Learning Online: An iWorld of Difference – Paul Sonne, Wall Street Journal

in Education Online Learning by — January 2, 2010 at 7:36 pm | 0 comments

How the Internet Came of Age and Changed Our Lives for Good: “You saw a lot of different services leveraging the masses for good — Wikipedia being a good example,” said Kevin Rose, founder of the news-ranking Web site Digg.com. It was, perhaps more than any other, a decade of “power to the people” in real terms. With the rise of cheap access to personal computers and broadband, the Internet increasingly started to look like the democratic endeavor it was meant to be. Skype made it possible to talk to and see anyone, anywhere in the world, in real time for free. Equal access to online maps, books and articles made the tools of education more available than ever before, while the ease of starting a blog democratized the chance to be heard.

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