September 1st, 2011 by Robin Green

If hurricane Irene taught us anything, it’s that preparation is key when it comes to dealing with potential disasters. Knowing what to do in a disaster, natural or otherwise, is knowledge we all should have.

How Can We Get Prepared?

If you want to learn the basics of Disaster Management, it can be achieved online with 15 to 40 credit hours of coursework. You can complete this within 6 to 12 months. You’ll obtain an online disaster management diploma that will document your skills in meeting the needs of those affected by disasters, disaster preparedness, public safety and hazard mitigation.

Disaster Management Can Be a Viable Career Option

Those looking to pursue a career in disaster management will need an undergraduate degree to obtain the skills necessary to seek employment at the local level, or perhaps even a more high-profile job with a federal agency like FEMA. Typical coursework will include introduction to emergency management, disasters and psychology and hazard mitigation in disaster management.

Other potential industries for disaster management specialists include hospitals, power generation and distribution companies, natural resource extraction companies, and community organizations like food banks and housing programs.

Employment of individuals with disaster management training is expected to rise by approximately 13 percent over the next decade. With climate becoming more and more unpredictable, it is important that we all do our part to understand what it means to be prepared for the worst.

E-Learning is the Best Option

There are many accredited e-learning programs that offer disaster management training. Whether you are personally interested in obtaining this knowledge, or are part of a corporation that wants to improve its skills when it comes to being prepared, there are options that can be pursued individually, or via an LMS platform. The worst may never happen, but common sense dictates that we know what to do if it does.

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October 14th, 2008 by Robin Green

The ability to assume anonymity online is ideal for cyberbullies. In the real world, bullies humiliate their victims face to face. Online, cyberbullies can create temporary email accounts and chat and IM pseudonyms. These identity-masking venues help to free cyberbullies from social restraints on behavior.

One problem is that electronic forums and the spaces for posting damaging learning content about a person exist unregulated, and free of supervision. Additionally, most teenagers have been exposed to more technological learning content and know more about computers and cell phones than their parents or guardians.

Some ways that victims can escape cyberbullying are changing email addresses and cell phone numbers, and logging out of chats where cyberbullying is taking place. On the other hand, once defamatory learning content is posted about a victim, there is little the victim can do.

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October 14th, 2008 by Robin Green

The explosion of social networking websites and programs has had both positive and negative effects. Perhaps the most widely discussed catch-22 is their power to bring people together online while, some argue, drifting people further apart from their relationships with those around them in real life. While great possibilities for online community-building and the sharing of learning content exist, alienating possibilities are also very real. One increasingly rampant phenomenon is cyberbullying.

According to the National Crime Prevention Council, cyberbullying is when technology is used “to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.” Cyberbullying takes many forms, including repeated and unwanted emails, humiliating learning content, threats, hate speech, unwanted sexual comments, or ganging up on victims by making them the subject of gossip or ridicule on online forums. Oftentimes, the posting of personal or degrading learning content does great damage to victims.

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October 14th, 2008 by Robin Green

But do these pros outweigh the cons? It’s debatable. There are many arguments against professor evaluation website learning content. One major con is that professors’ privacy is invaded. Of course, professors hold considerable power in the classroom. But outside, they don’t abuse that power by, say, writing about their students’ performances or personalities on websites, or posting their grades online.

Another con is that the website learning content isn’t necessarily true or accurate. Anyone can post learning content about a professor, pretending to be a student–from any grudge-holding acquaintance to those who have never even met the professor before.

On the RateMyProfessors.com, there’s also a link to “Professors on Facebook,” creating the opportunity for students to search for professors and increasing the potentiality for others to create fake accounts for professors and provide embarrassing learning content.

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October 14th, 2008 by Robin Green

Websites like RateMyProfessors.com, which provide learning content about over a million professors, have many pros. One is obvious: students are able to access learning content about professors and their style of teaching. In doing so they have a better idea of what they’re getting into before registering for a class.

Another is the anonymity of the rating system; student evaluation sheets are often hand-written so that the possibility of professors identifying the evaluator is greater. Online, students can be more honest.

Additionally, one might argue that sites like this put pressure on professors to improve their teaching and quality of learning content. Even though some professors may not care too much about the feedback on these sites, some do, and most people would rather not have negative reports of them publicly posted.

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October 13th, 2008 by Robin Green

Besides professor evaluation forms, students have online opportunities to rate their teachers’ style and success at delivering learning content. On RateMyProfessors.com, students can join a conversation or begin their own thread about a favorite or loathed teacher. Stumbling upon this website one day, I punched in my most adored professor’s name and was shocked to find, among the praises of her, some horribly offensive entries. One went so far as to call her “soulless” and “an abomination.” Many writers didn’t even mention the learning content of the class, but went straight for the most personal attacks.

Though websites like this are certainly helpful to students deciding on which courses to take, they are an enormous invasion of professors’ privacy. Should the learning content be censored or limited in some way? What do you think?

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October 13th, 2008 by Robin Green

So how can higher education systems work to create better teaching of meaningful learning content? The system’s status quo is so entrenched, it’s going to take a variety of different efforts to effect change. One way in which higher education learning content can be enriched and developed is to concentrate on students’ future career contexts. Professors should consider what students will actually be able to do when they have their degrees and step out into the job market.

Another solution is to open more dialogue between students and professors, concerning learning content as well as its format and delivery in a course. At the end of each semester, students fill out faculty evaluation sheets. But what happens as a result of this feedback varies from school to school. In some, these evaluations are merely a gesture, while in others, teacher performance is closely scrutinized.

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October 10th, 2008 by Robin Green

Every election year, a large portion of the nation’s people remain uneducated about the issues and where politicians stand on those issues. Some people simply don’t care about politics. But for the rest, it’s often difficult to find reliable political learning content.

During election time, what’s a good source of learning content about politicians and their platforms? On TV, increasingly as the election draws near, channels swarm with political ads providing information about candidates. But like all advertisements, the information provided is often misleading or even false. Smear campaigns highlight mistakes politicians have made in the past or blow minor events out of proportion. They often use fear tactics to convince the public that something terrible will happen if the other candidate is elected.

Rather than tune in to the television for political learning content, trusted newspapers might be a better alternative.

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