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Extended Learning
On some campuses, traditional instruction is augmented with technology tools that are familiar to students and used by them in daily life. Extended learning courses can be conceptualized as hybrid courses with an extended set of communication tools and strategies. The classroom serves as a home base for exploration, and integrates online instruction, traditional instruction, and study groups, all supported by a variety of communication tools.
- It may be happening in a vague hard to gauge manner. All of this is a transformation of what we term a "course". Educational institutions are still bound into the limiting silos of "course", "semester" and even as technologies are deployed, they are done so vertically not across subjects, classes. AL
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Ubiquitous Wireless.
With new developments in wireless technology both in terms of transmission and of devices that can connect to wireless networks, connectivity is increasingly available and desired. Campuses and even communities are beginning to regard universal wireless access as a necessity for all.
- Perhaps we are a bit more ubiquitous as more institutions are providing comprehenzive access within their walls. With the exception of a few progressive locales, the courts are still out on the wider scale movement into city/community available nets. And what will the scale if ubiquity be? Will there be a seamless handoff from city net to university net? AL
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