Course Objectives
- describe current leading-edge work in educational telecommunications in K-12 and higher education,
- depict the ways in which learning and teaching across barriers of distance and time are similar to -- and different from -- face-to-face instruction,
- gain fluency in using various interactive media (asynchronous threaded discussion sites, synchronous multi-user virtual environments, groupware, interactive presentational media, videoconferencing), instructional frameworks and applications,
- experience how each medium for interacting across distance shapes the cognitive, affective, and social dimensions of learning,
- critique research studies in educational telecommunications, and
- discuss how innovations such as the World Wide Web, multi-user virtual environments, computer-supported collaborative learning, and online communities are shaping the evolution of distance education and distributed learning.