If you are considering teaching online, or if you are a
homeschooling parent and would like to have your kids learn
online while at home then maybe you need to do a little bit of
research. Maybe you need to consider what's out there, and the
various hybrid courses and technology issues which surround
the world of Internet courses and online teaching.
The other day, there was a very interesting article in the
Wall Street Journal that discussed why there never needed to
be any poor weather days that prevented school. If the
inclement weather was so bad that the school buses couldn't
run, or the blizzard made it impossible to get to school, then
each student could learn at home on their own computer. The
article made some compelling arguments, and I found similar
points of contention in a book on the subject.
In fact, I'd like to go out of my way right now to recommend
this book to you, and it is a book that I do own of my
personal library. The name of this book is; "Teaching Online -
A Practical Guide" (College Teaching Series - Second Edition)
by Susan Ho and Steve Rossen, Houghton Mifflin Company,
Boston, MA, (2004), 339 pages, ISBN: 0-618-29848-7.
There is a great overview of online teaching and what it's
about, and although it is written from the perspective of the
institutional educator, it surely helps parents understand
what they are dealing with when they choose which courses,
online syllabuses, and information they wish their children to
read and learn. Teaching in an online classroom is not easy,
but those that have the skill and talent to pull it off, are
the most desired and sought after instructors.
Why not pick up a copy of this book so you can familiarize
yourself with low-tech and high-tech solutions used in
Internet education. You can also find discussion forums where
you can interact with teachers, and how they use whiteboards,
chatting features, and instant messaging to make the online
classroom feel at home. Why not learn what the teachers go
through when they put together their training programs, and
how they prepare themselves for their students.
It seems to me as a parent I want to know how the online
teaching system works, what type of software and hardware
works the best, and how the teachers are going to interact
with my kids. You need to know these things up front, it's
very important, and that's why a recommend this book to you.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on
it.
Lance Winslow is an Online Author, his latest eBook about Boat
Detailing is now available in the "Lance Winslow Small
Business Series" titled; "How to Start a Boat Cleaning
Business" (a Nook Book available at the Barnes and Noble
Website). Lance Winslow is semi-retired and Founder of the
Online Think Tank http://www.WorldThinkTank.net - You may
contact Lance Winslow by email for dialogue, discourse,
discussion, or debate on interesting topics.
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