Virtual learning environment

• Teaching, learning and assessment are good and reflect students’ improving success rates. College strategies to improve retention and hence success rates are taking effect, and in-year retention is now high. Students’ progression to a higher level of study and to employment is good. • Teachers use their good subject knowledge and extensive industrial experience effectively to enhance students’ understanding and awareness. Teachers draw on their own experiences in the industry to illustrate key

Chapter I Introduction Education is the learning and development which results from this process of teaching or training. It is the academic discipline dealing with teaching and learning methods in the schools. Learning starts at home and the parents are their first teachers to their kids. When they are about 4 to 6 years of age, parents are starting to bring their children at school where they are able to learn not only the basic skills such as reading and writing but also to develop

New Demands and New Challenges: A Personalized Approach The Ohio State University continues to change, adapting and integrating successful and new educational practices, to fit the needs of their students. One of the biggest changes taking place is the growing popularity of online education. Over the years, the Ohio State University has offered a number of online courses which continues to grow each year. Because of such growth, many play with the idea that Universities, such as Ohio State, could

The traditional face-to-face method of learning provides a better learning environment, considering the fact that students can interaction with the instructor and their peers, whereas in web-based education students have to teach themselves. Online instructors send information solely through online exercises such as planned web posts, discussion topic, or modules. In contrast, in the classroom experience a student is provided the opportunity to interact one-on-one with the teacher. Additionally,

E-Learning Better known as electronic learning, e-learning is defined as a “wide set of applications and processes, such as web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes delivery of content via internet, intranet/extranet, LAN/WAN (local area network/ wide area network) audio/videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, and CD-ROM” (Paul, 2014). E-learning is a developing method to administer education that was adopted, first by institutions

ABSTRACT Learning is a process that is influenced significantly by the combination and interactions of three main areas of influence: agent, activity and world. A number of writers have used other descriptions for these influencing factors. In the succeeding discussion of computer-based learning environments, we have found it useful to describe learning using a framework of three mutually constitutive elements based on these factors which represent the actions and activities of the different elements

Communication Technology is evolving rapidly, it is a challenge to keep up, and integrating it in the classroom is the other concern. Technology in education has become the buzz word in every educational environment (Chhabra, 2012). Learning now occurs almost everywhere. The teaching and learning process is not the traditional bricks and mortar anymore which confined between four walls. ICT tools like the internet, e-mails, printers, scanners, computers, interactive boards, i-pads, audio equipment

e-Learning - Developments, Benefits and the Future Definition In its expanded form, e-Learning simply means electronic learning. There are many ‎interpretations and extrapolations of these simple two words combined. A lengthy, but ‎comprehensive definition of e- Learning has been developed and used by the intergovernmental ‎organization know as the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). This agency posts the following ‎definition:‎ ‎"Online learning and e-learning - terms that have emerged to describe

one of the important tools in the classroom and in our life. Technology has changed every level of the learning environment. Over the past 70 years, classrooms learning were different from today learning environments. Also, many high schools and colleges are embracing to new technology in the classrooms nearly every day and every year. Technology in the classroom has changed our classroom learning to another level, for students to be able to register their courses in the classroom on the computer.

can enter and non-performing firms can exit easily. - Universities that want to start offering distance learning need to get accredited for the courses they are offering, Government policy - Distance education is evolving rapidly in the targeted countries in the past years. The governments of these countries pay special attention to the higher education and the possibilities for distance learning in order to satisfy the increasing demand of highly trained individuals. Capital requirements - The biggest