Technological Minimalism in Distance Education


	Technological Minimalism in Distance Education

RayWatkins

10-9-2007 11:48 AM

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Technological Minimalism in Distance Education
by Mauri Collins and Zane L. Berge

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06dbf6f9-b9cc-43c7-9469-f7b9000afec5/55BD1D3D-9E63-4F38-882F-DD33FA61E812/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://technologysource.org/article/technological_minimalism_in_distance_education/" href="http://technologysource.org/article/technological_minimalism_in_distance_education/" style="font-size: 11px;">technologysource.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technologysource.org/article/technological_minimalism_in_distance_education/"><P id="paragraph_1">Huge investments in equipment and infrastructure are being made by already 
under-funded schools in their attempts to compete for students in new and distant 
markets. Instructional delivery technologies are often implemented without evidence 
that significant gains in learning will be the outcome (Russell, 1999). Additionally, 
students seem to prefer courses with a lower multimedia content (Terry, <A href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=38e163780" target="_blank">2000</A>).</p> <P id="paragraph_2">"Technological minimalism" is a valid
methodological stance that can guide choices among technologies that are already
proven to be robust, available, and relatively inexpensive. Technological
minimalists have viewed with dismay higher education's deployment and use of
increasingly complex, unstable, and expensive distance delivery technologies.
The current increase in the use of video-streaming technology is a prime
example, generally adding little beyond cost to the learning situation and
negating the benefits of more simple approaches to distance learning.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/55BD1D3D-9E63-4F38-882F-DD33FA61E812/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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