Thanks to the ConnectedCourses for creating a setting to push me to think (in writing) about the work I do. A few things to start off putting on paper (ha!):
- online education (OE) should be contextualized. I.e. we can't just talk about OE in general. OE should be discussed as a tool of professional education, life-learning education, undergraduate education, etc.
- what i have been trying to do is to use OE as a way to develop an international community of scholars
- online tools have a lot of potential for learning and for collaborative research
- collaborative research that interests me is oriented towards pressing social issues
- i believe in interdisciplinarity and talk