Using e-learning and technology
Technology offers learners exciting, innovative tools for active learning. These tools can be used in the same way as they are used outside education: to research, to communicate, to collaborate and to create.
The use of the Internet has the potential to allow the learner to be in control, searching out information and finding their own ways to learn.
Mobile technologies open up opportunities for learning outside the classroom, learners could access learning through mobile phones or PDA's.
Some tutors say that learning could be made like a computer game so that learners feel involved and interested. Other tutors are worried that learners may spend too much time individually in front of a screen instead of with other learners.
More traditional forms of e-learning in which learners complete electronic worksheets, or where an interactive whiteboard offers just another form of ‘chalk and talk’, are increasingly seen as old fashioned.
Equipment needed:
- the Internet
- computers
- data projectors
- interactive whiteboards (IWBs)
- virtual learning environments (VLEs)
- video conferencing equipment
- video cameras and digital cameras
- MP3 players, mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs).
