The document discusses empowering faculty at Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry to develop and deliver a new dental curriculum suited for the "Net Generation" of students. It outlines the technological capabilities and preferences of today's students, who have grown up with computers and expect rapid access to digital course materials on devices like iPods. The institution is working to provide educational content on iTunesU and capture lectures to share on YouTube in order to better engage students and meet their digital learning needs.

1. Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry Empowering Faculty to Develop and Deliver a “New” Dental Curriculum to the Net Generation Bill Wathen, DMD Mohsen Taleghani, DMD Art Upton Ben Cozad Charlie Lindahl Scott Frederick

2. Art Upton Web Administrator Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry Understanding Net Gen - 2008

3. Memex - First prediction of global e-webs The mind operates by association Snaps instantly between associations By “an intricate web of trails” With the detail of mental pictures “ Awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.” “ As We May Think” - 1945 Vannevar Bush author of “As We May Think”

4. Ted Nelson - Inventor of “ Click Here ” Project Xanadu 1960 - The Original Hypertext Project Meta-documents concept - Global database access Lately, gone a little off the beaten path: Ted Nelson Inventor of Hypertext Hypertext & Meta-docs 1960

5. Cross-platform UI Files to/from many different computers Variety of doc types and protocols Provides universal access Any User on Any Network Any Data at Anytime . Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the “www” browser software. Code Name: “www” 1989

6. Develop “ hypertext minds , they leap around .” Thought is less linear … Piece information together from multiple sources. Students raised with computers: Understanding Net Gen 2008 Source: Educating the Net Generation Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, Editors - An Educause Publication

7. Intuitive, visual communicators Integrate virtual and “real-time” Learn through discovery vs. being told Multi-tasking of Attention Fast response time, expect rapid responses Source: Educating the Net Generation Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger, Editors - An Educause Publication Among other differences: Understanding Net Gen 2008

8. Memex - First prediction of global e-webs The mind operates by association Snaps instantly between associations By “an intricate web of trails” With the detail of mental pictures “ Awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.” “ As We May Think” - 1945 Vannevar Bush author of “As We May Think”

9. Higher Ed. Online - 2008 Online Ed => Higher Ed. Changes Goals of the “Academy” remain the same Technology changing at “blinding speeds” Content is still “King” - Delivery is New New enhances the Old, does not replace it WWW maturity => OS/Browser “Wars” over

10. “ New” H.Ed. digital age concerns Content management Web 2.0 and social networking Enterprise remote control Distance learning Content capture and creation Tech Teaching Techniques Smart classrooms and campuses Interactive AV in classroom Lecture capture systems

11. “ Higher education must continue to engage the Net Generation in a dialogue regarding its expectations about technology and learning.” Technology and Learning Expectations of the Net Generation Gregory R. Roberts University of Pittsburgh–Johnstown Listen & Learn from Net Gen

12. At HSC-Baylor College of Dentistry, a concerted effort to respond to student needs . Faculty discovered a student initiative to share recorded course materials via hand-held devices such as iPods, iPhones, etc. HSC-BCD’s response, to - Listen to the students - Allow “Grass roots” to meet “Brass” at top - Meet needs of classes now - Adapt for future students Listen & Learn from Net Gen

13. Link to full article on Art’s Blog: http: //webcomm . bcd . tamhsc . edu/sphpblog/index . php ?entry=entry070907-181402 Music Player => Sophisticated Comm. device On par with the telephone Plus full-powered Web browser Plus Automatic Wi-Fi Puts the literal/virtual world in any pocket! WWW maturity + Device Maturity It is time to LISTEN to our students Toward Digital Dental Education

14. Time to take hand-held revolution VERY seriously Students want instant access to digital curriculum materials Lectures, presentations, demos, podcasts, videos The Institution needs to support that. Toward Digital Dental Education

15. HSC-BCD on iTunesU Student survey request One BCD Response

16. Berkeley Curriculum on YouTube UC Berkeley becomes first to make videos of over 300 hours of full courses available free on YouTube, and will continue to expand the catalog.

17. Next: The Student Perspective Attempts to Respond From the Top How We’re Doing it now at HSC-BCD It doesn’t take much, but … It DOES take collaborating with the students To teach them dentistry, as usual -- but also To learn from them innovative ways for delivering it.

18. The Student Viewpoint Ben Cozad First Year Dental Student Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry

19. Order of Objectives

20. Student Resources

21. Personal Computers MP3 Players Personal Electronics

22. Personal Electronics

23. Resources We Like

24. Media Preference

25. Double Regular Half Varies Lecture Listening Speeds

26. Resources You Can Provide

27. Objectives

28. Students who desire more than just a shared network folder Objectives

29. Accessing Content on iTunes

30. Step Up

31. IT Infrastructure And Applications Charlie Lindahl Texas A&M Health Science Center Office For Information Technologies Understanding Net Gen - 2008

32. INFRASTRUCTURE: The underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization) (Merriam Webster Online) Definition:

33. End product Software Hardware Organizational structure Usual view of it:

34. Organizational structure End product Software Hardware Our view of it:

35. Who is our audience? What are we trying to do and why? Who are our (management/user) champions? Organizational Structure

36. Quality educational materials Digital media (movies, slides, and audio) Easy-to-use production and distribution methods End Product

37. No-brainer methods for content providers (e.g., near-real-time classroom production) Easy end-user consumption processes (e.g., Ipod) Comprehensive production and consumption metrics Software

38. High-capacity reliable servers (cpu and storage) Fast networking pipes End-user devices Near-real-time production hardware to support production processes Hardware

39. Driven from the bottom (students) Supported from the top (upper management) Empowering the faculty & researchers Our Organization

40. Multimedia: audio/video/slides Reusable & portable media (podcasting) Effective educational materials (w/metrics) Our End Product

41. Producer: near-real-time recording and posting of materials (Garageband & Classcaster) End user: itunes client, web browser (mpeg4 video, mp3 audio, pdf) Servers: web, streaming media, database, content management system, course management systems Our Software

42. High-end Dell rack-mounted servers High-end networking hardware on internet2 Vmware virtualization Large redundant disk arrays (Raid5) Our Hardware

43. Media Resources Public media available and ready for posting Classroom media available and ready for posting** Server Resources iTunesU space allocated and available Local servers (web/file servers) setup Production processes Initial procedures in place and running in classrooms Permissions / access policies being determined Consumer processes Students downloading to PCs and portable media devices (iPods) Current Status

44. Consumer processes Determine producer preferences (how to produce) Determine consumer preferences (where to produce) Media Resources Consumer preferences being evaluated (as per student surveys) Server Resources iTunesU space will be populated with public and private media Local servers will be configured as necessary for production and consumption Future Work

45. Production processes Study and deploy easy-to-use production processes (hardware + software + procedures) Determine access and production policies Determine and deploy evaluation metrics Collaboration Discover, share, and learn Best Practices with others in the academic/educational community Future Work (cont)

46. EDUCAUSE Main site http://www.educause.edu/ ELI (Educause Learning Initiatives) http://www.educause.edu/eli Apple iTunesU Main site http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html Texas A&M iTunesU http://itunes.tamu.edu/ HSC-BCD iTunesU (coming soon!) References