Educational Resources on the Web

This blog is intended to help people find cost-effective online learning resources. This includes everything from accredited colleges to personal study tools. The web has the capability to dramatically improve our ability to learn. In addition, this learning should be able to be done in much less expensive ways than what was possible before.

Seems like tuition rates are in a never ending spiral upward, growing faster than inflation. With the web, this should end. Perhaps for public schools (K through 12), the web's impact may not be huge. But for college and adult education, the web should help dramatically. For adults, I believe the classical teaching environment with a small instructor-led class is very cost inefficient. Pure online classes should be able to greatly reduce the costs without affecting the learning. There might be occasional offline activities for tests. But most of the class could be implemented with online class syllabus, notes, message boards, web logs, videos, etc.

In addition to the accredited education courses, I think there's opportunity for informal online education. I imagine it like a book club that would concentrate on non fiction. It could be similar to a message forum but would be time limited and follow a syllabus. Student notes could consist of web logs that would not only function as personal notes but also to help others in comprehending the material.

These are just some ideas. I see a lot of growth in all types of online education over the next several years. I hope you will find this blog as a useful resource to keep you up-to-date on all the new internet educational opportunities.