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Basic IT as GE course
In: Education
10 Feb 2010
I’m getting sick and tired of the “excuse,” “Kaya nga ako nag-English” as an excuse not to know basic math concepts and technology concepts.
I’ve been involved in IT education as writer, editor, trainer and consultant largely because part of [...]
Pirated scholarship
13 Jan 2010I feel so old in saying “How I wish we had the learning resources kids have these days.” The Internet and the availability of information has, I think, has pretty much the same effect as, say the photocopying machine or the word processor. I just can’t imagine writing a 100-page thesis
Just last night, my younger [...]
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- Tags: Downloads, Ebooks, Education, Language, Linguistics
There and back again
In: Education
22 Oct 2009Oh that should be the least of your worries, Senator Angara.
Those 100 academics you helped ship should come back but their return shouldn’t be tied to utang na loob. It’s a worthy cause for the academic but the government must be able to capitalize on these scholar’s potential contributions by uplifting the standards of education [...]
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- Tags: Abroad, Education, Overseas, Scholar, Scholarship
Challenges to e-learning continue
In: Education
18 Oct 2009After a week of research and seminars, I’m compelled to re-examine my takes on e-learning in the Philippine setting. Here’s a post on e-learning as an investment from two years back and here’s on ICT learning in general.
Technology has changed so much over the past three years that I’m out of the industry that the [...]
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- Tags: E-learning, Education, Internet, Technology
Valued opinion
In: Work
3 May 2009One career drawback of working from home is that it takes its toll on the social aspect of one’s life and career. As for career advancement, who knows when the recession will end or, God forbid, another dotcom bubble bursts? Not that I’m saying that working online is a dead-end path (since there are huge [...]
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