Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom

Below is the written quote. I wish I could use bold or colour here to highlight the key concepts for me. The future development of technology, in turn, will be influenced by which social group wins this struggle over the meaning of technology. If the group that values teaching as performance has the most influence, we will put more energy into developing flexible courseware that promotes social engagement and interaction. We will also develop intellectual property laws that support revision while respecting the rights of creators. If the group that sees teaching as textual has the most influence, we will develop more elaborate technologies for delivering courses as online texts, emphasising the role of the student as audience rather than as participant. We will develop increasingly restrictive intellectual property laws that protect the course as text from being changed or copied. We will also continue to develop elaborate schemes of digital rights management to protect our investment. Brent, Doug (2004) ‘Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom’ First Monday http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/brent/ (Accessed 9 November 2005)