Syllabi Papers Middle of Nowhere Brad Cox May 28, 1998 I am pleased to announce that Taming the Electronic Frontier won the $25,000 Paul Allen Foundation Distance Education Competition . Jul 28, 1998 I will be leaving GMU and returning to industry at the end of the year. This is the last time these courses will be offered by GMU. Nov 14, 1998 Taming the Electronic Frontier has been nominiated for a 1998-1999 GMU Excellence in Teaching Award.

Fall 1998 Visitors, the Fall 98 course assessments are here. Students, your grades are in the Grade Report task in your locker. This page is for the Fall 1998 semester. Prior semesters are archived here. Class meets at 4:30pm Tuesdays in the King Hall TV Studio or via TV and videotape as described in the syllabus for each course. Visitors These courses feature team projects in which students practice newly learned competencies within industry, government and academia.The main entrance in the left panel provides a way for visitors to post messages, suggest project ideas and announce job openings and events. Suggest a project for your company ... perhaps the students will adopt your suggestion! Students and Faculty: Use the left panel to enter with the name and password you used when you registered. Instructions on how to obtain your name and password are in the last page of each course's syllabus. Syllabi The last page of each syllabus provides instructions and forms for registering the name and password you'll need to enter the course: Taming the Electronic Frontier A 15 week 3 credit-hour distance learning community by Brad Cox and Thomasina Borkman. Meets Tues. 4:30pm beginning Sept 1 in the King Hall TV Studio and via distance technologies (cable TV and videotape) as described in the syllabus. Advanced Object Technology: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier (Digital Commerce). A 15 week 3 credit-hour course for experienced programmers only. The semester project involves building a prototype Superdistribution system in Java, CORBA, Perl, and CGI. This course will not be offered this fall due to other obligations by the instructor. Papers Dissertation chapter reviewing Taming the Electronic Frontier by Marilyn Eggers (PDF) University of Maryland Distance Education Conference; June 1998. Plan for a New University by Brad Cox. This describes how a new university might be conceived that avoids existing universities concentration on rigor at the expense of relevance, education at the expense of training, and individual learning at the expense of organizational learning. A GMU Proposal in Response to the 1998 NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Solicitation by Brad Cox. We propose to deploy two levels of web-based technology (T1-T2) within three academic organizations (O1-O3), and to conduct an interdisciplinary study of the impact from the world views of the multiple disciplines in this team (V1-V7). Evolving a Distributed Learning Community by Brad Cox. Published in The Online Classroom in K12 Edited by Zane Berge and Mauri Colins. Hampton Press. The early history of the Taming the Electronic Frontier course. Evaluation Methods Used in Web-based Instruction and the Online Course, Taming the Electronic Frontier by Donna Potter. Case Studies of Two Poorly Functioning Teams by Thomasina Borkman, with internal links to student papers: Case Study of Well Functioning Teams in Taming the Electronic Frontier by Emily Miller and Case Study of Two Well-functioning Teams by Leslie P. Friedly. Nailing Jello to the Wall: Communication Analysis: Programmers and Users Action Research Practicum by Starla King.