e-learing: the educational tool of the future
"Our schools face serious problems, including overcrowded classrooms, teacher incompetence and lack of security. Local education budgets hardly cover salaries, books and paper (Stoll 127)." He goes on to say that computers cannot solve any of these problems facing our school system. At least he was half right. Computers can be used to compensate for teacher incompetence, eliminate the need for most books and paper, and can reduce the cost of educating a growing number of students with a shrinking supply of teachers. Computers can be used to an even greater extent by teaming it with the Internet and using online education. Online education has the potential to be used as a tool to bring education to a whole new population of students and provide easy access for those already in school. In Stoll's book, he brings up an example of a teacher, Professor Maria Domoto, who teaches Japanese through an interactive video system to four different high schools (117). He continues to say that she cannot teach more than thirty at a time even with the interactive links because she loses the personal contact. The part that he forgets to mention is that she teaches to four different hi
National Academy of Sciences, The. "The Information Revolution Will Transform Education." Online education is already starting to boom in our country. Nationwide, 1.6 million students are already in online courses and online education is a 1.2 billion dollar industry (Curtin A-01). It is most definitely not a passing fad and will only continue to grow as time goes by and technology progresses. Online education will give access to higher education to a whole new population of people worldwide who would have not taken advantage of their intellectual abilities if not for online education. Online education is not the best way to learn, but it is the best possible way to learn under current conditions of teacher shortages and surpluses of students. Online education is not the complete answer to the educational problems of the world, but it can be used as a valuable tool to help the world educate its population. to do something and then the student is expected to be able to apply it in the real world. The only hands on experience a student receives is the occasional treat of a field trip or lab. In the case of learning through association, computers are largely superior to textbooks. With textbooks, you are fortunate if you get three to five graphs or pictures per chapter while with a computer you can get as many pictures, graphs and movies that you can handle. The potential for inte
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