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

Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Online Learning: the future of language learning - Glen Loveland, Asia Examiner
Classrooms will not disappear. They fill a social need. However, online learning, and mobile learning, using the iPhone and similar devices, will change the parameters of learning languages. Language labs are already essentially obsolete. Classrooms will no longer have the monopoly of language instruction. Teachers unions will fight it. Governments will be slow to figure it out. The benefits, however, will be more effective learning, for more people, and for much less money.

 



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