During the last decade, there was a huge development in the educational computer applications. Even though the computer utilization in education field is still growing, there’s a multiple usage of benefits. From using PC in education to accessing internet, a new concept of e learning has finally emerged to depend largely on the technology to present the educational content to beneficiaries perfectly and effectively. Several characterize and advantages of this type of education demonstrate its prominence, including shortening time, effort and cost in addition to the possibility in improving deliverables and assist in making an attractive educational environment not depending upon time nor place for both the demonstrator and student.
e-Learning is one of the most educational methods in delivering information to learners, it uses modernized communication and technology tools of computers, networks and media. It targets to fill the efforts and time gaps for a learner in a manner that enables the managing of educational process and, controlling and assessing its deliverables. Information revolution has helped in making the world as small electronic screen as possible in an era that media, information and culture technologies are intermingling. E-communication and news floods transmitting more easily and efficiently, that’s why reaching and joining knowledge and education centres and libraries is becoming easily accessing.
Developments of Education Stages:
First Stage: Before 1983
It is an era of the traditional teacher, where contacts between tutor and students were only in the classrooms according to specified timetable.
Second Stage: 1984 up-to 1993
It is an era of the multimedia tools, where Windows and Macintosh operating systems and magnetic disks had used largely to enhance education.
Third Stage: 1993 up-to 2000
The World Wide Web “the internet” had emerged.
Fourth Stage: 2001 up-to-date
The second generation of the internet network had prevailed, where the designing of website have become more advanced.
The notion of e-learning have become widely known since electronic presentation tools has used in delivering lessons at traditional classrooms and multimedia education technologies involved in face-to-face and online learning. In addition, since smart schools and virtual classrooms, which definitely enables students to interact and share outside lectures and symposiums through internet techniques and interactive TV, spreading.
e-learning can help largely, according to its strengthening and flexibility, in advancing the educational process and in solving many obstacles that standing in the education today’s path and deliverables quality, as it:
• Provides multiple types of educational courses for learners everywhere and anywhere throughout internet connection.
• Reduces costs of education and training.
• Enables the precisely learning follow-up.
• Reaches far learners at their own places.
What’s E-Learning and what distinguishes from Distance Education?
E-Learning is a method of educating that help in delivering information for learner depending upon modernized technologies of PC and the world web wide and its multimedia forms like CDs, Educational Software, E-mails and discussion forums. Distance Education is part of the electronic educating process. In both cases, learner is receiving information remotely, but when we talk about electronic educating, it is not necessarily talking about online synchronous education but it rather about online non-synchronous education. Virtual education is simply means to learn extensively from far places through internet and technological methods.
Blended Learning:
It comprises of a collection of multimedia tools, which had designed to complete each other’s. It may consists of other learning tools, such as online virtual cooperative software, courses internet-depending, self-learning curricula, electronic performance supporting applications and managing learning systems. As well, it consolidating mixed-multiple activity events includes traditional learning and self-learning, which is a result of mixing synchronous learning and non-synchronous learning.