Computer-Based Networks for Teacher Education
Jim Levin
Michael Waugh
College of Education
Presentation at Ed Tech Day, "Delivering Instruction over the Internet",
October 14, 1994, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Teleapprenticeships
- Network interactions of education students with K-12 teachers and students
- Using advanced communication tools
Features of Teaching Teleapprenticeships
- Integration into existing courses and programs
- Development of communication software and education servers
Spanning the spectrum of courses taken by education students
- General education courses
- Teaching methods courses
- Student teaching
- Continuing education
Example Uses in Courses outside of Education
- Question answering (Kieffer, Bio100; Sandberg, Geol243)
- abstracting local intellectual resources (Dole, PlBio100)
Example Uses in Education Courses
- Electronic authoring, editing & publishing using network servers
- Use of laptop computers by student teachers to increase links between the
university and the schools
Uses in Continuing Education
- Teachers as Educational Project generators and coordinators (C&I
300)
Development of advanced communication tools
- Message Assistant
- Augmented Eudora
Message Assistant
- Hypertextual organization of message sets
- Rule engine for operating on message sets
Use of network servers
Learning Resource Server
- Web server: URL <http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/>
- Gopher server: <gopher.ed.uiuc.edu>
"Delivering Instruction over the Internet"
- "Delivery of instruction"
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- network learning environments
Half-life of information
- Decreasing
- Implications for education
Change in the "Information Economy"
- Previously: Information as a scarce resource
- Now: Information as a cheap resource (information overload)
Network Learning Environments
- Project-oriented learning
- Integration of learning and work
An example network project
Summary
- Instruction over the Internet can be quite different than conventional
instruction
- There are many new instructional frameworks using the Internet