Blackboard 9 is all about Interactive Learning says Dr. Joy Hatch, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, Virginia Community College System. Our Keynote Speaker gets right to the heart of our misgivings with this news. "Change!" is the way we will do the business of education--that change finds its source in technology--Web 2.0 Interactive open access technology.
Dr. Hatch invites us to think of education as 'developmental,' tied to life-long learning. The center for this confluence of change, life-long learning, and technology is the Community College. We are situated in the right place and the right time to educate our teens and returning worker students in ways that will foster their economic and civic vitality--lifelong. Blackboard 9 is a key player for these goals of collaboration, connectedness, and interactivity.
Here's the action plan: we want to achieve a balance between technology & instruction: introduce a variety of methods for teaching & learning: podcasts of lectures & online access to slides/videos to reinforce the content and activities of the face-to-face instructional environment.
Our students are good at social networking: we have the responsibility to our students to do well what they do well: for example, Dr. Hatch tells us that students form online study groups w/o the knowledge of their instructors.
Hurry, let's catch up!
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