Advantages from teacher's perspective:
- Re: putting course
materials online
- Forced organization - must carefully plan the course locations.
- Course materials are always accessible if connected to the web
- Students have access even when not in class - before for preparation, after for follow-up, access if absent, access after the course is finished.
- Communication with peers/colleagues without restrictions of time (synchronous vs asynchronous) or distance
- Re: Using online
resources
- Highlights the advantages of multimedia - textual, visual, abstract, interactive, social
- Access to timely information - e.g. Dodge article in current issue of L<
- No duplication, hole-punching, and distribution in class.
- There's good stuff out there.
- Can't teach in the traditional way!!!
Disadvantages from the teachers perspective:
- Good materials take time to create.
- Got to plan and construct well ahead to get things up on time.
- If access is down - need a backup plan, like paper-based or local site within the LAN
- Students with no or poor access.
- Not enough access during class.
- Tech glitches can distract from teaching/learning.
- Can't teach in the traditional way!!!
Survey results from Central Flordia U-- click on the DL Impact link.
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