From: Faculty and Research E-Memo (memofrom@Colorado.EDU)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 20:18:17 MDT
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:18:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Faculty and Research E-Memo <memofrom@Colorado.EDU> Subject: University vs. YouTube: Redefining the Role of Physically Situated
TO: Boulder Campus Full, Associate, Assistant Professors
and All Instructors
FROM: Faculty Teaching Excellence Program
SENDER: Mary Ann Shea, Director
DATE: October 15, 2009
SUBJECT: University vs. YouTube: Redefining the Role of Physically Situated
Education in the Internet Age
The role of the university -- the physical setting, the place that students
actually attend -- is about to undergo seismic changes due to the presence
of web-based phenomena such as iTunes U, Instructables, and YouTube. At
issue is the meaning of physically-situated higher education when challenged
by a vast menu of easily accessible, high quality, low cost (or free)
web-based instructional materials.
This discussion will focus on a variety of themes related to this challenge.
One theme involves the ways in which physical setting can be put to
educational use (often by means of novel technologies): a place where
students live might have features that complement, counteract, or respond to
the particular affordances of web-based materials. Another theme is the way
in which classroom instruction and university-level courses might evolve in
response to their web-based analogues. Part of this discussion will be
devoted to brainstorming about what residential university life can and
should look like in the medium-term future.
In the nearer term, we will also discuss a variety of strategies for making
creative use of these resources in a variety of disciplines and classroom
settings. For instance, faculty might develop "educational mashups" that
combine multiple sources within a single set of course materials; or they
might create a YouTube channel to display course projects or demonstrations;
or they might assign students to create a public Instructables document as
an alternative (say) to a short paper.
Presented by Mike Eisenberg, Professor of Computer Science
Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009, 3:00-4:00 p.m. ATLAS 200
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