Social Work and Online Education with All Deliberate Speed

Abstract

Imagine a whiteboard, virtual classrooms, instant messaging, chat rooms, Wikis … and you are visualizing online Web-facilitated education. Is this the direction of social work education or is this a vision of social work that is not quite in focus? In this article the author asserts that online education with its technological innovations is here to stay and that the technological advances are increasing and becoming a driving force in higher education. This force is transforming teaching and learning. To what extent is social work involved in this 21st century transformation and is it enough?

Keywords:

• Technology
• Internet
• technology integration
• the Web
• technology resistance
• online
• virtual
• distance learning