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

16

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!)

References