Blackboard Summit, Washington DC, April 2001

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From the Trenches

Issues of Support

Myths
Myth: moving from classroom-based to technology-based is insignificant
Myth: you can work with larger classes and maintain standards
Myth: what you were doing in the classroom was the best way to teach in the first place - my history professor

Support perspectives
Using the technologies - understanding, use
"Do for you" and "teach you to"
Before, during, and after
Indivualized approaches are essential

Why does it take so much time???
It's going to take more time, it just depends on whose time.
And whose consternation.
It depends on your goals.

Instructional support
NOT teaching assistants
NOT technical assistance or assistants
IS the time to make the transition.
Conversations with others doing this
How to use technology to teach facts, or knowledge, or values
What aspects of a technology support what kinds of learning?
The freedom - and support - to admit that this is a new arena

Very individual, because teaching is individual


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