Traditional Learning vs. eLearning
Traditional Learning vs. eLearning
David Rashty, rashty@addwise.com
Traditional Learning vs. eLearning
Once we free ourselves from the mental limits of viewing this technology as a weak sister to face-toface synchronous education, the potentials to revolutionize education and learning become readily apparent Turrof, 1995
Introduction
There is an argument that traditional learning is the best way of maintaining a learning process. Other models are always considered to be inferior or less efficient. There is no finding to support this argument, and research shows that eLearning models are at least as good as traditional learning.
Comparing traditional Learning and eLearning
When comparing learning an identical course in a traditional framework to a computer mediated learning framework, students have expressed higher satisfaction from the computermediated learning, and rated the learning as more effective than in the traditional framework.
In other studies, too, it was argued that computer mediated or online learning is more effective and interactive.
Findings of research conducted in the seventies and eighties, comparing the use of computers as a learning environment, also indicated a slight improvement in the student’s achievements following use of a computer. eLearning includes many components that are familiar from traditional learning, such as: presentation of ideas by the students, group discussions, arguments and many other forms of conveying information and accumulating knowledge. The contents of the course’s curriculum might be organized according to subjects and in a serial manner. eLearning also includes advantages which are not found in traditional learning, such as: time for digesting the information and responding, enhanced communication among the learners, both as regards quality and as regards urgency, knowledge being acquired and transferred among the learners themselves, the ability to conduct an open discussion,
David Rashty, rashty@addwise.com
Traditional Learning vs. eLearning
Once we free ourselves from the mental limits of viewing this technology as a weak sister to face-toface synchronous education, the potentials to revolutionize education and learning become readily apparent Turrof, 1995
Introduction
There is an argument that traditional learning is the best way of maintaining a learning process. Other models are always considered to be inferior or less efficient. There is no finding to support this argument, and research shows that eLearning models are at least as good as traditional learning.
Comparing traditional Learning and eLearning
When comparing learning an identical course in a traditional framework to a computer mediated learning framework, students have expressed higher satisfaction from the computermediated learning, and rated the learning as more effective than in the traditional framework.
In other studies, too, it was argued that computer mediated or online learning is more effective and interactive.
Findings of research conducted in the seventies and eighties, comparing the use of computers as a learning environment, also indicated a slight improvement in the student’s achievements following use of a computer. eLearning includes many components that are familiar from traditional learning, such as: presentation of ideas by the students, group discussions, arguments and many other forms of conveying information and accumulating knowledge. The contents of the course’s curriculum might be organized according to subjects and in a serial manner. eLearning also includes advantages which are not found in traditional learning, such as: time for digesting the information and responding, enhanced communication among the learners, both as regards quality and as regards urgency, knowledge being acquired and transferred among the learners themselves, the ability to conduct an open discussion,