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Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Scott, M.S. in Education, Integrating Technology into the Classroom

More than a decade passed before Scott, a University of California at Davis graduate, decided to return to school to pursue his master's degree. Why the long wait?

"It didn't exist back then," he says pointedly. The degree? The school? Both? Actually, Walden University, a virtual university that confers degrees wholly via distance education, has been around since 1970. But the Master of Science in Integrating Technology in the Classroom program is quite new.

Most of the programs Scott teaches to his seventh grade class had not even been invented yet. Indeed, the Internet itself was still coming into it's own back in 1992. Today, armed with his degree, Scott is on the cutting edge of a new movement in education.

"Educators are not known for being early-adopters," he says wryly. He recalls a time in the not-so-distant past when even e-mail was not embraced. "Teachers called the union to ask if they had to check e-mail."

Now it is universally accepted, he believes. He hopes the same will hold true for integrating technology in the classroom.

While it is gaining in popularity, he concedes, there aren't too many people doing it. "Powerpoint is pretty much the fanciest it gets." And, there aren't too many people teaching the teachers either.

"The education technology field is led by few," says Scott. To explain the dearth he reasons that, "those leading it are too busy to share and present. If you take the time to slow down to gather your ‘stuff' to present, then you are already becoming obsolete in the classroom."

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