CONTENTS

UPFRONT - The Design Edge
FOCUS - Reinventing the Pedagogical Framework for Technology Enabled Education by
Nishikant Sonwalkar of MIT
UW - Register Now for the August 2002 DL Conference, GWETC 2002 Registration
Online, UW MEPP Wins Top Award, UW-Milwaukee's dot.edu Chosen as Sun Center
of Excellence.

LINES - May News Highlights
AN INGENIOUS DESIGN TIP - Training Backwards
ED - Academic Libraries Get New Portal, Cal State Adopts Knowledge Management
System
BIZ/GOV/ED - e-Learning Providers Not Profitable Yet-But Getting Closer, e-Learning
Standards Supported by Military Project
RESEARCH - Study on Attention and Reflection in Computer Conferencing
COPYRIGHT - Online Course Ownership, Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright,
Anti-Plagiarism Tool May Infringe on Copyright
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE - Recycled Computers for Needy Students, Assistive Technology
Software Integration, Summit Focuses on Minority Tech Education
TRENDS - Blackboard/Trivantis Partnership, Higher Education/Government Team up on
Technology, Linux/Red Hat Offer Free Access to Open Source, Chip Designer Forges
Ties to Academic Community
TECH/TOOLS - Nanotube Transistors, Building a Lifelike Body for Medical Students,
From Slide Shows to Interactive CD-ROMs, Graphics Developed to Add to Real-Life,
IBM eLIZA Plan
READS/RESOURCES - Educause Releases Report from Current Issues Survey

POSITIONS - Technology Specialist - Michigan Technological University
NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers
FYI - News, Events, Conferences
ENDNOTE - A Tribute to Robert Gagne
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JUNE DESIEN - DESIEN takes a vacation! No DESIEN issue in June.

The JULY DESIEN issue FOCUS article will be - Digital Education: The Legitimacy of the
Higher Education Virtual Campus Accountability, Credibility and Accreditation by Assistant
Professor, Byron C. Anderson, Department of Communications, Education and Training at
University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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UPFRONT - During the next five years, instructional design will be a field with a real edge in
the area of distance learning and hybrid courses. There is a growing awareness that teaching
and learning with or via technology is not the same as learning in the classroom. To make this
type of learning the "best that it can be," teaching and learning must be looked at in new ways.
This month's DESIEN FOCUS article by Nishikant (Nish) Sonwalkar of MIT highlights the
need for "a new design framework to provide a flexible approach for incorporating technology
within the context of pedagogy," and gives us some rich food for thought and practice.

At the same time that we are welcoming contemporary instructional design theorists, we pay
tribute to a pioneer in the field, Robert Gagne, who recently passed away. Please read the
tribute to Gagne in the DESIEN ENDNOTE and visit the Web site listed there to see how
relevant his theories are to the world of teaching and learning via technology.
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FOCUS

Reinventing the Pedagogical Framework for Technology Enabled Education
by
Nishikant Sonwalkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Overview:

The pedagogy for technology enabled education over the last few decades has been
influenced by behaviorist, cognitive and constructivist theories. These theories are debated
vigorously by the educational scientists. While the debate is extremely important for the
paradigm shift, the need for a framework for instructional designers seeking meaningful
incorporation of technology is necessary. With the infusion of new technological methods to
deliver education on-line there is an acute need for reinvention of the pedagogical framework;
a new design framework to provide a flexible approach for incorporating technology within
the context of pedagogy.

The interface of education is changing rapidly from the classroom to the blend of in-class
and on-line activities to -- almost completely technology enabled educational environments.
The technological shift is taking place now from classroom teaching and learning to
asynchronous Web-based and Web-supported learning environments. The dissemination of
educational content is certainly moving from a teacher-to-student model to a technology-
enabled interface.

The shift of educational interfaces from, synchronous to asynchronous, passive to interactive,
television to desktop computers, keyboard to handwriting recognition systems, mouse to data
glove, touch screen to voice recognition systems, real experiments to virtual experiments, real
educational space to virtual reality learning environments (VRLE), experiments in labs to
teleoperated experiments from remote locations, are all indicative of the technology trends
which the educational designers have to face now to provide pedagogically effective
educational technology components for learners.

Paradigm Shift: "The Learning Cube"

Among numerous learning theories that have been proposed in learning and cognition, the
theories that have major impact in the area of technology enabled education are behaviorist,
situated, constructivist, cognitive flexibility, component display and multiple intelligences.
These theories are well documented and discussed in the literature elsewhere (see list of
selected bibliography). These theories point to several learning models and strategies such
as: stimulus/response, cognitive apprenticeship, incidental, collaborative, discovery, inductive,
deductive reasoning and multiple intelligences. To create a three dimensional learning space
we choose to follow learning models as described below:

Figure 1

(Note: If your particular email configuration does not allow you to see the cube image
above, you can access the image by clicking on the url:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desien/2002/0205/learningcube.htm This will bring the cube image up in a separate browser. With two browsers open you
will be able to see the cube and continue reading the article.)

Apprenticeship
A "building block" approach for presenting concepts in a step-by-step procedural learning
style similar to mentor-student interaction.

Incidental
Based on "events" in a story or an educational trail that triggers the learning experience,
learners begin with an event that introduces a concept and provokes questions.

Inductive
Learners are first introduced to numerous examples that point to a central generalizable
principle.

Deductive
The learners are introduced to a principle, learn by applying the principle in several
situations and use principles to generate logical extensions.

Discovery
An inquiry method of learning in which students learn by doing, testing the boundaries of
their own knowledge.

These models represent selected learning processes chosen from the numerous learning
theories. These models and strategies are organized from simplest linear learning model
to complex simulated environments.

The proposed learning cube depicted in Figure 1, is composed of three dimensions:
learning media, learning models/strategies and interactivities. The media elements are the
modes of collecting information through -- text, graphics, audio, video, animations and
simulations; the learning models refer to the process preferred by a learner to understand
the information and turn it into useful knowledge, such as -- apprenticeship, incidental,
inductive, deductive and discovery -- and the interactivity is used to provide feedback for
confirmation, reinforcement and discussion. The learning cube is useful to map the
individual learning preferences based on media, learning models and interaction.

Pedagogical Effectiveness

The proposed framework provides flexibility to choose learning media in the context of a
learning model to process the collected information. The interactivity is used to apply the
acquired knowledge into practice by technological interfaces (audio, video, animations and
simulations). The pedagogical effectiveness of on-line courses then is defined in terms of
the summation of media richness, content sequencing, based on the pedagogical learning
models and interactivity provided by the on-line interface in terms of feedback and
adaptive revisions. It is important to note that on-line information itself does not lead to
learning. It is the multidimensional pedagogical process that is essential for the success
of technology-enabled learning.

Selected Bibliography:

1. Kolb, D. A. (1976). The Learning Style Inventory: Technical Manual. Boston: McBer
2. Witkin, Herman A. (1976). "Cognitive Style in Academic Performance and in Teacher-
Student Relations." In Individuality in Learning, edited by Samual Messick & Associates.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
3. Dunn, R., & Dunn, K. (1978). Teaching Students Through Their Individual Learning
Styles: A Practical Approach. Reston, VA: Reston Publishing.
4. Vygotsky, L., & Vygotsky, S. (1980). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher
Psychological Processes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
5. Gardner, Howard. (1983). Frames of Mind. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New
York: Basic Books.
6. Gregorc, A.F. (1984). Gregorc Style Delineator: Development, Technical and
Administrative Manual. Maynard, Mass.: Gabrial Systems, Inc.
7. Merrill, M.D., Li, Z. & Jones, M. (1991). Instructional Transaction Theory: An
Introduction. Educational Technology, 31(6), 7-12.
8. Dewey, J. (1997). How We Think. New York: Dover Publications.
9. Spiro, R.J. & Jehng, J. (1990). Cognitive Flexibility a Hypertext: D. Nix & R. Spiro
(eds.), Cognition, Education, and Multimedia. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
10. Jonassen, D., Ambruso, D . & Olesen, J. (1992). Designing Hypertext on Transfusion
Medicine Using Cognitive Flexibility Theory. Journal of Educational Multimedia and
Hypermedia, 1(3), 309-322.
11. Kearsley, Greg. (1996). Andragogy (M. Knowles). Washington DC: George
Washington University. http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~kearsley/knowles.html
12. ---. (1996). Cognitive/Learning Styles. Washington DC: George Washington
University. http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~kearsley/styles.html
13. B. McHenry and N. Sonwalkar "RIPE: Rapid Instruction Production Environment, ALN
Magazine, Vol2, October 1998.
14. Burrell, B., Wiggins, R.J.N., Sonwalkar, N., Kutney, M.C., Dalzell, W. and Colton, C.K.,
"A Comparison of Web-based and Laboratory Learning Environments," Proceedings of the
American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2000
15. Sonwalkar, N., "Assessing Virtual Environments for Learning: A Data Mining Approach"
submitted to the Proceedings of Naval Postgraduate School's conference on Assessing
Quality of On-line Education, 23-25, October, Monterey CA, 2001.
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/vol2_issue2/tools_techno.htm
16. ---. "Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning Technologies"
published as the Cover Story of Syllabus, pp. 10-13, Nov. 2001.
17. ---. "The Sharp Edge of the Cube: Pedagogically Driven Instructional Design for Online
Education" Syllabus, pp. 12-16, Dec. 2001
18. ---. "A New Methodology for Evaluation: The Pedagogical Rating of Online Courses"
Syllabus, pp. 18-21 Jan., 2002
19. Sonwalkar, N.,"Demystifying Learning Technology Standards-I", Syllabus, pp. 26-29,
March 2002

Nishikant Sonwalkar is the principal educational architect at the Educational Media Creation
Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and serves as the pedagogical advisor
to Web-based educational experiments and projects. nish@mit.edu
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UW

REGISTER NOW FOR THE AUGUST 2002 DL CONFERENCE - See FYI Section of
DESIEN

GWETC REGISTRATION NOW ONLINE - See FYI Section of DESIEN

UW MEPP PROGRAM WINS TOP AWARD - The UW-Madison Masters of Engineering
in Professional Practice (MEPP) recently won a top UCEA Award as an innovative model
program. This two-year masters program for mid-career engineers is designed specifically
for distance learning and uses a team-based approach. The component technologies of
asynchronous online and synchronous Web conferencing eliminate the barriers of time and
distance and allow for both self-paced learning and team work. The MEPP program has been
designed for immediate work application and has incorporated integrated counseling and
support. Retention and evaluation are proof of its excellent design. MEPP has a 98% retention
rate and 95% of its graduates say that it has had "extensive or considerable" impact on their
careers. A more in-depth article on the program was recently featured in the April 2002 issue
of infocus, a newsletter of UCEA. (UW-Madison, School of Engineering)

UW-MILWAUKEE dot.edu CHOSEN AS SUN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE - Sun
Microsystems, Inc. has chosen the University of Wisconsin's dot.edu department, at the
Milwaukee campus, as a Sun Center of Excellence in e-learning. dot.edu - Digital Online
Technology. Educational Design Utility - is an e-learning infrastructure provider for
educational institutions inside and outside Wisconsin. As a Sun Center of Excellence in
e-learning, dot.edu provides instructional design, software training, hosting services and a
24x7 help desk for online course development. It has placed more than 10,000 courses
online since being founded in 1999. To date, there are two Sun Centers of Excellence in
e-learning globally: dot.edu at the University of Wisconsin System and the University of
Alberta, Canada. See: http://www.sun.com/edu (infocus, a Newsletter of UCEA, vol. 7 no 3,
Apr 02)
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LINES

- Surfing the Internet is the most popular activity to do instead of paper writing, according to a
recent survey of 190 self-confessed undergraduate procrastinators. The second annual College
Procrastination Study was conducted by Questia Media Inc., a controversial Internet research
service. (See UCEA May 2001 cover story, "New Online Service Makes Writing Research
Papers Easier, But Divides Academic Librarians.") The survey found that 17% of those
polled whiled away their deadlines online, 13% procrastinated by sleeping, and 11% of
procrastinators said they wasted time actually thinking of ways to get out of doing the paper.
Surprisingly, 71% of those polled carried a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Of all
declared majors, students with business or marketing majors tended to procrastinate the most
(15%) - http://www.questia.com, (E-NEWS FROM UCEA - No 50, 21 May 02)

- An international team of academic and research institutions set a new record for Internet
performance by transferring 625 megabytes of data across more than 7,608 miles of network
in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 Mbps achieved in transferring data from Fairbanks, Alaska to
Amsterdam in the Netherlands was over 8,000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem.
The Internet2 speed record is an ongoing competition judged on a combination of how much
bandwidth and distance are covered using standard Internet (TCP/IP) protocols -
http://www.internet2.edu/html/i2lsr.shtml (Syllabus News, Resources, Trends, 14 May 02)

- Market research from IDC Technologies, indicates that, for the third year running, notebook
PCs increased their share of the PC market compared to desktop systems. In the first quarter
of 2002 notebooks were 23.8% of worldwide PC shipments, up from 21.8% in the fourth
quarter of 2001 and 22.3% in the first quarter of 2001. Companies that sell both notebooks
and desktops typically profit more from notebooks because they can charge a premium for
portability, according to IDC. Still, it will take time for notebooks to reach 50% of all PC
shipments. IDC predicts that, with the return of corporate buyers to the market, the
percentage of notebooks sold will rise to about 25% by 2005 and as much as 30% by 2006 -
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-898370.html (CNET, 3 May 02)
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AN INGENIOUS DESIGN TIP

TRAINING BACKWARDS - Take the curriculum and totally reverse it. Start with the
outcome and then go back one step. For example, take an internal process approval. Start with
the picture of the person holding the final approval, then walk it back through the steps. This
model often accelerates the rate of learning, keeps learners more involved and allows the class to
"index" or relate the content to what they already know. A seminar leader whom TechLearn
Trends initially suggested this to sent them an email saying that she did a trial of backwards
teaching and is now hooked! Try it, it works. (TechLearn Trends #225, 7 May 02)
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ED

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES GET NEW PORTAL - The Association of Research Libraries
(ARL) recently initiated a new portal, the Scholars Portal Project, with seven major member
libraries. The effort's goal is to develop and distribute software that will let users leverage
electronic library services via portal software. Through the ARL tool, users will be able to
search across digital resources from multiple institutions and receive aggregated results. Plans
are to add 24 x 7 online access to reference librarians as well as integrate with e-Learning
and course environments. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020513-2.htm
(Information Today, 13 May 02)

CAL STATE ADOPTS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - California State
University's Office of the Chancellor has launched a university-wide knowledge management
initiative. The project would use ServiceWare Inc.'s eService Suite and is designed to capture
intellectual capital, integrate information from internal and external systems and develop a
centralized repository of knowledge. Mark Crase, senior director for technology infrastructure
initiatives for the Chancellor, said the system would "be used to share critical project
information with stakeholders at all twenty-three of our campuses." According to Gartner,
Inc., in 2002 public sector spending on IT will start to have a major impact on software
associated with collecting information and building knowledge, which will lead to a boom
similar to government investment in infrastructure and hardware. See: http://www.calstate.edu
(Syllabus News, Resources, Trends, 3 May 02)
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BIZ/GOV/ED

e-LEARNING PROVIDERS NOT PROFITABLE YET-BUT GETTING CLOSER - Despite
predictions last year from the three leading eLearning software companies that they would be
profitable this year, none of them are there yet. Blackboard, Inc. has revised its goal for
profitability from the middle of this year to sometime before the end of the year. The company's
chairman said they are "sort of tantalizingly close." The chairman of eCollege said his firm
hopes to be profitable by the middle of next year. Top officials at WebCT said they are still on
target to be profitable this year, though they would not offer more specifics. Analysts said the
higher education market does not offer much room for further expansion, so companies must
either eliminate competition or venture into other areas, such as corporate training, if they are to
achieve profitability. Visit: http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052301u.htm (Chronicle of
Higher Education, 23 May 02 - Edupage, 24 May 02)

eLearning STANDARDS SUPPORTED BY MILITARY PROJECT - A recently created
set of standards for eLearning developed by the Department of Defense, allows applications and
content from a variety of vendors to work together. The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
project, begun in 1997, was developed to eliminate having to create all new content whenever a
chip or part of a system changed. Many leaders in the eLearning market support this new set
of unofficial standards. Elliot Masie, president of a NY-based think tank and a project consultant
said that the effort has brought comprehensive standards to the eLearning industry years sooner
than would have otherwise happened. See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11555-2002May13.html (Washington Post,
14 May 02)
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RESEARCH

STUDY ON REFLECTION AND ATTENTION IN COMPUTER CONFERENCING - In
an effort to understand the dynamics of learning online, researchers from the School of Nursing,
the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University
of Western Ontario, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
and the Node undertook a study of learners' attention and the effects of reflection on that
attention in courses taught by computer conferencing. The objectives of the study, which was
funded by the Office of Learning Technologies, were to examine: 1) changes in attention over
time among graduate students taking courses by computer conferencing and 2) changes in
attention following reflective strategies intended to restore attention. The qualitative data and
participants' observations and suggestions should be of interest to educators engaged in classes
with a computer conferencing component. The executive summary (in both English and French)
is available on the Node website at: http://thenode.org/networking/may2002/research.cfml
(NETWORKING vol. 6 no 5, 22 May 02)
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COPYRIGHT

ONLINE COURSE OWNERSHIP - Who owns the online course, the teacher or the
institution, is a very muddled question, according to LERN's exclusive national survey of
online instructors. There is one conclusion, however - you don't. Only 15% of teachers
responded by saying they owned their own online course. More than double that, some
36%, say that their institution owns their online courses. But perhaps the most interesting
statistic is that a whopping 32% of faculty say "it is not clear" who owns the course. Another
13% indicate joint ownership, and 4% say there's another arrangement. This currently quiet
issue will become more visible and controversial in the next few years as online faculty teach
for more than one institution, copyrighted material becomes incorporated into courses and
some faculty develop very sophisticated learning modules and try to rent them.
(Teaching OntheNet, 15 May 02)

CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT - The Center for
Intellectual Property and Copyright (CIP) of Maryland University Colleges recently
announced the development of an online, interactive tutorial on copyright basics called the
©Primer. The Primer is a free interactive online tool to assist educating faculty, staff and
students about copyright principles and compliance. It's just a simple click away!
http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/cprimer

ANTI-PLAGIARISM TOOL MAY INFRINGE ON COPYRIGHT - One of the most
popular anti-plagiarism Web sites, Turnitin.com, has come under scrutiny because of its
practice of adding students' works to its database, sometimes without the students'
knowledge. Unlike other plagiarism-detection Web sites that compare submitted works
only to material on the Internet or to other papers in the class, Turnitin also adds submitted
papers to its database, thereby expanding the reach of its detection program. However, many
students are not told that their papers will be submitted and added to the database at Turnitin.
This has some worried that students' copyright is being violated and has led the University
of California at Berkeley to decide not to use Turnitin. Others have opted to use Turnitin but
only after informing students, giving them the option not to have their work sent to Turnitin.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm (Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 May
02 - Edupage, 13 May 02)
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THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

RECYCLED COMPUTERS FOR NEEDY STUDENTS - De Anza College in Cupertino,
CA, has begun a new program to make recycled PCs available to some students. The
computers are put together by the Computer Recycling Center, a nonprofit that refurbishes
computers that businesses throw away. Administrators at the college said the machines are
recent models that they hope will be useful and reliable for the students. De Anza will
distribute 10 computers for the initial trial. If the program is successful, officials expect to
allow all financial-aid students to apply for a refurbished PC. See:
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002051002t.htm (Chronicle of Higher Education, 10
May 02 - Edupage, 10 May 02)

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE INTEGRATION - A courseware company
has produced what it calls the first integration of assistive technology directly within
eLearning courseware, enabling learners with mobility, hearing or visual impairments to
access remote learning more easily. NETg, Inc., a subsidiary of Thomson Learning, said its
eLearning courseware will meet technical requirements of Section 508 of the 1998 US
Rehabilitation Act by Sept. 2002, supporting several federal agencies that have selected
NETg courses for their learning programs. "To use courses that do not integrate assistive
technologies, learners with disabilities must deploy specialized third-party devices or
technologies in addition to the courseware," said Steve Timmer, president and CIO of
TecAccess, a software development company specializing in Section 508 compliance.
"Not only is this inconvenient, but learners also frequently encounter compatibility problems
with courses and assistive devices that render their learning inaccessible. The NETg solution
will remove this burden from the learner and assure reliable access to learning." (Syllabus
News, Resources, Trends for 7 May 02)

SUMMIT FOCUSES ON MINORITY TECH EDUCATION - More than 100 K-12 to
college-level educators recently convened to explore ways to improve retention and transfer
rates for low-income, minority students in the engineering and computer science fields. The
two-day summit was hosted by HP and Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement
(MESA), a program to help students graduate from college with degrees in math, science and
engineering. Participants included faculty from nine California community colleges that were
awarded HP Community College Pre-Engineering and Computer Science Initiative Grants in
2001 and 2002. Of MESA community college students who transfer to four-year institutions,
100 % are math-based majors. About 90% of California's minority engineering baccalaureate
recipients are MESA students. For more information, visit: http://www.mesa.ucop.edu
(Syllabus News, Resources, Trends, 3 May 02)
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TRENDS

BLACKBOARD/TRIVANTIS PARTNERSHIP - Blackboard Inc., an Internet infrastructure
company for education, is teaming with Trivantis Corp., a provider of eLearning technologies
and content development services for educational institutions and corporate learning
environments, to allow Blackboard customers use of Trivantis' Lectora Publisher. The solution
is an offline authoring tool that allows users to create fully interactive courses that can be posted
to Blackboard. "Just as chalk is the perfect compliment to an instructor using a traditional
blackboard, Lectora is the perfect compliment to instructors using the modern Blackboard,"
said Tom Elmer, director of educational sales for the Cincinnati-based Trivantis. "By teaming
up with Blackboard and their industry-leading, user-friendly software platform, we are able
to help keep instructors focused on what is most important - education - not technology." For
the full article see: http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/article.php/3411_788501

HIGHER EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT TEAM UP ON TECHNOLOGY - A
new administrative information system in North Dakota will be shared by the state's public
institutions of higher education and the state government. The system will replace aging
systems that have become expensive and time-consuming to maintain and keep compliant
with changing regulations. Government and higher education will use the system to manage
financial, human resource and student information. Officials said they already are close to
having uniform "charts of accounts," the records of information and associated codes, which
is necessary for the system to work for all participants. The South Dakota Board of Regents,
which is beginning its own migration to a central database for the campuses in its system, is
closely watching the North Dakota project as an example for some aspects of its project.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002051401t.htm (Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 May
02)

LINUX/RED HAT OFFER FREE ACCESS TO OPEN SOURCE - Linux provider Red Hat,
Inc. launched Red Hat Network Education Channels to give students and educators access to
the Red Hat Linux 7.3 operating system via the Red Hat Network. Red Hat Linux 7.3 is a
configurable operating system designed to deliver Internet-based computing. The channels are
designed to accelerate the adoption of open source software within the education community
nationwide. The company will offer two channels: an Educational Channel for teachers and IS
administrators, as well as high school and university students; and a K-12 Linux Terminal
Server Project Channel, to enable K-12 teachers and IS administrators to set up computer
science labs with an open lab architecture. Both channels provide free Red Hat Network access
for one machine. (Syllabus News, Resources, Trends for 17 May 02)

CHIP DESIGNER FORGES TIES TO ACADEMIC COMMUNITY - The developer of
software for designing integrated circuits has launched a program enabling students to learn
how to design chips using the same products that worldwide semiconductor companies use
to produce standard cell design flows. "We believe the top designers of tomorrow will come
from those universities with best-in-class tools in their classrooms," said Dan Nenni, vice
president at Prolific about the Prolific Research and Education Program. Initial members of
the program include the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa
Cruz; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Michigan; Tokyo University; and
University of Mannheim, Germany. "The program provides a great opportunity for the
academic community," said Prof. Richard B. Brown, interim chair of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. "Having access
to Prolific's tools has enabled our students to develop new design flows which we believe
will help close the performance and power gap between synthesized and custom circuits."
(Syllabus News, Resources, Trends for 17 May 02)
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TECH/TOOLS

NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS - Scientists have created nanotube transistors that can
outperform silicon in chips. The discovery indicates that nanotubes, 50,000 times as thin as
a hair, could be used when it is no longer possible to shrink silicon designs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/technology/20NANO.html?todaysheadlines

BUILDING A LIFELIKE HUMAN BODY FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS - The Living
Anatomy Program is building a synthetic human body that creators hope will provide medical
students with a lifelike model, one that looks, feels, and behaves like a real human. David
Fineberg, who directs the project at the University of Buffalo, said the goal is a model that
medical students can use to practice surgical procedures, including the vital tactile training
used, for example, in separating "an adhesion between two pieces of intestine." The model will
work with surgical tools, including scalpels and scissors, that mimic the sensations of actually
cutting and snipping flesh. See: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/start.html?pg=7
(Wired Magazine, 1 June 02)

FROM SLIDE SHOWS TO INTERACTIVE CD-ROMS - Interactive Solutions Inc.'s
MovieWorks Deluxe version 5.2 is a multimedia authoring suite that combines video, sound,
animation and image-editing tools with a time-based, object-oriented sequencing and authoring
program. See: http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=19604

GRAPHICS DEVELOPED TO ADD TO REAL-LIFE - Researchers at Columbia University
are developing graphics technology applications that work in conjunction with the real world
rather than replacing it. The technology involves a display worn on the head and a computer in
a backpack. Users can see through the head piece, while the computer adds information that
can augment the user's perception and understanding of his surroundings. For example, a
construction worker might wear the device working at a construction site to "see" locations
of pipes and wiring that are behind walls or underground. Funding for the research comes in
part from the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. Go to:
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17735.html (NewsFactor Network, 14 May 02)

- IBM eLIZA PLAN - IBM has begun the second phase in its eLiza plan to build computers
that can anticipate and recover from problems without human intervention. The company's
Enterprise Workload Manager software governs not just single servers, but groups of servers,
monitoring the machines and shifting work among them. Selected IBM customers will be able
to try the workload management software later this year. The software will be available on
mainframes and Unix, Windows and Linux servers in 2003. IBM will also announce several
eLiza components for individual servers, available earlier than the Enterprise Workload
Manager. IBM competitor Sun Microsystems announced "N1" earlier this year, which treats
groups of computers like a single pool of processing and storage power. In addition,
Hewlett-Packard plans a "utility data center" to simplify management of data centers. See:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-897080.html (CNET, 1 May 02)
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READS/RESOURCES

EDUCAUSE RELEASES REPORT FROM CURRENT ISSUES SURVEY - Educause,
the association for information technology in higher education, has published the results of
its third annual Current Issues Survey in the current issue of "Educause Quarterly." The
survey identifies information technology issues according to four measures: strategic
importance; potential to become much more significant; demanding more time of campus
IT leaders; and demanding significant human and/or financial resources. This year's survey
collected responses from 42% of the association's nearly 1,300 primary member
representatives. Among the findings, results indicate that security management has emerged
as an issue of strategic importance to campuses, and that IT staffing challenges in higher
education have eased somewhat compared to previous years' surveys. The full survey report
is available as a PDF (100K) at the URL below. For the full article go to:
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0222.pdf (Educause Quarterly, 20 May 02 -
Edupage 22 May 02)
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POSITIONS

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST - Michigan Technological University

Michigan Technological University's Educational Technology Services invites applications
for the position of Media Specialist. The successful candidate will manage and operate
educational technology systems to support distance learning plus other campus needs and
be a key member of the team. Systems include video studio(s), video streaming, electronic
display system, videotape duplicating and other technologies. A complete job description
is available at: http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro, email jobs@mtu.edu or call MTU Human
Resources (906) 487-2280. (Patty Lins, MTU)
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NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to new subscribers: Eric Ipsen, Sandie Miller, Suzanne
Beckett, Charlotte Creed, Brad Hinson, Gena Reynolds, Larry Sandler, Sarah Linwood,
Harrison Wendall, Douglas Talbertson, John Meriweather, Alicia Stinson, Darryl Crossely,
Francine Brewer and Dean Marquardt.
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FYI - News, Events, Conferences

* NUTN 2002, 20th Anniversary - June 22-25 is the date for the NUTN 2002: Advancing
Digital Learning Conference. It will be held at the Wyndham City Center Hotel in
Washington, DC For complete information visit: http://www.odu.edu/dl/nutn

* INTERNATIONAL e-LEARNING FESTIVAL - This event is scheduled for July 8-10,
2002 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Supported by a week-long program of
briefings, user groups and vendor showcases, this intensive two-day conference is essential
for anyone facing the challenge of launching and maintaining international e-Learning
initiatives. To register see: http://elearningfestival.com/

* ICCM - Featuring CRM Solutions will be held July 29-August 1, 2002 at The Lakeside
Center McCormick Place, Chicago, IL ICCM is a comprehensive event for customer contact
professionals. The event includes more than 100 exhibitors, keynote sessions and networking
opportunities. Visit: http://www.iccm.com for details and registration.

* DL CONFERENCE 2002 - The 18th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and
Learning is scheduled for August 14-16, 2002 in Madison, WI This year the conference will
move to The Monona Terrace Convention Center in downtown Madison. Distance Learning
2002 offers more than 150 workshops, advanced seminars, cracker-barrel discussions and
information sessions that examine a wide range of practical applications, teaching methods,
course designs, innovative solutions, and emerging technologies. NEW additions to the
program this year include 24 online courses that will be showcased on Friday AND two
all-day New Directions Forums on Thursday and Friday that will discuss issues and
emerging trends in a critical area of distance education practice. To register go to:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/ To receive a printed brochure, eMail:
distel@education.wisc.edu or call 608-265-4159.

GWETC 2002 REGISTRATION ONLINE - Plan on attending the 10th Annual Governor's
Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference, October 8-10, 2002. The conference will
be held at the Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI GWETC is Wisconsin's Leading
Technology Event for Educators. GWETC is a Conference Dedicated to Effective Use of
Technology in Education, Provides an Educational Forum with Workshops, Over 100
Concurrent Sessions, plus Spotlight Sessions, Workshops, Exhibits, and Keynote
Presentations. GWETC is an Excellent Opportunity to Network, Build Skills, and Develop
Expertise in Education Technology. On-line registration and full conference details can be
found at: http://www.gwetc.org
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ENDNOTE - A Tribute to Robert Gagne - I began this issue with the prediction that the next
five years will be extremely important ones for the field of Instructional Design. I'd like to end
this month's issue with a tribute to a real pioneer in this field - Robert Gagne. Born in 1916,
Gagne was the co-developer of "Instructional Systems Design" and wrote The Conditions of
Learning. He was a seminal thinker in the development of instructional theory and influenced
a whole generation of designers and trainers. His influence has carried over into instructional
design for distance learning. For a bio of Gagne, including a summary of his key theories see: http://www.my-ecoach.com/idtimeline/theory/gagne.html
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JUNE DESIEN - DESIEN takes a vacation! No DESIEN issue in June.

The JULY DESIEN issue FOCUS article will be - Digital Education: The Legitimacy of the
Higher Education Virtual Campus Accountability, Credibility and Accreditation by Assistant
Professor, Byron C. Anderson, Department of Communications, Education and Training at
University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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