If it's not live it's Jive

I have been in the synchronous world of online education for about 11 years. It has been exhausting. I truly believe that most people learn best in social environments. I think the regular old boring classroom has a lot of positives in it, like real-people.

I think correspondence/asynchronous courses are successful for about 20% of the population who are geared toward learning in an isolated environment. To them having to listen to lectures or participate in group discussions or heaven forbid be asked to conduct a presentation, is a waste of time. They only need a book and the internet and their good to go. That is not most people, most students or instructors.

If the ultimate andragogy or pedagogy is the Socratic method of instruction then an asynchronous format starts out as a lesser way of learning from the get go and is destined never to be as good simply because of its inherent design..

I have dedicated myself to producing the most cost-effective, quality, live synchronous distance learning environment I can possible make. Quopax.com is the vehicle I use to display and forward my work.

I use open-source stuff as much as possible. I purchase or rent programs that I have not been able to get to yet and contract one upgrade at a time. Currently I'm working on a new audio environment that natively records everything that is said and has to be told not to record. It is browser-based and is run on an open source foundation.

There that's basically it, my first Blog in this environment for what it's worth.