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Singapore, 12 September 2002
What an Online Course will be like in the future |
The following are only assumptions that will take place only if online education moves forward along the path.
A typical online course, or the online portion of course, will look somewhat like this.
- There will be hundreds of thousands of topics from which to choose. You will be able to take a course on ‘Mango trees,’ or ‘Gandhi’.
- Your online teacher will probably be the foremost authority and expert in the subject in the world.
- The foremost authority in the world is teaching the subject online, and because courses will be offered twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, there will be learners from all around the world.
- There will be an average of 1,000 learners in a course. This will occur for a number of reasons:
- There are one thousand people in the world who want to learn any given topic at any given time, even mango trees or Gandhi.
- Because people will want to learn from the foremost authority, there will be only 2-3 online courses for each topic.
The cost of an online course may drop. This will occur because educational institutions are more efficient and can maximise the potential of each resource. It will occur also because the educational institution can pass on the lowered costs of infrastructure development for courses to the consumers.
The forces driving e-Learning
There are several forces that will turn this scenario for e-learning into reality. They include:
Business Business will be the biggest force. Business now understands that in order to remain competitive and profitable, it will need employees who are learning constantly. The only cost effective way for this to happen is with online learning.
So business will require its people to learn online, and it will look to recruit university graduates who can learn online. Colleges and universities will quickly adopt online learning because business will demand that capability from their graduates.
Youth Children may never take a computer course. Why? Because they are not just computer literate, they grew up in a digital culture. Young people want to learn online. They understand the future, because it is the world in which they must work and compete. Young students will choose learning online.
Competition Just one college offering online courses at a low cost and recruiting high volume will force other educational institutions to do the same. In fact, many colleges are involved in online learning, and the cost of courses is declining steadily, according to officials at some US colleges that offers a database of over 8,000 distance learning courses.
E-learning is rapidly becoming recognised as a valid learning delivery system. The number of part time students in higher education, to name just one educational system, now outnumbers full time students. The number of colleges in United States offering online courses last year soared to over 1,000, and the number is growing. E-learning graduate programs and certificate programs have doubled over one year ago. Online learning has grown exponentially in the business sector, according to Elliot Masie of Saratoga Springs, NY, one of the foremost experts on online training in the workforce. Surveys by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) see online training replacing much of on-site training in the near future.
E-learning will do for society what the farming equipment did for food. A century ago food was expensive, in limited supply, and with very little variety. Today food is relatively cheap, in great supply in our society, and with tremendous variety. The Internet will do the same for education. More people will be able to learn more, for much less cost, and with a tremendous variety in choice of topics and subjects. It is something that societies of the past could only wonder about but will come true for us in this millennium.
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