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STUDENTS ’ EXPOSURE TO ON-LINE LEARNING MATERIAL: IS MORE ALWAYS BETTER?
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| Author | Nystedt, K. Magnus |
| Abstract | Online learning is spreading like wildfire throughout the educational systems of the world, and there seems to be a general view that ”more is better”, that just giving students access to more material will improve their learning. Thus many approaches to online learning rely heavily on increasing students’ exposure to the online material. This paper will show that there is a positive relationship between how many times students are exposed to material in an online learning environment and their final results for the course they are taking. ONLINE SUPPORT FOR TRADITIONAL TEACHING Teaching and learning with the help of information and communications technologies (ICT) has been given many names, including distance learning, distance education, and online learning. The technologies used for this form of teaching and learning have also gone under many names. For this paper I chose to use the term Online Learning Environment (OLE). Jones & Buchanan define an OLE as “... a set of tools, systems, procedures and documentation that allows any and all parts of the learning experience to occur using some form of computer mediated communications. ” [1] Online learning in its most extreme definition means to deliver teaching to students completely online, |
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| Subject Keyword | Always Better Online Learning On-line Learning Material Many Name Online Support Traditional Teaching Teaching Student Exposure Educational System General View Distance Education Online Material Distance Learning Online Learning Environment Student Access Many Time Student Many Approach Extreme Definition Communication Technology Jones Buchanan Positive Relationship Final Result Term Online Learning Environment |
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| Resource Type | Article |
