Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, December 08, 2008
Academia tackles the online learning future - Stephen Hoare, the Guardian
For Laura, a first-year international business student, the heart of student life is a virtual one. An online community established through MySpace is where she and her peers network, collaborate on their courses, swap problems, offer support, and socialise. While she travels on to campus for classes and to meet other students face to face, she also regularly accesses the university's virtual learning environment (VLE) from her PC at home. She downloads podcasts onto her MP3 player so that she can revise while travelling. "It's just all these little technology things that make your life handier," she says.

 



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