Poll of the week 9: With e-learning as a learning and teaching tool, who do you think benefits the most?

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Based on this week poll result, the question of this poll which is "With e-learning as learning and teaching tool, who do you think benefits the most?". During this week result none of the respondent think that it's e-learning as learning and teaching tools most benefits is for instructor, parents and others. Because currently most of the people who using e-learning which is students and teacher/lecturer.

Generally, in this result from this week all the respondents are agree with e-learning as learning and teaching tools is more benefits for students as in 8 respondents 100%. Why they said so ? It is because e-learning is more convenient for students to learn something such as extra information and it can widen their extra knowledge in their life. Besides that, e-learning can grab student's attention because it's just not a text and it also has some graphic or photos which are related to the information. They would not get bored studying as the learning is more interactive and interesting. Furthermore, it also can help some of the students get more interest on IT and improve their IT techniques as well.

Computer lab for kids

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Source: The Star newspaper, Computer lab for kids, 13th of March 2010

Nowadays, its common to have computer lab at school. We even have computer labs in kindergarden schools. Almost all of us have personal computer at home as it becomes one of our needs in life. Unfortunately, there are some could not afford to buy one.

According to the news article, Avilion Hotel Group has generously donated three brand new computers to the children of Pertubuhan Kanak-kanak Yatim dan Miskin in Port Dickson (Malaysia). The children now have their own computer lab. Sharing is caring. Besides donating the three brand new computers, Avilion Hotel Group also gives some money to them. The total money of RM 5,724 which was raised from the Christmas charity sale of teddy bears is given to the home by the representative of the Avilion Hotel Group which is the managing director, Andre Jean Siebert. The children is so happy to have this "mini computer lab". The smiles on their face are priceless.

The founder of home, Pastor Paul Jegathesan is overjoyed by the generosity of the Avilion Hotel Group. Pastor Paul expresses his gratitude and is thankful to the Group. He said that the hotel has been very supportive as for the past few years, the Group has been helping them a lot and there is no word that could express how they feel.

Not only that, Pastor Paul also said that the children that stays in the home were basically came from abusive background homes, losing their parents and so on. The children of Pertubuhan Kanak-kanak Yatim dan Miskin could not do this on their own as they need the government support as well as others to help the kids to live a new life. The three new computers will be used as a teaching and learning tool for the children. They will be useful for the children. The children could use the computers for the school projects purpose or to play educational games. Pastor Paul also said that the children need a volunteer computer teacher so that the children would at least have the basic knowledge about the computer skills. With the basic skills of the computer, the children could do their homework and projects with the use of the computers. The computers would be beneficial to the children as computing skills are necessary nowadays. Well, they could access to e-learning courses which are free too. There are a lot of free websites that provide good e-learning courses. The children could go for e-learning courses to improve and widen their knowledge.

In our opinion, sharing things together is a good deed not only in term of food, drinks and money but also in term of education. We share knowledge with each other to build up our education system in our country. If everyone is selfish, the world will not going to improve as everyone is living in their own life. Education is very important. It helps to upgrade the person's life and also the world.

The below short video clip is about how the World Wide Web (WWW) has changed the world. It also tells how much education has changed.


Video clip source: youtube, Learning and Motivation in the 21st Century [Online], Retrieved on Wednesday, 17th of March 2010
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GUx1Zx0w&feature=related

References:

- CHITRA S. NATHAN, thestar, Computer lab for kids [Online], Retrieved on Wednesday, 17th of March 2010,
URL: http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2010/3/13/central/5847524&sec=central

- youtube, Learning and Motivation in the 21st Century [Online], Retrieved on Wednesday, 17th of March 2010
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GUx1Zx0w&feature=related

The Features and Benefits of eLearning

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Today we are gonna to talk about the Features and Benefits of eLearning. This topic basically covers up the information about the functions and advantages of eLearning.

Features of eLearning

Learning is self-paced and gives lecturers and students an opportunity to speed up or slow down the process of using eLearning. Its is a self-directed functioning where it allows students to choose any content and learning tools to their different interests, needs and skill levels.

It also accommodates multiple learning styles by using a variety types of delivery methods for learners, it would be more effective to some learners. eLearning is designed to accommodates around the learners for its easy usage. It is learned that in eLearning, geographical barriers are being eliminated and opening up broader ways of education options to learners. 24 hours in 7 days accessibility of eLearning makes learners' schedule easy and allows a large number of people to get motivated on education.

eLearning offers the option of on-demand access whereby learners can learn and have a quicker access to eLearning whenever they like for education purpose or seek for sources. Learners also enable to save up some unnecessary cost of travel time and associated costs such as parking, fuel, vehicle maintenance and toll charges just to get to a bookstore or library to get sources and reading materials. Overall eLearning also be able to save up students cost and parents expenses for tuition fees, books and time. eLearning can save up time and associated costs, hence it is convenient and easy to access. It also enhance the communication and interaction process between students and lecturer throughout application provided by eLearning. It also draws upon hundreds of years of established pedagogical principles. It also attracts the most attention from major colleges and universities in the world for their most outcome online degrees, professional certificates and individual part time courses. Furthermore, it enhance learners' learning progression and computing skills.

Benefits of eLearning

There are many significant advantages lies beyond eLearning. It would be greater advantage for students to learn online. eLearning is convenient and portability as long there is a network connection. Online courses that uses eLearning are accessible based on our schedule and free time. Its is 24/7 accessibility with just few clicks. eLearning also does not require physical attendance. Besides that it is self-paced and organized which enable users to go not too slow or too fast using eLearning. Users also enable to absorb the sources and learning materials easier and comfortable due to its structure in eLearning is being organized. Users also are unbound by location and time as users can have 24/7 access and be able to study anywhere whenever there is a network connection.

Users also enable to read materials and seek for sources online and download them to be read later. Users and students also save up a large cost on associated costs. eLearning enables users to choose from a wide range of courses to meet their needs and wants such as degree courses, vocational, certified professional courses and diploma courses. Its flexibility. eLearning accommodates users' preference and needs whereby students are being centered. It is one of the option being offered in self-study online. Users also enable to skip over chapters on a reading material and focus on the particular chapter to study as eLearning enable users to find the chapter through clicks and not through flips of pages.

Do you know that eLearning is one of the act of high retention on education? It is learned that online learning enable users to draw to topics they like and enjoyed. Research shows that due to variety of delivery methods being offered in eLearning to reach different types of learners, retention is always better than studying traditional ways. eLearning creates greater collaborations, interactions and communications among students, users and lecturers. Users also enable to avoid face-to-face in order to earn skills and education (students avoid face-to-face lecturers). eLearning is just at users' fingertips with online learning and computing skills. eLearning requires computing skills and not physical skills.

Reference:

Worldwidelearn, eLearning Essentials [Online], Retrieved on Tuesday, 16th of March 2010

URL: http://www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/elearning-benefits.htm