Those Who Can, Teach

摘要

I never thought i'd be writing about the benefits of online education, although many librarians I admire have completed their LIS degrees online and many of the better graduate library schools have respected online programs. Online education itself has not converted me, however, but the educators who make it a vibrant forum for learning have-in this case, Steven L. MacCall, winner of the 2010 LJ Teaching Award. He and his colleagues at the SLIS at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa-where he is distance education coordinator-have embraced a less common model of online education, as LJ's John Berry points out in his article on MacCall in this issue (p. 24; the Teaching Award comes with $5000, un-derwitten by sponsor ProQuest).