online learning

10 Reasons to Abolish Brick and Mortar Colleges

September 21, 2010

Carrie Oakley contacted me recently about guest posting here on Mission to Learn, and given her focus on online colleges, I challenged her to write something about why we should get rid of placed-based colleges. Here is the provocative post she produced. Comments welcome. – JTC Online schools are mushrooming everywhere these days, and it’s [...]

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More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online – and Counting

February 14, 2008

I’ve been a fan of open education for some time and recently have been intrigued by the revival of the “free” business model debate by Chris Anderson and Kevin Kelly, among others. So, conflating the two, I decided to undertake what turned into a “pulling a thread on a sweater” exercise and see how many [...]

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Pictures That Help Us Learn

October 18, 2007

I was putting together a presentation on social media and online learning recently and in doing so, wanted to come up with an example of how photo sharing might be used to support educational activity. I ended up using the following Red Cross “Be Red Cross Ready” series from Flickr: With the constant commenting, texting, [...]

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