‘Aye’ to e-learning
CLICKING on links instead of turning pages – that is how the majority of students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) prefer to study.
Recently, when NUS did a survey to check if students liked to access instructional materials and presentations from home, over 70% of those surveyed answered with a resounding “Yes!”
The survey helped to gauge the success of NUS's initiative to make teaching-learning material available online. All a student needed to view learning content was a networked computer.
Via Macromedia’s new programme Breeze, even students who used dial-up modems no longer had to worry about lengthy download times or inferior audio and video quality.
The results also showed that 80% of the 200 students surveyed wanted more e-learning materials, especially for technical things such as physics, chemical engineering principles and programming methodology.
Students found e-learning attractive because it allowed them to access materials at their own pace, on their own time. It also let them review parts of presentations they had not understood earlier.
E-learning also freed teachers from routine tasks and allowed them more time to engage in meaningful discussions with students, thereby maximising student-teacher interaction in the classroom, said the Instructional Technology Centre’s director Ravi Chandran.
Students also said that they enjoyed more personal study time as travelling time to and from campus was also cut down.
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