Teaching Strategies and Effective Emerging Techniques in Distance Education David L. Passmore Director, Institute for Research in Training & Development Professor of Education & Operations Research Penn State University dlp@psu.edu — 814.863.2583 Carlisle Barracks 31 October 2006

Discuss with you… Three emerging opportunities that have potential to make distance education more collaborative and constructive How you can enrich social learning in the United States Army War College Education Online System

Three emerging opportunities that have potential to make distance education more collaborative and constructive

How you can enrich social learning in the United States Army War College Education Online System

OPPORTUNITY

Two little words for you… Dictyostelium Discoideum

Dictyostelium Discoideum

Collective intelligence… Oecophylla OR Weaver ant

Oecophylla

OR

Weaver ant

Wisdom in the “Wisdom of Crowds”… Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

Wisdom in the “Wisdom of Crowds”… Aggregation of information in groups often results in better decisions than could be made by any single person

Wisdom in the “Wisdom of Crowds”… Crowd at fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their guesses were averaged Average closer to true weight, and closer than any cattle expert estimates Francis Galton

Crowd at fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their guesses were averaged

Average closer to true weight, and closer than any cattle expert estimates

What we learned…

OPPORTUNITY

Web 2.0… We all have experienced the first generation of the Internet Web 1.0 , as some call it. Experiences delieverd on the net. Web 2.0 —the second generation of the Internet Applications delivered and shared on the net.

We all have experienced the first generation of the Internet

Web 1.0 , as some call it. Experiences delieverd on the net.

Web 2.0 —the second generation of the Internet

Applications delivered and shared on the net.

Web 2.0 example—Google docs

Web 2.0 example—blogs

OPPORTUNITY

Information futures markets

An information futures market: Newsfutures … http://us.newsfutures.com

A NewsFutures market: IRANBOOM…

IRANBOOM price-volume history…

IRANBOOM price-volume history… Contract Payoff = $100 if event happens, nothing otherwise Contract Price = estimated probability of event

How an information market works… The market sells contracts on ideas -- an idea future ! Contracts are bought and sold through an exchange Value of contracts can range from $ 0.00 to $1.00 (or some multiple) Buyers and sellers seek information about the future of the idea Price changes as belief in future of idea changes

The market sells contracts on ideas -- an idea future !

Contracts are bought and sold through an exchange

Value of contracts can range from $ 0.00 to $1.00 (or some multiple)

Buyers and sellers seek information about the future of the idea

Price changes as belief in future of idea changes

A NewsFutures market: Outcome of Super Bowl…

Price/volume plot history…

Price/volume plot history…

Price/volume plot history…

Price/volume plot history…

Closing details…

Penn State Idea Futures Market…

What about you?

Find these slides… http://www.ed.psu.edu/dlp/army31oct06/ available 1 November

Teaching Strategies and Effective Emerging Techniques in Distance Education David L. Passmore Director, Institute for Research in Training & Development Professor of Education & Operations Research Penn State University dlp@psu.edu — 814.863.2583 Carlisle Barracks 31 October 2006