Thursday, February 4, 2010

Poll of the week 3 : Who uses e-learning method the most?

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For this week poll result, there are a total number of 14 voters. Based on the above pie chart, it shows that majority of the respondents which is 64% voted "students" meanwhile 29% of the voters voted "lecturers". 7% of the respondents voted "others" while there is no one voted for "companies".

Based on our observation of the result, we find that most voters voted for "students" as their answer as the users use e-learning the most. They probably think that students use e-learning method often for downloading course materials online, doing their assignment online and so on. As we could see that most of the universities, colleges and even secondary school are using e-learning as one of the method to learn.
Not only that, students tend to reach and interact a lot with their classmates through e-mail or chatbox services. Students use e-learning method often because the best method for them to search for information which is informative, clear and convenient is through e-learning method.


Apart from that, 29% of the voters voted lecturers as their answer because they think that lecturers will upload notes online which will be given to students as their notes for them to study. It would be convenient and easy for lecturers to upload notes and task given through e-learning as lecturers do not need to waste time and money on "photostating" notes that will be distributed to students. Students might ignore the notes as they will claim the notes are troublesome to carry them anywhere. Not only that, lecturers use e-learning method to updates their notes and also use it to teach in a classroom as a teaching tool. Besides, 7% of the voters voted "others" as they probably think that people like parents will probably use e-learning as well to teach their kids at home. Well, anyone can use e-learning even 4 years old kids could use e-learning to study.

Last but not least, there is no one voted for "companies," this is because they probably think that companies do not really use e-learning that much as they tend to give formal letters to employees. They prefer to use black and white documents. Voters probably think that it is dangerous to store private and confidential information online regarding the company because they feel insecure as there are possibility for hackers to hack their system through online and access to their company's website or e-mail and copy the information or do some changes on the information.


Summary: Nowadays, we are all engaging to the use of technologies. Students use most e-learning mainly because they want to search for information online for their assignment references whereas lecturers use e-learning because it is one of the best way to create interactive way of teaching the students. Parents use e-learning to teach their kids and so on. So, anyone use e-learning but how often they use this method?


 
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