The Best Aspects of Online Learning

I have found that the best aspects of online learning are:

• The Variety Of Sources

Online learning allows you to access a variety of sources that can be found online. the internet is a vast source of information, some good and some bad. The trick with online learning is to teach students how to carefully dicide what information is good and what is bad. Teaching them skills such as serching and defining serches are very useful skills that teh students will be able to build upon.

• Congnitive learning aspects

Learning online gives a great advantage to teachers as they can improve their students cognitive learning. This means that the students build upon what they already know in their existing 'scheemas' and develop new understandings of a topic or concept. students can interact with other peers online through chat rooms or 'wiki's' and together form definitions or understands of a certain idea. Students may even be able to publish anonomously, as to allow them to ask questions that they may have tbeen to shy to ask in class.

• Caters to the multiple intelligences

As Howard Gardner put forward there are various numbers of Intelligences. The Internet and online learning can cater to all of these intelligences. For example if you have a student who learns from the Logical aspect of the intelligences, you could find an online game that was Mathematically focussed. This way the student would be using their ICT skills as well as doing an activity that was fun and engaging. Another example could be for those students who learned from the Spatial aspect, they could maybe do an online search for pictures and images and make a slide show.

• Skill Building

We know that the internet and computers are now here to stay. It is becomming an intergral part of our every day lives and we are continuously updating our technology. Online learning helps teachers and students alike to keep up their skills and develop new ones throughout the learning program. Whether we are 'Digital Natives' or 'Digital Immigrants' we are all digitally involved in learning. If we can teach our students how to use this new technology in a way that best benefits them, then we are right on our way to becomming effective teachers.

In my teaching, i will definately incorporate online learning into my program. This is because i belive it benefits the stduent and would benefit myself to keep up to date with the technology of today and would give skills and confidence to my students who will soon be working with this technology once they have finished their education.