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Foil 15 The Ingredients of Web Based Education

From Minnowbrook -- the Virtual University After Dinner Talk to Dedicated AFOSR Research Team -- April 15 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Design of (possibly new as exploiting new possibilities) curricula
2 Decide on Architecture of the curricula material
3 Authoring of material in curricula
4 Managing the material and students response to it including quizzes, grades and administration
5 Delivery of the material in a mix of self-paced (asynchronous), traditional (synchronous) or collaborative (interactive)
6 Good answers to all these components are pretty clear and these answers will match the evolution of web over next few years
  • The answers are not perfect but they will improve and they are already good enough and can be delivered at a distance
7 So all we need is .......................
8 Organizations with appropriate mission, resources and entrepreneurial spirit to do the grand experiments, succeed and blossom in the future ....

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