in the curve

Fear of Failure in the World of Online Learning
by Laura Gibbs

Those of us who are committed to computer-based course management systems need to have loftier goals than higher grades. we need to challenge ourselves as teachers to use these new tools to offer our students much more than that.
We need to offer them real learning opportunities different and better than the learning opportunities that they had before... learning opportunities that will give students the same sense of intrinsic satisfaction and self-motivated pleasure that they feel when using cell phones and video games and online chat which students clearly enjoy despite the jibber-jabber."