Side by Side, Unconditionally
Posted on August 03, 2012
Last month, for the first time in 24 years, the iEARN Global Assembly hosted its annual leadership meeting completely virtually. Representatives from 24 countries across many time zones joined the three-day meeting both live and asynchronously, through a wiki and Blackboard Collaborate. Voting continued for three more weeks to give the opportunity to everyone to participate fully.
One may think that a pioneering community like iEARN would have held an all-virtual Assembly meeting before now. Like most successful international educational communities, however, iEARN is built on a foundation of in-person interaction. Read more >