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E-Learning stellt sich heute als eine Bildungsdienstleistung dar, die sich aufgrund ihrer internetgestützten Distribution besonders für den globalen Einsatz eignet. Dabei werden gewisse Schattenseiten sichtbar: etwa dreihundert zum Teil international organisierte Unternehmen verkaufen gefälschte akademische Grade (vgl. Wirtschafts Woche 16.07.2001). Zwei Tendenzen haben zum Neuanstieg dieses 'dubiosen Doktortitel-Discounts' geführt: Einerseits die Entwicklung von Internet und E-Learning, andererseits die Deregulierung des Bildungssektors in den USA. Ist das die Qualität globalisierter Bildung in den kommenden Jahrzehnten?

"Should you friend your students? The short answer is no Earlier this year I delivered a further cyberbullying guidance document on behalf of Childnet International for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families. The Guidance follow up (and designed to compliment) cyberbullying guidance, a comprehensive document  that formed part of the Safe To Learn: Embedding anti-bullying work in schools suite of advice. While the initial document was really well received both within the UK & internationally, teachers unions and associations were increasingly being asked to deal with school employee cyberbullying cases - in which the staff member was the person being victimised." so written by Josy Fraser a very intereting Blog Post about what we call in germany the adaequate "Paedagogische Beziehung" - How to care this in ages of social networks and learning.

Take the simplicity of Twitter, add some features such as sending attachments, redesign the software to appeal to teachers and students, what you end up with is Edmondo.com, a young site that is rapidly gaining converts in the education community. It is a great example of using digital tools to organize a student's day-to-day workflow. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Privacy is the biggest drawback to using traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom setting.  (Has Twitter been around long enough to be called traditional?) Edmondo promotes itself as "a private communication platform for teachers and students." I'm not a teacher, so I'll defer to the views of someone who is. Mark Warner is a primary teacher in the U.K. who runs the successful www.TeachingIdeas.co.uk and blogs on MrWarner.com.  He and his students (ages nine and ten) just recently started using the site, and they think it's great.