Post on 28-Oct-2014
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Texas A&M Health Science Center
Baylor College of Dentistry
Empowering Faculty to Develop and Deliver a “New” Dental Curriculum to the Net Generation
Bill Wathen, DMD
Mohsen Taleghani, DMD
Art Upton
Ben Cozad
Charlie Lindahl
Scott Frederick
Art UptonWeb Administrator
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Baylor College of Dentistry
Understanding Net Gen - 2008
Memex - First prediction of global e-webs The mind operates by association Snaps instantly between associations By “an intricate web of trails” With the detail of mental pictures “Awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.”
“As We May Think” - 1945
Vannevar Bushauthor of
“As We May Think”
Ted Nelson - Inventor of “Click Here” Project Xanadu 1960 - The Original Hypertext Project Meta-documents concept - Global database access Lately, gone a little off the beaten path:
Ted Nelson Inventor of Hypertext
Hypertext & Meta-docs 1960
Cross-platform UI Files to/from many different
computers Variety of doc types and protocols Provides universal access Any User on Any Network Any Data at Anytime.
Tim Berners-Leeinventor of the “www”
browser software.
Code Name: “www” 1989
Develop “hypertext minds, they leap around.” Thought is less linear … Piece information together from multiple sources.
Students raised with computers:
Understanding Net Gen 2008
Source:
Educating the Net Generation Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, Editors - An Educause Publication
Intuitive, visual communicators Integrate virtual and “real-time” Learn through discovery vs. being told Multi-tasking of Attention Fast response time, expect rapid responses
Source:
Educating the Net Generation Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, Editors - An Educause Publication
Among other differences:
Understanding Net Gen 2008
Memex - First prediction of global e-webs The mind operates by association Snaps instantly between associations By “an intricate web of trails” With the detail of mental pictures “Awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.”
“As We May Think” - 1945
Vannevar Bushauthor of
“As We May Think”
Higher Ed. Online - 2008
Online Ed => Higher Ed. Changes Goals of the “Academy” remain the same Technology changing at “blinding speeds” Content is still “King” - Delivery is New New enhances the Old, does not replace it WWW maturity => OS/Browser “Wars” over
“New” H.Ed. digital age concerns
Content capture and creation
Tech Teaching Techniques
Smart classrooms and campuses
Interactive AV in classroom
Lecture capture systems
Content management
Web 2.0 and social networking
Enterprise remote control
Distance learning
“Higher education must continue to engage the Net Generation in a dialogue regarding its expectations about technology and learning.”
Technology and Learning Expectations of the Net Generation Gregory R. Roberts
University of Pittsburgh–Johnstown
Listen & Learn from Net Gen
• At HSC-Baylor College of Dentistry, a concerted effort to respond to student needs.
• Faculty discovered a student initiative to share recorded course materials via hand-held devices such as iPods, iPhones, etc.
• HSC-BCD’s response, to- Listen to the students- Allow “Grass roots” to meet “Brass” at top- Meet needs of classes now- Adapt for future students
Listen & Learn from Net Gen
Link to full article on Art’s Blog: http://webcomm.bcd.tamhsc.edu/sphpblog/index.php?entry=entry070907-181402
Music Player => Sophisticated Comm. device On par with the telephone Plus full-powered Web browser Plus Automatic Wi-Fi Puts the literal/virtual world in any pocket! WWW maturity + Device Maturity It is time to LISTEN to our students
Toward Digital Dental Education
Time to take hand-held revolution VERY seriously
Students want instant access to digital curriculum materials
Lectures, presentations, demos, podcasts, videos
The Institution needs to support that.
Toward Digital Dental Education
HSC-BCD on iTunesU
Student survey request One BCD Response
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Berkeley Curriculum on YouTube
UC Berkeley becomes first to make videos of over 300 hours of full courses available freeon YouTube, and willcontinue to expand thecatalog.
Next:• The Student Perspective• Attempts to Respond From the Top• How We’re Doing it now at HSC-BCD
It doesn’t take much, but …
It DOES take collaborating with the students
To teach them dentistry, as usual -- but also
To learn from them innovative ways for delivering it.
The Student Viewpoint
Ben CozadFirst Year Dental Student
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Baylor College of Dentistry
Order of Objectives
Student Resources
Personal Computers
MP3 Players
Personal Electronics
Personal Electronics
Resources We Like
Media Preference
Double
Regular
Half
Varies
Lecture Listening Speeds
Resources You Can Provide
Objectives
Students who desire more than just a shared network folder
Objectives
Accessing Content on iTunes
Step Up
IT Infrastructure And ApplicationsCharlie Lindahl
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Office For Information Technologies
Understanding Net Gen - 2008
INFRASTRUCTURE:
The underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization)
(Merriam Webster Online)
Definition:
End product
Software
Hardware
Organizational structure
Usual view of it:
Organizational structure
End product
Software
Hardware
Our view of it:
Who is our audience?
What are we trying to do and why?
Who are our (management/user) champions?
Organizational Structure
Quality educational materials
Digital media(movies, slides, and audio)
Easy-to-use production and distribution methods
End Product
No-brainer methods for content providers (e.g., near-real-time classroom production)
Easy end-user consumption processes (e.g., Ipod)
Comprehensive production and consumption metrics
Software
High-capacity reliable servers(cpu and storage)
Fast networking pipes
End-user devices
Near-real-time production hardware to support production processes
Hardware
Driven from the bottom (students)
Supported from the top(upper management)
Empowering the faculty & researchers
Our Organization
Multimedia: audio/video/slides
Reusable & portable media (podcasting)
Effective educational materials (w/metrics)
Our End Product
Producer: near-real-time recording and posting of materials (Garageband & Classcaster)
End user: itunes client, web browser (mpeg4 video, mp3 audio, pdf)
Servers: web, streaming media, database, content management system, course management systems
Our Software
High-end Dell rack-mounted servers
High-end networking hardwareon internet2
Vmware virtualization
Large redundant disk arrays (Raid5)
Our Hardware
Media Resources Public media available and ready for posting Classroom media available and ready for posting**
Server Resources iTunesU space allocated and available Local servers (web/file servers) setup
Production processes Initial procedures in place and running in classrooms Permissions / access policies being determined
Consumer processes Students downloading to PCs and portable media devices (iPods)
Current Status
Consumer processes Determine producer preferences (how to produce) Determine consumer preferences (where to produce)
Media Resources Consumer preferences being evaluated (as per student surveys)
Server Resources iTunesU space will be populated with public and private media Local servers will be configured as necessary for production and
consumption
Future Work
Production processes Study and deploy easy-to-use production processes (hardware +
software + procedures) Determine access and production policies Determine and deploy evaluation metrics
Collaboration Discover, share, and learn Best Practices with others in the
academic/educational community
Future Work (cont)
EDUCAUSE Main site
http://www.educause.edu/ ELI (Educause Learning Initiatives)
http://www.educause.edu/eli Apple iTunesU
Main site http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html
Texas A&M iTunesU http://itunes.tamu.edu/
HSC-BCD iTunesU (coming soon!)
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