E. E. Cummings

Discuss the Value, Soundness, or Impact of Online Education For a majority of High School students, going to college is the next logical step, in the path to improve their future. This may not have been the case 15 to 20 years ago. During this time, there was a healthy middle class in the United States, were high School graduates could find a job at a factory earning fairly good pay. As more of these industrial jobs were shipped overseas, companies found themselves in a position needing to…

Schools are adapting to e-books and claims: “The rendering of children’s literature in digital format provides opportunities for children to experience the characters, themes, and settings of beloved books in new and exciting ways” (Houston 39). Schools push for electronic books…

“A discourse community is a group of people who share similar goals or purposes and use communication to achieve these goals” (Swales 220). Discourse Communities are thought to have six characteristics according to John Swales in his excerpt “The Concept of a Discourse Community.” Swales stated that “These characteristics being the community has a set of common goals known to the public, mechanisms for communication, mechanisms to provide feedback, has one or more genres of communication, an…

Viewpoint of the author: The author writes to answer the articles heading on “Is online education good or bad? And is this really the right question?”. He proposes that online education is neither a straight good or bad, rather a balanced analysis on both traditional and online education should be given. As shown below: “Enthusiasts of online courses say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question.”” “In the same way that we can have good (and not so good)…

Our society has been impacted greatly with technology advancement and this power wave of technology era has under its arms the education sector, which is the most critical sector of one’s life and academic career. When it comes to productivity and choices of preference, online learning and classroom learning are an issue of debate. Both methodologies, online learning and classroom learning are here to empower learners with knowledge and skills. As two sides of a coins, both the approaches have…

Globalization is defined as the process in which things from one culture or people group is spread to other cultures and people groups around the world. As this idea grows (Giroux, Jah, & Eloundou-Enyegue 2010), so too does the need for foreign languages to reach classrooms in different countries. English taught in a classroom, outside of the United States, is no exception. However, globalization is not the only growing branch of education. Technology is also a key part of education that seems…

With the introduction of iPad, kindle, and other smartphone eBook readers, reading eBooks has never been more popular and favourite for users. This popularity and variety of platforms have also led to the simplicity and easiness to sell and publish an eBook. All this have led many companies and organizations to release fiction and non-fiction eBooks and make their promotion and marketing strategies even more powerful. With the latest platform, the marketing agencies can reach millions of…

How to Effectively Foster Online Engagement Online classes, especially at the K-12 level, can be very overwhelming for students and can cause the student to shut down. This is something that no teacher wants his/her student to experience. A good online teacher is going to want to make sure that his/her student comes to class feeling confident about achieving his/her goals and knows that the teacher is there to support them throughout the entire process. In order to foster online engagement…

Origins In 1971, Ray Tomlinson was credited with the creation of the modern day email by advancing on the already relevant SNDMSG electronic mail program. What he did was allow any computer to contact and communicate with each other as long as they were using the same . This was a huge impact because before the only way of communicating was between the same type of computer. Then in the early 1980’s, personal computers networked with LAN’s (Local Area Network) became more dominant. But again…

at their own pace and without any distractions. In addition, “One real benefit, students and teachers here say, is the chance to study with students who live far from Massachusetts--or even the United States” as said by Andrew Totter, in article of “E-Learning Goes to School”. Online classes are beneficial and can be a second choice for an individual who likes to be distant from others, does not have a vehicle or any transit, or are employees in the workforce outside of…