Abstract:

Beginning with an overview of new global learning environments, this presentation:

- describes paradigms for learning that fuse new and traditional approaches to learning, learning and teaching, and self-direction with experienced guidance,

- articulates a learning model embracing multiple styles, conduits for learning/teaching, and strategies for putting professionalization of teaching into the hands of teachers,

- challenges participants to outline their roles in the evolving information environment of learning networks, and concludes with extrapolations regarding the development of teaching/learning that relate to key portions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Additionally, this presentation gives specific examples of strategies used in classroom and distance learning and in workplace-independent self-directed learning and perpetual learning network modes. There is emphasis on learning strategies such as the Great American One Sentence Summary, mapping as a development tool, and a framework for independent self-directed professional development that is being implemented with professionals entering graduate-level teaching.

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Dr. Cole teaches Marketing, Education, Information Technology, and Organization Development at The Johns Hopkins University. He has taught teacher education, study skills, literacy, computer-related courses, diversity and conflict resolution, and business and management. He is Director of Training Development for the U.S. National Guard's distance learning network.

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Comments/Notes: Article for June 30 Hopkins Gazette written by Neil Grauer

Dr. Jack N. Cole will receive the 2001 Excellence in Teaching Award from the School for Professional Studies in Business and Education, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD on June 23, 2001. This award is made based on the written nominations of graduate students in the Master of Science in Marketing program and is given to recognize outstanding service in teaching and in service to the school and its students.

Graduate Division of Business and Management
As a faculty associate in SPSBE's Master of Science in Marketing, Information Technology, and Management/Organizational Development and Human Resources (ODHR) programs, Jack Newcombe Cole is thoroughly versed in all the latest applications of information technology to marketing - but he knows something perhaps even more valuable in business: how to deal with people.

Cole's areas of expertise include applied behavioral science along with marketing and IT, says Pete Petersen, interim assistant dean and director of SPSBE's Graduate Division of Business and Management, "and that's a neat mixture".

"It's a needed combination of high tech and high touch. You need a component of dealing with good interpersonal relationships. Young people today can spend all their time in front of a computer and really need to learn about dealing with people face-to-face".

Cole's interaction with his students is "motivational, humorous, insightful, and perceptive", according to one student evaluation. He "thinks outside the box, involves students, asks opinions, listens, invites new ideas and concepts with class, ties academia into real life, what a concept!" another student wrote. "Dr. Cole is the reason I looked to Hopkins for graduate study", a third student proclaimed.

Petersen says that Cole "brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise" to a wide range of courses, including "Human Resources and Technology", "Managing People and Technology in the Workplace", "Marketing Issues for the Electronic Marketplace", "Marketing of Services", "Marketing Strategy II", "Marketing Technology", "Organizational Development and Technology", "Product Design and Technology Management", "Self-Directed Work Teams", and "Technology, Business and Organizational Structure".

Cole also regularly performs services for the Graduate Department of Marketing and other departments in the Graduate Division of Business and Management that go well beyond his teaching responsibilities there. He provides support and assistance to faculty development workshops, faculty mentoring and training, and curriculum development. He also serves as an applied research project advisor, attends division open houses, and appears in the department speaker series.

Affiliated with SPSBE since 1994, Cole obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and currently is Director of Training Development for the Community Learning and Information Network in Washington, D.C. He also is a representative of Business Development for Express at the Princeton Center for Educational Services.

"Dr. Cole is an extraordinary individual who exemplifies the quality and excellence we seek in all of our faculty", says Katherine Wilson, associate director of the Department of Marketing.

Cole has a similarly high regard for his students - whom he calls "the participants" in his classes because he stresses the "collegiality" of their work together.

"They are top-flight people. My focus is on working with them to enhance their knowledge and skills - and I learn as much from them as they do from me. And that's what makes it work. These participants are marvelous people, the smartest I've ever seen. That's why they've come to Hopkins. Across the board, the people in our classes are leading the pack. My philosophy in the classroom is to show them how to make sure that their river of knowledge continues to flow."

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