The future of this technology is most closely tied to overcoming some of the current difficulties, particularly in the current situation of budget cutting and increased course loads for faculty in higher education. The first difficulty is the initial burden placed upon instructors to completely rethink the nature of their courses and adapt a facilitation role to their teaching style. It may even be necessary to provide some training for faculty on how to utilize collaborative learning approaches. There is also an initial workload in terms of creating materials in electronic form that is quite large the first time one teaches utilizing this medium. Faculty may be far slower to change and adopt this technology than students; therefore, one has to consider the incentives to do so in the particular educational institution.
Predictor: Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 paper they presented at the Conference on Distance Education in DOD at the National Defense University, researchers Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff write:”The future of this technology is most closely tied to overcoming some of the current difficulties, particularly in the current situation of budget cutting and increased course loads for faculty in higher education. The first difficulty is the initial burden placed upon instructors to completely rethink the nature of their courses and adapt a facilitation role to their teaching style. It may even be necessary to provide some training for faculty on how to utilize collaborative learning approaches. There is also an initial workload in terms of creating materials in electronic form that is quite large the first time one teaches utilizing this medium. Faculty may be far slower to change and adopt this technology than students; therefore, one has to consider the incentives to do so in the particular educational institution.”
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, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Conference on Distance Education
Title, headline, chapter name: Video Plus Virtual Classroom for Distance Education: Experience with Graduate Courses
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://eies.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/dised2.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney