Prüfungsblog

I continue with task 2 - my expectations from e-Learning.

I guess this is meant to be my expectations from e-Learning as a user. They match the advantages I see in e-Learning and I wil lcombine them here. The great thing about e-Learning - if it is done good - is that it is easy to handle, flexible to use concerning time, place and pace of the learner and using a variety of methods (podcasts, quizzes, slide-shows etc.)

Yet missing in the e-Learning setting is the personal contact. I could not imagine to do all my studies in a virtual university. I would miss the real-life talking and discussion (discussions on the web are not the same), drinking coffee and uncomfortable seats in the auditorium.

Tuesday was the first session of a circle-lecture/shared lecture or however it is called on the topic Media and Pedagogic. The first presentation was about the virtual campus of the University of Hamburg in Second Life. It was amazing to see what is possible in virtual settings and I believe it is a great chance for international lectures and discussions for example with people coming together from all over the world. Still I could not imagine it to be my only university. In my opinion too lonely.

Concluding e-Learning is a great addition to the class-room training (of course asm entioned before only if it is done good), but I do not think it will replace class-room training and real life discussions.

http://loveitorchangeit.com/seminars/summer2008/2008/04/08/task-2-what-is-elearning/

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