These days, he's devoting most of his time to putting the classroom into the computer. It's an industry driven by the insatiable demand for technical and corporate training, a lightning-fast rate of obsolescence and the growing awareness of how valuable education can be in a tight job market.
Online education is scalable.
Luskin draws on his years as an educator and psychologist to help those employers develop programs that are fast and effective. And, to make a program effective, you have to know more than your subject, he says. You have to know how to teach. For example, a telecom engineer may know Asynchronous Transfer Mode backward and forward but nothing about semiotics, semantics or synesthetics, three important concepts in education, Luskin says. Synesthetics is the link between a sensory experience and the emotions that are critical to learning.