Transcript eLearning's Many Faces, Issues, and Potential

eLearning's Many
Faces, Issues, and
Potential
Richard Cornell
Professor Emeritus
University of Central Florida
Forecast for 2026…..2026年预测
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eLearning now ubiquitous across the world
challenges related to rapid change
differing technology formats
greater access
当今世界，数字化学习无处不在
迅速变革，迎来挑战
不同的技术形式
更大的准入空间
Some current trends
当前的一些趋势
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Increased use of group processes to achieve mastery
learning
Social discourse
Use of systemized software, Blackboard, WebCT,
Elluminate
Require considerable upfront investment
为了达到掌握学习的效果，越来越多的使用群体过程
社会讨论
应用系统化的软件: Blackboard, WebCT, Elluminate
需要大量的预先投资
New resources now available目前
可用的资源
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Open source providers 开放资源提供者
Free and available 免费与可用
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Linex
MSN
Yahoo
Skype
Others
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Cell phones
手机
PDA’s, Blackberry 掌上电脑，黑莓手机
I-Pod’s, Pod Casts 苹果播放器，
The sources 参考资料
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The Future of the Internet II 未来因特网 2
(Anderson, Rainey, et al, 2006), andThe Aspen
Symposium 2005: Exploring the Future of Higher
Eduction (Devlin, et al,2006).
Cornell, R.A. eLearning‘s Many Faces, Issues,
and Potential (2006-2010). eLearning的多面性
The Pew Charitable
Trust皮尤慈善信托基金会
Eight Scenarios 8个方面
1. A global, low-cost network thrives
全球化、低成本的网络迅速发展
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By 2020, worldwide network
interoperability will be perfected, allowing
smooth data flow, authentication and
billing; 2020年，世界范围内的网络互动将进一
步完善，数据流通畅通无阻，能够进行鉴权和计
费
mobile wireless communications will be
available to anyone anywhere on the globe
at an extremely low cost. 人们能够在全球任
何地方以极低的价格使用无线移动通讯
Agreed 56% Disagreed 43% Did not
respond 1% 56%的人赞成，43%的人反对，
1%的人无回应
Educator’s Response教育者的反应
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How widespread will this global network be, who
administers the interoperability policies, how will such
data flow be made smooth, who authenticates and bills
the user, and what types of infrastructure will be
required to reach these untold billions of users?这一全球
性的网络能够覆盖多大范围？谁负责互动性政策？怎样才
能保证数据流通畅通无阻？谁负责用户鉴权和计费？什么
样的基础设施能够满足未来数十亿的用户的需求？
We also celebrate the possibilities, assuming that the
goals might be reached. 如果上述目标都能实现，我们也
非常高兴。
2. English displaces other
languages英语取代其他语言
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In 2020, networked communications level the
world into one big political, social and economic
space in which people everywhere can meet and
have verbal and visual exchanges regularly, faceto-face, over the internet. 2020年，网络通讯迅速发
展，人类世界将进入一个大的 政治、社会和经济空间，
世界各地的人们都可以通过网络见面、面对面的进行视频
和音频交流。
English will be so indispensable in communicating
that it displaces some languages. 在彼此交流中，英
语是如此必不可少，以至于取代某些语言。
Agreed 42% Disagreed 57% Did not respond
1% 同意42% 不同意57% 无回应1%
Educator’s Response教育者的反应
At least four issues give cause to speculate – what
language will be the one that eventually could
concievably replace English (Chinese, Spanish, Arabic?)
至少四件事情需要深思：哪种语言最后能够取代英语（汉语、
西班牙语、阿拉伯语？）
 Will a universal synchronous electronic translation
system evolve by 2020 that makes language speificity
irrelevant?
 2020年，会不会出现一种通用的电子同声传译系统，打破
语言障碍
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Educator’s Response教育者的回应
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If one of the emergent target languages does
begin to dominate, will language educators be
prepared to teach them? 如果某种新兴的语言开
始占据主导地位，语言教育者会进行相关的教学
吗？
Will elder citizens, those academically
challenged, and those with physical
disablements be able to learn such languages or
to use such sophisticated translation programs?
老年人、文化程度较低的人、残疾人能学习这些
语言或者使用复杂的翻译程序吗？
3. Autonomous technology is a
problem自动技术所带来的问题
By 2020, intelligent agents and distributed
control will cut direct human input so completely
out of some key activities such as surveillance,
security and tracking systems that technology
beyond our control will generate dangers and
dependencies that will not be recognized until it
is impossible to reverse them. We will be on a “Jcurve” of continued acceleration of change.
2020年，智能代理和分散控制将会完全排斥一些关键活动
的人类指令，例如在监控、安全和追踪系统中，一旦技术
超出了人类的控制范围，将会产生危险并且造成对技术的
依赖，并且直到这些后果无法逆转时候才会被人们意识到。
我们将会以”J型曲线“的模式继续加速变化。
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Agreed 42% Disagreed 54% Did not respond
4% 同意42%不同意54@ 无回应4%
Educator’s Response教育者的回应
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While a majority of those polled felt that autonomous
technology systems will over run society (shades of Hal),
many feel that we are already well along the path
toward handing over control to intellegent systems, thus
ensuring that human foibles will not destroy “progress in
the making.” 当大多数投票者认为自动化技术将超出社会
运行时，许多人认为我们已经开始将控制权转交给智能系
统，因此，必须确保人类的弱点不要毁掉目前的进步
Is Orwell’s 1984 already enveloping our society or
nearing to do so. What can eEducators do to reverse or
control such “progress?” Orwell’s 1984 是否已经涵盖了
我们社会或者几乎涵盖了我们社会？数字化教育者应该采
取什么措施才能扭转局势或者控制这样的发展？
4. Transparency builds a better world, even at the
expense of privacy全球范围内人与人之间的透明性必将促
进世界变得更美好，甚至能够彻底打破人与人之间的界限
As sensing, storage and communication technologies
get cheaper and better, individuals‘ public and private
lives will become increasingly “transparent” globally.
Everything will be more visible to everyone, with good
and bad results. Looking at the big picture - at all of
the lives affected on the planet in every way possible this will make the world a better place by the year
2020. The benefits will outweigh the costs. 随着认知、
存储和通讯技术的发展以及成本的降低，个体的公众和私人生
活将会在全球范围内日益透明。一切对大家来说将会越来越透
明，这对人们来说既有有利的一面，也有不利的一面。纵观全
局---世人无处不受影响，2020年，世界将会变得更加美好。
利将会大于弊。
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同意46% 不同意49% 无反应5%
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Educator’s Response教育者的回应
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Many disagreed with this “better world” being built. Yet,
examine the spreading popularity of “Facebook,” “My Space”
and other such programs to see that increasingly, citizens (at
least you younger ones) have little hesitation about sharing
details that few of their parents would ever think of revealing.
许多人不同意“世界将会更美好”。调查“Facebook,My
Space”和其他程序的流行度， 人们（至少是年轻人）毫不犹
豫分享的东西都是他们的父母从来不曾想过的。
Can educators instill in their students the wisdom of being
oneself without the need to share every detail of their
existence? What of cultures that decry such self-promotion?
What of the increasing spam that glorifies/deifies the
individual’s rights over those of society at large?
教育者能够给他们的学生灌输坚持自我、不向其他人分享生活
细节的思想吗？哪种文化反对这种自促行为？哪些信息支持个
人的权利高于社会的权利？
5. Virtual reality is a drain for some
虚拟现实是带动事物发展的链条
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By the year 2020, virtual reality on the internet
will allow more productivity from most people in
technologically-savvy communities than working
in the “real world.” But the attractive nature of
virtual reality worlds will also lead to serious
addiction problems for many, as we lose people to
alternate realities. 2020年，与现实世界相比，网上的
虚拟现实将会促进技术型社区的人们产生更高的生产率。
但是，虚拟现实世界的吸引力也会造成许多人上瘾 的严
重问题，这些人将会失去改造现实的机会。
Agreed 56% Disagreed 39% Did not respond
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Educator’s Response教育者的回应
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While a majority of respondents felt virtual reality, with
its many attendant variations, was a positive aspect of
our wired future, educators are also well aware of the
explosion of gaming, simulated realities, and see, in such
innovations, other sides to such a bright future.尽管回应
者多种多样，但是大部分回应者都认为虚拟现实对我们的
数字化未来来说具有积极的意义，教育者也意识到了游戏
的风靡和虚拟现实的风靡，并且发现了革新中有利于未来
发展的其他方面。
They see students coming to school weary from lack of
sleep, the previous night having been spent engaged in
mutual electronic gaming in nether worlds that represent
graphic images, elevated sound levels, and dischordance
at every turn.他们发现学生来学校时非常疲惫，因为缺少
睡眠，前一天晚上花费大量时间沉溺于电脑游戏。
Educator’s Response
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Nowhere was there mention of the potential for Virtual
Reality experimentation, left unsupervised, to wreak
mental havoc on those with psychotic illnesses. To get a
look at one intriguing example, go to a program called
Second Life:
http://secondlife.com/community/downloads.php. I
went there recently, and took on a whole new persona –
as Ruicha Taiyang.关于虚拟现实的试验的潜力，目前还
没有人提到过，并且缺少监管，结果给有精神疾病的人带
来精神灾难。请以第二生活的项目为例：
http://secondlife.com/community/downloads.php.我最近
参与了这个项目，注册了一个新帐号：Ruicha Taiyang
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Yes, there are medical possibilities, those related to
military and/or corporate gaming and simulation that, in
their own virtual worlds, are making massive strides
within those arenas. Educators need to become familiar
with the many aspects of this form of program so they
can better guide their learners, one way or another.
的确，虚拟现实具有一定的 医疗价值 ，那些跟军事、公
司游戏和模拟有关的虚拟现实在他们各自的竞技场内引领
了当今的主流。教育者需要熟悉程序的各个方面，这样教
育者能够以各种方式更好的指导学习者。
6. The internet opens worldwide access to success
网络打开了通往成功的世界之门
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In the best-seller The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman writes that
the latest world revolution is found in the fact that the power of the
internet makes it possible for individuals to collaborate and compete
globally. 在最畅销的书《世界是平的》中， Thomas Friedman 认为
最新的世界性变革是在网络使人们在全球范围内互相合作和竞争的形
式下出现的。
By 2020, this free flow of information will completely blur current
national boundaries as they are replaced by city-states, corporationbased cultural groupings and/or other geographically diverse and
reconfigured human organizations tied together by global networks.
2020年，信息的自由流通将会完全打破现在的国界，国界将由城邦、
以公司为基础的群体和其他不同地区的以及改组的人类组织所取代，
这些组织都由全球化的网络所联结。
Agreed 52% Disagreed 44% Did not respond 5%
Educator’s Responses教育者的回
应
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Agreement increased when the respondents related internet use to
development and operation of business and industry, as well as by
governments. Being a long-time reader of Friedman’s writings, I
have seen the light through his reportage from around the globe. I
have also seen his words of caution, especially of late as seen in his
New York Times columns, that global access to technology does not
automatically beget peace, harmony, or financial success.
Educators who follow Friedman’s writing seem favorably impressed
with his objectivity, clarity of expression, and often caustic
commentary. He is a refreshing voice in an otherwise media-blitzed
world.
如果回应者将网络用做 商业和工业的开发与运作联系到一起，那么
政府间将产生更多的合作。我本人一直就是Friedman的忠实读者，
世界各地都有他的报告文学，我从他的作品中看到了光明、看到了他
的斟字酌句，尤其是在后期的纽约时报中，全球通往技术的道路并没
有到，自动带来和平、和谐或者金融繁荣。那些追随他的教育者被他
的客观、表达的清晰和经常是刻薄的评论所深深折服。他是不同的媒
体闪击的世界里的新声。
7. Some Luddites/Refuseniks will commit
terror acts一些保守分子会采取一些过激行为
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By 2020, the people left behind (many by their own choice)
by accelerating information and communications
technologies will form a new cultural group of technology
refuseniks who selfsegregate from “modern” society. Some
will live mostly “off the grid” simply to seek peace and a
cure for information overload while others will commit acts
of terror or violence in protest against technology.
2020年，由于迅速发展的信息和通讯技术而落后的人（许多人自我
选择的）可能会建立一个反对技术进步的文化团体，这部分人将自我
脱离“先进”的社会。一些人将会远离社会而生存，只是为了寻求安
宁、避免信息负载，而另外一部分人将会采取过激行为来反对技术应
用。
Agreed 58% Disagreed 35% Did not respond 7%
Educator’s Response
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The Pew respondents saw the potential for chaos and
terrorism run amuck as they fomented about the
potential for technology to fall into the hands of those
bent on revenge, hatred, seeking power, or simply
needing to destroy what “man hath wrought.” 少数回应
者看到了混乱和恐怖主义混乱的潜在可能，因为他们担心
先进的技术有可能会落到复仇心切、仇恨心理、争夺权力、
或者只是想毁掉人类创造的文明的破坏分子手中。
There appears to be a growing sense of concern that,
with minimal technological know-how, those intending to
destroy technological infrastructures can have their way
with little chance of discovery. 越来越多的人开始关心：
那些想要毁坏技术设施的人只有很少技术知识，几乎没有
进步。
Educator’s Response
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Over the past decade or less, there has been ample
evidence of such destructive behaviors. Educators have
a clear responsibility to teach coping skills to their
students, who can be objective in their assessment of
such potential dangers, and offer psychological
intervention that hopefully will sustain their students
during such times of crisis. 过去几十年已经充分见证了
这种破坏机器的行为。通过测试，对于那些具备这些潜在
危险的学生，教育者有责任教他们学会相关的处理技术，
并且提供相关的心理干预，帮助学生度过困难时期。
As Americans discovered, they simply girded themselves
against future events like 9-11 by continuing living much
of their day in ways that allowed them to function.根据
美国人的发现，他们把自己束缚起来，准备跟未来类似于
911的事件斗争，每天以这样的心理度过大部分时间。
Educator’s Comment
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The severity of how things are was articulated
by Ronald Sugar, CEO of Northrup Grumman on
October 24th when he noted that
“...converntional wars as we knew them, such as
in World War I, World War II, and into the Cold
War era have changed...we are now in a period
of information warfare (Sugar, 2006).”
格鲁曼公司的总裁Ronald Sugar分析了事情的严
峻性，他说：现在的战争形式与过去的传统战争，
例如，一战、二战、冷战不同，我们现在的战争
是一场信息战。
8. We asked a separate question about setting priorities for
future investments in communications technology.
一个关于未来信息技术投资优先性的问题
 Most respondents identified building network
capacity and technological literacy as the first or
second priority for policy makers and technology
leaders to pursue. 大多数回应者把建立网络的能力和
技术素养作为政策制定者和技术领导者需要优先考虑的首
要的或者次要的因素。
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Another top priority was the creation of a “legal
and operating environment that allows people to
use the internet the way they want, using the
software they want.” 另一个需要优先考虑的因素是创
造合法的运营环境，使人们能够自由的使用网络和软件。
Scenario 8 Continued 第八方面的后续部分
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Respondents were asked: If you were in charge of
setting priorities about where to spend the
available funds for developing information and
communications technologies (predominantly the
internet) to improve the world, how would you
rank order the following international concerns?
回应者曾被问到：为了促进世界进步，如果你负责规定哪
些事情需要优先投入资金开发信息和通讯技术，那么你打
算怎样为以下国际关心的问题排序？
Respondents said building network capacity and
technological knowledge should be top priority.
Setting Priorities for Development of Global
Information & Communication Technologies 回应
者认为建立网络能力和技术知识应该是首要考虑的问题。
首先考虑全球信息通讯技术的发展。
Educator’s Response
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Given that the majority of those responding
seemed to be representative of business and
industry/government, it is not surprising that
building network capacity won out as being their
top priority. It was encouraging to note that
building technological literacy was right up there
with that first priority. 如果大多数回应者都代表
商业、工业或者政府，那么建立网络的能力成为
首选是必然的。而且普及技术知识也是需要优先
考虑的事情。
Educator’s Response
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Some nations now require that basic computing skills be
integral to what is taught in schools from early elementary
years on to high school and adult education. Others have
been too absorbed with more fundamental concerns for their
populace...such as providing food, clothing, housing, and
medical care. 一些国家现在要求及计算机技术成为早期学校
基础教育的内容，并将其延伸到高中和成人教育中。其他已经
被集中关注了，例如提供食物，衣服，住房和医疗等
Indeed, while we laud UNESCO’s Education for All and
concern for equity of access, the idea of setting up a
computer center in impoverished areas of the world has taken
a back seat with survival being paramount. Guess it comes
down to a matter of priorities. Teachers in both developed
and lesser developed nations have to continually answer the
questions of their students – those who have and those who
have not.的确，我们支持联合国的全民教育和教育公平， 但
是在一些贫穷地区建立计算机中心只能在解决生存问题后才能
实现。所以这还是一个关于优先因素的问题。无论是发达国家
还是发展中国家，教师都必须不断的回答学生的问题。
Comments from the Aspen
Symposium 2005
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On a global scale, the level of academic
inequality is staggering. More than 1 billion
people are living in extreme poverty in the world
today.全球范围教育不公是惊人的 。大约有10亿
人过着极端贫困的生活。
Approximately 8 million people will die this year
because they are simply too poor to get the
basics they need to stay
alive (Devlin, p. ix) 今年大约有800万人会因为过
度贫穷而死亡。
Educator’s Comment
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It is the author’s belief that this single
statement should set the tone for any
discussion we might have related to the
integration of emerging technologies in
education globally.笔者相信这次演讲代表
了全球教育界所有关于新兴技术整合讨论
的基本观点。
Educator’s Obserrvation
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What, if anything, can be done to repair
the dwindling respect the United States
has in the eyes of others in the world.
Stephen Walt of Harvard examined
American power from the point of view of
foreign leaders: 什么能够拯救美国在世界
其他国家眼中正在衰退的地位？哈佛的
Stephen Walt调查了其他国家领袖对于美
国地位的看法：
Walt wrote…
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The task we face now is to rebuild the trust, admiration, and sense
of legitimacy that the United States once enjoyed, so that the rest
of the world turns from looking for ways to tame American power
and focuses instead on the benefits that U.S. primacy can create.
我们现在面临的主要任务是重新建立美国曾经享有的信任、敬重和
正义感，这样世界其他国家能够从致力于削弱美国的权力和焦点转向
美国能够带来的利益。
Higher education can help accomplish this broad task in many ways.
At the grass roots level, more than half a million foreign students
study at U.S. colleges and each year. Generally, upon returning to
their native countries these students are likely to have a more
realistic and at least somewhat more favorable view of the United
States than if they had not studied there.
高等教育能够以多种方式帮助完成这个巨大的任务。在平民阶层中，
每年有50多万的外国学生在美国大学学习。
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said in 2001 he could „think
of no more valuable asset to our country than the friendship of
future leaders who have been educated here (2005,Walt, as quoted
by Devlin, p. xi).前国务卿Colin Powell 在2001年曾经说：我认为
对我们国家最有价值的财产莫过于在各国未来领袖在美国学习期间与
他们建立友谊。
Aspen Forum, continued
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John Seely Brown, formerly of Xerox PARC, describers a productive
new learningscape grounded in the availability of learning resources
on the Internet and driven by the growing importance of
continuous learning. John Seely Brown，曾在施乐公司的帕洛阿尔托
研究中心工作，他提到一种建立在网络学习资源基础上的新的高效的
学习环境，这种高效的学习环境的产生是因为不断坚持学习对人们来
说越来越重要。
He points to the digital multimedia vernacular of today’s students
and presents several ways to take advantage of their familiarity and
comfort level with technology to create learning models based on
“learning to be” rather than “learning about,” that is, shifting from
lecture-based teaching to activity-based learning (2005, Brown
quoted by Devlin, p. xiv). 他重点描述了当今学生的数字化多媒体术
语，讲述了几种创建学习模式的方式，这几种方式是利用技术熟练的
优势来创立以生存为基础而不是单纯学知识为基础的学习模式。
Finally
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There are a total of twenty different
authors whose theses span critical
elements of how American higher
education can evolve with more positive
directions and results. 总共大约有20位论
文作者在他们的论文中详尽阐述了促进美
国高等教育更好发展的的关键要素。
Conclusion
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The ultimate aim of the foregoing presentations
and follow-on documents is to encourage us all
to take a hard look at what has gone before us,
what is now, and what the future holds. 上述内
容和下面我要讲的内容的最终目标都是为了鼓励
人们积极审视我们的过去、现在以及未来的趋势。
Not just for China and America, but for ALL the
nations in our world! 不仅为中美两国，而是为全
世界！
Thank You
Merci
Spacebo
Gratzi
Gracias
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Tak
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