To: My Forthcoming Audiences

From: Bob Jensen

RE: Alternative Program Modules

Click here to view a listing of workshops given at other universities and colleges. 

I request the audience to interrupt me at any time, and sometimes this can take me on a course that diverts from the screen play. My general outline is as follows, although I seldom get to all parts of it due to time limitations and the huge volume of material on my CD-ROMs: Prior to my workshops, I ask audience members to take a look at my preliminary "assignments" for them at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/prelim.htm

The following modules can vary from 30 minutes to several hours.  In some cases, an entire workshop can be devoted to one module. 

• Evolving Workshop on electronic business http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce/000start.htm
  
  
• Good Versus Bad Online Content for Learning:  How the Pros Design, Author, Test, and Deliver Online Courses for Prestigious Universities and and Online Supplements for Publishing Companies
  This module delves into what is good and what is bad in online content.
  
  
• Impact of e-Commerce on Accounting Practice and Business Education
  This is a module dealing with P2P and other major impacts of e-Commerce and e-Business on curricula, course content, and the practice of accountancy.
  
  
• Update on technology trends in education (includes updates on the new UNext with the most prestigious universities in the world).   See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245prest.htm 
  
  
• Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities
  I have a module for accounting educators on the technicalities of the FASB's SFAS 133 and the IASC's IAS 133 on accounting for derivative financial instruments and hedging activities.   This can be a short module or a workshop that runs for several days.  See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm 
  
• Introduction to the Paradigm Shift in Education and Research.
  This module summarizes trends in technology, training, education, and research. Topics include email messaging, bulletin boards, ListServ communications, technology aids for synchronous lectures, technology aids asynchronous learning, virtual reality, virtual learning trends, and the immense impact the World Wide Web (WWW) is having on education and research. Past trends and future outlooks are reviewed.
  
  
• Asynchronous Learning Modules and Networks
  Because it is such a hot topic for the future of higher education, I have a module on asynchronous learning networks and the rise of asynchronous learning technologies for parts of courses, entire courses, entire programs, and entire online universities. The core of this module is given at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm
  
  
• Networked TeamThink Learning Games and Simulations
  A more recent topic is network learning games.  I am inspired by my friend Pete Mazany from New Zealand in a workshop module on networking of simulation games.  Sometimes we present this module jointly.  The term TeamThink is used in Pete's book about using TeamThink to win the America's Cup for New Zealand in 1995.  You can read about the book at http://visionp.co.nz/team_think/book.htm .  A TeamThink pedagogy instills TeamThink skills in students. Some of the most promising tools of TeamThink pedagogy are the latest tools that have evolved in business strategy and performance evaluation in learning simulations and games. In this module of the workshop I will demonstrate SoloMike and NetMike simulations developed in 1998 by Pete Mazany.  These strategy learning games are described by Prentice-Hall at http://www.netmike.com .
  
  
• Technology in Education Controversies
  Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training: Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success?  The core of this module is given at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
  
  
• Database Technologies and Accounting Information Systems
  I teach a course on this topic.  The link to the course is at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/index.htm
  I have a summary module deals "Network Databases: Past, Present, and Future." The core for this module can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/260wp/260wp.htm
  
  
• How to Author Dynamic and Interactive Documents for the Internet
  This module can be a "how-to-do-it" workshop.  It includes an overview of how I author documents for the web.  As a visual authoring tool, I find Dreamweaver to be innovative, but it is very tedious for basic HTML in my viewpoint. I prefer the exceedingly efficient Microsoft FrontPage for the basic HTML document. Then I like to read the file in Dreamweaver in order to add behaviors, layers that hide and show, multiple level and embedded layers, and many innovations for tables. In other words, I use Dreamweaver to fancy up some of my FrontPage documents.  I demonstrate how to add multimedia using Dreamweaver behaviors versus Asymetrix ToolBook media clips.  I also have some JavaScript and Dreamweaver tutorials at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/helpers1.htm#JavaScript
  
  
• Courseware Shells and Interactive Course Management Systems
  A summary of this part of the show can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245soft1.htm
  
• Good versus Bad Hypermedia Authoring Design Features
  This section focuses heavily upon some really awful CD-ROM products in accounting, finance, marketing, calculus, and economics. Then it illustrates some good designs in science, music, art, and classical studies. Lastly, if there is time I examine my own designs in hypermedia financial statement analysis and accountancy careers CD-ROMs. The core for this module is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ideasmm.htm .

• Miscellaneous Modules.

• A module that I am currently revising deals with technology applications in over 150 universities and colleges around the world. The core for this module can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/survey1.htm

• Related to the above module is another module on Publisher/Vendor Technology Products for business and accountancy education. The core for this module is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245xp01.htm
  

• One thing that you might announce to your faculty is that I hope to address the topic of Trends in Web Publishing of Books and Journals. In particular, I will discuss the innovative approach taken by Professors Groomer and Murthy to bypass traditional publishers and put their textbooks on the WWW (for expected profits that exceed what they anticipated to receive from any publishing firm). The Groomer and Murthy textbook URL is at http://www.cybertext.com/   My email messages (followed by Professor Murthy's reply) may be of interest. These are now in the Daring Professors Document.ocument 4 .

• I would also like to address issues of efficiency and effectiveness research. This section focuses heavily on Department of Defense research from over 6,000 cbt, intelligent cbt, and virtual reality courses in training and education. Issues such as Hawthorne effects and constantly changing technologies make rigorous research virtually impossible.

• I have an older module called fishnet networking of teachers, students, experts, libraries, databases, and organizations. Trends in fishnet and virtual learning paradigms that replace traditional teacher/student hierarchies. Topics include the rise of VRML and learning immersions that encourage student creativity and original construction of virtual worlds. The decline of distance (synchronous) education and the rise of distributed (asynchronous) education are featured. This module relies heavily upon video and audio excerpts of leading-edge experts and futurists. The module also points out the rising phenomenon of how fishnet networking can modify behavior as well as learning. For example, it has been particularly effective with troubled students, potential drop outs, passive students in traditional classrooms, and creative students.

Thank you for inviting me.

Bob Jensen

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