【正文】 and the ability to collaborate” (Friedman, 2020). Social media tools can be used to teach students how to collaborate and work with others. Many schools have lists describing the goals of general education. These lists include critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, ability to municate, understanding the importance of cultural diversity, ability to make ethical judgments, appreciation of the fine arts, encouragement of lifelong learning, and more. Few lists include the ability to work productively with others. Collaboration is of great importance in almost every enterprise. Very few occupations allow individuals to work alone without input from others. CREATIVITY. Pink (2020: 3) obser。 or even a virtual world like SecondLife. COLLABORATION. Learning how to municate and work with others should also be a goal of education (Robinson, 2020). The three skills students must have in order to succeed in the knowledge economy are: “the ability to do critical thinking and problem solving。 online social working。 a class wiki project。 some professors (., nontenured lecturers) teach large classes and earn about $100 per student while others (full professors teaching small seminar classes) earn more than $10,000 per student (Simon and Banchero, 2020). Like it or not, this is these performance metrics are being used by more and more colleges as public officials are demanding more productivity and accountability and are examining educational statistics such as graduation rates, retention rates, number of students that pass professional licensing exams (., CPA), median starting salaries of graduates, average student loan debt, and other such measures. Some states are insisting that these measures should be posted online so that the taxpayer should have a good idea as to the value of a college degree (Simon and Banchero 2020). It is apparent that academe will have to learn to be more productive. Education will have to learn from what retailers have done. Many retailers have moved from a brickandmortar approach to a clickandmortar approach. This means fewer buildings but an expanded presence on the Inter. Consumers can make purchases at stores and online. Thus, for example, WalMart sells products at many stores but also does a brisk business online. The publishing industry has also made changes to its business model. Ebooks may not totally replace paper books but panies that want to survive must offer both. College textbook publishers currently offer both types of books as well as a great 第 5 頁(yè) 共 8 頁(yè) deal of material using the web. Textbooks often e with a homework manager that enables students to do homework online and get immediate feedback. Banks have buildings but also provide service at thousands of ATMs throughout the world. Academics who define themselves solely as individuals who teach traditional classes in a facetoface (FTF) format are being very myopic. Academics are in the knowledge “business” whose job it is to provide information, mediate learning, and, more importantly, to enhance students’ ability to think and learn for themselves. The goal is to provide students with the tools and desire for lifelong learning, not only to impart information. The Chinese proverb – “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” – is especially true when it es to education. The true job of an educator is to provide students with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and the ability to acquire it. Some academics insist that the only way students can learn is via a traditional, facetoface classroom. This might be justifiable if studies demonstrated that traditional learning was superior to online learning. The evidence, however, does not support this view. Means et al. (2020) did a metaanalysis of more than 1,000 studies published from 1996 to 2020 paring online with traditional classroom teaching. What they found was that online learning does offer many advantages over traditional classroom learning. In fact, students who take courses that are either pletely or partially online will perform better than students taking traditional, facetoface courses. Interestingly, hybrid courses that bine classroom learning with online learning seem to be the best of all delivery methods. Means et al. (2020) conclude: Despite what appears to be strong support for online learning applications, the studies in this metaanalysis do not demonstrate that online learning is superior as a medium. In many of the studies showing an advantage for online learning, the online and classroom conditions differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the bination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages. At the same time, one should note that online learning is much more conducive to the expansion of learning time than is facetoface instruction. Diana G. Oblinger, president of Educause, made the following statement in response to the above study: Online education provides additional opportunities. It gives people greater opportunity for flexibility, for experiential learning, for illustrating things in multiple ways such as visualization. She emphasized that the study makes it quite obvious that colleges have to make sure to use online education and not insist on only offering courses using traditional, facetoface instruction (Jaschik 2020). Interestingly, a recent study found that when students were asked to rate their collegelevel learning experiences, those they considered the most valuable all took place outside of the traditional classroom: internships, studyabroad programs, senior thesis or other facultymentored resea