Sink or Swim?(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), May, 2001 by Bronack, Stephen; Farrington, Gregory
New technologies may represent a key turning point in the history of higher education, with traditional classrooms being supplanted or replaced by E-learning and other information technologies. Not everyone in education recognizes that learning rather than teaching is now the business at hand. Some in government and academia remain skeptical, including experts who note that the National Science Foundation and others should emphasize research into human cognition in order to determine how online education affects the way the brain learns. Common benefits claimed for E-learning include higher student participation in online courses and easier access to professors through E-mail. Anecdotal evidence is abundant, but how to determine whether online education really works is difficult....
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