(Note: I plan to go. Doug)
Presentation Tues Apr 4 at the regular EOE meeting in San Jose, "ISSUES IN
TOMORROW'S EDUCATION"
Dr. Nancy Glock-Grueneich, Vice-President for Learning for the Foundation for
California Community Colleges.
<http://www.foundationccc.org/>
INTRO/ABSTRACT
Universal access to higher learning is or soon will be technologically
feasible. To serve economic purposes such learning must be certifiable = in
terms of some ?standard currency? by which its graduates can be credite d
with equivalent professional capacities wherever they may find themselv es
in the global economy. And this certification must be accomplished acr oss
the widest possible diversity of cultures, languages, and societies who se
total stock of knowledge keeps doubling in ever shorter time frames.
All societies are now drawn into the one global society, affected by its
planetary difficulties, and moved by its unprecedented opportunities. Thus
even as formal learning is required to become more universal and in som e
senses more ?standardized? than ever before, it also is required to bec ome
more diversified and adaptable than ever before. It must address local
needs. It must preserve, deepen, and build upon local knowledge. It must
protect the individuals and traditions that contribute, preserving their
ownership, autonomy, and integrity. It must draw upon all cultures and
peoples to enrich the worldwide repertoire of human solutions to human
problems.
How can we have it all ways, universal standards and cultural diversity,
reliable indices of learning, good for a lifetime, and yet the capacityto
change overnight, a higher learning able to keep up with the nano-second
world of the future? That question will occupy us with increasing urgency,
and there is no one answer. Yet the structure of the Internet itself
suggests a solution that I want to explore: Combine a deep core
structure--HTML coding (soon to be XML) in this case, modest in its scope,
voluntarily adhered to by all participants, and utterly rigorous in
itsimplementation, and purchase with that deep rigor an unprecedented range
of diversity and creativity at the level of its far-flung surface.
I will suggest a similar approach to the double challenge of rigor and
diversity in a system of higher education rapidly moving towards
universality in its reach. My point of departure in this is to make tertiary
(i.e. post-secondary) learning not only universally available, but truly
"higher". That is, to make of such learning the means by which as many
people as possible, from as many and varied circumstances as possible, may
increase their capacity to create a livable future.
The model I will propose as a "common core" defining the deep structureof
knowledge may stimulate further thinking about this challenge and possible
solutions. As of 6pm Monday, April 3, 2000, this model and commentary may be
found at <www.higheredge.org/mandala> The aim of the model is greater
integration of knowledge, greater utility and adaptability, and the capacity
to advance and integrate rather than denigrate diverse forms of
knowing"while preserving and even enhancing the integrity and power of the
formal disciplines as traditionally taught.
Those seeking to carry out Doug Englebart's "unfinished revolution" may also
find within this model some assistance in conceiving of DKR"s (dynamic
knowledge repositories) that can readily synthesize information from a wide
variety of sources into new knowledge useful for "improvement communities"
of all kinds.
BIO
The presentation will be made by Dr. Nancy Glock-Grueneich, Vice-President
for Learning for the Foundation for California Community. Nancy is currently
developing a comprehensive "dynamic knowledge repository" for community
college faculty, administrators, and students. She recently gave a paper at
Oxford University on principles for sound partnerships between business and
higher education.
She was with the California Community College Chancellor's Office for 14
years where she approved new academic and technical programs for the 107
colleges and trained faculty in curricul um design, improved instructional
methods, and cultural awareness.
She ha s taught college at all levels for 12 years, had her own business
training federal supervisors in performance management, was a senior
technical writer for Data General, and a community educator working with
differen t cultural groups.
Her doctorate from Harvard University is in Philosophy and (Higher)
Education and her undergraduate work, at CSU San Jose, is in Anthropology
and Sociology.
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EOE Speaker Series on Open Software Communities for Education, to promo= te
on-line sharing and improvement of learning resources. (http://www.eoe.= org/
--> If you are interested in being a speaker, please send a title, abstract,
and short bio to Jim Spohrer (spohrer@eoe.org) for considerat= ion.
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Details of Event:
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2000 3-5pm PST Location: International
Business Incubator (IBI),
6th Floor Conference Room
Address: 111 North Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Map: http://www.acrossworld.com/maps.html
Phone: 408 367-6135 (re: EOE First Tuesday talk series)
Conference Call Dial-In Instructions:
Meeting Telephone Number: 1-415-228-4580
Meeting Password: EOE
Meeting Leader: Ms. Cheri Callis
Schedule:
3:00 Introductions,
3:30-4:00 Invited talk,
4:00-5:00 Q&A and General Discussion
5:00-6:00 Informal
We welcome your participation and suggestions for speakers (including
yourself!).
Future speakers we are trying to schedule include:
- Jim Spohrer, Open Source and Educational Software (May)
Previous Speakers
- John Wolpert, IBM's alphaWorks
(http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/)
- Ted Kaehler, Walt Disney Company
- Steve Zalewski, The Open Group
- Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap
- Jeremy Roschelle, SRI
- David Smith, Stagecast
- Ted M. Kahn, Design Worlds
- Chuck Schneebeck, Center for Distributed Learning
- Tom Hill, 1LifePlace
- Brad Cox, Superdistribution Inc
We hope you can participate in this discussion either in person or via the
conference call. For those who participate in person, there will also be an
optional informal discussion at a nearby restaurant after 5pm. We gratefully
acknowledge the support provided by the International Business Incubator,
AcrossWorlds, and other participating organizations.
Jim Spohrer
EOE Co-Founder
and
Senior Manager & Scientist, USER Group
Computer Science Department
IBM Almaden Research Center
--> mail spohrer@eoe.org to be removed from the list or to add others.
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