A parody of the short history of teaching

In the beginning there was a teacher, the students and a class room.

Technology advanced, and one day the class room had to give way for web-based learning or e-learning.

There was puzzlement among mentors: was this new form of transferring knowledge a friend of a foe?

For everyone's relief, e-learning found its place in the realm of education by time. And though it required lots of training and patience, at the end, even the most conservative intellectuals complied to use web as a complement teaching.

Years passed and there was a harmony of multiform teaching. But just as people had became familiar with e-learning they were confronted with a new rebellion. It came with such a speed that nobody even realized it had already arrived.

Educators were filled with a new kind of loathing that was labelled as Social Media and user created content! The wild, untamed nature of this newcomer was most feared among teachers. A word was going around that it could dispense a central part of the teaching: the teachers.

Such rivalry was too much to comprehend, and the members of scholar world joined forces to prepare for battle. It was an unjust combat. The enemy possessed some mystical powers, yet unheard of.  In an instant, after casting the secret magic, the pupils got enchanted and grew an addition to Social Media. Educators fled beaten. They had lost the war.

In the end, all that was left of original setting were the students. They lived happily ever after, reading comments and making status updates on their  doctrine that was also known as the book of faces or curtly Facebook.

The end.

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This text was a by-product of thesis writing.

Courses in Oita Uni.: Economics of Globalization

This happened frequently on our Economics of Globalization class: The projector screen got stuck in the sealing at the beginning of each lecture. It took quite some time to get it back in fuction, which of course wasn't a big issue since we could chat about common matters before the serious lecture began. But the comment often made by our teacher in a sarcastic British accent of the jammed screen is hard to forget.

After you've left Oita University and you've become rich and famous, please send some money to the Oita Daigaku...

About this course:

• Over all the Economics of Globalization is a course of choice for anyone interested in causes of globalization, different views within, its both negative and positive influences to our society, and the form globalization may take in the future.
  
• The class is, as far as I know the only class where Japanese students and exchange students are mixed, which makes it an ideal place to meet up with ever so shy Japanese.
  
• Needless to say, the teacher, a native Briton himself is an excellent teacher and knows his topic in-side-out. In addition he lectures in an extra clear and pleasing voice - giving an opportunity for non-natives to upgrade their english skills.