Premesis of Virtual Learning

well, after setting up the new blog from www.slyhau.edublogs.org to www.slyhauseb.edublogs.org and importing the old posts and comments, the layout is still not done.

In this post i want to write some descriptions and personal views on e-learning.

As i guess other participants used allready the description of wikipedia, i want to start with the university hamburg. At the start page there is e-learning as one category mentioned, see the link:

http://www.uni-hamburg.de/eLearning/index_e.html

There you find a link to the “MICHeL Services at the University of hamburg’s regional computer center” which provides a brief description of the motivation of elearning. This is only in german to find at:

http://www.michel.uni-hamburg.de/elearning.php

e-learning is categorized here as a method rather than a way to change from direct interaction in learning processes to complete virtualisation. It is said that e-learning is much more than just put material in the web to download for other people. The idea is to provide tools for linking learning content with presentation technics and to use virtual rooms for communication and learning processes.

A second source i want to mention is the wiki we created with prof. Breier for didactic of informatics:

http://webapp5.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/info-standards/infobiki/index.php/Hauptseite

There are some links available about e-learning because this topic is also much linked to informatics in schools. It is mainly written in german. At ” Unterrichtsmaterial” there are some examples which are also based on e-learning. At “Informatik-Portale” you can also find platforms which provide examples for e-learning, f.e. swisseduc.ch, where you have examples for e-learning prooved in schools.

see: http://www.swisseduc.ch/search/index.html?cx=008791069951412396565%3Awfp43ps5bzw&q=e-learning&cof=FORID%3A11#1049

the description of e-learning is a mix of practical experiences in schools and other institutions and on the other hand still in process. In Informatics you do not only use e-learning as a method but also as a content itself, as it is a way f.e. for software development to use communication via internet with tools where the learning process is also part of the development.

Last example i want to mention the following blog, which sounds interesting, but which i did not proove much on its content. So maybe i would disagree with their attitude towards e-learning but for shure they provide a lot of examples:

http://elearning-global.blogspot.com/

Last point was to mention my personal own view on the topic:

I think it makes sense to see the whole topic as an experiment to be developed and analysed in practice. It is for me not the best way to use as much technics as possible but as much as is “angemessen” / fitting to the content the learning project is about.

Sometimes it makes even more sense to have a personal discussion than a weblog or something, sometimes it makes much more sense to use technics, f.e. for centralise information about an ongoing longterm project which is based on part-projects which have to be approved with each other.

I think it is good to give more people the opportunity to train these technics to be able to reflect and choose which is the best way to use or not to use for their learning context.

i prefer for my teaching to use the strategy that the content is allready part of the method, which means it is very much connected to each other and there are contents where e-learning is making sense and there are contents where it is more problematic.

thats it for now. hope to get some critics

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