Sunday, March 1, 2009

Advantages, Limitations, Intergrations of online learning.

Online learning is not something new we have just expanded the concept in many ways. Online learning is different than classroom style instruction. The student becomes the teacher and motivator. As the student of online instruction we have to self motivate. Teachers give access to online tools and the students have to access them to complete the work and excel in the courses. Its more of a pull type learning environment. What that entails is the students have to pull the information out of the websites to access it rather than giving the students the information. Another advantage for online education is the amount of information and ways to use it and understand it. This would also be a limitation of online learning. The amount of web pages and tools that are out there, may become to much for some students to navigate. Also some information on the web is not necessarily the most reliable.

Online learning is not for every student. Teachers are looking for self motivated students that can do the work at home by themselves with the use of a computer and online tools. With this type of learning many students fall behind that lack the skills to self motivate. The more and more online learning is around it will soon become the norm and students and teachers alike will use it as a successful tool to complete there agendas.
Online learning has many rules about it. There is copywrite rules students can easily cut and past papers viewed on the internet that are not there own work.

Where doing a good job of integrating online learning. I know colleges rely on online classes to recruit new students that don't have the time for on campus classes. I think the responsibility of integration of online learning is both the students and the teachers. Students are needed to use this way of educating to learn just like being in the classroom, and teachers should be required to continually use the new and improved web tools to educate. I think the newest tech is all online high schools, they are strickly online.

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