About me - Eduardo M. Peirano

I am a Chemical Engineer. I was working at a Wheat Flour Mill. I was laid off. I couldn't find a job at another flour mill.

I had intenet at home. I wrote the Baking Bread Field Trip for Tramline

I learned to create HTML web sites and I soon learned that I could use the internet and a web forum to teach online courses.

At that time I was interested on environmental issues. I published the Revista Ambiental Digital. I also created the Online Environmental Impact Assessment Course. I only used for that course resources available online. It was then, 1999.

Later I was a Florida Virtual College Faculty . I authored the Distance Learning Courses "Ciencias del Ambiente" y "Evaluación Ambiental" for the Florida Virtual College Business degree programs.

I soon learned that my independent environmental course needed more online promotion so I created the Online Courses Newsletter to promote my own course and also feature other online courses.

The Newsletter became VERY popular. At one time it had 20,000 subscribers. I was not earning enough money, though.

Later I learned that promoting ForProfit Online Universities was, at that time, an easy way to earn money. Now it is a very competitive market.

I work promoting Regionally Accredited Colleges and Universities offering Online Degree Programs for Adults

Since 1999, the internet has become more social, useful and fun for online teaching, learning and networking. I am very interested in Web 2.0 apps. and PLE (personal learning environment) for teaching and learning.

I have the Onlinesapiens Blog, and I created the College 2.0 community to feature online learning and network with Higher Education Faculty teaching online courses. Both give me the knowledge, background and connections with online teachers worldwide.

I created also the Returning to College blog and the Return to College Forum to help moms and working adults to return to college to earn a college degree.

1- My work was cited by:

- Natalija Vugdelija and Katarina Milanovic', FOLKSONOMIJA U NASTAVI , INFOTEH-JAHORINA Vol. 8, Ref. E-II-10, p. 507-510, March 2009.

- Britt Watwood, Instructional Uses of Social Bookmarking, Journal of Social Informatics, No 8 / December 2007

- Center for Teaching Excellence - VCU, White Paper on Online Teaching and Learning, Building from Content to Community: [Re]Thinking the Transition to Online Teaching and Learning

2- My Online Presentations:

Selling_E-learning: at the April 2009 Learntrends Conversations, Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation