If students who take most of their courses on campus are permitted to, they will choose to take a significant portion of their courses via a “distance” mode such as Virtual Classroom. This is because they experience scheduling conflicts with other courses, their jobs, or their family obligations, which mean that they either must take a “distance” course, or take longer to complete their degrees.
Predictor: Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 paper she presented at the International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction in Taiwan, Starr Roxanne Hiltz of New Jersey Institute of Technology writes:”The Virtual Classroom is a teaching and learning environment constructed in software, which supports collaborative learning among students who participate at times and places of their choosing, through computer networks … Computer-Mediated Communication systems, especially when enhanced to create what we refer to as a Virtual Classroom, can make significant improvements in both access to and the quality of education. Currently over 80 programs worldwide are known to be offering courses partially or completely via CMC … If students who take most of their courses on campus are permitted to, they will choose to take a significant portion of their courses via a ‘distance’ mode such as Virtual Classroom. This is because they experience scheduling conflicts with other courses, their jobs, or their family obligations, which mean that they either must take a ‘distance’ course, or take longer to complete their degrees.”
Biography:Starr Roxanne Hiltz, the co-author of a seminal book about the electronic frontier, “The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer” (MIT Press), was a professor of computer and information science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of many Internet research studies. In 1994, Hiltz received the “Pioneer Award” from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her “significant and influential contributions to computer-based communications and to the empowerment of individuals using computers.” She was among the first to note that computer conferencing could form the basis of new kinds of communities. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction
Title, headline, chapter name: Teaching in the Virtual Classroom
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.njit.edu/old/njIT/Department/CCCC/VC/Papers/Teaching.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney