Open course ware

PA and I'm the learning technology initiatives director at the Sloan School of Management I'm part of the Executive Education Department but I also report to the deputy Dean here at the Sloan School of Management what I'd like to do is really talk about three things in this brief time we have together first I'd like to explore two dimensions of education and and I'm thinking in terms of not only the classroom education we're familiar with but also the distance education which is so prominent uh in the developments today second I'd like to identify two key questions that I really feel are important for us to be thinking about and addressing in the area of new technologies and education and third I'd like to answer those questions from Stone's point of view and tell you a little bit about what we're doing and how we're doing it finally I want toose a challenge to you and ask you a question so let's get started when we think ab...

JANET RANKIN: Another active learning technique that can be very, very effective in supporting student learning is the jigsaw. And it gets its name from the activity involved when you do a jigsaw puzzle. And usually, most people when they do a jigsaw will look for the-- they'll find all the edge pieces, or they'll find all the blue pieces, or they'll find all the pieces that have a certain image on them. You do the homogeneous aspects of the exercise. So you get all the edge pieces, the blue pieces, the particular image pizzas. But eventually, you have to take those pieces and put them together. You have to link them up with pieces that don't look quite like those pieces, so that's the heterogeneous component of it. And so what you do in a jigsaw is you ask students to become experts, if you will, homogeneous experts, in a particular area, on a particular topic. And you can do this by giving them a reading in class, or you can do this by asking them to...