Online learning calls for new set of skills - Marcia Devlin, the Age

University teaching staff are ill-prepared for the challenges of the online world that higher education is fast becoming, partly because the necessary time and effort to prepare and support them has not yet been invested. The Horizon Report 2012 Higher Education Edition makes predictions about emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the next five years in education around the globe. One of the trends reported this year is that people increasingly expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to. As the report says, we live in an increasingly busy world where learners have to balance demands from home, work, school, and family. http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/online-learning-calls-for-new-set-of-skills-20121022-28156.html