A WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education - Wired Campus. Dear University Leaders: You might want to think twice before clicking “send” on your next e-mail.
WikiLeaks, scourge of governments worldwide, now has a copycat for academe. And the new group is itching to publish your university’s deepest secrets. Its Web site, UniLeaks, debuted this month with a pair of open letters to university leaders in Australia and Britain. The Australian activists who run UniLeaks are pushing for openness in the face of what they see as the corporatization of higher education.
They complain of unprofitable courses abolished, employees made less secure, and students reduced “to mere customers or clients of the university.” UniLeaks has yet to back that bluster with any blockbuster scoops. And UniLeaks hopes to be an outlet for whistle-blowers in America, too. “Universities are unique in that they generally receive quite a deal of public funding,” says the administrator, a former student at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. So what is UniLeaks looking for? National Museum of American History.
Tutoring Economics Online. Online studies and online schools have become popular in recent years.
One unlikely subject has become particually popular in the online realm: Economics! There are innumerable institutions that provide online Economics course and tuitions for students who cannot join a full time college or school or students who requires extra classes. These online economics tutoring also help foreign students to take part in the programs offered by the online institutes. The online economics tutoring will provide comprehensive syllabus on Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International economics and Finance.
Tools for online tutoring include Skype, MSN messenger and ICQ. If you do not wish to sign up for any specific program with the online institutes, you can also have the advantage of finding an economics tutor online. The online economics tutoring are available for various levels starting from the school and high school levels. Economics can be quite a challenging as well as fun to learn. Online Tutoring – Advantages of the New Approach. Today we continue to acquaint our readers with peculiarities of the online education.
As it often happens with all innovations there are many obstacles on the way of extension of the online tutoring in spite of all benefits it has in comparison with the traditional ways of tutoring. The main of them is a mistrust from the side of parents. If they can’t see a real tutor how can they be sure that their child will get real knowledge? However there are the same demands for the online tutors as for traditional ones: professional competence, individual approach for the student, responsibility and honesty. Tutors of the public online schools must be certified.
Electronic books used in online education are rather unfamiliar for older generation. Online Tutoring – Background and Definitions. Online tutoring is a form of education which implies that the interaction between a tutor and a student is realised by means of Internet.
It is practiced using variable learning methods and is addressed to distinct groups of users. Present-day networked environment offers numerous tools which allow to make online learning as efficient as conventional educational approach and even make it peerlessly more comfortable and beneficial in comparison with the face-to-face lessons. The most primitive variant of the online tutoring can be an exchange of messages containing educational instructions, tasks and answers via e-mail or any instant messaging computer program.
More advanced methods include using headsets or web-cameras and multimedia programs which allow to maintain audio and video contact and to involve into session as many participants as necessary. Online Tutoring – Critical View. Today we continue to familiarize our readers with peculiarities of the online tutoring.
In order to be objective it is necessary to overview also problems associated with that educational approach. So let us add some criticism to the ideal conception of the online tutoring which was represented in our previous issue. Unfortunately online education also has some weak points. The main of them: - tutors and students must be familiar with the modern technologies, which sometimes can be a problem for people of older generation or for those who live in technologically retarded areas; - additional equipment (computer and multi-media devices) and software are needed and besides it’s necessary to have usable interface andtechnical support to maintain both the hardware and the software sides; - cultural communication difficulties between remote tutors and learners; - Internet connection is not reliable in some distant areas which can make organizing an online tutoring course difficult;