VIRTUAL LEARNING

Task 2.3 good situations for e-learning?

As the question mark may indicate, I’m not sure how to answer this question!

I guess for learning a language e-learning is a very good possibility. You can write mails or other texts which are interesting in your eyes and look up all the vocabulary you don’t know. If you write mails you hopefully get responds and you see how native speakers use different words and terms. Additive you can make some grammar exercises or you can use the program which says the words, too know how to pronounce them correct.

Still it’s necessary to speak a language, but to start to learn a language e-learning is great!

Moreover I think you can learn to organise things pretty good by using different medias.

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Task 2.2 expectations of e-learning

It’s not so easy to answer this question for me, because I’ve very few experiences yet.

E-learning can’t substitute presence learning but it’s a good thing to enhance learning processes. First of all I guess it’s very useful for communicating with people who live in different towns or other countries. Other advantages are first the possibility to use e-learning when and wherever you want and second I think it’s a very interesting and motivating method for a lot of children (or people in general)!

Still I think the risk of misunderstandings during e-learning sessions  is much higher than during face-to-face learning situations.  A problem I see especially if you want to get information about a topic inside the web, is to find out which text is reliable and useful, because everybody is able to write one.

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Task 2.1 definition of e-learning

I was supposed to search for information about e-learning. Here a definition of e-learning which suits me the best till now. It is from the “European e-learning action plan” out of the book “e-learning, concepts and practice” written by Holmes and Gardner:

The use of new multimedia technologies and the internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating acess to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration.

I like this definition because in my eyes e-learning is a good additive possibility to face-to-face learning. Besides in this definition e-learning isn’t only implicated with a computer program. I agree in that point, there are many different ways to have an e-learning system. You can for example write mails, talk via skype or telephone, learn online together or use videocameras.

To be honest this definiton is extreamly wide, but I don’t have a clear definition in my head yet so it should be okay for the beginning.

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Just started

My name is Susanne. I’m a student of the University of Hamburg. I study education with the main focus on children with special needs and matehmatics.

I don’t know much about e-learning yet, but I hope that will change during my seminar “premisis of virtual learning”.

In my opinion it’s a very interesting topic and I’m willing to learn a lot about it.

 I had one seminar with the topic “media and blindness” and another one where we talked about computersystems especially for people who are visually impaired.

This site is not well organized, but I try to do this as soon as possible. Actually I need to do some other work before. I’m sorry!

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