knowledge webs
virtual communities
shared synthetic environments
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Web Practices and Applications for Remote Learning Services |
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knowledge webs
virtual communities
shared synthetic environments
‘distance education should invent its future by rethinking fundamental
- this cannot wait for outcome of large,
long studies, but must rely on case studies
and formative evaluations
suggests that the core skill needed is not the ability to find
data (forage)
but to filter the plethora
- educators need to ‘structure learning
experiences to make such immersion and filtering possible’
Dede suggests
that the ‘superhighway’ metaphor is inadequate and constraining
- it is ‘equivalent to someone in 1896 declaring that the airplane will be the “canal system” of the 20th century. Backward-looking metaphors focus on what we can automate...but miss the true innovation:
redefining how we communicate and educate by effectively using new types of messages and experiences.’