Keynote Presentations
Scenarios for the future of e-learning
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Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise, Open University Business School and Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian Business School. |
The traditional architects and guardians of structured and well-researched change processes in education are panting to catch up with the rapid growth in Internet use and applications. The pressures at every level of training and education in the 21st Century are paradoxical. We must reduce costs, increase student numbers and accessibility yet simulaneously improve quality.
Dr Salmon offers 4 strategic scenarios as a way of helping to explore the implications for learning technologies, knowledge construction and transmission, evaluation, assessment and teaching. She claims that we can create our own new online encounters because learning (on- or offline) remains largely unexplored territory!
Going Global, Locally: Geographically Distributed Collaborative Learning Environments for Studies of Globalisation and the Information Society
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School of Information and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan |
The Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (www.Cotelco.net) was created in 1999 as a strategic initiative bringing together faculty, students, and staff from the University of Michigan with those from other leading universities in the U.S. and South Africa. From January to April each year, Cotelco conducts a Global Graduate Seminar on "Globalisation and the Information Society." The Globalisation Seminar is an advanced, interdisciplinary course that uses synchronous and asynchronous learning techniques and a suite of web-based collaborative tools to create a globally-networked collaborative learning environment to study the social, political, economic, and technological aspects of globalisation and the emergence of the information society.