The future of education is online. The old idea that the local expert on physics (the physics teacher) should teach physics is exactly that — an old idea. The best and the brightest can now teach physics to everybody.

The old idea that teaching means standing up and talking while students take notes is another antiquated idea. All courses at all levels, from elementary school through college, can and will be converted into “learn by doing” courses that take true advantage of the simulation capacity of computers to provide life like “doing” scenarios mentored by the world’s experts.

Naturally, this will cause a big change in what goes on in the schools. We won’t want children staying home, taking courses on computers, and never having real, live contact with other people. They need to learn how to communicate with each other, how to deal with real people problems, and how to grow as people. So, while the more academic subjects are learned online, we’ll need teachers to help guide students in the more human areas. The introduction and acceptance of the new online courses will not come overnight. In five years, students may only be taking a few of their courses online, but within 20 years the change will be dramatic. Nearly all of today’s academic subjects will be taught in this way because such courses will be more interesting, more engaging, more individualized, and more diverse.

Teachers will no longer be content providers. Rather, they will be discussion leaders, advisors, tutors, field trip leaders — always helping their students build interpersonal skills while they pursue their academic subjects.

Schools will become more like summer camps, teaching kids what they need to know about functioning in society, dealing with issues like teamwork, handling stress, getting people to like you, and other subjects critical to adolescents. School will be fun and interesting.

Roger C. Schank is director of the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia-based interactive training. He is also chairman and chief technology officer of Cognitive Arts Corp. Read more ……

Note:

Why good information and intellectual service is needed in organisation. Think !!!

Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.

“It’s crazy, it’s just crazy,” Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

“It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure,” he added.

Regret

Mr Clark registered the domain name in 1994, when the world wide web was just starting.

He had hoped that pizza.com would help to get a contract with a pizza firm for his consulting company.

He sold his business in 2000, but kept paying the $20 annual fees for maintaining the domain, which he also used to sell advertisements.

In January, Mr Clark decided to sell it after hearing that another domain – Vodka.com – was sold for $3m in 2006.

“I thought, ‘Why don’t I just try to see what the level of interest is?’” Mr Clark said.

“If someone’s willing to pay that much for Vodka.com, maybe there’s more interest in pizza.com.”

The online auction was launched on 27 March. The first bid was $100, jumping to $2.6m a week later.

Having accepted the latter offer, Mr Clark hopes to get his windfall in a few days’ time when the transaction is completed.

He said he now regretted not buying more domain names in the 1990s.

Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk

Search domain names for affordable price at : www.krisaru.net .   A platfom to gain intellectual service from.

Cross-promotion is an easy, inexpensive method for generating more traffic and more revenue for your business and for the business of your promotional partners.What could be better than a real win-win situation? With cross-promotion not only can you generate more customers and profit, usually for free, but you can help another entrepreneur do the same!

One simple example of good cross-promotion is swapping business cards with another business in your area. The idea is to find a related, yet non-competing operation, give them a stack of your cards to hand out and take a stack of their cards in exchange.

Read More

Feel free to visit www.KRISARU.com