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The list of benefits limited by your
imagination
| E-Learning promotes excellence in today’s online education. The following are just a few of the many benefits of what E-Learning can offer. |
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Learners appreciate the following of E-Learning |
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Instructors value the following strengths of E-Learning |
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Advantages of E-Learning experienced by instructional developers |
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Instructors value the following strengths of E-Learning |
| Learners appreciate the following qualities of eLearning : |
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E-Learning fosters interaction among students and instructors. Interaction stimulates understanding and the recall of information. |
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Accommodates different learning styles and fosters learning through a variety of activities that apply to different learning styles. |
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Fosters self-paced learning whereby students can learn at the rate they prefer. |
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Convenient for students to access any time, any place. |
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Reduces travel time and travel costs for students. |
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Encourages students to browse information through hyperlinks to sites on the worldwide Web and there by find information relevant to their personal situations. |
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Allows students to select learning materials, or to be directed to content that meets their level of knowledge, interest and what they need to know to perform more effectively in their particular activity. |
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Provides context sensitive help (Electronic performance support systems) to computer users and helps them complete tasks on-the-fly. |
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Develops knowledge of the Internet that will help learners throughout their careers. |
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Encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning and succeeding builds self-knowledge and self-confidence |
| Instructors value the following strengths of eLearning : |
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ELearning permits instructors to develop materials using the world-wide resources of the Web. |
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Allows instructors
to communicate information in a more engaging fashion
than in text-based distance education programs. ELearning
offers a wide-range of text, diagrams and images with
video and sound, including virtual reality technology
that in the future will improve the effectiveness of the
approach even further. |
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Convenient for instructors to access any time, any place. |
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Allows instructors to package essential information for all students to access. Instructors can then concentrate on high level activities. |
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Retains records of discussion and allows for later reference through the use of threaded discussion on bulletin boards. |
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Generates more personal gratification for instructors through quality student participation. |
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Reduces travel and accommodation costs associated with training programs. |
| Advantages of eLearning experienced by instructional developers include : |
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Developers can develop training, demonstrating, in very specific details, how to perform a task such as repairing equipment. |
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ELearning sets a
framework for standardized course delivery. |
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Facilitates modifying training and education materials, by using html. |
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Allows developers to design once and use the same module in several programs, by using ‘template-like’ learning objects. |
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Promotes the orderly layout of course materials, assignments and general administration through a Web site. |
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