Hey friends,
Can anyone tell me about online education? What is it? Who does it? Why people do it? What kind of technology is used for online distance learning? Actually I want to do some courses by distance learning and I don’t have much idea. Please help me in this matter.
Thanks a lot!
"Distance learning" is using your computer, high speed internet connection and also a computer head set for verbal communication. One does not need to travel to class.
The training book is sent to the participant as a pdf file by e-mail.
During the training session, the Trainer's computer is "live" for everyone to see. Change a page on the Trainer's computer and the participants page changes also. The participant can also highlight anything on the Trainer's page at any time for everyone to see and discuss. One cannot do that in public seminar.
The computer headset with a microphone is used from verbal discussion. No long distance conference calls anymore.
Answers on in-class exercises are placed on the computer screen by each of the participants. Each has a computer pen with different colors and it is great but it is a bit like printing with the wrong hand though.
One could even switch computers for viewing in case a student wants to reflect, for example, a drawing for discussion.
Participants could come from anywhere in the world. It really doesn't matter. One could live in NY and take training from Los Vegas. The only disadvantage would be the time zone so maybe living in England and taking training from Chicago might
It
is going to be the way training is presented in the future but people are still timid on this method.
I hope this helps answering your question.