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Beware of prank-playing students and ordinarily-hurmorless school administrators and other co-workers.
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I've recently added dozens of schools to the About.com directory of online college profiles. Here's what's included:
“These online college profiles can help you understand your options and choose a virtual program. All online colleges in this directory are regionally accredited, the most widely accepted form of accreditation in the United States. This site does not do paid college profiles; the online colleges in this section have been chosen by the site editor and reviewed impartially.”
Online learning is growing fast - there are now hundreds of virtual schools to choose from. Along with your own research, online college reviews can help you narrow down your choices and find a school that fits your needs.
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eLearn Magazine editor Lisa Neal recently published a list of Ten Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes To Be a More Successful e-Learning Professional. If you're an online teacher or instructional designer, take a look for several worthwhile ways to improve your career. Here's a blurb:
“Find an e-learning conference to go to and send an email to your manager giving 10 reasons why this will help you perform better. If travel is a problem, find a local seminar to go to….Read 10 current e-learning job descriptions and see how many you are qualified for. Write down 10 ideas for your own professional development just in case you ever want to go job hunting.”
Since online teaching is a relatively new profession, it's especially important for these instructors to stay on top of professional development and keep aware of advances in their field.
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Online students are often required to discuss their curriculum via a message board or chat room. Because of the apparent informality of these venues, it can be difficult to present yourself as articulate and professional - especially when you need to disagree with another person's comment. A new article from Paul Grahm explains in detail how to disagree when posting on the internet. Here's a blurb:
“The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do-in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts….If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages.”
If you are expected to participate in online class discussion boards, I'd suggest taking a look at the complete article. By following the examples given, you'll be able to lay out a well-reasoned and articulate argument the next time you disagree with a post.
See Also: How to Participate in an Online Class Chat Room
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Over the past year, there's been a huge movement towards free online books and other learning materials. One distributor, WOWIO, has already seen some success in offering free books. Here's how they describe themselves:
“WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers. Readers get free ebooks. Sponsors get a powerful new channel to communicate their message to precisely the people they want to reach. Publishers get a new means of distributing their books, expanding their readership, and monetizing their intellectual property.”
On the upside: WOWIO users can instantly download free books, many of which are not in the public domain. However, WOWIO does rely on sponsors to fund these publication, which means you'll have to put up with some level of advertising. On the whole, this looks like a successful business model which in the future could work for academic authors.
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Starting this fall, New York University's School of Law is admitting students to its newest program - the Executive L.L.M in Tax. Washington Square News reports:
“The new “Executive L.L.M. in Tax” will feature online videos of prerecorded lectures, often taught in conjunction with “live” sections of classes. All students will take the same exams and be graded on the same curves, Faculty Director and law professor Noël Cunningham said.The law school will admit 25 online students this fall, he said.”
NYU is now one of only a few reputable law schools offering graduate programs online. While there are many quality programs for other subjects, administrators have been hesitant to offer virtual law programs, particularly because face-to-face interaction and Socratic discussions are highly valued in law school academics.
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In today’s Washington Post, Colbert I. King let’s us know how bad it has gotten in many of the public schools in our nation’s capital:”Security at Wilson High to Be Tightened” announced a headline in The Post’s March 21 Metro section. More stringent measures were being put in place after 13 students were arrested because of two fights that week, the story said.
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The Texas Board Of Education has now indicated that high schools in the Lone Star State may offer courses in Bible study:AUSTIN – Broad guidelines for a Bible course for Texas high schools were approved by the State Board of Education on Friday, but board members delayed action on specific curriculum requirements until the attorney general has ruled on whether all school districts must offer the
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