Elearning software solutions feature various benefits that allow different institutions and corporations to improve business processes and training initiatives. However, just like any technology-based solution, its implementation is far from easy and requires a certain amount of investment. One must be prepared to overcome the different challenges of electronic learning in order to optimally take advantage of its many opportunities.
The first step to accomplish this is to know these challenges of elearning software solutions, but what exactly are they? Over the years, experts have identified two common challenges that companies or organizations must overcome in order to successfully implement electronic learning in their systems and processes.
It Requires Substantial Investment in Time
One of the biggest and most common problems in using electronic learning courses is that it actually takes a long time to develop and maintain them. Many educators are surprised to realize that this revolutionary innovation tends to require more investment in time as compared to traditional learning courses. The two main reasons for this are the following:
First, Instructors have to restructure or redesign their courses to make suitable for online learning delivery. This takes a considerable amount of time on their part, especially if the original version was especially engineered to be effective for a traditional classroom setup. They have to do extra research and constantly review their course throughout the process just to make sure that it is compliant with technology-enabled learning standards. If he or she is not an expert on the matter, then more time is required to acquire the necessary knowledge to accomplish the restructuring successfully. This makes it necessary to provide future elearning instructors effective training courses on how to create elearning courses effectively so that they can work more efficiently. Read more...
The world has completely turned and the hinge was the internet. It has truly created so many opportunities for people and industries to develop in ways that were once unimaginable. One good example of such a development is the rise of elearning solutions. These tools are software or programs that help people who are too busy or pressed for time to learn online.
Elearning on its own has such a wide definition since it has also a very wide variety of applications. Elearning can also be spelled as e-learning and it was derived from the phrase “electronic learning.” It refers to different fields of technology based learning. Basically, with the help of the internet, not only is learning made more accessible and easier for a lot of people, it also helps speed up the learning process since the medium is made more animated, interactive, and illustrative with the use of the right technological know-how.
At the most basic level, elearning can simply be described or defined as learning with the help of electronic technology. Any one who wants to take advantage of this kind of system would do well to think about what specific type of TEL or technology enhanced learning would fit their needs? For example, offline software packages might be good for employee training or teaching a certain lesson (perhaps such as computer science) to students or employees. As another example, web based online elearning tools might be the best choice for long courses that people with full time jobs might want to try out. Read more...
Are elearning solutions effective in teaching the humanities? Could this mode of teaching where in the teacher is either far away or completely absent, be a complete experience of learning? How could students possibly learn much about art for instance?
What we can learn is limited by the ambit of our experiences and of the media that we are exposed to. Usually, the best media that creates a deep imprint on us is good Literature. However in order to appreciate good literature, we must in turn have already seen what we have read at work in our own lives, even for just a glimmer of this sight is enough and literature will awaken and deepen that glimmer of insight. But if we have not at all seen any part of ourselves or our lives in the text, then the text will never come to life. And this is applicable to teaching as well. What is taught in any humanities classroom, especially if these things have something to do with the profundity of human experience (I am speaking primarily of literature, philosophy, psychology and the arts) but such human profundity of insight can be seen in every humanities subject such as history or sociology. The difference will always be in the slanted use of discourse to achieve whatever power struggle the teachers wish to establish will only translate well if the students have some concrete idea of what is being taught. Otherwise, they will only be able to memorize facts, if they succeed in that at all since the context will always make the facts easier to remember.
The trouble is that elearning solutions cannot help but remove the teacher from the picture. After all, it is the essence of elearning to be fast, easy, and done at one’s own pace. With a full-time teacher, the pace will have to be managed and if the teacher is any good, he or she will continually challenge the students’ thinking.
Perhaps elearning can be used as say a primer for reading support and assessment. But without the full insight of a responding human person, there can be no recitation or no reaction paper written in an elearning class for the arts and letters. The practical applications of quick and accessible training are just incompatible with the image of the Arts and it will probably always be that way until the end of time.
With the humanities, the teacher must always be present. The equation is simple, take away the human, then there is no humanities left at all. Of course courses such as literature can still be taught by computers, but the student will not be able to feel feedback from his or her insights. After all, the essay and reaction, analysis reports are essential to these subjects. And no computer built today is yet able to even process such things. Elearning solutions will always be effective in the corporate arena. It should also be used in the sciences and in math primarily. And finally, it can only act as supplementary or support to the subjects of Humanities.
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The advanced eLearning solutions developed by eLecta Live consists of two parts – a web based Event Center and one or more virtual classrooms.
The web event center is a powerful web based applications accessible from your web browser that allows you to create Student and Moderator accounts, arrange meetings, schedule events, send email invitations. Each of your students/users has a personal calendar of events and personal folders for offline data exchange (for example homework, textbooks and etc.)
Individual attendance permissions can be assigned to each of your students and presenters.The session leaders and the participants join the live sessions either from their web browsers identifying with a username/password or from an email invitation. With the wide variety of valuable options that the Web event center offers you may control the students’ access and guarantee their privacy as well.
Along with the English language the Web Event Center is also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, French, Bulgarian, German, Polish, as more languages are on the way. Read more...
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