Class 1: Thoughts on Instructional Technology

• Tools and methods to convey ideas to other people
  
• Teaching with multimedia in artificial, synthesized environments
  
• Creating environments where students teach themselves at individual pace
  
• Empowering other people with the knowledge and avenues to increase that knowledge
  
• Distance education, user-centered design, student-based learning, online communities, forums, malleable interfaces, personalized spheres of learning, connected, online, interactive