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An Introduction to Online Learning – A Primer for Online Students
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“An Introduction to Online Learning – A Primer for Online Students” provides an orientation to students wishing to take online classes.
Distance education differs from traditional classroom instruction. Success ratios for online students increase when those students have an orientation or introduction to online learning. This book is intended for individuals with minimal computer experience wanting to take online classes.
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An Introduction to Online Learning – A Primer for Online Students
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Can Elearning Solutions Be Applied to The Study of Arts and Letters?
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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Electa Live- Advanced Elearning Solutions
Finally you have the chance to change your former and less- effective communication, collaboration and teaching approaches. Reach your students, colleagues and employees in a new, more optimized way. Engage the most qualified presenters, trainers and unlimited number of learners from all over the world. Get things done faster and better! Save your time and money… choose the smarter way!
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.
The typical Virtual Classroom includes a unique set of features which optimizes and makes your Live sessions a great experience. For example, on the Multiple shared whiteboards you can type text, draw, launch images and slides; there is a full digital tablet support for precise writing and drawing. You can give or deprive a write-access on the public boards to your students. All eLecta virtual classrooms are equipped with high – quality, full duplex voice over IP.
You can share and present to your attendees any kind of files online with the Presentation library. You can enhance your Live sessions with the high- quality Application/ Desktop sharing feature, as sharing your entire screen or just a single application. Share any web page with your participants with the synchronized Guided Web Tour tool.
Record your live sessions with the Session recorder for a quality control or archiving and publish the recordings to your website, or give individual playback permissions to your students.
The Snapshot tool allows you to copy a window, a screen area, or your entire desktop and paste the captured images on the whiteboard.
With the Breakout room you can create multiple subvirtual classrooms (i.e. Breakout rooms) on the fly, and split the attendees into smaller groups to collaborate independently.
With the Many-to-Many Video feature everyone in the virtual classroom can share his web cam, if given a permission by the Moderator. There is also and a Public chat and Private messaging available in each eLecta virtual classroom…
But these are only words…sign up and see the new possibilities and perspectives with your own eyes!
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