from Interactive Learning: Vignettes of America's Most Wired Campuses, David G. Brown, ed. Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA. 2000
I learned about David Brown from an article given to me by Abigail and interlibrary loaned this book. Interestingly enough I believe that I could have had an "vignette" in this book. These are some of the early adopters and they speak about email, discussion boards, online syllabuses, simulations - pretty straighforward stuff. I don't think I learned anything new but just saw the variety of possibilities. These vignettes went from discipline to discipline and, as it should be, most of the technology use was tied to the content. (there a couple of CO courses in this book, one of which I checked out further online and have found it a rich source of content ideas for my classes that I already have started to put to use). Plus most instructors were using the technology as support, important support, but still were using lecture based classes. Most wanted to extend the learning or personalize it more for their students. Each vignette did have a lessons-learned part and I used some language from some of these for my presentation to landmark faculty. Here are some other ideas from the book:
p. 121 communication course - "confronting commonsense" using Peer Learning Sequence by Eric Mazur (1997) as a protocal to dig in things through online discussions. student presented with problem or controversy (rap music might have the effect of encouraging violence against women, example of Clinton speech as liberal or conservative). after taking an initial position, presented with data of counterconsiderations. check this URL for more: http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/polis/index.html
p.179 naive beliefs by students, use generative learning, create ambiguity with ambiguous, incomprehensible context and have student actively engage in resolving the ambiguity
p. 196 "every lesson prepared for distance requires twice as much time as a lesson prepared for the classroom."
p.216 "electronic yarnball" group writing
p. 229 The Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (DIWE) looks like something Landmark should look into, creates writing process/sequencing tasks
p. 276 web scavenger hunts - find at least 6 sites related to the topic, half page description of site's focus and contents accompanies the URL, two points for each URL and 4 for one that no one else has found.