How to Learn Online
So - how to learn online? What is involved in learning online or by distance education? Clearly it is different to how most of us learned at school. So to what extent will the skills we acquired and used there help us?
How to learn online: Do we use earlier skills?
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Clearly learning online is different to how most of us learned at primary and secondary school. So to what extent will the skills we acquired and used there help us? Probably not a lot. In fact, it is probably better to forget about how we did it at school altogether. Knowing how to learn online is completely different and it is confusing to try to equate the two things.
When you're learning in a classroom setting, the teacher is always there to help you learn and to structure your learning. But when you're learning online, there is nobody actually present to show you how to learn online. However, you are usually given a structure within which to learn and e-tutors to help you. But in the end it depends on you to be motivated and dedicated. Of course, this is true of any learning - only YOU can do it.
How to learn online: What tools are needed?
Your main tools for online learning are a computer and the Internet. You will need to be able to send an e-mail and use the Internet. You will also need to become familiar with posting messages to a discussion forum, so try doing that on this web site first. You will probably be creating documents (e.g., in Word) and attaching them to e-mail messages or uploading them to an "assignment post box" in the learning management system used by your institution.
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Online Learning More Effective
A report released in June 2009 by the U.S. Department of Education, which analyzed 46 studies comparing online learning to face-to-face education, concludes that the former is more effective - at least at university level.
Academics and administrators involved in online education welcomed this report as vindication of what they have known (or believed) for many years. Anaheim University's Chancellor Dr. Garnet Birch said,
"I'm so excited that the Department of Education and the Secretary of Education have confirmed what we have been aware of at Anaheim University for over a decade. If you hire expert professors to teach online and recruit highly qualified students from around the world, you can expect to see results that are not only equal to what you might find in a regional on-campus based program, but superior. America needs a 21st Century approach towards higher education that matches the lifestyles of young homemakers, teachers and business people who are pursuing their education while working and fulfilling their family responsibilities at the same time. We are ecstatic to see that the U.S. Dept. of Education has found that online education is every bit as effective as on-campus education. We have seen first-hand our graduates out-perform their peers in the workplace and this report is in line with what we have experienced."
Download the Department of Education Report "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning" here:
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
About Anaheim University
Anaheim University is a nationally accredited online institution of higher learning headquartered in Anaheim, California. The University offers online Masters and Certificate programs in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), online MBA programs and Online Certificate, Diploma and MBA (Online Green MBA) programs in Sustainable Management.
Books in Online and Distance Learning?
Just because the program is online doesn't mean that there will be no book reading at all. Many of the courses in a program will have "prescribed texts" that you will be expected to buy or will be included in the cost of the course.
In addition to these prescribed texts, there will also be "recommended texts" - and if they are not available online you may be expected to consult these in a library or buy them.
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