[Isait] cddc: Online Education Speaker Oct. 16 4pm Torg 1000

[jeremy hunsinger]

Center for Digital Discourse and Culture presents:

"From Classes to Communities: Internet-Based Learning, Time-Space, and
Individual-Group Identity". 

By

Matthew Allen

on
Oct. 16  4:00pm
in Torg 1000
Virginia Tech Campus

Abstract:

A central, and much-lauded, feature of online educational development is 
'the learning community'. This paper identifies the distinctive features 
of the Internet by which learning communities, through connection, 
conversation and collaboration, might come to replace the 'class', 
focusing on changes to individual and group relationships and identities 
through new experiences of educational time.

About the Author:

Associate Professor Matthew Allen (m.allen at curtin.edu.au) is the Coordinator
of Internet Studies in the School of Media and Information, Curtin
University of Technology. He established one of the first fully online
graduate coursework programs in social and cultural  analysis of the
Internet, beginning in 1999; in 2000 he oversaw the introduction of the BA
(Internet Studies) at Curtin University. His most recent research activity
has concerned the hacking activity on IRC (presented at ANZCA Conference,
Perth, 2001), and the development of learning communities to replace classes
(SSGRR-2001, Italy). He will be one of four keynote presenters at the
inaugural fibreculture conference in Melbourne, December 2001.

In 2002, Matthew will be on study leave - including in the USA at George
Washington University - researching the discursive construction of, and role
of, technocratic elite subject in Internet policy. An established user of
the Internet for teaching and learning, Matthew serves on the university's
Online Learning Development taskforce and was awarded an Australian Award
for University Teaching in 2000.