What you’ll learn to do: describe strategies for successful online learning

The number-one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

—Steve Ballmer, American businessman and former CEO of the Microsoft Corporation

By the end of this section, you will be able to explore uses for technology in education and describe characteristics of online courses. You will be able to describe the basics of getting ready for online and technology-enhanced courses and explain how you can use technology to stay organized. In addition, you’ll learn about good communication practices when using technology.