The use of e-learning is becoming increasingly common on a range of courses in universities. To what extent is this beneficial for your chosen field of study?
Ya Ping Huang
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E-learning has developed over ten years and has had a huge effect for students on different courses in the universities. Actually, it is a new kind of technology used to support the learning and teaching, such as radio, music, magazine and web pages. The features of e-learning are that is can let learners gain knowledge and abilities from a variety countries on the Internet and it also overlaps all kinds of information and data in different courses. This research paper is divided into four parts. First is the background and the definition of e-learning. Second is the positives aspects of e-learning of the English language learning. Third is the negative aspects of e-learning of the English language learning and the last is the effects of e-learning after its use by students in universities on the class. There are a lot of definition of e-learning, one of the definition is “involves a web-based component, enabling the collaboration and access to content that extends beyond the classroom.” (Bichsel, 2003). Therefore, according to Mohammadi et al’s (2010) study, it describes that e-learning can increase students interesting in multimedia, such as television, animation and movies, and learners can study after the class anytime and anywhere. (Bureau Education, 2009). However, most research papers declare the positive aspects of e-learning, these has little studies show the negatives. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of e-learning using in the universities.
There following some reasons why e-learning is beneficial for students. Mahammidi et al. (2011) illustrate that multimedia learning can increase students’ motivation through music and television, because students can focus on the pronunciation, intonation and
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