e-learning has been emerging for more than a decade and has caught up with the market. There are lot of e-learning content providers out in the online space claiming to be better than the other.
What is e-learning?
“E-learning is essentially the computer and network enabled transfer of skills and knowledge. E-learning applications and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and digital collaboration. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and CD-ROM. It can be self paced or instructor led and includes media in the form of text, image, animation, streaming video and audio. ” – source wikipedia
What is missing in the e-learning environment is the interaction between the learners and the teachers, which is of paramount importance. Though there are lot of online collaborative tools they have not caught up to the learning environment except for online tutoring services.
Social learning
Platform supporting peer to peer learning, where students for across the globe can participate in collaborative learning and research projects. Facebook, twitter and virtual meeting application be embraced by the educators to provide educational anywhere @ anytime.
Need for social learning has been growing and soon enough classrooms will span beyond country borders.
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This is way more helfpul than anything else I’ve looked at.
The Rapid E-Learning Blog recently ofefred a model of pull learning as formal learning in which the learner is presented with a reason to use content (learning objectives posed as performance challenges), ofefred a variety of content resources to apply to the challenge, and assessed as they use each chunk of content. I’ve designed and developed these sorts of elearning applications before, typically scenario-based, but they fail in one basic way, and the failure is not instructional in nature. Although this architecture is pull learning, in that the learner is choosing what sequence to use in interacting with the content, it is most definitely not scalable learning. To make it scalable, pull learning must be designed for co-creation and informal learning.
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