In another article, I discuss some of the many challenges of online learning. As I believe in the adage, “He who has the heart to criticize should also have the heart to help”, I thought this time I would reveal what I believe to be the components of an Internet/Intranet Online Learning System (OLS) are. …
1. On-the-job training and lectures The two most commonly used types of training are on-the-job training and lectures, although little research has been done on the effectiveness of either. It’s usually impossible to teach someone everything they need to know in one place away from the workplace. Therefore, on-the-job training often complements other types of …
At the Strings Conference in July 2000, theorists were asked which mysteries still need to be unraveled in the 21st century. Participants were invited to help formulate the ten most important unsolved problems in fundamental physics, which were ultimately selected and ranked by a distinguished jury of David Gross, Edward Witten and Michael Duff. No …
If I asked you for a list of sad songs, what would you think of? Maybe you would say Moody River by Pat Boone, maybe Eva Cassidy’s Songbird. What about Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven? Elton John wrote “Sad Songs Say So Much”. So true, and then you have to look at the musical structure …
Lindsey and Juo met while Lindsey was studying abroad at Ewah Woman’s University in Seoul, South Korea in 2015. She was there to study for a full year when Juo messaged her on Instagram out of nowhere. Lindsey was hesitant at first but decided it would be a great opportunity to make a boyfriend in …
Many people look at homeschoolers and wonder how and why they do it. Some people think homeschooling is tedious and think, “Why not just send your kids to school so they can be tutored by a pro?” It all depends on your worldview. If you think you don’t have as much to offer your child …
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As the saying goes: prevention is better than cure? Boy, if we all lived by that belief, I bet a lot of the life frustrations we face would go away! For example, if we hadn’t eaten fast food in the last four days, our scale wouldn’t show a new, astronomical number! If we weren’t driving …
Nowadays we hear a lot about the sad conditions in our public education system. There is a clamor for a weeding out of the bad apples in the faculty ranks. The question arises as to what the balancing act is all about. There is a difference between incompetence and poor performance. It seems to me …
Are your students performing at their best in your class and completing all learning activities on time? Do they always want to be involved in class discussions, eagerly participating in the conversations while demonstrating what they have learned from the assigned reading? Or do you have a typical mix of students, some excelling and others …