giovedì, febbraio 13, 2014

activity 1.1 Comparison of distance class and physic class

            In this era, knowing open and distance education is a powerful tool. The reasons are different, because they will depend on the learner’s need, for example: if he want to finished a career but he is working and has fear for be on a group with young people the virtual class are perfect for he.
            Other reason that this kind of class offer are the impulse to the autonomous learning, which some intrapersonal students will find excellent to work in this way because they will be studying and learning on his own rhythm, and time; but the teacher has to be conscience about the students that has interpersonal intelligence because they will have trouble adapting themselves to this system. These students may do not like working on a virtual class, but one as teacher needs to impulse the motivation of the learners.
            The virtual class can be similar to the normal class; the difference will depend on how the teacher recreates the environment on the virtual class and the condition the class will be more a like the regular system of class. This aspects will be easier to the students to feel more unite to the new form  that they are try to be part and that is the virtual class. The students will be feel comfort studying at their own speed, also they will be impulse to search and investigate further that they know; with this they can create a new critical opinion.
            In my opinion, I still prefer a little more the normal class because well until I enter the university I always had this style of teaching. I now trying to understand the virtual class because I know that it is the new trend of the learning process so that one of my reasons that I select this class to learn how to use the new tool on teaching that is the virtual class. Virtual classes are using in actually by most of the universities around the world, also in most of the work places like corporations are creating programs for their workers to continue learning; some of this programs are online courses also know as virtual classes.

            Virtual classes are a good new way to learn and I believe that they can work because the use that they are getting, but to have a excellent capacity the teacher that gives this kind of class has to pay a lot of attention to they students; for example : giving feedback for the activities and comments that they do. I said that because last semester I have a sad experience using virtual class; the teacher he did not check the students work and if we have doubts he did not answer it or answer them after 3 weeks later, so we had been force to find some external help from others teachers. That was my experience were I think that virtual class to be better the teacher needs to simulate a regular classroom. In conclusion both styles are very useful.

3 commenti:

  1. For teachers, distance education is an incredibly powerful tool because it allows us to reach out to more people, opposed to a standard in-class scenario.
    However, as you have stated, we do need to keep in mind that when we prepare distance courses, we are still working with actual people.
    Just as students might have difficulties adjusting to the autonomous learner role, teachers might also have their own set of complications as they never fully get to know their students and evaluating their work in a just way could be trickier.

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  2. Hello, Camilo. I had a similar experience with online education so I can relate to your ideas and agree with them. I believe that in online education the teacher must be completely aware of his students and be with them providing support and help to him in order to have a meaningful learning.

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  3. The teacher has to support his/her students all the time

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