I wrote a letter to selected friends on my email list, inviting them to consider joining the Friends4Peace Network (see http://friends4peace.thinsan.com ) and emphasizing that gratefulness, or gratitude, elicits positiviteness and progress among people. Let me share the letter here again.

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A Theory of Critical Inquiry in Online Distance Education
By Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T. and Archer, W. (2003) in Moore, M. G. and Anderson W. G. (Eds). Handbook of Distance Education, London: LEA

Garrison, et. al (2003) do a good job in putting online learning in context. Many may still use distance education and online learning or e-learning interchangeably, but I think the distinction is useful in helping us see the development of this "subfield" of distance education in which technologies have played a big part.

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Trying to answer the question what we need to live for, I found an old file in which I wrote some personal reflections in a rather self-promoting because I was writing about myself following a nomination of me as a John Edwards Fellowship candidate. We are what we are and will be for some historical, sociopolitical and psychological reasons, I guess. [Read More!]

I often wonder why human beings have to be born?
What do we live our lives for? God? A next, better life? Or just to make the most of the time we have for this life?

I do not know much about things beyond this life, but
I believe in pursuing a great cause.



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