In this 21st century, e-learning has gained everyone attention and popularity due to the rapid growth in development and technology revolution. E-learning is available and offered in Malaysian universities. It is so flexibility where information is delivered via online for purposes of education, training or knowledge management.
According to the stude
nts perspective, e-learning can help the students to save money and time, especially to those students who drive the cars to campus. It can help to reduce their daily expenses such as toll fees and petrol car fees. Then, for the studies materials, they do not have to photostats or print it out as it is so costly and sometimes are quite thick. By the way, we can also help to save the environment. Moreover, it also help some students who from other states and stay at hostel. Then, they do not have to pay for rental, food and other utilities as it can reduce family burdens and money spent.
On the other hand, it can also reduce travel time from one destination to another destination. Some students are local people and some are from other states. Students who from other state, they can online learning from their house. Hence, they do not have to buy bus tickets early and travel long way to hostel. Sometimes may take one whole day to reach hostel which is tiring and time consuming. Then, parents may worry about their children safety where they have to stay far away from home.
Besides, they do not have to worry for being late to attend classes and finding seats. This is because e-learning provides flexibility which enables students to adjust time, location, content and speed of learning to fit their personal schedule. For those students who working as part-timers to gain more experience, they can online learning anytime and anywhere. Thus, they are able to manage their time well. They can also refer back to previous lectures without affecting the learning pace of other students.
Example of learning English through e-learning:
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Instead, e-learning may also have drawbacks. Students who are poor, they cannot afford to own a computer with high-speed internet connection and some multimedia tools to support the services. Those are costly and increase family burdens. In additional, not every students are computer literate. For example, some poor students do not own a computer so they will have difficulties to access to Internet and deal with the hardwares and softwares. Thus, training is needed for the students. Besides, there is a potential problem where students lack of interaction with instructors and public. This will reduce students’ verbal skills and communicating skills. Even sometimes there are some problems that cannot be solved via online. For instance, mathematical problems that required working and steps as solutions. So it is very hard to be showed and taught via online.
Nevertheless, some students prefer traditional classroom training. This is because they feel that the ability to understand in traditional classroom training is higher compared to e-learning. By using e-learning, they may also face some problems due to interruption of internet connections such as disconnection. Another potential problem that most worrying people is students may become more lazy and less motivated. This is because everything is done electronically and lack of face-to-face communication. Thus, misunderstanding may arise between students and lecturers.
In a nutshell, e-learning is useful and benefiting which can enhance the quality of teaching methods and provide a good service for the students. At the same time, e-learning does have some drawbacks. However, people still eager to know the potentials of balancing the benefits and drawbacks of e-learning. It depends on individuals learning style that suitable them.
To have a better understanding about the differences of E-learning and Classroom Learning, you can visit to http://wiki.ucalgary.ca/page/E-learning_Versus_Classroom_Learning
6 comments:
for me , e-learning really good. i no need wake up early in the morning rushing to school...haha..
it really can save time...n students who drive to school every day can avoid from the traffic if implementing the e-learning service..i like it..
e-learning is quiet gd...but then how 2 ensure tat every one will study in home? u will? me will? dono...from my view...e-learning still not suitable for us....now d days student wont study wit any pressure...if study at home...the result will b very different!
that is why e-learning has pros and cons ... i think most of the people prefer classroom learning because it can discipline the students and train the students to be good in verbal skills. Then they will have the responsibilities to get the jobs done.
nowadays, h1n1 disturbing our student. it made the school need to close. student cant go to school. so, e-leaning is very useful. it can save time also. hehehe. but the one cant control is we cant confirm is it the student really will do revision at thier home or not.
lazy student will not study if e-learning implemented de.but i like it la.tis save time ma. n no need worry wat i wan wear to school. no need wake up early oso.
good ah!!!
These are all our perspective but still final decision is on Malaysian Universities whether they want to implement e-learning. I will support e-learning too.
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