21st Century Learning and Teaching

Many of us remember back when online learning wasn’t yet a ‘thing’. Back when classes happened almost exclusively in a classroom, and the internet was something we snuck downstairs to use when our parents were asleep (if the dial-up modem didn’t wake them up).

For the most part, the people that we hear from think that online education was a pretty recent creation – definitely a child of Generation Z. Which for many people seems pretty reasonable, since that is when they most likely became aware of it. But is that actually how it happened? Check out the infographic below to see the history of online education as it actually happened instead of how you remember it!

The Online Education Database offers reviews of thousands of accredited online colleges along with scholarship information and degree guides.

There’s a whole new language being developed around the hottest trend in education: online learning. From MOOCs (like a cow would say it but with a hard K at the end) to OpenCourseWare to ‘21st century learning‘ … there’s a lot of new terms you should know about.

Read more:

http://edudemic.com/2012/10/the-7-best-places-for-online-education/