"Ten Things I (no longer) Believe about
Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology" is a
series of short essays about how to improve higher learning.
The focus is especially on the role technology might play as
a tool for academics to gradually alter what is taught, how
it's taught, and who can be taught. (If
you find this interesting, check
our calendar for our March 2010 online workshop. We'll
discuss and debate these issues, one by one, and then work
together to develop a sustainable approach to improving
academic programs. Institutions with accreditation coming up
in a few years might find this workshop especially valuable.)
Half the essays (down the left hand side
of this table
of contents) are organized around ideas that seemed at
one time to be common sense propositions about how to
improve, perhaps to revolutionize, higher education by using
technology. Many people still use these tenets to make
major investments and policy decisions. Alternative
suggestions in each area are on the right side.
"Ten Things" is designed to help academics
think more creatively and prudently about making good use of
existing technology. We suggest following some or all of the
following steps:
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Read the
table of
contents (which provides a brief summary of the
argument)
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If you find that provocative, then
read the essays that interest you most. (Each cell in the table of contents
has a link to its corresponding chapter.)
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If you think the material could help
you and your colleagues take a fresh look at how you are
organizing your efforts, suggest that they read
the materials as well. (If you'd like to see us assemble
these materials as a brief booklet, please email us at
info @ tltgroup.org and let us know what you need.) We
hope these materials will be of special value for
provosts, CIOs, curriculum committees, visiting
committees, and, last but not least,
Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Roundtables.
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Once your colleagues have at least
glanced at these materials, you might suggest that each
of you take a few minutes to write what you once
believed about how higher educations should and could
work, and what you now believe. Are you all in
agreement? How do your dreams and disappointments
relate? Thinking together, can you come up with restated
goals and strategies more likely to work?
This material is brand new. We very much
need to know if you think we're on the right track, and how
we can make these materials a better fit for your needs.
Thanks for your help!
PS. Thanks to Steve
Gilbert, my colleague of a dozen years, many of whose ideas
I've made use of in writing these essays. If these
ideas get you thinking, please spread the word!
- Steve Ehrmann
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