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Disruptive Technology has been the game changer from education to business. A quick look at the past four decades shows this change:

1970's - Mainframe Computing
1980's - Desktop Personal Computer
1990's - Internet / WWW
2000's - Online Social Networking

In this Fora video, Clara Shih (creator of Faceconnector, the first business application on Facebook) presents The Facebook Era at the Association for Computing Machinery in August 2009.

The Facebook Era is a newly released book about how social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are ushering in a new era of business, relationships, and culture. Additionally, it discusses what companies need to do strategically and tactically to adapt and thrive in this new environment.

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Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are changing everything we thought we knew about sales, marketing, and product development -- and empowering companies with new tools, insights, and ability to transform customers into true partners and your most effective sales force yet.

Clara Shih provides a look into how business utilize Online Social Networking to enhance business practices. The question is how can educators utilize Online Social Networking to enhance education!

A recent analysis from The United States Department of Education on online learning shed light on some very interesting elements in online teaching and learning. First, teachers always have and will remain a critical element in the success of student learning whether classes are online, hybrid or face to face. Second, the findings released this July, "found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." To find out more of what was in the report, it is available on the MVU Web site .

Coutesey of MVUAbout MVU
MVU is a private, nonprofit Michigan corporation established in 1998 by the State of Michigan to serve as a champion for online learning. It is the parent organization of the Michigan Virtual School(TM) and Michigan LearnPort(R), an online learning portal that delivers professional development opportunities and more to the Michigan education community.)

Each day there are many, many resources made available for free on the Internet that can be a wonderful resource for students and faculty studying or teaching in specific fields. Below are just two such resources that contain a wealth of information that would be of particular interest to those in the History, Art, and Medical/Health Science fields.

The first resource comes from Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center. The center now has about 50 health education videos available on You Tube at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3D62BAE25BAAC108. Topics range from the Genetics of Autism to Acupuncture to Shoulder Surgery. The video below discusses a device designed to detect early stages of Alzheimer's Disease and is one example of the types of videos available.

The second resource is http://smarthistory.org, which is a website featuring art history multimedia resources that can supplement or replace art history textbooks. The site includes images, video, podcasts, and text to deliver content in an engaging way. This excellent website recently won the "Webby Award" for Best Education Website. Webby Awards are granted to exceptional websites by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Take advantage of the excellent educational resources available at just the click of a mouse!