Policies That Have Made
A Difference:
The Wake Forest
Experience
“…new media in education
and the arts …”
2nd Annual Davis Symposium
@ Emerson College, April 7, 2000
David G. Brown
Professor of Economics, VP and Dean
International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning
Wake Forest University
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Policies that Make a Difference
• Low Hanging Fruit
Students First
• Communication
Standardize
• Interactive Learning
Ubiquitous Access
Explicit Faculty
Endorsement
• Eager Faculty
• Marketable Difference
• The 80-20 Maxim
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THE WAKE FOREST PLAN
F96: IBM 365XD, 16RAM, 100Mhz, 810MB, CD-ROM, 14.4 modem
F97: IBM 380D, 32 RAM, 130Mhz, 1.35GB, CD-ROM, 33.6 modem
F98: IBM 380XD, 64 RAM, 233 Mhz, 4.1GB, CD-ROM, 56 modem
F99: IBM 390, 128 RAM, 333 Mhz, 6GB, CD-ROM, 56 modem
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Thinkpads for all
New Every 2 Years
Own @ Graduation
Printers for all
Wire Everything
Standard Software
Full Admin Systems
IGN for Faculty
Keep Old Computers
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40+30 New People
50% Faculty Trained
85% CEI Users
98% E-Mail
+15% Tuition
~$1500/Yr/Student
4 Year Phase In
Pilot Year
Order at--Now 4 Classes
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The Big Three
#1. E-mail
#2. Web Pages (for each course)
#3. Internet URLs
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93 Courses
36 Universities
143 Professors
26 Disciplines
http://www.ankerpub.com/
Beliefs of 91/93 Vignette Authors
Pedagogy and Philosophy
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From Interactive Learning
January, 2000
From Anker Publishing
David G. Brown, Editor
Interactive Learning
Learn by Doing
Collaborative Learning
Integration of Theory and Practice
Communication
Visualization
Different Strokes for Different Folks
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Computers Enhance My
Teaching and/or Learning Via-Presentations
Better--20%
More Opportunities to
Practice & Analyze--35%
More Access to Source
Materials via Internet--43%
More Communication with Faculty Colleagues, Classmates,
and Between Faculty and Students--87%
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Computers allow people---• to belong to more communities
• to be more actively engaged in each
community
• with more people
• over more miles
• for more months and years
• TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE
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Http://iccel.wfu.edu
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What’s Being
Done?
“The Economists’ Way of Thinking”
A Course Required of All Freshmen
For 15 Students
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Brown’s First Year Seminar
• Before Class
– Students Find URLs &
Identify Criteria
– Interactive exercises
– Lecture Notes
– E-mail dialogue
– Cybershows
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One Minute Quiz
Computer Tip Talk
Class Polls
Team Projects
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Edit Drafts by Team
Guest Editors
Hyperlinks & Pictures
Access Previous Papers
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Daily Announcements
Team Web Page
Personal Web Pages
Exams include Computer
Materials Forever
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Results Compared to Other
First Year Courses
(Student Response to Brown’s FYS Over 5 Terms)
More
Same
How Much Learned? 2 of 3
1 of 3
How Much Time?
2 of 3
How Much Fun?
3 of 3
Less
1 of 3
How Can Colleges Make
Ubiquitous Computing
Affordable for All Students?
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8 BASIC MODELS OF
UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
(Ordered by total cost, starting with the most expensive)
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All + Powerful + Laptops + Annual Refresh UMC
Refresh Less Frequently WFU WVWC
Substitute Desktop Computers USAFA
Provide One Computer Per Two Beds Chatham
Specify Threshold Level SSU UNC
Substitute Network Computers
Provide Public Station Computers BC
Teach with Explicit Assumption of Access
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WAYS TO REDUCE
START UP COSTS
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Annual Lease
Phase in by classes
Phase in by programs
Phase in by type of program
Phase in by category (faculty, students, staff)
Hand me down
Loaner Pool
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Policies that Make a Difference
• Low Hanging Fruit
Students First
• Communication
Standardize
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Interactive
Learning
Ubiquitous Access
Explicit Faculty
Endorsement
• Eager Faculty
• Marketable Difference
• The 80-20 Maxim
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We must not Dumb Down the
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Have no textbooks
Have no library
Have no Internet Access
Learn in different ways
Are better with computers
Instead, let’s RAISE THE BAR!
David G. Brown
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27109
336-758-4878
email: brown@wfu.edu
http//:www.wfu.edu/~brown
fax: 336-758-4875
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