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Foil 14 Lessons from JSU Experiment

From Technology Supercharging Knowledge: The Next Generation of Learning Communities 8th Annual Scholarship and Community Conference University of Houston (Hilton Hotel) -- October 7 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Students liked the job relevant skills taught
2 Important to have curricula mentor and technology expert at remote site; important to visit 2 or 3 times a semester
3 Digital Audio/video less stressful to lecturer than speaker phone
4 "Shy" students are helped by remote format as digital interactions are "personality neutral"
5 Need to keep to the point -- digressions, which are often helpful in standard lectures, tend to lose students -- help with shared cursor
6 Need to keep everything synchronized
7 Chat stores up messages to answer at end of "current object"
8 Teacher can browse ahead 1 or more foils as "thumbnails"
9 Experiments were successful but conservative -- we deliberately tried to reproduce "time honored approach" -- we can expect there to be different optimal approach in distance case than in face to face case -- find by more experiments!

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