We began our journey by thinking about what we meant by the subject of distance education and looking up what others thought it might be. We’ve been focused for the last couple of weeks on the detail of the communications affordances required to communicate when we’re not all in the same room. We’ve been experimenting with using some of the most powerful of these tools since the first day and this past week has provided an opportunity for you to consider and examine some more exotic tools. Now we’re going to transition into how we design courses using these tools. Specifically, we’re going to talk about how to choose them, how to combine them, and how they might contribute to either education or learning.

A site I’d like you all to look at is David Warlick’s New Century Schoolhouse Project.

Educating students for an unpredictable future is one of the greatest challenges that our society faces, and it will take enormous imagination to meet this challenge. This project, New Century School House, is an opportunity for educators to begin to express what our knowledge, experience, and imagination tells us schools should be like, to better prepare our students for their future.

As we go thru the week and talk about designing courses, I’d like you to visit some of the adopted classrooms in the New Century School House and write about a few of them — good or bad — in your blogs.

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