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Is this a factual statement or a rumoured fiction ?
It has been proved that taking students out of the class room and into an environment that they are more at ease can improve learning abilities.
With online educational tools on the rise, there may be factual statement to Learning having a permanent and more prominent future online.
With the introduction of e-books such Sony’s Wireless Reader and other digital new media tools such as the Apple Tablet, online learning portals and open-source management systems such as Blackboard, Online education seems to be the ideal future of ‘learning your bedroom’.
It is said that they key to learning online is to provide educational experiences that is tailor made to individual students and there needs. This can be done better individually catering to a student’s needs online through online learning specifications, than through a lecture hall or class room where the ratio of student to teacher is probably 3:1.
The classroom is literally taken online, where they may never be any need for a student to physically meet a teacher. With the use of e-Learning packages including tools such as Web-based video, there is no need to have any ‘face-to-face’ interaction so to speak. Even more appealing to students who probably work on their own time or study while working, the lectures can be pre-recorded, giving the option of playback at any point in time.
With lectures being online, you would have guess that submission of work would also be web-based, which it is.
So is this online medium of learning, more anti-social than socially creative?
There is also the blunt question posed, with the rapid growth of Online Learning, where will that put the future of University campuses?
Online Learning is also massively accelerated with the use of social networking sites, where students are now teaching students. Students are creating learning communities among themselves and sharing gained knowledge. Though it is evident that learning does not have to occur in the classroom, there is also an aware social necessity for learning to occur, where it is not an individual process, no matter how anti-social it may seem. Online Learning is continuing to become revolutionised, with the aid of new media tools and co-operative minds of students.
Online Learning may possibly be the death of traditional classroom learning, and the birth to creative independent learning.
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