My distance education can be traced back to school of rock programs on the three channels we had at home. I can still recall the pliers we used to change the TV channels and boy that was challenging to say the least. We had no remote control for the television until a few years later we purchase a VHS recorder and let me tell you another world open up to us as VHS tapes was the latest and greatest in technology.
For those students who do not know what school of rock is let me explain,it was a television program every Saturday morning with catchy songs. I learned multiplication, sentence structure, the constitution and an array of other subjects.The characters in School of Rock where cartoonist in nature but never the less very effect learning tool for most of us in the early 1980's.
I can still recall some of the songs from time to time. Just last week, I was signing one of the songs at the airport trying to be discrete about it and a stranger at the airport commented to me who much he like the the song in the late 1980's.I have very good memories of the school of rock television program. I have provide a link below of school of rock video.
I currently do utilize YouTube more frequently than I like to admit but when I need to learn a new skill or program at a moment’s notice YouTube is what I use. Last semester, I learned in another M.Ed. class the massive open online courses (MOOC).I was perplexed on how students enrolled for these courses I can only assume but I think it was a few thousands within every course. The problem is the completion rate was much lower than the enrollment rate with every MOOC course.
School of rock link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDWewnfL7QU
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