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Hi everyone.  Ok, so I am currently (May-June 2013) in an online graduate course, on emerging trends in education and distance learning, and enjoyed this week’s lecture notes and required readings.  I just posted this to our “discussion board,” and thought I could share it with you, my dear visitors!  Here’s what I learned today! Learning is a good thing, I say!  Here I sit, in my classroom, reading our assigned lecture materials, and I’m happy to report that my mind is engaged and I’m learning.  I know this may seem funny, but as some of you know, after plenty of grad work, one can often feel “Tell me something I don’t already know…”  How refreshing it is to learn new content.  I would like to first share how I enjoyed learning about theories that I don’t think I learned about in college; those of industrial sociology, Fordism, Post-Fordism, and the industrialization in education. Something peculiar though, I thought, is how Instructor Skipwith...