Question 3

From my experience with this course there were numerous aspects which I find exceptionally useful aspects of online learning. The first easily needs to be the collaboration.
Through the ICT environment in this course we have had a constant social environment where we have been easily able to be constructive learner and social teachers. We have easily been able to help each other and relate best to each other as we are all aiming for the goal. Through the collaborative environment we also learnt a lot of information about their peers including their learning styles, creative sides and their interests. We have been able to share a lot of information not only through the class room but also through our blogs and our wiki. This leads me to the next point. A great aspect on the online learning environment is the access to each other and the access to information. No matter what subject or content of information it was always readily available and if our peers were not readily available because it was say 10pm. It was now easy to ensure we could share our new found information through our new blog communication links and our contributors or through our wiki. This made it extremely useful to help each other out when having problems connecting information or even other contributors as we were able to collaborate together and work it out.
Another aspect which I found useful through online learning is the way in which a teacher can conduct a more relaxed though interactive environment. The teacher can simply alert the students to the goals and outcomes they need to fulfil and send them on their way. The teacher does not need to dictate to them the way in which they need to learn. The students do not have to sit in rows reading from textbooks instead they can jump onto the computers themselves take responsibility for their own learning and be active participants in the lesson. The internet also provides for lessons to easily cater for the various different learning styles as there are numerous activities to each subject waiting to be used.
The unlimited resources available alone make online learning a great way for accessing information from all around the world there are numerous sites including the BBC and Bradford college site as well was surf aquarium that lead to helpful information. The use of web quests proved extremely useful now not only can we easily plan for numerous lessons at a time, we have incorporated multiple intelligences, social interaction, assessment and feedback can easily be worked into the lesson. It seems the web quest is a very sure way to go when planning a program the only thing I need to be careful of is the amount of time I can end up spending on designing and making the web quest overall it proved extremely successful and useful.