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Saturday, October 05, 2002
http://www.convergemag.com/magazine/story.phtml?id=3030000000022194 Creativity and Convergence - technology issues affecting higher education Mark Milliron ... There's a core area to explore in the creativity and convergence arena, i.e., can creativity be sustained by "bolting" or "grafting" technology-inspired learning innovation to traditional techniques for teaching? One major challenge of the past 20 years has been redesigning the integration of technology into colleges and universities. First, we replicated the school science lab paradigm by creating computer labs and herding students into them once a week for 40 minutes to learn typing skills or desktop management.... Third, we discovered that the technology could enable more collaboration between students and between students and subject-matter experts. After being disappointed to learn that faculty weren't willing to sustain e-mail correspondence with students at all hours, it turned out that this convergence didn't really support the creative impulse that led us to move to this form of interaction. Contact time or office hours couldn't be satisfactorily replicated over the Net and still maintain the decorum and value of the relationship that it sought to deepen....
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