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How E-learning Can Enhance Education
What is e-learning
• Convergence of Internet and learning on all levels
• Groups together education, training and structured information
• Covers wide set of applications and processes, e.g. CBE, WBE, etc...
How E-learning Can Affect Education: Student’s Perspective
• Learner controlled– Control over learning process
– Increase in retention rate
• Self paced– Students learn at their own timetable
– Focus on learner rather than instructor
• Uniformity of content– Reduces possibility of misinterpretations
How E-learning Can Affect Education: Student’s Perspective (Contd.)
• Customizable content– Courses developed based on individuals
weaknesses and strengths
• Content updated quickly– Important as knowledge changes frequently
• Anywhere, anytime, anyone– 24/7 concept
– Information availability upon need
How E-learning Can Affect Education: Student’s Perspective (Contd.)
• Substantial cost saving– Eliminates the expense and inconvenience of
getting students and instructors in a place
• Improved collaboration– More concentration on a topic because of small
class size
• Students with disabilities– Transportation barriers are eliminated– Promotes equality among learning, reducing
discrimination
How E-learning Can Affect Education: Teacher’s Perspective
• Instructors can develop materials using resources on www.
• They can communicate in a more engaging fashion – video, audio, virtual reality...
• Convenient to access any time, any place.• Reduces time to prepare materials.• Reduces travel and accommodation costs
associated with training programs.
Practical Examples
• West Virginia: turning the campus into a computer lab
• E-learning: the medical model• Co-authors in cyberspace
Conclusion
• Though in its earliest phase, holds extraordinary potential
• Enables education to occur in remote places at any time
• Promises strengthening the bond that connects students, instructors, academic communities and resources to support learning.