Title: What is E-Learning? Advantages & Disadvantages
1What is E-Learning?
Advantages Disadvantages
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- Boredom and Solitude are the enemies of all
learning methods, but even more for e-Learning.
Lieve Weymeis
2The Word E-Learning
- If you dissect the word into two e and
learning - Learning simply depicts to acquire new skills
to enhance knowledge. For learning, we usually
send our children to schools colleges, right? - When the prefix e is added to it, the boundary
of learning goes global, which means, your
children are no longer bound by the 4 walls of
the classroom. They can acquire knowledge from
anywhere and at any time by getting connected via
the internet edTech tools. - Thus, e-learning removes the barriers of
distance, time, and location from education.
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3Where my reason, imagination or interest were
not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Winston Churchill
The Difference E-Learning Vs Traditional Learning
- On Virtual Platforms
- Independent, self-directed and self-paced
learning - Flexible
- Economical
- Needs Classroom
- Peer-pressured and teacher-driven learning
- Fixed
- Costly
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4How To Get Started with E-Learning?
- Kids just need an efficient edTech tool which
could be a web or mobile-based app, to continue
their studies via e-learning platform!
5E-Learning Helps Teachers in
- Analyze Design Teachers can analyze and design
curriculum as per the requirements of students.
Also can emphasize on syllabus which would
improve the student's learning outcomes. - Plan Schedule With E-learning platform faculty
has the provision of uploading the lecture-wise
teaching plan. It would ensure completing the
curriculum on time. - Arrange Teachers can decide the time date of
online classes or teaching sessions and
coordinate with other faculty members then come
up with a timetable that would suit the best.
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6E-Learning Helps Teachers in
- Sharing E-Content Teachers can share video
lessons, e-notes, and study materials online in
various formats such as doc, audio, and PDFs. - Monitor Evaluate Teachers can track student
attendance and evaluate them for further
assessment process. - Online Exams With e-learning software,
institutes can arrange conduct online exams.
Also, easily tabulate display the results
online. - In a nutshell - You dont need to panic about
your kids future! -
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8Advantages of e-Learning
- Flexible
- Unlimited access to course content
- Content can be easily updated
- Scalable
- Self-paced learning
- Saves time and money commute, infrastructure,
course material, etc. - Eco-friendly
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9Disadvantages of E-Learning
- Impersonal - absence of face-to-face interaction
and human contact - Requires tremendous self-discipline
- Inadequate feedback from students
- Teamwork and collaboration less evident
- Could lead to plagiarism and use of unfair
practices - Over-dependence on technology/internet
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10Common e-Learning Software
- Authoring Tools Create and Publish Multimedia
Course Content - Learning Management Systems Track learner
progress and performance - Content Management Systems Track and Manage
Content - Learning Content Management Systems A
combination of LMS and CMS - Programming Languages Create basic course
content with HTML. Elements such as Flash and
Javascript need to be added to make the course
interactive.
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11Choosing e-Learning Software? Answer these
questions first
- What are the learning objectives and needs of
your institution? - What features would help you the most in
achieving these objectives? - How techno-savvy are your faculty and students?
- Is the software easily scalable?
- Can the features and content be easily upgraded?
- Will you need technical support to implement and
maintain the software?
See the next slides for some possible answers
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12Some possible answers!I may need
- What are the learning objectives and needs of
your institution? - Ans A blend of online assessments and video
presentations OR more conversational course
content OR to share resources in all formats. - What features would help you the most in
achieving these objectives? - Ans Software that allows me to share resources,
send emails, prepare PPTs, work in real time/work
offline - How techno-savvy are your faculty and students?
- Ans Nothing too complex. My students are
techno-savvy, but some of the senior teachers are
averse to technology.
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13Some possible answers!I may need
- Is the software easily scalable?
- Ans To accommodate 20 more students next year.
- Can the features and content be easily upgraded?
- Ans To incorporate some more topics in social
science next year, and add some descriptive
online assessments to the computer-based
summative assessments. - Will you need technical support to implement and
maintain the software? - Ans A software technician on call, if there is a
hitch.
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