kicking the tires experimenting with distance education technologies at the university of michigan...
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Kicking the Tires
Experimenting with Distance Education Technologies at the
University of Michigan School of Information
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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
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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
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Training movie Recorded session
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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