Online education creates new demands on organization and structure in order to make use of its advantages with the technology for learning. Research in this area elucidates new possibilities with the computer as a medium, to individualize and make the learning more flexible. Meanwhile, the empirical study shows practical limitations, which affects the design of web-based teaching. As a result, we have started to develop a guideline, which describes these new possibilities and common problems with the new learning environment. We have structured the guideline by first defining the problem area and then giving recommendation or in some cases proposal of improving the technique. The purpose with the guideline is to illustrate and support teachers with knowledge and inspiration to make the design of this new form of education suitable in its practice.
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Author: Hanna Gustavsson, Hanna Karlsson
Source: Blekinge Institute of Technology
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Problem Description
1.2 The Aim of the Project
1.3 Delimitation in our Work
1.4 The Plan of the Thesis
2 LITERATURE STUDY
2.1 The history of Computers in Education
2.2 Communication
2.2.1 Social Contact
2.2.2 Communication independent of time
2.2.3 Communication in real -time
2.2.4 Communicate with the written Language
2.3 Information
2.3.1 The computer as an information handler
2.4 New ways of structuring the material
2.4.1 Multimedia
2.4.2 Hypertext
3 A TECHNICAL REVIEW- EXISTING PLATFORMS
3.1 Luvit
4 PROBLEM WITH WEB BASED TEACHING
4.1 Gathering material
4.1.1 How we did the study
4.2 Communication
4.2.1 Face-to-face Communication
4.2.2 Virtual Communication
4.3 Information
4.3.1 Visualisation of the Information
4.3.2 Sources of Information
4.4 Feedback and Deadline A Learning Process
4.5 Platform
4.6 Authoring System
5 TOWARDS A FLEXIBLE GUIDELINE FOR ONLINE TEACHING
5.1 How to structure an online education
5.2 The Computer as a Medium for learning
5.2.1 Communication
5.2.1.1 Problem with the written language
5.2.1.2 Problem with large-group discussions in real-time
5.2.1.3 Problems to make students communicate by using existing communication tools
5.2.2 Information
5.2.2.1 Distribution problem
5.2.2.2 The visualization problem
5.2.2.3 Interpretation of the information
5.3 Making use of hypermedia to present learning material
6 CONCLUSION
7 REFERENCES
7.1 Literature
7.2 Articles
7.3 Web Sites