The document discusses how the Internet is increasingly being used to deliver distance education. It allows students to learn at their own pace, access materials conveniently, and provides education for remote students. The Internet provides educational opportunities that would not otherwise be possible. It also discusses challenges like copyright, bandwidth limitations, and students taking responsibility for their own learning.
2. The Internet is increasingly being used for
the delivery of educational material and
distance education. Internet-based learning
allows students to learn at their own pace,
access the information at a time that is
convenient for them, and provides education
to remote students that otherwise would not
be able to travel to a classroom.
3. Tier 1: Backbone Networks and Internet Exchange Points
– is the essential framework that provides a worldwide
configuration of extremely high-bandwidth networks.
Tier 2: Regional Networks - operate backbones on a
smaller scale, in the United States typically within a state
or among adjacent states, connecting to one or more
national or international backbones.
Tier 3: Internet Service Providers - is perhaps the most
important component for distance educators. The
individual Internet service providers (ISPs) are connected
to regional networks and provide dial-up, or direct, high-
speed access to the Internet at the local level.
Tier 4: Organizational and Home Networks - are the local
area networks that interconnect computers within an
organization, such as a school, college, government
agency, or company, and provide Internet access to
individuals within those entities.
4. Students are able to participate from school,
home, office, or community locations,
asynchronous course components are
available 24 hours a day, at the learner’s
convenience, and are time-zone
independent.
Students are able to work at their own pace
and corporate training programs conducted
via the Internet can yield significant savings
in employee time and travel costs, and
training can be conducted on a “just in time”
basis.
5. A well organized online course will provide a
variety of learning experiences and can
accommodates any type of learning skills.
Students who become skilled at using
Internet resources, a factor that can improve
employment options upon graduation.
Learning materials are available across the
entire web.
6. Online courses may emphasize the
technology rather than the content and
learning opportunities, well-designed
Internet-based courses may be labor-
intensive to develop, requiring time and
personnel resources not available to many
instructors, instructors have difficulty
adjusting to the learner-centered model of
instruction and do little more than “shovel
“their teacher-centered, lecture-based
courses into an online format.
7. Copyright violations on course web pages
that are not password-protected sit in plain
sight for viewing by the rights holders and
their attorneys, computer bandwidth
limitations make it difficult to present
advanced technologies, such as streamed
video, multimedia, and memory-intensive
graphics, over the Web, and online courses
require students to take more responsibility
for their own learning, a task that some find
hard to accomplish.
8. Blogging - Web logging, or blogging, is a form of
online reporting and journaling that gives anyone
an opportunity to publish on the Internet.
Wikis - is an online writing space designed to be
created and edited by groups of persons.
Podcasting - derived from the Apple product
iPod and the term “broadcasting, “is the process
of recording and storing audio and/or video
content on the Internet for downloading and
playback using iPods, MP3 players, computers,
and other electronic gear that plays back audio
and/or video files.
9. E-Learning Adoption cycles is categorized into
four distinct cycles which are:
Cycle 1- Enhancements to traditional course
program configurations are examples are emails
web sources and powerpoints
Cycle 2- Course Management Systems- reflects
teacher centered instructional paradigm
Cycle- 3 Imported course objects involves
student understanding of the course materials
Cycle 4- New course configurations its purpose
is to take advantage of the power of technology
10. In conclusion technologies used for distance
education falls into two categories which
are:
Telecommunication technologies that
connect instructors to distant learners and
classroom technologies that record, present
and display instructional information.
Video and computer-base.d systems