Friday, November 5, 2010

Learning On-line

Everywhere we can see people studying online, by themselves, in their computers. But, is it as good as the presential class? Are you motivated in the same way? Well, I tink it depends on us. We can go to a classroom every single day but if we don't pay attention to the explanations, or we prefer to listen to music on an ipod while the class is running, what can we learn in that way? On the other hand, if we use to go online to check our homework, be sure we finish and hand-in those to the teacher, and study for the tests, surely we can get much more information than in the class with no attention.

For many people is better to study at the peace of their most comfortable place at home, in the most comfortable cloth they have.  For example, when I was working in Colombia, I was a teacher and I had to use a web plataform for online learning for my students, I also was controlling the whole application and instructing the rest of the teachers to use it in their classes, for being the computer science engineer of the same corporation.

It is hard to control it, and mostly, understand it as a teacher. Likewise, for some students those applications give hardships to the learning process; however, for some other students, those applications are the best tools they have to learn with no teachers surrounding them.  For children, this kind of applications can make easy the way they learn at home with their parents before and after go to school.

2 comments:

  1. I think that it depends which subject are you taking on-line because in my case I am taking some classes hybrid, half on-line it has been good, i have like it. Also, it requires more attention and organization by yourself to do homwworks and we have to know to handle our time for everything. On the other hand, I know some people who are taking math classes on-line and I said nooo wayyy, it is hard to do that, it is a kind of subject that you need real explications and attend classes to understand that. So it depends what kind of classes you want to take on-line.

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  2. I like the online learning.I also think that depends which subject you take,because sometimes you need some help from the teacher.

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