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Internet Based Learning (IBL)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we
know where we can find information upon it. ~ Samuel Johnson

~ Innovation And Invention ~
Just as the intellectual and technological developments of today are fundamentally
sourced by the great thinkers of the past, so too are the advances of tomorrow driven by the
minds of today. These leaders are not an elite class of philosophers but a community of
innovators and inventors who continue to meet a vast vista of societal challenges. Driven
people, just like me and you who are out to change the world!
~ A New Era ~
How then, do innovation and invention arise and by what means can we contrive
solutions with timely excellence? Notably, experience and education provide a powerful
foundation for applying excellence in real word. From the Grecian intellectual epoch to the
Renascence and the Age of Enlightenment; through the Industrial and Technological
Revolutions; stemming from the Age of Information a new era has arisen - the era of Data
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Organization and Accessibility. Through the profound realization of structural and
communications technologies, the Organization and Accessibility of information embodied in
Internet Based Learning (IBL), is becoming an indispensable tool for the instruction of a
curious and driven populous.

As a freshman in high school, I saw education as the rouge memorization of factual
knowledge; and when considering the quantity of information which has been amassed over the
past few centuries, I felt quite overwhelmed. It was not until the middle of my sophomore year
in high school that the true accelerant of our societys innovations and inventions dawned upon
me; the internet (cloud) has already provided a structure leading to the organization and
consequent availability of this intellectual capital. At the realization that I could learn whatever I
chose to pursue, I became enthralled with learning! Through the encouragement of one of my
professors, I devoutly explored the use of IBL in a vista of subjects, ranging from Computer
Science to Quantum Mechanics. Through online lectures pertaining to Electromagnetic Field
Theory and textual theses on Leadership and Entrepreneurial studies; my horizons have been
continually expanding.
~ Educational Developments And Resources ~
This new era has introduced a hosts of novel static and dynamic educational resources,
through text, video and interactive IBL mediums. From personal experience, textual learning
takes two primary forms online. First, textual resolutions to specific questions allow students to
easily tap the advice of experts across the globe.

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Figure 1: Yahoo Answers

Figure 2: Research Gate Q&A

The second form of textual learning comes from intentional excursions into entire fields
of study, this can be done by utilizing sub-structures of textual content, which encompass and
dynamically link a plethora subjects with a steadily increasing depth of user generated content.


Figure 3: Wikipedia - The Stark Effect

Figure 4: Hyperphysics - General Relativity

By far the most beneficial textual improvement in the past decade, allowing students to
easily comprehend macro-topics, is the search-ability of information. Since its foundation in
1998, Google [i] has quickly advanced to the forefront of global communications technology
with the intention to organize the seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
Although Google has branched into a vista of new markets its success is attributable to the
PageRank Algorithm [ii]; a sorting method which makes the Google Internet Search Engine
(ISE) so effective and so renowned [iii]. Macroscopically, this algorithm has set the standard for
post-search-analysis simultaneously providing a means to organize and more importantly, to
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access data at the touch of a button. On the microscopic level, PageRank also provides an
immense search advantage within documentation. Larry Page and Sergey Brin realized that
archaic Pre-Indexing methods could be avoided by analyzing the statistical relevance of a
website to a search query secondarily based upon the fidelity of that website [IBID]. Through
these developments, Google has succeeded in linking information of the past with the queries of
the present [iv].


Figure 5: Google - Internet Search Engine

Aside from conventional textual venues, technology has also afforded the abetment of
novel, IBL multimedia venues. Notably the aural and visual aspects of IBL have taken leaps and
bounds in the 21
st
century. Aurally, free audiobooks have begun to pervade across the globe,
while open communities such as LibriVox (2005)[v] are continuing to place more public domain
books into the ears of the general public.

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Figure 6; LibriVox - Free Audio Books

Visually the establishment of Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOC), has
revolutionized the role the internet plays in education. With unlimited class sizes and online
discussion forums guided by web-lectures, MOOCs have quickly become a viable venue for
study. MOOCs are derived from open source tutorial and lecture repositories such as Kahn-
Academy, and have advanced so far as to be introduced into prestigious university systems such
as MIT. For me personally MOOCs have been an invaluable supplement to the classes I take at
South Dakota State University, the different viewpoints offered on the same content works
wonders for comprehension.

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Figure 7: Kahn Academy - Laplace Transformation

Figure 8: MIT Open Courseware - Electromagnetic Field Theory

Interactivity is also playing an important role, creating active learning environments.
Active learning consists of quizzes and learning exercises, as well as, live chat rooms and
discussion forums which are strategically placed so that they are easily accessible when viewing
the content under study. Active learning gives students the ability to evaluate their
comprehension, through several different mediums, and guides their focus; thus stimulating
progress.


Figure 9: MinuteLabs - Interactive Online Physics Simulations
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~ Actualization ~
The freedoms, which the internet constitutes, provide an enormous potential; a potential
for the more widespread comprehension of what we do know about our universe, as well as an
atmosphere to discover that which we do not know. Admittedly, the internet can readily become
a tool of distraction, and the abundance of options may induce a lack of commitment. Thus, the
actualization of this potential is the responsibility of all. A responsibility of action, in the
utilization of these phenomenal IBL venues to learn as much as we can, so that we may live
more productive lives and benefit society as a whole.

As an active student, I have found and utilized many of these; interactive online lecture
archives, elaborative textual repositories, and other useful internet tools (See Actualized
Intellectual Capital). Each of these internet resources has provided me with unique prospective,
and collectively these resources have been a most powerful medium for learning .

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and learn something new! Discover something
exciting! Become who you were created to be!

Sincerely,
Deo ac Veritati,
Por Dios y la Verdad,
For God and Truth,
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For more information about who I am and what I stand for please visit my Online Rsum:
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Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
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Do everything in love.
~ 1 Corinthians16:13-14 (NIV) ~
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i
"Our History in Depth - Google." Google. May 2014. <http://www.google.com/about/company/history/>.
ii
Sobek, Markus. "Google PageRank - Algorithm." 2003. May 2014. <http://pr.efactory.de/e-pagerank-
algorithm.shtml>.
iii
"Google." Merriam-Webster. May 2014. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/google>.
iv
Google Books. Web. 17 May 2014. <http://books.google.com/>.
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"About." LibriVox. N.p., 2005. Web. 13 July 2014.< https://librivox.org/pages/about-librivox/>.