Invitations   Goals/Participants  Definitions/Issues  Tools/Media
Principles/Structure  Practices/Techniques  Implications/Next Steps

WORKING DRAFT
Increasing Challenges

• Too much new information
• Too many messages
• Too many attractive new tools for communication and instruction
• Too many attractive new instructional resources
   
• Growing hunger/need for community
• Growing need for collaboration (intra- and inter-institutional)
   
• Pressure to use information technology more widely often associated with pressure to achieve higher student/faculty ratio, fear of depersonalization of teacher/learner relationship
• Online interaction, unfettered and unguided, can be used to hide from one another.  People are just beginning to discover/invent ways of “personalizing” communication in this new medium.  [See:  Personalizing Pedagogy]

• Resources (money, discretionary time) decreasing - both institutionally, and personally
• External political pressures increasing
• Need for "permanent" increase in support (services, hardware, software, structural flexibility, ...) for educational uses of information technology
• Need for “permanent” increase in ongoing professional development for faculty, staff, administration, ...

Managing, Achieving Expectations

• Widening gap between expectations for what can be accomplished with technology to improve teaching and learning and the resources available to do so.
• Faculty manage students’ expectations in a course
• Personal:  Each of us manages our own expectations of others and of ourselves;  Each of us manages others’ expectations of “me”
  Why me?  Why now? 
  [See:  Why Bother? ]