom

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Faculty members

• Felt the remote students were “invisible”

• Were dissatisfied with turnout to office hours

• Agreed that microphones were bothersome

• Could not easily involve remote students in the lecture

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Major results and analysis

• Hybrid environment negatively affects the professor-student relationship

• Participating students report overall satisfaction with the experiment

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Conjecture

• Totally distributed environment would not have this negative effect– closer to original intent of software– would allow other benefits to be more fully

realized

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Act 2: Winter 1999

• Course: advanced, master-level, elective

• Lecturer: Derrick L. Cogburn

• Enrolled students: 7 from SI, 10 from Wits, 18 from AU

• Main rationale: to deliver a course via the Internet while giving students the chance to practice international collaboration

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Tools used:

• Placeware Conference Center 3.0

• WebBoard 3.5

• DocuShare 1.5

• Web site (VSC)

• Lotus ScreenCam

• RealMedia G2

• E-mail

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Challenges:

• Technological gaps

• Bandwidth problems

• Time zones

• Cultural differences

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Research team:

• Derrick Cogburn (CSIR)

• Daniel Atkins (SI)

• Mary Mulvihill (AU)

• Vlad Wielbut (SI)

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Do’s and Don’t’s:

• Learn to sleep fast

• Win lottery

• Test, test, test!

• Get help

• Become a control freak

• Never put all your eggs in one basket

• Hire someone from Eastern Europe

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Do’s and Don’t’s (contd.):

• Raise the bar

• Keep crybabies out

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URLs:

http://www.communitytechnology.org/

http://www.communitytechnology.org/placeware/

http://www.communitytechnology.org/courses/globalization

http://docushare.si.umich.edu/

http://www.netopia.geocities.com/vladwiel