A TEACHER

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A TEACHERS PERCEPTION of WHAT THE STUDENTS
APPRECIATION WOULD BE
ON
Electronic Media Intervening in the learning
Process
S. ARAVAMUDHAN
NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY SHILLONG
WORK SHOP ON E-LEARNING WITH FOCUS ON EDUCATIONAL
INTERNET DOMAINS
MARCH 18-19, 2009
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How does changing the mode of Learning
from Traditional to E-Learning,
bring about an attitudinal change?
When, generating and recognizing the
documented information (in terms of the familiar
alphanumeric) has not become too different, then,
why does the E-Learning require such a emphasis
for changing over to this mode of learning?
Basically, the Writing of Numbers and Alphabets
of Scripts manually is familiarly by line
drawing. Straight lines and bending lines with
curvatures, can be practiced and the big and
small variations can become usual by exposure.
The electronic media reproduces these
alphanumeric characters only as these appear to
people by manual writing. But, the traditional
manual writing is not the way by which the
electronic media produce these similar looking
characters. In this connection the closest
resemblance to traditional ways is the key-in
operation from the key-board peripheral the
alphanumeric characters to appear on the
displaying peripheral as in mechanical
typewriters. Electronic type writers are not
computer peripherals. Using electronic type
writers can be part of e-learning?
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Conventional learning materials
E- learning materials
Handwriting and Typing
Input from keyboard Peripheral
Script written in words
Coded STORED
Storage Memory
e-books e-Notebooks PAINT-applicati
on Pencil, Brush, eraser
Books writing pads
Decoded for Visual Display
Drawn and Depicted
Monitoring- peripheral
Viewed on paper
Projected on Screen
PRINTERS Desk Top Printing
PRESS
Printing
COMPUTERS and Associated Multimedia features
Conversion
Click to transit..
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NOT only that the FORM in which the information
is available for study is similar, but also, the
contents of the subject matter to be learnt is
something independent of what the mode of
learning is.
How can Desk Top Printing D.T.P. make a person
learn the subject matter better than the
materials Printed from conventional PRESS of the
earlier days?
Here is an essential difference the mode of
Printing may not be much important if a
singular (particular) persons progress is
concerned. It is a question of making the reading
materials available to many and the materials
reach out to more number of people than by the
conventional methods. Thus the average awareness
of the public is improved on a subject matter of
concern, which brings an betterment of all. Thus
it is a question of the quality of reach to
people than the improvement in the quality of the
required few copies or only one.
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Carbon X-Coord Y-Coord
1.000 -1.212 0.700
2.000 -1.212 -0.700
3.000 0.000 -1.400
4.000 1.212 -0.700
5.000 1.212 0.700
6.000 0.000 1.400
7.000 -1.212 0.700
Hydrogen BL C-H
1.000 -2.078 1.200 1.000
2.000 -2.078 -1.200 1.000
3.000 0.000 -2.400 1.000
4.000 2.078 -1.200 1.000
5.000 2.078 1.200 1.000
6.000 0.000 2.400 1.000

BL12 1.400 BA1 120.000
BL23 1.400 BA2 120.000
BL34 1.400 BA3 120.000
BL45 1.400 BA4 120.000
BL56 1.400 BA5 120.000
BL61 1.400 BA6 120.000
Can the presentation be made better by
traditional drawing and Tabulation?
How many such drawings can be made and how much
of Data Can be tabulated by conventional ways as
compared to the USE of E-learning tools?
This MS PowerPoint file has been made by copying
the graph and data from the Excel file used for
calculating the geometrical parameters listed out
and Plotting.
HOW COULD THIS PRESENTATION SLIDE BEEN MADE? HOW
ARE THESE MATERIALS MADE TO BE CONFORMING TO THIS
FORM?
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Then is the question of Quality and Quantity
On such of those occasions when E-Learning tools
are preferred over the conventional tools, is
there any reason for a compromise on the quality
dispensed to individuals because the supply to
many is possible and circulation and reach to
people becomes more?
The claims could be that each individual gets a
better reproduced material, and such improved,
individual reach is to many more individuals than
by the conventional tools. This is some time
described as the win-win case
If the E-learning methods are economical, reaches
out to many more and hence the production can
require less number of people to be in such
preoccupation because of the quick and efficient
reproducibility, then does this become a cause
for unemployment?
These questions and trying to find answer to them
would be the preoccupation for E-Learning
Technology, or Information Technology and does
not come under the purview of those who want to
pursue there subject matter of study.
STUDENTS whose interest is to study a subject,
will definitely be benefitted but what is being
raised in this slide is not their concern. They
must look for affordable means of securing well
reproduced reading materials.
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Having Considered the Quantity Quality
perspective of the E-Learning methodology, What
are the ways of improving on the E-learning
material forms which still require the
conventional ways of Distribution, Sale and
Circulation?
ONE of the important aspect is all these
E-Learning efforts require Computers and
Peripherals. From the point of view of a School
going Student, carrying a book to learn Alphabets
is not difficult, but carrying a computer with
him containing these materials in E-FORM would be
making a Mountain of a Mole Hill?
Can we make a beginning of the teaching of
computer as subject in school?... College.or
University?
All the above consideration of quality and
quantity reasonably calls for the development of
network of computers and the INTERNET in the mist
general sense has become a inevitable medium in
the learning process. Use of internet has given
rise to the terms relevantly the DOMAINS, and the
domains concerned in academic institutions are
the Educational domains and such domains get the
consideration as to cater to the students and
Instructors.
As the capability of the E-learning techniques
build up, the accessibility and assessing the
data become extendable to several times more and
along with computation gives rise to the subject
of INFORMATICS and it is very well in place to
mention the birth of a subject of study called
the BIOINFORMATICS
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Time for Queries and Comments
Thank You for your attention