Morning session: Tele-learning and the Transformation of Teaching and Learning. In this session, we'll discuss the ways that networked computers have changed and will continue to change the landscape of higher education in the US. Special attention will be paid to the future of "discussion" and other modes of student- teacher communication, as well as the ways that new spatial and temporal demands on teachers and students can be managed successfully when traditional spatial and temporal constraints on formal education are no longer the norm.
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Afternoon session: Isolation, Access, Connectivity, Community. In this session we'll raise and discuss questions derived from the philosophy of education as well as the philosophy and sociology of technology, about the individual and social possibilities and perils of an educational environment in which physical proximity and local community compete with "distance education" and "virtual communities" in constituting students (and thus citizens) fundamental experiences of learning and teaching.
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For Tomorrow: Please read Sandholtz, et al, and consider a response to the theme of the threaded discussion.
© 2001 Roger B. Blumberg