Simply put - That's your problem. Most of us strive for a job where we manage our time and work towards fulfilling our responsabilities rather than the clock's.
If you cannot manage your own time then that is nothing to do with teleworking........
...it entirely depends on the question that was posed in the assignment...
"Evaluate and incorporate (and improve on in an OS model) code that you think can do the job"....is one skill that should be taught. But if the question was more along the lines of....
"produce some code based on the programming principals that we taught you".... then yeah they are wrong. Reguardless of who they reference it is wrong. Indeed there is an academic convention which diferentiates between references and 'inspirational' material.
The article asks about asychronous techologies, which are pretty widely available and you'll have alot of choice with both 'free' and commerical solutions. Problems will arise when you want to move to synchronous technologies.
I'm involved in delivering this kind of material (albiet in an enforced windows environment), and the largest problem for synchronous learning technologies is the bandwidth not anything else.
There are packages out their that allow multi-point audio and video crossplatform.
eg Collaborative Virtual Workspace - http://cvw.sourceforge.net/ (but there are others)
Unfortunately, this requires your students all to have access to a pretty speedy connection for it to work. Also when you get into the sharing of applications with 2+ people to work on (in terms of assignments) the networking just can't handle it.
Hope is at hand, if you are part of the academic world then the Internet 2 project is being build precisely to facilitate this kind of DL.
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Simply put - That's your problem. Most of us strive for a job where we manage our time and work towards fulfilling our responsabilities rather than the clock's.
If you cannot manage your own time then that is nothing to do with teleworking........
Also if you are going to a company that is directly or indirectly selling your services, try and see what the sales staff are like:
do they understand
- your role in the co.
- the time that a task will take,
- why you can 'add value' to services they offer
etc
If by talking to the sales staff you get any 'weird' answers then be prepared for weird stuff coming in from clients.......
...it entirely depends on the question that was posed in the assignment...
"Evaluate and incorporate (and improve on in an OS model) code that you think can do the job"....is one skill that should be taught. But if the question was more along the lines of....
"produce some code based on the programming principals that we taught you".... then yeah they are wrong. Reguardless of who they reference it is wrong. Indeed there is an academic convention which diferentiates between references and 'inspirational' material.
references - stuff you quoted
bibliography - suff yoou looked at...
The article asks about asychronous techologies, which are pretty widely available and you'll have alot of choice with both 'free' and commerical solutions. Problems will arise when you want to move to synchronous technologies. I'm involved in delivering this kind of material (albiet in an enforced windows environment), and the largest problem for synchronous learning technologies is the bandwidth not anything else. There are packages out their that allow multi-point audio and video crossplatform. eg Collaborative Virtual Workspace - http://cvw.sourceforge.net/ (but there are others) Unfortunately, this requires your students all to have access to a pretty speedy connection for it to work. Also when you get into the sharing of applications with 2+ people to work on (in terms of assignments) the networking just can't handle it. Hope is at hand, if you are part of the academic world then the Internet 2 project is being build precisely to facilitate this kind of DL.
There were a group called OpenSA which were distributing Apache with mod ASP as well as SSL PHP etc. Their URL doesn't seem to work anymore
http://www.opensa.org
but there is a mirror
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lcr299/opens a/