The e-learning system is quite comprehensive, and consequently its meaning tends to fluctuate depending on whom you ask. There is actually no one definition agreed on by the experts. Generally, […]
The “e” in e-learning is exactly what differentiates it from the traditional, old-fashioned learning system—or is it? Some people are arguing that the e-learning system doesn’t need the “e” anymore, […]
Recently, there has been talk of Web 2.0’s informal learning capabilities as a learning system being a fad, because it’s not the mainstream methodology of learning. However, as more people […]
The learning system that makes use of Web 2.0 constitutes a social constructivist theory of learning. This model stresses collaboration, arguing that knowledge and learning are actively constructed via social […]
Another example is wikis. These allow learners to add and edit information on a document, sometimes without needing to register as you do with blogs. Applying the power of wikis […]
One example is blogs. In this learning system, there is a central spot where people post and can view each other’s information, without having to recur to the messiness of […]
The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a new learning system that is fundamentally opposite of the Learning Management System. The PLE is a new approach to e-learning, whose focus is […]
People don’t always have the time, money, or even desire to learn something with others. Many talented professionals started out alone. Not that it’s easy. Self-tuition, if nothing else, proves […]
Under the right conditions, more cells are produced and connect to each other in the brain. One place this occurs is the dentate gyrus, part of the main memory structure […]
The methodology of this learning system differentiates itself from the traditional in that, apart from assigned readings and lectures, in group assignments, students will receive a grade based on teamwork […]
The social-emotional learning system has also been shown to be most positive for at-risk kids, the ones most likely to fail academically, making it beneficial regardless of anything like class, […]
Many people contend that the IQ test is an insufficient tool to gauge a person’s intelligence, and that the EQ test should be given more import. And it’s true: intelligence […]
While it is argued that spending considerable time on the internet, even when deliberately using it as a learning system, may turn people antisocial and hermitlike, the counterargument posits that […]
Apart from being able to absorb and access information at one’s own pace, the internet widens the scope of the form, not just the content, of the education involved, and […]
One of the minuses of the traditional academic (and others) learning system is the passivity of the students—educators educate actively, while learners learn passively, solely by receiving and processing information. […]
Learners can enhance any learning system by complementing it with another: the internet. The internet’s contents are so varied and wide, that the understanding of any concept learned can be […]
Free: Most of the information online is free. Sometimes payment is required (for some journals, magazines, etc.). Regardless, the internet makes for a relatively free learning system. Available 24/7: There […]
Let’s say you were traveling to France on vacation, or you want to learn French well enough to read it, because you like to read literature in its original language, […]
Asking someone to define “LMS” is akin to asking someone to define “irony” (remember the movie Reality Bites?): everyone basically knows what it is, but usually not exactly. In any […]
I’ve discussed aesthetic in terms of the LMS itself, yes—which implies it would be static. Wouldn’t it be exciting, though, if you could personalize your homepage’s colors, add widgets, rate […]