Embracing e learning
- 2. The recommendation for an organization to embrace e-learning or not can be summed up with three words, “just do it”.
- 3. This may have been how many of you learned how to swim, older siblings threw you into the deep water and gave you advice on swimming.
- 4. Informal e-learning is similar to this, turn the computer on and start doing something, if you get confused, click the help button.
- 5. Self-paced e-learning can be described as doing it your way. At first you may use e-mail or go shopping. After that you can move on to video conferencing and other activities at a pace that is comfortable to you.
- 6. Leader-led e-learning is doing it someone else’s way and with their timetable of accomplishing tasks following an organized plan.
- 7. Performance support tools within the software will list the steps needed for various applications.
- 8. These four types of e-learning describe the ways you can learn how to effectively learn using a computer and its various applications.
- 9. How did you learn to teach? First you may have attended class, learned the rules for teaching, and started teaching.
- 10. 2. Then mixed, matched, abandoned, and came up with new rules until you developed your own teaching style and methods of teaching.
- 11. 3. Developing the techniques of using the computer and e-learning is much the same and you and your organization will develop your own way of using e-learning.
- 12. 4. Once you have embraced e-learning you may look at the first hard rules of teaching you learned as similar to the conventional classroom, nice ideas that are not the best for today’s classroom.
- 13. Today’s classroom needs multiple sources of up-to-date information with the learner having considerable control of how and by what means they arrive at the mastery of the course objectives.
- 14. E-learning may cause you to mix, match, abandon, and change your teaching style to meet the challenges of what can be done with e-learning.