It would be fair to say that Grainne Conole was an early adopter of new technologies. While completing her PhD in chemistry, Conole was using email at a time when her colleagues could not see the point - why not send a letter, they asked.
She had the same experience with the internet. Although attitudes have moved on since then, the professor of e-learning at the UK's Open University is still working at the cutting edge of technology.
She is experimenting with Google Wave - the application billed as the replacement for email - and has become a fan of mobile technologies for learning while many of us are still figuring out how to use all the functions on our cell phones.
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Source: University World News