On 8/4/20 9:21 am, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
... from Teleworking Fantasies to COVID-19 Reality ...
In my 1993 future history of Canberra *this year* it becomes the world capital, due to superior computing facilities: "Canberra 2020: World Information Capital", Informatics Magazine, September 1993: http://www.tomw.net.au/1993/cnbfut.html
Also right here on the Link List from 2012: "Use e-Learning to Teach Teleworking": http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2012-January/096038.html
And here is one I don't remember writing. Apparently it was Submission 17 to the "Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network":
"4.99 Mr Worthington noted that the long term restructuring of the education systems towards a more efficient and effective ‘blended’ mode of education will require ‘retraining of teachers, restructuring of courses and the remodelling of buildings’ at a cost ‘far higher than for the implementation of the NBN itself’.[110]
However, he also noted that due to the relative size of Australia’s expenditure on education, if the NBN can enable a 10 per cent reduction in the cost of education it would be enough to pay for the entire network within eight years.[111]"
From House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications, August 2011 http://www.aphref.aph.gov.au/house/committee/ic/NBN/report/1.%20Final%20NBN%20Report.pdf#page=112
Closer to reality, last year I used a blended design in the "Learning Reflect" module for ANU TechLauncher computer project students. In the unlikely event an international crisis stopped students from getting to campus, the face-to-face components could easily be swapped out, making it fully online. This year, the unlikely crisis happened, and I just had to change a couple of sentences in the course to activate this option. If the students return next semester, I just have to swap the F2F bits back: https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2020/03/designing-in-on-line-learning-option.html
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