It looks like Aplia is now part of Cengage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplia

I agree with this quite a bit. If an online course is designed well it makes for a great teaching aid.

We used Aplia as a supplement for my micro and macro economics courses and it was great.
The site interacts really well with the user and enhances the learning experience.
http://www.aplia.com/economics/

However, other online courses I have taken have not been designed well.
Most of the bad ones I have seen have been supplement sites from the textbook publishers (mainly Pearson)
I had to use this awful online supplement for corporate finance.
http://myfinancelab.mathxl.com/login_finance.htm

I do believe online learning is the future of education.
But we also have a steep learning curve as far figuring out and implementing what works and what doesn't.
Its just going to take time and experience for elearning to become effective.

Mod this up. This sounds more like a personnel problem than a hardware/software problem. Get the right people into those vacant positions and let them make the decisions for you. Don't spend any money on hardware or software until those positions are filled.

This is a good explanation of why these loans are bad.

$30 Billion is enough financing for Huawei to corner any market that they choose. That gives them too much power.

While the Chinese may have embraced capitalism (in the wake of the demise of the USSR), they certainly don't believe in free market economics, and will use whatever means they can to control and manipulate the markets.

You can boo hoo the US governments corporate bail outs all you want. But the bail outs were never intended to grab and control market share.

It works differently because social networks offer their services for free. Telecoms get cash for their services and social networks ( mainly Facebook) get your personal data (instead of cash).

Aside from data caps, what other pitfalls are there to doing something like this? I know Comcast will let you upgrade your home account to a business account with a much larger cap.