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Singapore, 25 April 2003
For now, to all individuals who aspire to be more academically fulfilled, there will almost certainly be a time in your life when you struggle with this question: “Should I choose eLearning when pursuing a distance learning Degree, an MBA, a Ph.D.?” It is normal to feel unsettling, like someone driving in a foreign country, wondering what the road signs mean, without a map that shows where we are and might be going. The following article provides exactly the map we need on elearning – and more. Sir John Daniel, author of “Mega-Universities & Knowledge Media, 1999” talked about an awareness of a larger horizon; the vast and changing education and training needs of people throughout the world. The world in which more and more people need access to continuous learning throughout their working lives – a world in which the cost of campus-based models of higher education will always be outside the reach of literally millions of people. Hence, Traditional campus universities and distance learning are confronted with the challenges and the opportunities presented by the new “knowledge media”. Technology has already made a dramatic impact in most areas of human endeavor, is a key to the renewal of higher education. Universities can best use technology by which I mean both systems and devices to promote the academic ideal in a new millennium. Growth of eLearning eLearning defined eLearning driven by technology delivers learning differently. The learning environment is opportunistic, informal, massive reach (anywhere in the world at anytime to anyone with a PC and Internet Access) and learner centric with virtual classrooms and web-based course materials. The most appealing features of eLearning are that it is self-paced, asynchronous and synchronous. Self-paced learning In the eLearning mode, the student interacts with the instructor and other learners around the world via chat lines, emails and discussion rooms, straight from his computer. The e-learner can study before, during and after work at their office or home. No more long drives through traffic jams to attend lectures after a long day at the office. The Buzzwords are ANYTIME and ANYWHERE. Asynchronous learning… Meeting on the net – synchronous learning A new education realm For learners, this means that in the future, learning will become increasingly more learner-centric. Harnessing the best brains and Narrowing the
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of us who reflect on the state and direction of higher education have
been scrambling to understand the different types of Distance learning
especially the Traditional Taught Class and Pure Online learning also
known as eLearning. With the influx of faster and more powerful wireless
communication and networking technology and promises of the next coming
of information technology, something in our guts tell us that the next
wave of eLearning will increase consumer’s adoption of eLearning
by leaps and bounds. Hardly a day goes by without coming across new evidence
of the persuasive effects of the elearning revolution.