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Incorporating the Communications Revolution into the MPA

Incorporating the Communications Revolution into the MPA. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!* (*with apologies to Susan Jeffers, author of the book by the same name). Sandra Price, J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City Robyne S. Turner, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Camden

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Incorporating the Communications Revolution into the MPA

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  1. Incorporating the Communications Revolution into the MPA Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!* (*with apologies to Susan Jeffers, author of the book by the same name)

  2. Sandra Price, J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City Robyne S. Turner, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Camden Draft – prepared for the 2008 NASPAA Annual Meeting Charleston, SC, October 16, 2008

  3. “Weick says people who have been trained to value their equipment may feel that they are at a disadvantage when, without any prior experience of what it feels like or how to do it, they are told to drop their tools.”

  4. “Put bluntly, the combination of inconvenience, anxiety and a lack of compelling evidence for incorporating new technology leads educators to hang onto an old thing until the new thing proves too imposing to ignore.”

  5. “The technology is out there, the students are demanding it, and the establishment is all for handing it over.”

  6. “The new paradigm invokes a power shift in the classroom – a loss of control - from the instructor, wizard of the old paradigm, to the student, master of the new.“

  7. “The NASPAA 2009 proposed standards recognize that public affairs is increasingly sitting in a flat world. Today’s administrators are likely to be coordinating with colleagues around the country or around the globe. If the realm of public service and public discourse is changing, then the MPA pedagogy should make adjustments to that.”

  8. “It turns out that collaboration is the determining factor for a successful online experience – and is also crucial to students’ perceived satisfaction with the online classroom experience and is an important factor for student retention.”

  9. Blogging online web journals aka “web logs” or blogs

  10. Hyperlinks/Hypermedia

  11. Blackboard Axio Classroom Management Software [CMS]

  12. Discussion forums

  13. Group Chat

  14. Social Communities Robyne’sFacebook Community

  15. Virtual Communities GeoWorlds in Second Life A Joint Project of UMKC and the Kauffman Foundation

  16. Streaming Audio/Video

  17. “If we have decided on a set of teaching methods, then the decision becomes a point to defend, and to bend the learning around. If learning is in fact changing, then we need to adopt the teaching tools that will serve that learning…. To hold onto the old decisions as a point of defense is to withhold the learning that could be developing.”

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