I think that schools and universities don’t value online teaching and tutoring options too well.

Business though had already discovered its assets much sooner than schools had. They’ve offered a hands-on package that could be downloaded within minutes and bring people together in both private and professional settings. The inventors of Skype in Estonia released their first version in 2003 and have invented a unique way of letting anyone with Internet talk to each other on a global scale. Using online tools to teach Skype is not only like a free phone that also offers video images of your beloved ones abroad, but moreover it offers great options for education. But mind you, not in using it in education though. Only when a friend of mine showed me how he skyped with his friend in Tokyo a year later I finally became more like a follower.

I was happy for him that he could contact his far-away friends for free, but somehow I didn’t realize at that time that this new ’thing’ on the computer was so revolutionary and that this man originally from Afghanistan was an early adopter and a real trendsetter.

About nine years ago I met an Afghan immigrant in Utrecht, the Netherlands and he told me about free daily chats with his family and friends in Kabul. But that’s only the case since a few years. Most of us are familiar with Skype or have at least heard about it.

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