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June 24
Thinking digitally:
re-structuring the teaching environment for technological change
Tony Bates, University of British Columbia, Canada
Despite rapid advances in the creation of digital materials for teaching, these are still mainly being incorporated into a traditional classroom and campus-based model of teaching. However the new technologies now allow us amazing freedom to re-think the whole process of managing and delivering teaching and learning. The design of 'virtual' learning environments though will require radical re-structuring of our institutions. Drawing on examples from UBC and other universities, this presentation will look at new models for delivery, the organizational implications, and the costs, benefits and limitations of using educational multimedia in 'virtual' environments.
Dr. Tony Bates, Director
Distance Education and Technology, Continuing Studies
The University of British Columbia
http://bates.cstudies.ubc.ca
Tony Bates has been responsible since June 1995 for developing distance education programs and flexible delivery of credit and non-credit programs at the University of British Columbia, in conjunction with faculty and program directors. This includes the development of innovative off-campus programming using technology delivery.
He is also a member of the University's Centre for Educational Technology Steering Committee, which develops policy recommendations for the applications of educational technology at UBC. He is also Chair of its Distributed Learning Subcommittee, and a member of the CET Executive Committee. He is the British Columbia universities' representative on the provincial Standing Committee on Educational Technology. He is responsible for the design and monitoring of cost-benefit analysis for the Canadian National Centre of Excellence program on Telelearning.
Previously he was Executive Director, Strategic Planning, Research, and Information Technology at the Open Learning Agency of British Columbia, where he worked from 1990 to 1995. Prior to that, he was Professor of Educational Media Research at the British Open University, where he worked for 20 years, as one of the founding members of staff.
His research groups at the UKOU and OLA published over 350 papers in the area of distance education and the use of technology for teaching. He is the author of five books, including his latest, "Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education", published by Routledge, which shared the Charles A.Wedemeyer Award for the best book on distance education published in 1995. Also in 1995 he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Open University of Portugal. He has worked as a consultant in over 30 countries.
Papers by Dr. Tony Bates
Impact of Technological Change on Open and
Distance Learning
The Future of Learning
Educational Multi-Media
Strategies for the Future
What Kind Of University?
Technology, Distance Education and National Development