1. Campaigning for the Online Education Platform By David G. Brown, Professor of Economics VP and Dean Wake Forest University

2. New Leverage for Professors Community goodbye mass media Customization goodbye mass production Student Responsibility goodbye info-monopoly of the professor

3. How Are YOU Using Blackboard to Enhance Community and/or Interaction in YOUR School or YOUR Course ? Write something now! Sign it- name and institution. Blackboard folks will, in 10 minutes, collect your answers and select some of the best to be shared with the entire group!

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5. THE WAKE FOREST PLAN THE WAKE FOREST PLAN IBM A20m, 500 Mhz, 11GB, 15”ActMatrix, CD-ROM, 90 modem IBM Laptops for all Printers for all New Every 2 Years Own @ Graduation 45.000 Connections Standard Software 99% E-Mail

6. 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%

7. 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

8. WHY COMPUTERS? …the faculty answer Interactive Learning Learn by Doing Collaborative Learning Integration of Theory and Practice Visualization Communication Different Strokes for Different Folks www.ankerpub.com

9. 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 Syllabus

10. Brown’s First Year Seminar Before Class –Students Find URLs & Identify Criteria –Interactive exercises –Lecture Notes –E-mail dialogue –Cybershows During Class –One Minute Quiz –Computer Tip Talk –Class Polls –Team Projects After Class –Edit Drafts by Team –Guest Editors –Hyperlinks & Pictures –Access Previous Papers Other –Daily Announcements –Team Web Page –Personal Web Pages –Exams include Computer –Materials Forever

11. What Else Should I Be Considering to Increase--- Community Customization Student Responsibility Let’s Hear Your Answers!

12. My Dream Every Student and Faculty Member will create and maintain their own Electronic Portfolio within Blackboard Every Student and Faculty Member will be authorized to create their own course-like- interest-group and we will be fostering thousands of life-long subcommunities.

13. How to Interest Colleagues! Presume Eagerness (Garden Metaphor) Promote Use of Low Hanging Fruit Email + URLs + CourseInfo Emphasize Simple Pedagogy Continuous Communication + Controversy/Debate + Preview/Review + Outside Involvement + Standardize (to the extent possible) Support with Custom Help STARS + Academic Computing Specialists Encourage Non-Course Usage of Blackboard Work with Clusters

14. 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