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Author: Luciana Amaral |
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Date Posted: 10:55:48 09/03/10 Fri Hi, everyone. I add some information too and I ask you to chek if it's ok. Since I`ve changed something in the paragraph that somebody wrote, I used the brackets to differetiate what I've wrote. Please, check if you think that this information should be there. Another thing that I have noticed, is that in the second sentence in the second paragraph: "On-line education is positively beneficial to all age groups " Isn't it, too acertive? Maybe we could modalize it writing " for most of the age groups" What do you think? Online Education: opportunities and challenges The internet has created the ability to offer great educational opportunities, and for this reason it is becoming increasingly popular among students, teachers and professors around the world. Well established universities are reviewing and looking for supplemental or different ways of working. Some of the strongest pressures for changes are coming for students. But there are many issues involved on on-line education which needs to be taken into account. On-line education is positively beneficial to all age groups searching for a way to engage on a formal kind of qualification and also promises to attend to a bigger public rather than a traditional one, for instance a disabled person or a housewife could easily study from home at their own pace instead of following a fixed timetable. [On the other hand, some people don't seem to be able to manage their time themselves and, for this reason, they prefer to take classes in the traditional way. ] Well established universities are reviewing and looking for supplemental or different ways of working. Some of the strongest pressures for changes are coming for students. But many critics argued that many important benefits are lost when dealing with virtual education once a wide range of extracurricular activities and social services cannot be reproduced in electronic form. “From a normative point of view, these authors and others argue that important social benefits of the university are lost in distance education, and do not consider these losses to be acceptable.” "Ethical issues for the virtual university" In addition, some courses of study are not easily available online. If you're interested in a more unusual field, you may have difficulty finding a source for online education. http://gradschool.about.com/od/distanceeducation/f/onlineadv.htm Another important issue is that, except when the studying is made with visual contact through some specific media, as web cams, for example, the teacher has no efficient way to be sure about who is really doing the tasks. For that reason, the online education suffer a lot of prejudice from boig companies, for example and the main argument for them not to accept this kind of certification is that they are not reliable, once the student could have paid somebody to do tha tasks for him/her. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |