Online Course in Educational Technology
EDTECH-01: Introduction to Online Teaching / Learning
Why are
we doing this?
We know that Online
teaching/Learning offers several educational advantages:
- It offers us a tool to
extend ourselves and our course beyond the limits of the
traditional classroom and the traditional textbook
- It makes information
retrieval easier. Furthermore, students have access to handouts
and class notes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Students prefer networked
computing as a way to learn. Several studies demonstrate students'
affinity for this technology. Furthermore, by interacting with the
course content, students become active learners.
- Networked computing
promotes critical thinking: students need to evaluate the validity
and the reliability of the information they find.
- Networked computing
provides students with a greater variety of resources and extends
the resources of the traditional classroom. It can function as a
library at our fingertips.
- Networked computing is
interactive and provides students with assessment feedback,
sometimes instantly, as they work through course materials.
- Students can review the
materials at any time. They can review what they feel is most
important to help themselves learn as often as they wish.
- Students develop valuable
computer literacy skills just by learning how to use the machine
and the software to access your materials. And since the vast
majority of any web page is text, students develop conventional
literacy skills as well.
- Networked computing offers
quick access to the latest news and data in just about any field.
- Networked computing allows
professors to model learning behaviors for their students:
students see their professors review, revise, and learn better
ways to express themselves just as students themselves are
learning to express ideas within a discipline.
It is
the right thing to do?
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