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How E-learning Can Enhance Education

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.

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How E-learning Can Enhance Education

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  1. How E-learning Can Enhance Education

  2. 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...

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. Practical Examples • West Virginia: turning the campus into a computer lab • E-learning: the medical model • Co-authors in cyberspace

  8. 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.

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