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Distance Education
April 1, 2009
8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Convergence-Disruption-Transformation:
Digital Alchemy and the New Online Pedagogy
As educators have we lost sight of the brass ring? Have we unintentionally widened the digital
divide? Have we let go of what we know for what is new? When did we stop talking and start texting?
What about technology change makes sense and cents? This workshop will expand your current view
of distance learning by examining tools, applied solutions and transformative approaches to pedagogy.
Further, we will question assumptions; we’ll take the time to talk. We’ll look over our shoulder
at the others, those who have not adopted technology and are on the trailing edge versus the leading
edge and ask “why?”
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Workshop Overview
ELIZABETH MEYER, Director, Online Learning, University of California-San Diego
8:15 a.m.–9:15 a.m.
Teaching Computational Thinking
Presiding: BERNARD LUSKIN, President, Touro University Worldwide
Keynote Speaker: JON UDELL, author, information architect, software developer
Jeannette Wing, who heads the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation, coined the phrase "computational thinking." She believes that the intellectual tools of computer science — including abstraction, indirection, naming, composition, syndication, test-driven development, and debugging — amount to “a universally applicable attitude and skill set that everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.”
I violently agree. In this talk I'll define some principles of computational thinking, show some practical examples from my own work, and lead a discussion about how to teach this essential, but poorly-defined, set of skills.
9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Disruption and Transformation
Presenting: GARDNER CAMPBELL, Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University
This session explores the relationship between disruption and transformation. The
goal is not only to establish a relationship between the two, but to suggest ways in
which they blend, and to propose strategies for recognizing effective disruptions
and using them to stimulate and harvest innovation.
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
From the Trenches: Pedagogy and Technology
Presiding: ELIZABETH MEYER, Director, Online Learning, University of California-San Diego
Presenting: SARAH STEIN, Associate Professor of Communication and Assistant Vice-
Provost, Office of Information Technology, North Carolina State University
What happens when the cultural expectations of new technologies in education get confused with
the technical expectations? What educational values and objectives get obscured when we label all
undergraduate age students as the technical wizards of the “Net generation” and
most academics as sadly lagging behind? What assumptions lie behind the the use
of information technologies in teaching and learning? Does a cloud computing
system change the ground for those assumptions?
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
New Technologies on the Horizon—Demonstrations
Presiding: DAN COLMAN, Associate Dean, Continuing Studies, Stanford University
12:30 p.m. Networking Lunch
For more information: contact Natalia Kats, UCEA Director of Conferences,
at nkats@upcea.edu or
202.659.3130.
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