1. Training for the Virtual World: The Reality of Learning Fort McCoy January 5, 2000 Mary F. O’Sullivan, Ph.D.

2. Reality is relative Alexander Graham Bell: invented the telephone for symphonies Department of Defense: devised internet for cold war information safety Tim Berners-Lee: created html for scientific document sharing

3. Thirty years that changed everything: 60s & 70s 1969 DoD’s Advanced Research Projects Agency -- 4 computers 1971 Ray Tomlinson invents email - - 2 dozen computers 1973 first international connections 1976 Wang Laboratories creates first word processor -- $30,000

4. Thirty years that changed everything: 80s 1980--400 university, government, and military host computers 1984--1000 host computers 1989--100,000 host computers

5. Thirty years that changed everything: 90s 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invents hypertext 1992 Internet links 17 networks, 33 countries, 1 millions hosts 1993 Mosaic, 1.5 million host computers linked in 100 countries 1994 3 million host computers 1995 Dial-up access with AOL etc. and 20-30 million computers

6. Speed of Development Over 20 years from the Internet to the WWW--4 computers to 100,000 Two years from the invention of html to the first browser-- 15 times to 1.5 million computers Two years from the first browser to dial-up-- an increase of 20 times to 20-30 million computers

7. Next on the web: e-Education

8. Why e-Education? Gartner Group: Dataquest –1995 -1998: 27%-50% households had computers Kenneth Green 1999: –54% of all college courses use email –38.9% have syllabus online –28.1% have a website PC Week article on DoD: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/storie s/news/0,4153,2391276,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/storie s/news/0,4153,2391276,00.html

9. Training for the Virtual World: spring 2000 My background Course contents

10. My Background Humanities to techno-geek –25 years teaching communication –1987 1st computer –1988 began teaching in computer- supported classroom –1989 went online –3 years teaching online http://learn.western.tec.wi.us/mfo

11. Course Content Highlights Examples for inspiration E-mail Discussion Lists Asynchronous and Synchronous Conferencing Designing Learning Modules Designing Websites

12. Examples of Online Instruction Smart Planet: http://www.smartplanet.com/learn.as p http://www.smartplanet.com/learn.as p Learnativity: http://www.learnativity.com/ http://www.learnativity.com/ World Wide School http://www.worldwideschool.org/ http://www.worldwideschool.org/

13. Examples of Potentials VOICe: http://www.western.tec.wi.us/voice/ http://www.western.tec.wi.us/voice/ Translate Mail http://www.t- mail.com/ translates emailhttp://www.t- mail.com/ translates email The Nine Planets http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/nine planets/nineplanets.html http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/nine planets/nineplanets.html

14. Discussion lists and Email Enable student collaboration http://www.western.tec.wi.us/mfo /elecwrit/mail180.htm http://www.western.tec.wi.us/mfo /elecwrit/mail180.htm Facilitate communication between student and instructor http://www.western.tec.wi.us/mfo /elecwrit/disc180.htmhttp://www.western.tec.wi.us/mfo /elecwrit/disc180.htm Simplify distribution of materials Provide transcript of all communication

15. Asynchronous and Synchronous Conferencing Creates a virtual classroom for discussion Asynchronous allows for thoughtful conversation Synchronous allows for immediate feedback http://www.western.tec.wi.us/webbo ard/webboard.dll/~commskillshttp://www.western.tec.wi.us/webbo ard/webboard.dll/~commskills

16. Designing learning modules Planning before creating Designing to take advantage of hypertext http://www.western.tec.wi.us/mfo/el ecwrit/ass180.htmhttp://www.western.tec.wi.us/mfo/el ecwrit/ass180.htm

17. The Point eEducation is already happening and those who ignore it will not have input into shaping what may well be the most significant development in education this century. Use of computer-mediated communication is exploding.

18. What Next? TCP/IP 2003-- America's Mars orbiters will serve as relays for SCP Solarnet with.mars and.earth addresses Eventually past the solar system and...

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