Education Stops for Nothing
Mobile technology and education can meet anywhere, as evidenced by this article at The Online Universities Weblog talking about how soldiers overseas are completing college courses using a laptop and an internet connection. Quite neat.
Not even bullets. One of the most fascinating things about online education is the way it makes distance meaningless: Everything is close by, a world shrunk to the size of a computer monitor.
As the war in Iraq stretches on, seemingly interminable, soldiers and other military personnel have turned to online classes in order to finish their degrees. One of these modern day scholars is Sergeant Michael Hagy, who recently completed his M.S. degree in Health Care Management...
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Now imagine if one would offer courses in translation, culture, economics, etc. for the missions field that you can take while on a long term mission. I wonder then if sending a text message saying, "the dog ate my phone" is a suitable excuse?
Not even bullets. One of the most fascinating things about online education is the way it makes distance meaningless: Everything is close by, a world shrunk to the size of a computer monitor.
As the war in Iraq stretches on, seemingly interminable, soldiers and other military personnel have turned to online classes in order to finish their degrees. One of these modern day scholars is Sergeant Michael Hagy, who recently completed his M.S. degree in Health Care Management...
Read the rest of the article.
Now imagine if one would offer courses in translation, culture, economics, etc. for the missions field that you can take while on a long term mission. I wonder then if sending a text message saying, "the dog ate my phone" is a suitable excuse?
posted by Antoine @ 8/01/2006 01:20:00 PM
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