Skills and Technologies Used by Online Students Important Workplace Skills

Obviously, what you learn is important to your career aspirations. But how you learn – using online technologies, systems, tools and techniques – is becoming important, too, if you think IBM is any indicator of what life in the corporate fast lane now favors.
While some may question the value of social media tools like Facebook, […]

Character Education in Online Education

Recently I read an article (in Chinese) in which the authors explain their perspective in online education in China. I found the following viewpoint, which I translated into English, interesting:
Currently, there are still some issues with the development of online education. First of all, there is a lack of proficiency in internet technology and educational […]

“Jetson Students in a Flintstone’s World!”

The headline on this post comes from the title of a speech given by an online high school teacher named Pam Birtolo. The teacher and her recent talk received coverage here in this article in the Herald Online. While it is a memorable speech title, in the talk itself she paints a stark contrast between […]







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