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Earth Learning Ideas enhance learning by being fun to carry out and so enjoyable for pupils and teachers. [3] All ELIs are directed at teachers to encourage maximum pupil participation. One of the main aims is to encourage interactive teaching and the development of thinking and investigational skills in pupils.
1906–7: The University of Wisconsin–Extension [3] was founded, the first true distance learning institution in America. [ 4 ] 1909: The Machine Stops a short story by E. M. Forster , which describes an audio/visual communication network being used to deliver a lecture on Australian music to a remote audience.
The extent to which e-learning assists or replaces other learning and teaching approaches is variable, ranging on a continuum from none to fully online distance learning. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] A variety of descriptive terms have been employed (somewhat inconsistently) to categorize the extent to which technology is used.
Good pedagogical practice has a theory of learning at its core. However, no single best-practice e-learning standard has emerged. This may be unlikely given the range of learning and teaching styles, the potential ways technology can be implemented, and how educational technology itself is changing. [3]
In the Learning Paths methodology, a learning path is created for the entire job done by an employee. By looking at learning as a complete process rather than a single event, a learning path enables employers and employees to find new ways to drive out time, waste, and variability in training, which leads to improved results and reduced costs. [5]
Alternative education grew up in response to the establishment of standardized and compulsory education over the last two to three centuries. Educators including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, [3] Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi; the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau; founders of progressive education John Dewey and Francis ...
A variety of names began to be used to denote education conducted using various technologies; these include online learning and e-learning. As an example of how confusing this had become Singh and Thurman (2019) [1] identified 46 definitions for online learning. The name 'digital learning' has gained popularity as a way to encompasses the ...
These theories can be placed into four main categories: 1) theories of independent study (e.g. Charles Wedemeyer, Michael Moore); 2) theories of the industrialization of teaching (e.g. Otto Peters); 3) theories of interaction and communication (e.g. Borje Holmberg); and 4) a synthesis of existing theories of communication and diffusion and ...