Message-ID: <9803048890.AA889050540@hudsmtphq.hud.gov> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:22:31 -0500 From: mailto:michael_o._patterson@HUD.GOV Subject: Web teaching of the future To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
<<March 4, 1998>>Roger Lee Boston Rockwell Chair Instructor and Consultant for Creativity Houston Community College System Distance Education/Technology Center Office of the President 4310 Dunlavy P. O. Box 7849 Houston, TX 77270-7849 713-718-5224 (direct) 713-718-5297 713-523-6905 713-265-5343 (main) FAX: 713 718-5301 http://wwww.hccs.cc.tx.us http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/hccs/page1b.htm mailto:rboston@tenet.edu SHAREVISION# 713 866 8219 and on 24hr/day Or 713 866 8282 ISDN #: 713-610-3223/3224 8x8 #: 713-523-6905 Page Unit 713 765 9494 and in 24hr/day 50 stream CuSeeMe reflector at 198.64.57.08 with a dedicated machine and T1 line. CuSeeMe Direct Connect at 198.64.46.114. The AUDIOVISION unit however is still "Waiting for a call" at 198.64.36.108 http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/HCCS/glh.htm -- about GLH on 8/16/96. http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/hccs/caade/phila.htm -- PowerPoint presentation. http://www.teched.org/tgcccc/hccs/tak.jpg -- for web during LEARN DAY on 10/12/97. http://www.teched.org/tgcccc/hccs/html.ram
John D. Hopkins University of Tampere Finland Phone +358-3-2156116 FAX: +358-3-2157200 mailto:hopkins@voxopm.minedu.fi -- prefer this address for distribution mailto:Hopkins@csc.fi http://www.uta.fi/FAST/JH
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland Professor and Chair Media Culture and Communication Education Hypermedia laboratory University of Tampere P.O.Box 607 FIN-33101 Tampere Finland tel: +358-3-215 6111 Direct (24 hour availability) mobile phone: GSM +358-50-567-9833 fax: +358-3-215 7503 mailto:tapio.varis@uta.fi http://www.uta.fi http://www.uta.fi/hyper/ or Department of Teacher Education P. O. Box 513 FIN-13111 Hameenlinna FINLAND +358-3-61-451 Fax: +358-3-614-5273
Dear Roger and Electronic Colleagues:
(1) Roger:
Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT I and II).
My replies/comments are in << >>.
(2) Electronic Colleagues:
I suggested Roger to broadcast some sessions of our Tampere workshop/conference around the world via Internet, with the use of the new technology he developed during the GLOBAL LEARN DAY event last October, i.e., snap image every 10 seconds or so, and upload it into a web, so that anyone can see/hear with the use of RealPlay plug-in, and with an ordinary dial-up (14.4 Kbps or up) modem from anywhere around the world where there is Internet.
This can be done without any costs, such as huge expenses for up- and down-linking of satellites, its satellite segment and turn-round services, etc.
Roger describes how to do it in ATTACHMENT I which you may try for your project.
(3) Electronic Colleagues:
I also strongly suggest that you visit Roger's web in ATTACHMENT II.
This streaming audio/video with PowerPoint presentation will be the way of future web teaching -- I am sure that this technique will soon be used by new virtual universities in the western states (ATTACHMENT III) and around the world.
Best, Tak ************************************** ATTACHMENT I
Date: 27 Feb 98 09:27:00 -0600 From: "Roger Boston" <mailto:BOSTON_R@hccs.cc.tx.us> To: mailto:utsumi@SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU, utsumi@columbia.edu Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: Comments for your preparation of the workshop] Cc: mailto:tapio.varis@HELSINKI.FI
Tapio, Tak has mentioned in the email pasted below that he wishes an audio stream to accompany snapshotted images of certain portions of the event to propagate from the Tampere conference.
To accomplish this, we will need assistance from your technical support and this is something that might be begun right away:
(1) Download the **free** Live REALVIDEO BROADCASTING software from http://www.realaudio.com
This free "Basic Server" can do the job nicely although they offer a better commercial version for about 600 DOllars US.
A camera and mic feed to a machine identified for this purpose will accomplish what Tak has asked, though it will tie up the machine and consume the obvious bandwidth at 20K times the number of participants.
<<Roger: UUNET recently announced their UUCast which can broadcast to 250,000 recipients with the use of only one streaming out bandwidth. Sorry I lost its ad, but pls keep this mind to look for it.>>
(2) Download the **Free* Summersoft WEBCAM from
and install on a different machine. This free software is what I used to pass a video feed straight into a web page for the Global Lecture Hall event Tak referred to of last October. I can prepare the web page and place on the server your people identify.
<<Roger: Pls contact John Hopkins (see above) -- Tapio told me this morning over the phone that he is meeting him today and talk about John's web construction.>>
These two requests above are to be added to my two previous email correspondences re Preparations for the May Conference at Tampere.
Thanks.
Roger Boston Rockwell Chair/ Instructor Houston Community College Voice: 713 718 5224 Fax: 713 718 5301 --=_ORCL_343172_0r0 content-type:message/rfc822 ================================================= OMITTED THE REST BY T. UTSUMI <<March 4, 1998>> ================================================= ************************************** ATTACHMENT II
Date: 03 Mar 98 12:30:00 -0600 From: "Roger Boston" <mailto:BOSTON_R@hccs.cc.tx.us> To: mailto:utsumi@SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU Subject: New Method of Distance Presentation Cc: mailto:hence_b@hccs.cc.tx.us, perser_g@hccs.c.tx.us, mailto:jrboston@mail1.rcsntx.SWBELL.net, rboston@@FLASH.net
Tak, using REAL VIDEO PLAYER 5.0, please examine
http://www.teched.org/tgcccc/hccs/html.ram
You may be in for a Delightful surprise!
<<Roger: This was certainly a surprise!! Your video and voice were very clear. However, it took me almost 40 minutes to complete its viewing with my 28.8 Kbps dial-up modem -- a few words were dropped out, too. It took a long time to fill up a buffer for next segment to come up -- we definitely need broadband Internet!!
"Simplied Page Construction" in "Structure" page was a typo?
I could not get (3 of 4) part -- your host refused my access. The (4 of 4) part had much clearer voice than (2 of 4) part.
I enjoyed viewing it twice!!>> ************************************** ATTACHMENT III
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March 4, 1998
[Education]
By PAMELA MENDELS [Bio]
Online University Set to Open Its (Virtual) Doors
[W] estern Governors University has neither faculty nor campus. But if all goes according to plan, it will soon have students. Sometime late this spring, between 50 and 100 people are expected to ramble through the institution's virtual halls, either enrolling in its unusual degree program or signing up for individual distance learning courses prepared by more traditional educational ventures.
The project, with administrative offices in Salt Lake City and academic offices in Denver, is one of the boldest of a number of recent experiments using high tech for higher education a trend prompted at least in part by the emergence of the Internet.
The people behind Western Governors University are hoping it will save state governments future education costs, while bringing college-level coursework, workforce training and degrees to a far wider range of people. "One of the major things is to reach an audience that is generally unable to go to campuses to receive the learning they seek," said Robert C. Albrecht, chief academic officer for Western Governors University. "It is truly a distance learning project, to serve those not served otherwise."
But the project is also raising questions about whether electronic "distance-learning" is a sufficient replacement for the campus variety. "There is no substitute for the student actually witnessing a mind at work in a classroom," said Kenneth H. Ashworth, who retired last year after 21 years as commissioner of higher education in Texas. "I have a hard time seeing how that will occur over e-mail."
The project was born about two years ago at the initiative of governors of ten Western states. Funded so far with about $9 million in grants from public and private sources, the university has two main goals.
The first is to act as a kind of online one-stop-shop, through which prospective students can enroll in distance-learning courses from colleges and universities in 16 western states and the territory of Guam, as well as from private companies.
In that respect, the project is similar to other recent initiatives, among them the California Virtual University, which boasts distance learning courses offered by 77 accredited public and private colleges and universities in the state, and the Southern Regional Electronic Campus, which launched in January, listing about 100 mostly Web-based courses from 44 colleges and universities in 15 southern states.
The second, and more unusual, purpose [education] of Western Governors University is to offer a program in which students New Today earn degrees based on whether they Internet links of have passed tests proving their interest to competence, rather than whether they readers of the have taken the courses mandated in a Education column traditional curriculum. Students ------------------ enrolled in the degree program will be assigned to "mentors" professors and others who will guide students in choosing the classes necessary to train them. If they then pass tests measuring their abilities, they will be granted a degree. In the pilot program, the institution plans to offer two degree programs: associate of arts and associate of applied science.
The motor behind the program is new technologies, in particular the Internet. Students will be able to enroll in classes using a Web site. The classes will be taught through a variety of electronic technologies, from satellite television to the World Wide Web. And Albrecht and others associated with the project say that as more sophisticated forms of online chat and Internet video are developed, the learning potential of high technology will increase.
Dazzling new technologies notwithstanding, however, state officials have a down-to-earth reason for backing Western Governors and other virtual university efforts: money. In the not-too-distant future, colleges and universities expect to be faced with legions of new students the children of the baby boomers and state-supported colleges and universities in particular are looking for ways to accommodate them without massive new hiring and building.
Some people are skeptical that virtual education programs are the best response. David M. Rubiales, an American history professor at Yuba College in Marysville, Calif., and chairman of an American Association of University Professors subcommittee that recently drew up a policy paper questioning aspects of new distance learning efforts, wonders how much money virtual courses will save. For one thing, he asserted, the market for such courses is unproved.
For another, when electronic courses are taught well, they demand a lot of faculty time and, therefore, presumably compensation. "Some of my distance education students will call me every day," said Rubiales, who has had experience teaching history in distance education television courses. "I may actually spend more time with them than students in my class."
Ashworth, meanwhile, said he was disturbed that in its degree-granting program, Western Governors University would leave it to a student, albeit guided by a mentor, to develop a course of study. "Students don't know what they don't know," he said. "That's why you have a faculty."
Western Governors officials respond that their project is intended as an alternative to, but not a replacement of, the traditional university. Moreover, E. Jeffrey Livingston, chief executive officer of the project, questioned just how much interaction students sometimes have with their professors in traditional colleges, where a large survey course can enroll hundreds of students. And, he said, students in the Western Governors University degree programs would not be at sea, but working with qualified professionals "picking learning activities mapped to competencies."
For his part, Albrecht, a former associate vice president with the University of Colorado system, agreed that virtual courses were unlikely to save money on faculty salaries, but said they could lead to savings in overhead. If traditional students take only a portion of their course load electronically, Albrecht said, colleges could end up having to spend less on constructing classrooms and dormitories.
Whoever is right, a special 16-member team, set up by four regional college and university accreditation bodies, has convened to decide if the Western Governors University should get an official seal of academic approval in the form of formal accreditation. The Rev. Patrick J. Ford, academic vice president of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and chairman of an interregional accreditation commission, predicted it will take at least two years before there is an answer.
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