*J&G*

Next week, we are moving on to Module 2: e-Learning in Practice. Ann has already told us about assignment 2. Oh~ Mamamia!

*Advantage vs. Disadvantage of Elearning* we had a debate on the advantage and disadvantage of elearning in last week class. There was no right or wrong answers, people all have they are own say.

ADVANTAGE 

• Increased access to training (eg. visual, sound)
• Increased flexibility of access (don’t have to go to training course on 7am in the morning, can do it at home if you have internet access.)
• Save costs (save $ to build up a training program)
• Decreased travel (work at home, contact by email, mobile)
• Quick, easy, inexpensive revisions
• Just in time knowledge (quick update knowledge)
• Increased learning retention (fun and easy way learn, don’t need to rush in class to take notes)

DISADVANTAGE

• Too relient on IT skills, learner might have limitation of IT skills, therefore it’s not suitable for some age groups.
• Relient of the quality of the content: there are too much information out by anyone.
• Expensive: start-up cost of an elearning service is expensive and the cost of production of online training materials is very high.
• Lack of communication: causes misunderstanding, misleading, relationship isolation.
• Personal interaction: sometimes body language or demonstration works better, any skill that relies heavily on inter-personal contact.

E-zine is the short term of electronic magazine, and “e” can stand for elearning as well.

E-learning magazine: http://elearningmag.org , http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/

E-learning journals: http://ekb.mwr.biz/onlinejournals.htm,

Training magazine: http://www.trainingmag.com/

Learning Circuit — ASTD magazine: http://www.learningcircuits.com

Talent2 Elearn: http://www.talent2.com.au/Talent2eLearn/Home/Default.aspx?PageID=Home

E-newsletter is an electronic newsletter, published online, which is very similar to e-zine.

MindIQ — elearning newsletter: http://www.mindiq.com/newsletter/dac/dac_04_01.html 

Elearnspace: http://www.elearnspace.org/

LtiNewsLine (e-newsletter): http://www.ltinewsline.com/ltimagazine/ (about learning and training)

great & trustworthy sites for search elearning glossary, @

• http://www.learningcircuits.org/ASTD/Templates/LC/LC_OneBox.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fglossary&NRNODEGUID=%7bA1A2C751-7E81-4620-A0A3-52F3A90148EB%7d&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest#S
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2Fsupport%2Fglossary%2Fa.asp  

URL VS. URI

URI (uniform resource identifier): Name and address of information on the Internet. A URI usually identifies the application used to access the resource, the machine the resource is located on, and the file name of the resource.

URL (uniform resource locator): The address of a page on the World Wide Web.

URL and URI are very similar, but URL is more general then URI, URI can be the name or address of text, graphics, audio, video.

JAVASCRIPT VS. JAVA

JavaScript: A scripting language for Web pages. Scripts written with JavaScript can be embedded into HTML documents. (you can see some other detail definition)

Java: Java is an object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems.

JavaScript is a mini version of Java. The advantages of JavaScript over Java are that JavaScript is simplified.

SYNERGY:

Synergy:The dynamic energetic atmosphere created in an online class when participants interact and productively communicate with each other.

In the class, when ann asked: who can give a definition of elearning? There was  a girl who answered: “It’s a online learning thing.” ann resayed the word thing, and classmates larghed. It sounds funny, but don’t know why. No one in the class can really gave a definition of the term elearning. I researched in google, found millions of definition. They all have some differences, but similarity as well.

elearning has been often related to technology, web, etc.

http://wikipedia.org is a suggested website for glossary terms and futher detail explaination. Definition of elearning has been found there; view @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elearning.

My interperation of elearning; it’s a new modern learning style associated with web-based learning and online learning, with facilitation of communication technology, such as computers, software, interactive network (web blog, discussion forum, etc).