10/9/2010 Online Education

Online Education

Online education takes learning to a new level adding communication between a student and teacher after school making the experience of learning flow better as well as a universal place to put information instead of on paper, which can be lost much easily over data that can be backed-up.

Advantages Of Online Education

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  The use of simulations can help make the experience of learning more practical and hands on. These are often particular sites specialising in a certain subject giving in depth information.
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  These help students keep on top of their homework making the deadlines much clearer. This will have stop misunderstandings and can help make the students much more organised. This has a very good effect on multiple areas of school life.
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  Homework can be sent electronically to teachers helping students to keep to deadlines and saves money on paper, and can easily sen the work back for a redraft, corrections and general exam help/studying for a later date.
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  Lots of different features such as calenders, documents, contacts, messages, today, portfolio, and they help to organise the student and to give contact between students and teacher and give updates for suture lessons.

Disadvantages

• The students would have to be able to have access to the Internet freely from day to day to be able to use the Virtual Learning Environment, as not all people have this access from within their own home. But this is becoming less of a problem as more people are connecting to the Internet via computers and phones and Ipads etc.
• As the program is on the Internet and servers would take up space to store data on different students, subjects admins and teachers, there would be a fee to be able to use the domain space for the use of the school. But, this is significantly smaller when divided by the amount of students in the school, meaning that the split cost would actually be quite small considering.
• Students can't run away from homework (Unfortunately).

Fronter

The general layout of Fronter

Fronter is the type of VLE that is run by the school for homework, and other useful task involving the school directly. This Directly makes the student know exactly what they are looking for each students is added to the folders , which they particularly need for their courses instead of looking through many different courses, exam boards and levels. Feedback directly from the teacher is available from the site making it much more realistic and helps students excel with comments and grades from their teachers making self student much more efficient and helps improve the grades of the students. With a system, which is easy to use, it makes the site easier to navigate and improves the experience much more smoothly.

BBC Bitesize

The general layout of BBC Bitesize

BBC Bitesize is a revision site used before exams to look over lots of different subjects for the students exams, helping to improve their grades. The website is quite large and has all the different levels in the British curriculum, so finding the right courses could be hard. As there are different exam boards, the student would also have to know what exam board they are going to take and revise for the right one, as the courses normally vary a bit. As the websites is used normally as a way for revision, the topics aren't often heavy and very good for looking over materials. The websites has; lessons, images, videos, audio games and tests; making the experience of learning alround.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/323272.stm