How Can You Use “New Technology” to
Maintain & Advance F.I.T. as the
Premiere Fashion Program in the World?
--------------Some Thought Starters From------------David G. Brown, VP and Dean
International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning
Wake Forest University
Palisades, NY, October 20, 2000
New options require rethinking
all we do
Our profession has
new gardening tools.
We want to learn
which ones will be useful
in stimulating growth
in our own gardens.
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Approach
1. You choose how world is changing
2. I suggest how Wake Forest & Dave Brown are
taking advantage of the changes
3. We think together about how F.I.T. & you might
take advantage of the changes
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The New “Student” Mentality
1. Nintendo Problem Solving
2. Immediacy
3. Multi-Tasking & Channel Changing
4. Always In Touch
5. Open Information
6. Shared Authority & Second Opinions
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The New University--slide 1
1. Bricks and Mortar Stay--including health clubs
2. Brokers Emerge--the most common function
3. Entrepreneurship Thrives--focus required
4. Libraries Become Resource Centers--help
5. Confederations Flourish--mergers too
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The New University--Slide 2
1. International Alliances Multiply-not only distance education
2. Schedules Metabolize Around Commencement
3. Outsourcing Expands--services and courses
4. Funding Diversifies-mix public and entrepreneurial
5. Databases Center Around the Student-my.yahoo
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The New Professoriate
1. Team Research--science methods spread
2. Electronic Publications--most rigorous format
3. Paper Archiving--most enduring format
4. Collaborative Teaching--design teams
& confederations
5. Adjunct Faculty--alumni & practitioners
6. Institutes & Centers--departments
& disciplines recede
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The New Curriculum--Slide 1
1. The 80-20 Rule--not all F2F or Virtual
2. On Campus Distance Learning--3 residence,
2 by distance
3. Intimate F2F Classes--greater variability
4. Customized Textbooks--from many vendors
5. Learning Cohorts & Communities-essential for motivation
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The New Curriculum--Slide 2
1. Lifelong Programming-email, portals, tech support
2. Continuous Communication-before & after degrees
3. The Student-Designed Degree-learning objectives & styles
4. The Math Emporium Model-one of the new models
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Tomorrow’s Trio
• Customization
goodbye mass production
• Community
goodbye mass media
• Change
goodbye yesterday
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THE WAKE FOREST PLAN
IBM A20m, 500 Mhz, 11GB, 15”ActMatrix, CD-ROM, 90 modem
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IBM Laptops for all
Printers for all
New Every 2 Years
Own @ Graduation
45.000 Connections
Standard Software
99% E-Mail
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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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WHY COMPUTERS?
…the faculty answer
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Interactive Learning
Learn by Doing
Collaborative Learning
Integration of Theory and Practice
Visualization
Communication
Different Strokes for Different Folks
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Ways of Thinking About
Presidential Campaigns and Debates
A First Year Seminar Introducing
Students to the Liberal Arts
15 Freshmen
Meet twice per week
All with open laptops
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Brown’s First Year Seminar
• Before Class
– Students Find URLs &
Identify Criteria
– Interactive exercises
– Lecture Notes
– E-mail dialogue
– Cybershows
• During Class
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One Minute Quiz
Computer Tip Talk
Class Polls
Team Projects
• After Class
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Edit Drafts by Team
Guest Editors
Hyperlinks & Pictures
Access Previous Papers
• Other
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Daily Announcements
Team Web Page
Personal Web Pages
Exams include Computer
Materials Forever
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Questions for F.I.T.
• What is it that F.I.T. can do better than the rest
of the world?
• Why is F.I.T. uniquely positioned?
• Taking into account the “new environment”
and “new opportunities” presented by
technology, what specifically should we be
doing in the next several years?
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Hypotheses to Consider—
Faculty Development
• Are current faculty eager to “try” CEL?
• Should we emphasize the low hanging fruit?
– email and listservs
– URL addresses in syllabus
– annotations within word documents
– PowerPoint lecture outlines
– mini-movies that show successive computer screens
• Are most faculty interested in enhancing the Big Five
– continuous communication
– Repetition
– controversy and debate
– different strokes for different folks
– outsider involvement
• How about starting a Student Technology Advisors Program?
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Hypotheses to Consider-- Curriculum
• Should the faculty pass a motion that all teaching may proceed on the assumption
that students have adequate access to the Internet?
• How can we retain academic freedom for students and faculty in this era of open
information?
• Should teaching materials we prepare be separated into “enduring” and “short
lived”?
• To what extent should we emphasize each of these constituencies in our
curriculum planning: prospective students, prospective employers of our students,
our own convictions re what is best?
• Does the new technology allow us to re-emphasize the apprenticeship model? If
so, how can we best take advantage of it?
• How do we best take advantage of the globalizing possibilities enabled by more
robust communication systems?
• Is the need for “fashion in cyberspace” an immense new “market” for our
graduates? How can we anticipate the market for professionals who
communicate in multimedia?
• Does an “information fluency” requirement make sense?
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Hypotheses to Consider– Global
Education and International Linkages
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With whom can we partner globally?
How can we encourage collaborative teaching?
Are we budgeting for electronic data bases?
What we will do locally that can be sold to other
teaching institutions (so that we can in turn buy
from them)?
• Can we utilize adjunct professors from other
cultures to help our students understand different
cultural perspectives?
• How can we increase the visibility of F.I.T.
internationally?
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Hypotheses to Consider—
Technology and Distance Learning
• Should we adhere to the 80-20 Principle? Show
we plan F2F components for all virtual courses,
and vice versa?
• How can we build “loyal and trusting
communities” for F.I.T.?
• How can we strengthen our “brand identity”?
• What about email forwarding for life for our
graduates?
• With whom can we partner in distance learning?
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Hypotheses to Consider–
Interdisciplinary Studies
• How can we best both create and dissolve vibrant,
interdisciplinary communities while preserving faculty and
institutional stability?
• Will most students of the future follow a customized
curriculum?
• How can we expand co-curricular activities and encourage
“cross-fertilization” among learning communities?
• What will be the implications of each student owning
his/her data and ordering his/her activities via a personal
web page?
• Does it make sense to think of a technology
subspecialization within many of our majors?
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Hypotheses to Consider–
Space and Facilities
• Should most classes meet less frequently (the University of
Central Florida model)?
• How much space can be recaptured by substituting laptops
for computer labs?
• Is our computer network sufficiently robust?
• How can we remove obsolete & little used equipment from
our classrooms and laboratories? How can we resist
acquiring industry’s equipment discards?
• How can we reach a consensus re “the preferred” and “the
minimum” hardware and software packages?
• Is wireless computing a feasible alternative when so many of
our students are on internships?
• Do our spaces encourage the building and maintaining of
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community?
Tomorrow’s Trio
• Customization
goodbye mass production
• Community
goodbye mass media
• Change
goodbye yesterday
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Questions for F.I.T.
• What is it that F.I.T. can do better than the rest of the
world?
• Why is F.I.T. uniquely positioned?
• Taking into account the “new environment” and
“new opportunities” presented by technology, what
specifically should we be doing in the next several
years?
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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