E-Learning System (E-Learning)

The computer and internet has totally changed conventional learning system which used to rely on classroom learning as primary support system. Students are no longer obliged to meet teachers face to face. They can just click on the icon or write their assignment by using their computers’ keyboards. Teachers can also check students’ assignment via smart phones without having to pile up papers. Grading is more comfortable for it can be done automatically without using calculators. Internet makes all of these possible. E-Learning is used to refer to these phenomena.

The emergence of World Wide Web in 1991 revolutionized almost everything, the impact is almost on every aspects of life, including education, resulting on the term ‘e-Learning’. It is important to note that e-Learning intersects numerous fields of thought and practice and cannot be trivialized into simple formula. The illustration below shows you how fields of study merge as a unity in e-Learning (Bowls, 2004:3).

Students and teachers can discuss, collaborate and perform various tasks via internet. This has revisited the definition of ‘classroom’. Classrooms are no longer rectangular shaped room with seats, blackboard and chalks. It can be defined as a support system where students and teachers can interact: both in digital and the real world. E-mail, message board, chat forums, application sharing, thread discussion, virtual laboratories, library cache, real time tests, video and audio streaming support e-Learning. This makes e-Learning has become one of the solutions for distance learning.

   ● Bowls, M-S. 2004. Relearning e-Learning. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

   ● Mitkov, R. ed. 2004. The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

   ● Smaldino, S., Russell, J., Heinich, R. & Molenda M. 2005. Instructional Technology and Mediated Learning.

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