Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform
Responsibility for teaching and mentoring must be shared more widely than in the past. Classroom teachers can not be expected to have expertise in all the areas of knowledge their students are encountering. The Internet provides new opportunities for teaching by people who primary work is not formally teaching, but who have expertise in industry and other public sectors. Incentives to perform these part-time and out-of-school teaching and mentoring roles need to be devised. Communities and school districts making an investment in new curricula or technology should not attempt to overlay such innovations on outmoded methods of operation of school; rather they should look broadly for new opportunities to engage people in nontraditional roles.