Online learning

Online learning

1. Online tutorials

   • websites provide text and images to help you learn about a topic.
     • Advantages:
       • student are kept engadged using ICT with multimedia
         • Materials can be avalible online, anytime, any place.
     • Disadvantages:
       • Students may miss out on social interaction of learning with other students.
         • A teacher is not avalible to explain if you do no understand.

2. Online assessments

   • Text or exams are completed on a computer and are sometimes instantly marked by the comuter.
     • Advantages:
       • Multiple choice questions can be instantly marked.
         • Teachers save time - they only mark verbal style questions.
     • Disadvantages:
       • Not all questions can be marked automatically.
         • If assessment systems are unavalible, there will be problems.

3. VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)

   • This is an online system which manages most aspects of teaching and learning using ICT.