Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 52, 2008

Teaching Philosophy

Piotr Boltuc
Pages 11-16

Online Philosophy
A Teaching Opportunity

The trend to engage in online education becomes global allowing for truly international courses and degrees taught by faculty and attended by students from various universities, countries and continents. The traditional worries about quality of online education, and its applicability to the humanities, are the song of the past. Yet, philosophers are reluctant to join online education. This presents a danger to the professions since many potential philosophy classes will be delivered online in other related disciplines. Instead of lamenting the situation I present some achievements in online learning of the University of Illinois at Springfield.