Sap ’99 Keynote
Distance Learning Symposium

Emerging Technology and the Future of Education

Dreams

Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law

Al Gore’s Law

Wearable Computers

Digitization, Convergence, and Distribution

Scan any text

Snap any picture

Record any sound

Capture any video

Publish to the Web

Deliver Anywhere

Distribution Channels Will Change

What is MP3?

Free MP3 Downloads

Rio

Cassiopeia

More Storage

Mobile Computing

Remote Control

Iridium Low-Orbit Satellites

Where Matters Not

Implications for Education

From Instructor
to Constructor

B. F. Skinner

Outcomes

Education Requires More

Strategies for Learning

Cognitive
Psychology

Traditional
Classrooms

World Wide Web

Downloading

Active Processors

From Push to Pull

Instructional Management Systems

The Node

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Asynchronous Learning
Network

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IMS Project

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Serf®

What Is Serf?

Logging
On

Viewing the Course

Student Control Panel

Instructor Options

Editing a Serf Syllabus

Kinds of Syllabus Events

Creating an Event

Editor                 Viewer

Navigating via
the Index

Editing the Calendar

Setting the Date

Jumpstarting
the Calendar

Editing the Style

Rostering Students

Using the
Gradebook

Assigning
Grades

Discussion Forums

Controlling Forum
Access

Reading Forum
Topics

Writing In a
Forum

Serf 2.0
Summer 1998

Kinds of Test
Questions

Editing a
Question

Editing a
Pool

Editing a
Module

Editing a
Section

Serf 3.0
Summer 1999

Creating a
Diagnosis

Making a
Diagnostic

DOL Databases

America’s
Job Bank

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America’s Learning
Exchange

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Digital Video On Demand

MPEG Video

Satellite TV

DVD

HDTV

Master Teachers On Demand

Videoconferencing

NetMeeting

PowerPoint Broadcast

Coping with the Future

Multi Multimedia

Keeping Up

Two Textbooks

Artwork Credits

Here’s a closing quote from Alan Kay,
VP of R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering.