Redefining Democracy for the Internet Age
At some risk, I’m going to stray a bit from the core content and principal competency area of this blog site. The topic I will address, however, is tangentially related to online learning; it is doubtless related to online anything.
Yesterday (Sunday, June 22), I listened as I usually do to National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition […]
Distance Learning and the ‘Right’ to an Education
This link takes you to a special edition of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, an e-journal published by Athabasca University in Canada. The central question in the spotlight of this special issue: “What is the Role of Distance Education in the Implementation to the Right to Education?”
With specific reference to […]
It’s Time To Lower Our Academic “Tariff” Barriers
Anyone who was old enough to vote in the 1992 U.S. presidential election is likely to remember the spirited debate among the presidential candidates over the then-proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Who can forget the great line from third-party candidate H. Ross Perot during the presidential debates? Perot stated, “There will be a […]
Online Cheating
Here’s a hot topic many might advise me to avoid: online cheating. Traditional marketing and public relations advisors tend to agree that by bringing up a troublesome issue a person runs the risk of having the issue associated with them and their institution. I, on the other hand, think the readers of this blog are […]
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