Worldware enables courses to focus on the kind of large real-world problems that in turn require teamwork to be resolved. Electronic mail and computer conferencing enable students who live some distance from one another and from campus to collaborate. Learning at paces and times of student's choosing. Our institutions' five investments in technology are, in contrast, liberating. For example videotaped lectures can be rewound and reviewed as often as needed.
Electronic mail offers an alternative pace for intellectual exchange.
Audioconferencing makes it possible for small groups or teacher-student conferences to occur at a widerange of times, even when one of the parties is traveling. The worldware-based projects can be done wherever there are computers. Learning marked by Continuous improvement of a piece of work. Computer-based projects such as essays are mechanically easier to revise, giving both faculty and students an opening to rethink the work. Our institutions want to find out how commonly faculty are building revision and rethinking of work into course syllabi and, as we'll see, whether there are observable consequences in the skills of graduates.