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Return to Archives6/06
BONK ON SHARING . . .
A thorough review of
Curtis Bonk's keynote address presented at the State University of New York 2006
Conference on Instructional Technologies. . . Titled “Oops, Did
You Mean to Share That? Open Source, Open CourseWare, and the Learning Objects
of Tomorrow,"
Indiana University Professor of Instructional Systems Technology Curtis Bonk
combined his views on education-, information-, and communication-oriented
sharing with a theme from the popular Thomas Friedman book “The World is
Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century.” In that spirit, Bonk coined and
described the following “Ten Forces that Flattened the Learning World”:
1. Tools for Searching and Finding Information
2. The Rise and Demand for Online Learning
3. Open Source Learning
4. Collaboration
5. Learning Portability
6. Learner Empowerment and Individualization of Learning
7. Online Portals of Information
8. Online Learning Object Repositories
9. Open CourseWare
10. Knowledge Brokers MORE
DISTANCE EDUCATION ASSESSMENT TOOL DEBUTS AT NUTN
In a move to alter the way distance education measures quality, the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN), Hezel Associates and Cisco Systems released an innovative tool for quality assessment called The Interactive Quality Assessment Tool (IQAT). MORE
DISTANCE EDUCATION FACT SHEET COURTESY OF HEZEL ASSOCIATES
Some interesting information about rising enrollments, increases in student access, accountability, quality, and what the new IQAT assessment tool does. MORE
SUGGESTIONS FOR SUMMER READING
by George Lorenzo
Typically in June I offer some summer reading suggestions, although I did not do
it last year. This year I’m back on track. Many of my suggestions have to do
with a topic I’ve been doing a lot of research and interviews on lately:
information literacy. The most common definition of information literacy comes
from the 1989 American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information
Literacy: “To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when
information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use
effectively the needed information.” This is a topic that is growing in importance quickly on a global scale as it
relates strongly to the future of our Information Age. MORE
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