Technology is moving at an astonishing pace. We no longer rely on the old or out dated technology such as dialing phones or dictionaries. We use to have rotary phones and our minds were sharper and could hold a multitude of numbers. Today the cell phones provide voice dialing were you don't need to recall any numbers just names. As for as spelling goes some of the new generation kids do not remember the spelling rules, they just depend on spell check and will not pick up a dictionary for the life of them. Technology is moving but we must… >>>

In an online course it can be difficult in five weeks to develop an instructor/student working relationship. I have been very lucky to have a high number of military service members enrolled in my previous classroom and now online course. It gives me an opportunity in my Bio to address my military service and the students understand. In addition to having had a full time job; raised a family and worked on my degrees. I am also taking an online course at this time toward an MBA. They can read that we have similar stories and life experiences. Letting them… >>>

Having worked for several online institutions over the years, I have seen various forms of classroom set up. Some are more static media and text intensive. While others focus more on interactive content. As an instructor I appreciate the ease in which text based content can be modified and updated as needed, however deliver of multimedia content is hard to update and can significantly out of date within a year. Especially when teaching software based courses where the program interface might be completely different each year. Has anyone found that schools are reluctant to update multimedia content on a quick… >>>