TeachOrTutor.com Presents: The Buzz

For decades now, each and every day of school has been boring, rote and repetitive. However, today the traditional school day has been radically altered. This is because there are numerous, viable learning alternatives available today. In order to decide which is best for you, it is important to look at both the advantages and disadvantages of each of these learning alternatives.

Correspondence Courses

Traditionally, the lesson materials for a correspondence course would arrive via the postal mail. Once the work is completed the student returns the work and then awaits the arrival of the next lesson. This process would then continues until all of the required lessons have been completed. Herein the teacher can only be conducted via telephone, e-mail or written letter. For highly motivated, independent learners this works very well.

Field Trips

Field trips work well with both traditional education and independent studies. Herein a student visits a location outside of their school or home in order to learn about a specific topic or theme. These places can include manufacturing facilities, a park, museum, the Zoo, an aquarium, public services facilities like fire stations, TV or radio studios, hospitals or police stations. This is an effective learning strategy but a teacher or a guide must be available. It also needs to be understood that setting up these field trips to some places can be difficult or even impossible if a person is trying to learn things by themselves.

Independent Study

An independent study involves designing a project that you, as the student, will then complete by yourself through various means. This work can require that several intricately interacted facets be completed. These may include investigative research, writing, field trips, interviews, extensive reading or lectures. A final production must then be put together. This can be in the form of a presentation, paper or report that gives all of the details of your work and the knowledge that you have acquired.

Educational Television Course

Today most major metropolitan areas have at least one public broadcasting station that features educational programming. These programs are usually a part of a college or university’s accredited course of study. Students record these programs at home to watch and take notes on. They also study the broadcast material, which is an integral part of their learning. While this is an effective strategy for highly independent learners, it does not promote interpersonal contact between the teacher, if there is one, and the student.

Conclusion

We likely will never see a return to traditional learning as was illustrated above. But with the growing variety of learning alternatives, there certainly is something to suit almost everyone. So get out of your rut. Take a chance “ take a course and improve your mind and your life using one of the many learning alternatives available to you. If not, theres always a Ms Crabapple waiting.

There is a lot of hype surrounding eLearning, but all this has done is create unnecessary confusion. For this reason, you may be wondering what eLearning really is. Simply stated, this is the delivery of learning material through electronic media that includes the Internet, intranet, extranet, a satellite broadcast, audio/video tapes, interactive TV, online tutoring and CD-ROMs.

You may be wondering just how this is different than distance learning. Basically, distance learning includes text-based learning and courses that are conducted via written correspondence. This is different from eLearning, which is synonymous with technology-based learning. Of course, it is important to understand that the terms eLearning, technology-based learning and web-based learning are used interchangeably as well.

eLearning’s roots are based upon traditional instructor-led training and computer-based training. As such, it really is geared towards the future. It will continue to evolve over the course of time in order to be able to create new training options. Some of the benefits of this form of learning include:

1. Anyone can learn anything, at any time and in any place thanks to the Internet. In a few years this will become even more true because technical obstacles, such as access, standards, infrastructure and bandwidth will no longer be an issue. At that time the growth of the World Wide Web, high-capacity corporate networks and high-speed desktop computers will make learning available to people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week around the globe.

2. You will be able to save a lot of money because there will not be any travel expenses involved. This will allow you to use your time more efficiently since you will not need to fight traffic to get to a class.

3. You will find that eLearning is very flexible. The information that you need can be learned and retained whenever you want from wherever you want. This is because it is also a lot less stressful to learn in this way.

4. With eLearning instructors are able to easily and instantaneously update lessons and materials, which means that the content will be fresh and current. Plus this allows for information to be retrieved whenever it is required, instead of learning it ahead of time and then being quickly forgotten.

5. This form of personalized learning also allows for higher retention rates because there is room for each individual’s learning style. As such, students can better understand the material and thus learn faster.6. eLearning is also very stimulating because it encourages more critical reasoning than a large, traditional class allows for. This will thus draw you into the subject matter more because of the discussions that take place.

With all of these great advantages to eLearning, you will find it is hard to understand why anyone would want to sit in a lecture to learn new information whenever they have the option not to. Today there are many free online classes available. There are also some great tutors available at TeachOrTutor.com that can help you whenever necessary. So, go ahead and take advantage of all the great offerings that are available at your fingertips.

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