The document discusses the scope and limitations of e-learning. For scope, it notes that e-learning provides access to high-quality teachers regardless of socioeconomic status or location, increased flexibility for students to learn at their own pace and subjects of choice, and allows for online revisions. The limitations are that e-learning provides limited opportunities for informal learning, focuses on course-based models that limit community development, prioritizes the needs of the organization and instructor over the learner, and has an overly simplistic understanding of the relationship between teachers, knowledge and student learning.
The document discusses the scope and limitations of e-learning. For scope, it notes that e-learning provides access to high-quality teachers regardless of socioeconomic status or location, increased flexibility for students to learn at their own pace and subjects of choice, and allows for online revisions. The limitations are that e-learning provides limited opportunities for informal learning, focuses on course-based models that limit community development, prioritizes the needs of the organization and instructor over the learner, and has an overly simplistic understanding of the relationship between teachers, knowledge and student learning.
The document discusses the scope and limitations of e-learning. For scope, it notes that e-learning provides access to high-quality teachers regardless of socioeconomic status or location, increased flexibility for students to learn at their own pace and subjects of choice, and allows for online revisions. The limitations are that e-learning provides limited opportunities for informal learning, focuses on course-based models that limit community development, prioritizes the needs of the organization and instructor over the learner, and has an overly simplistic understanding of the relationship between teachers, knowledge and student learning.
1.) Access to high quality teachers: Traditionally the quality of education
received by a student depended on the socio-economic status of her family or her geographic location. E-learning breaks down such barriers. It gives students access to best teachers in the country. 2.) Increased flexibility: Students can learn in a most flexible manner: the subjects of their choice and at their individual pace. 3.) Online revisions: Revision is one of the key for daily study and exam preparations. Revision does not need a teaching but a constant grading of performance or updating the knowledge.
Limitations
1.) Limited informal learning possibilities.
2.) Course based model that limits community development.
3.) Organizational and instructor focus. They tend to meet the needs of the
organization and the instructor more so than the learner.
4.) They are based on an overly simplistic understanding of the relationship