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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Schrage: Don't think of distance learning as just automation - Eric Kleefeld, Wisconsin Technology
Distance learning is about more than just doing the usual lessons away from a physical classroom, says Michael Schrage. Rather, technology is a medium that opens up whole new questions about what is taught, how it is taught, and what the relationship should be between teachers, students and the information itself.Schrage, a research associate at MIT Media Lab and co-director of the Lab's E-Markets Initiative, addressed the recent Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison on the choices presented by distance learning. He opened his speech with a reference to the Five-Minute University, an old Saturday Night Live skit about a university that summed up in five minutes everything a college graduate would remember five years later."I think it's ironic and perverse that the joke is still funny 25 years later," Schrage told the audience. "But if it will make you feel any better, if we hold the long distance learning community up to those standards, you guys are doing great."
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