Teachers who develop e-learning courses find that creating online courses usually takes more time than creating for face-to-face courses. This is so because online work needs to be understood on its own. It is not always possible for the presence of a teacher in online courses so the design of the course should be strong enough to stand on its own.
Many times it is easier to create an online course from scratch than to modify an existing course since modifications that need to be done are usually extensive.
In relation to the students, those who usually are dedicated to face-to-face courses are also dedicated to logging to online courses and following them. On the other hand students who do not display such dedication for normal face-to-face course, neither do they display such dedication to online courses. (de Vega, McAnally-Salas, & Lavigne, 2009)
Reference
de Vega, C. A., McAnally-Salas, L., & Lavigne, G. (2009). Attitudes and Perceptions of Students in a Systems Engineering E-Learning Course. Acta Didactica Napocensia , 95-110.
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This is a very interesting subject open for research. It seems that there are mixed feelings about whether students learn more from the use of e-learning. Some research shows that students do learn more from e- learning (Bates, 2007; The Learning Guild, 2006; Friesen, 2004. However, others,like the research mentioned by Mary Grace seems to indicate the contrary. In my opinion those students that they have no internal motivation to learn will also find it difficult to embark on e-learning. Nonetheless, it may be that perhaps they will be motivated to at least blog with their friends. A future research may try to investigate whether e-learning works with students that do not show dedication to face-to-face courses in order to determine whether e-learning will make any difference.
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1) Bates, T. (2007), Review of European Research on E- Learning, Journal of Education Vol 6 Issue 35 pp. 220-236
2) Report by the Learning Guild (2006) available online http://www.elearningGuild.com
3) Friesen, N. (2004), A gentle introduction to technical e-learning standards, Canadian Journal of E learning and Technology
The following link is an article on show teachers and educators should use online gaming approach and how we can improve our pedagogy. In my opinion to implement the recommendations of this report we should have substantial amount of time to invest in research!
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Is e-learning worth my time?
ReplyDeletee-Learning requires investment of time and effort in developing new skills, new approaches, and new resources: perhaps time and effort that would otherwise be spent on research. However, you can save
time and effort in the long term. For example, you may create banks of flexible resources that can be reused, you may design learning activities that can be redeployed, or you may produce Computer Assisted Assessment that will allow you to cope with increasing student numbers with no increase in marking time. The key to improving the effectiveness and quality of student learning and making it worthwhile is to replace existing traditional modes of teaching with more active and engaging learning opportunities, delivered where appropriate by e-learning.
Interesting extract but it is very unlikely that management will see e-learning as a benefit thus giving us lectures time to develop our material.
Furthermore to our present situation with regards to B-tech examination I cannot understand why we do not take MICROSOFT’s and CISCO’s approach for grading but keeping inventing the wheel every time examination period arrives. Moreover if we take Microsoft and CISCO approach it will lead us to better quality assurance on examination.
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