All you need to know about e-learning

What is E-Learning?

E-Learning is using the Internet for learning. All it requires is an Internet connection and a Web browser, which enable people to learn at any time or place.

An online learning environment typically features content delivery in multiple formats, tools for managing the learning experience as well as a networked community of learners, content developers and training providers.

Is E-Learning For Me?

E-Learning is for everyone. You can be a working professional who wants to refresh or update your skills, a student who wish to pursue higher education, or a housewife who would like to study at your own pace from home. Just about anyone can tap onto the power of the Internet to fulfil his learning needs.

How Does It Benefit Me?

E-learning is a training solution that is cost-effective, convenient to access and consistent in quality, and offers clear accountability for all participants in the learning process. You can enjoy the flexibility of attending classes around your personal or work schedules, whether your goal is professional advancement, personal enrichment or earning transferable degree credits.

Online courses are an exceptionally accessible, flexible resource that provides the same high-quality course content and instructions that you demand, but without the day-to-day obstacles that prevent so many of us from pursuing higher education opportunities. In addition, each individual's learning progress can be monitored and feedback to you for self-evaluation. In other words, this learner-centred methodology empowers you to manage your own learning experience, making it dynamic, personal and scaleable according to your needs.

For corporations, the hassle of having to schedule training courses for employees has been an ongoing problem for Human Resource departments. With e-learning, there will be no need to consider factors like minimum number of attendees for training or having to work around the busy schedules of employees.

Key Advantages of E-Learning

• Anytime, Anywhere learning
• No time wasted on physically travelling to a classroom location
• Can have discussions with lecturers or students without the hassle of meeting physically
• Flexible study time to suit individual lifestyle needs
• Self-paced; allows reviewing or speeding up the topics at student's own direction
• Immediate feedback on learning progress is provided privately for self-evaluation
• Consistent quality of course delivery that does not vary from instructor to instructor
• Given the same curriculum coverage, reference materials, study guides and recognition as traditional classroom-based courses
• Exposes students to the richness of group-learning and interaction with students from different parts of the world
• Drives students to be more inquisitive, innovative and widens their access to new collaborative technologies

How Does E-Learning Work?

You will be supported by online course materials, which work in conjunction with discussion boards, synchronous live chat sessions, emails and downloadable course-related documents that create a rich learning experience for students. As you receive your online course contents via the Web, it allows you to work one-on-one without the constraints of a fixed time schedule or classroom location. You can go through the course materials as fast or slow as you like, with full control and direction. This enables you, for instance, to review a topic as many times as you wish, or pick up the pace for topics you are already familiar with.

For each diploma and degree programme, an online facilitator who is an expert on the subject will be assigned to the course. He takes on the role of a lecturer similar to that of a classroom setting. The facilitator leads you through the learning process on a weekly basis, interacts with you and other students via regular chat sessions and answers all questions posted in the discussion room. These messages are recorded in the chat rooms so you can review them later if you wish to or if you missed the chat session.

E-learning also promotes collaborative learning, which has been proven to be a highly-effective learning model. In this CyberCampus environment, you can compare notes with fellow coursemates who live in another part of the world, or join in a group discussion over the Web. Students learn together through problem-solving activities, discussions and exercises resulting in the creation of new knowledge.

Students are also given off-line support in addition to the online academic experts. Our team of technical professionals, who are dedicated to creating a rich learning experience for you, offer chatroom facilitation, online exam revisions as well as round-the-clock customer service.

Where Is E-Learning Headed?

The development of course delivery via the Internet is inevitable, given the widespread acceptance of the Internet as a vehicle for communications and information retrieval. The concept of distance-learning whereby students receive course materials by post and pursue a course through self-study with occasional contact with lecturers, is fast losing its place as a viable alternative to obtaining academic qualifications.

The current implementation of a CyberCampus is only the first step to achieving a unified learning environment where traditional teaching techniques via classroom lectures is amalgamated with the advanced techniques of web-based learning. The traditional school will never go away, but the virtual classroom is a significant player in today's educational community. Corporations are using the online model to train technical professionals while private and public universities redefine the world as their markets. As more and more people become aware of online learning, the market for e-learning students is expanding rapidly. (see Facts and Figures)

Riding on the Internet wave and the evolving power of broadband technologies, increasingly sophisticated online learning experiences are being developed around the world everyday. So delay no more - be among the pioneers in the e-learning wave today!

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