Friday, 2 November 2012
What is an online Library?
Library is the collection of books that are kept in a
particular building or space for people to see and read. This in turn will
enable readers to be more familiar with what he/she reads and also be educated
by it.
However online library is similar to an offline library,
only that it is not located in a particular building, but rather located in
cyber space. There, peers can visit it and make personal researches in order to
get familiar with the subject they read and study at the library.
Although, very few online schools support this method of
learning, however, just even few knows about it and has implemented it.
Benefits of an online library
This online library has so many benefits, such as enabling
students to improve their study habit, to develop personal study, to improve
their method of reasoning and expressions, and enables them not to rely solely
on their teachers and peers as their only source of learning. However, this
will help them to make out time for personal study habit, and also will help
them to make personal researches when appropriate.
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Self quiz-what is it?
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Some online education supports a self quiz interface. Which
enable students to test themselves on a particular subjects before taking the
main test, which in turn will help the student to be more acquainted with the
subject all round before taking the real test and exams. This in turn prepares
one future the test and exams. Some online education features self quiz
interface, so that students can benefit maximally, against the future test or
exams.
Benefits of self quiz
Self quiz has
benefits, such as enabling users to be much more familiar with the subjects at
large. However, any student that self quiz will not stand out as novice when it
comes to taking test and exams in classes. It also enables students to become
knowledgeable and skills to answering questions both in class and in informal
settings. Preparing ahead is very vital, for students who most times get
nervous during exams or test. This will enable them to fully get prepared
before the real exam come.
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Thursday, 1 November 2012
Online certificate / Result / Diploma / Degree – what is it?
For simplicity reasons we are going to brake them down one
after the other. We are going to start with the first one Certificate followed by others.
Certificate
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Online Grades – what is it?
These are scores or marks given to students after test and
exams on each subject offered.
However, grades have benefits; it will enable students to
see the need for improvements on a particular subject offered. And finally, it
will enable students to see how they are fairing in a particular subject.
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Online Exams - what is it?
Exam is the more practical method of test. It has similar
characteristics as test above. However, it is very much important, because it
add more marks to peers’ grades more than test. Both exam and test make up a
peers’ grades in school, both offline and online as well. Difference between
test and exam is that, exam is usually taken at the end of term. While test is
taken usually after the completion of each topic of discuss, or can be taken
weekly or whenever the school teacher deems it fit. Exam is never like that, it
is a must at the end of school term. Exam questions are usually on the whole
topics discussed so far. It is a lot more difficult than test. Since a huge
number of topics discussed might have slept out of the mind of the student.
Students can still retain it, if they study harder by making use of the self
quiz.
Benefits
Exams have benefits, because it is the overall summary of
the subject of discuss. If students gain a pass in subjects of discuss without
cheating during the exam, will enable them to see that they truly understand
the subject fairly well. Online education offers this to help students to see
how they are fairing in educational stand.
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Online Test – what is it?
Test is the ability to check ones knowledge of understanding
of a particular subject of discuss. Test can be offered by a school teacher, an
organization. In general, test also is to know one’s ability to do something.
However, in online education test is conducted by means of answering list of
multiple page by page questions with multiple options. Options like “A – E” or “1
– 5” or “true or false”. And peers are allowed to make their choices during the
process. Some tests are timed, and you are required to answer a particular
question at a given time period. These questions are shown page by page, and as
soon as the time elapses the next page is shown. This will mark failure on the
peers’ part, if he was unable to answer the question at the given time. On the
other hand, when peers choose their answer, the next page is also shown.
Benefits
Online test has benefits, such as enabling students to
develop self confidence. That is enabling one to see if he really understands
the subject fairly well or not. It will also help teachers to see the need for
improvement, depending on the students’ performance in the test. For the fact
that online tests are timed, this may help not to expose students to exam
malpractice, which is very common in an offline education today
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Monday, 29 October 2012
Online Education - What is it?
Online education involves the ability for students to be taught by their teacher, through: video lecture, text, open forum, classes and by means of research works.Students are given the opportunities to enroll for a school, by applying for the school. If the school finds the student eligible, he/she will be admitted.
In some online schools, students are also privilege to communicate with peers, from around the world. By sharing ideas and allowed to interact with each other in the school open forum.This is called peer-to-peer based learning model. In the open forums students are allowed to pose questions and answer questions in the forum. However, there teachers also monitors their conversation, in order to make corrections and to assist students in their assignments.
However, there are elements that make up a good online education. We are going to take a closer look at some elements that make up an online education. There are about eight in this article, which are listed bellow:
- Peer-to-peer learning model
- Self quiz
- Forum
- Online Library
- Lesson
- Personal study records
- Test
- Exam
- Grades
- Certificate/Diploma/Degree.
- Peer-to-peer based learning model
Peer to peer based learning model is the ability for students to share and exchange ideas with each other. It is the means in which peers interact and partake in the learning processes. It also fosters professional and personal growth, as students partake in posing and answering questions in the process along side with their teachers. As students learn from their teachers and also from their peers, such, enables them to be fully equipped academically. And also as students are allowed to pose questions and answer on the open forum, it will enable them to be more familiar with topics or subjects of discuss. However if students are unable to answer some questions pose in the forum, teachers can also assist by providing needed answers to the pose questions and emphasize on that topics or subject.Benefits of peer-to-peer based learning
peer-to-peer based learning has benefits such as, increased retention ability, deeper understanding of new concepts and increased informal learning. It fosters both professional and personal growth, as teachers and students participate in the learning process at different interval. Peers partake and collaborate in assignments, test, exams and projects, under teachers supervision.
Fellow peers experiences can be maximize by regularly posing questions and absorbing correct answers given by teachers and also by peers.
Next is the self quiz which will be disuse on our next article. Keep reading.
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