WELCOME TO THE SECOND ISSUE OF DESIEN (Pronounced DESIGN) - the Distance Education Symposium Interactive Electronic Newsletter - for all participants, presenters and organizers of the 1994 Distance Education Symposium.

NEW DESIEN LIST MEMBERS - New additions to the DESIEN member list include the Distance Education Committee (DEC) and, upon request, Sona Karentz Andrews, Asst. Vice Chancellor, UW-Milwaukee and Mary Jane Sullivan, Director of Continuing Education/Extension, UW-Superior. Welcome!

CONGRATULATIONS to social work lecturer, Don Anderson, UW-Madison, for his "Teacher of the Year Award" for excellence in teaching university students about developmental disabilities. The award was presented by the Wisconsin Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC).

DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS:


DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE COMPRESSED VIDEO COURSES SEVEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

(Part I)

OVERVIEW

Compressed Video is one of the latest technologies to be integrated into the University of Wisconsin System. Instructional Communications Systems (ICS) is receiving increasing requests for Compressed Video training to both orient faculty to the medium and to take them "beyond the basics." During the past year ICS has developed workshops for faculty and staff at UW-Oshkosh, UW-Green Bay, UW-Whitewater and UW-Parkside. UW-Whitewater has actually participated in two workshops and has planned a third.

As partners in an Alliance with Penn State, Indiana University and AT&T, ICS has also developed a more advanced Compressed Video manual and workshop, piloting it with a group of graduate students in June and teaching it to faculty and staff at two Webster University sites in Missouri in September. Our experience with the medium has presented us with numerous challenges and taught us many lessons that are helping us continue to refine our "workshop in process".

Seven critical questions that are often asked by faculty help provide a framework for the content and process we would like to share with you during the next four weeks - through DESIEN.

SEVEN CRITICAL QUESTIONS

1. How does Compressed Video work and is it the appropriate medium for me to use?
2. Will the format I use in class work for the medium or do I need to adapt my course?
3. How do I plan my course for Compressed Video?
4. What about the instructional design process?
5 Are there techniques for helping to make learners at remote sites feel like they're part of the classroom?
6. What will the remote sites be like and who will be my contact personnel?
7. How do I evaluate my distance education course?

On October 23, we'll explore the first two questions. We hope you'll participate in the dialogue with your ideas and experience.

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FYI

PROFILE AND INVENTORY - The August 1995 edition of the "Distance Education Profile and Inventory" is back from the printer. A copy for each participant of the 1994 Distance Education Symposium has been mailed to the Distance Education Committee (DEC) member of your Symposium team or your team contact person. You should be receiving your copy soon.

WETC - The anticipated registration for the "Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference (WETC)" is 1,200. The conference will be held next week, October 17, 18 and 19, 1995 at the Holiday Inn-Stevens Point. This conference is jointly sponsored by: UWEX, WTCS, ECB and DPI. The Agenda includes 142 sessions with two keynote speakers, "hands-on" labs and workshops and a live, national video-conference featuring the noted futurist, David Zach. For last minute information fax: 608-833-3011. Walk-in registration is not guaranteed.

"QDE - Quality Distance Education: Lessons Learned" is a multimedia program for users of all types of distance education technologies, beginning November 1995 and including a satellite videoconference on April 25 1996. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the 46 universities and colleges that comprise the Distance Education Consortium (A*DEC). Cooperative and A*DEC members $25 per site by Oct. 2 and $50 after. Others by October 2 $50 and $75 after. For information call: 608-262-9940.

FACULTY ROLES, REWARDS AND EVALUATION - Randy Bass of Georgetown University is working with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) to advance work on Project FUTURE, a project concerned with faculty roles, reward and evaluation. Bass writes that "the faculty reward system is often mentioned as one of the key obstacles to and one of the key potential assets for getting more faculty members to try to improve teaching and learning through more effective use of information technology. Even in institutions where there is some agreement IN PRINCIPLE among the administrative leadership, the board and the faculty governance group about encouraging faculty members to use technology in their teaching, the committees responsible for implementing this agreement may make decisions that discourage such practices.

"The promotion and tenure committees may be stuck, not knowing HOW to evaluate faculty work in these areas. Project FUTURE, a project affiliated with AAHE addresses these issues. The project will create distributable materials and resources that create reference resources to serve as models and aids in forming institutional policies on faculty reward and evaluation and in the process of faculty evaluation." (RBASS@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu)


DRAFT RULES ON COPYRIGHT AND "FAIR USE" - The Consortium of College and University Media Centers has released a draft document suggesting new guidelines for copyright and fair use of electronic documents and images. Recommendations include allowing students and faculty members to use limited portions of "lawfully acquired" copyrighted works in multimedia programs without having to obtain permission from the owners. Permission would be required if the materials were used for more than two years, or if the educator using them wished to share the multimedia product beyond the boundaries of his or her institution. A final version of the document is expected in six months. (Chronicle of Higher Education 29 Sept. 95)

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UNTIL MID-NOVEMBER: DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS: "Developing Compressed Video Courses: Seven Critical Questions". Please reply with your thoughts and comments on this issue.

MID-NOVEMBER DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS: "Distance Education Issues and Concerns" (expressed in the Symposium reports).

DESIEN has been created to encourage information exchange and discussion of distance education issues concerned with: 1) Symposium team progress and institution course/program development, 2) faculty/team development, 3) technology, 4) policy 5) funding and 6) research, among participants, presenters and organizers of the 1994 UW-Extension/UW System Distance Education Symposium.

Each monthly issue will focus on an "area of interest", contain an FYI section and list future areas of focus. Your continuous input through updates, features, questions and dialogue will be instrumental in helping DESIEN evolve and grow.

DESIEN is a one-year pilot project, September, 1995 to September, 1996 and will be evaluated at the end of that time. The coordinators of DESIEN are Rosemary Lehman and Pat Takemoto.
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