What role do you think distance education will play in education as the Information Age unfolds and technologies improve? What advantages and disadvantages for teachers and students do you foresee?
I think distance education in the information age will play a large positive role with new technologies because education and technology has come along way. New technologies have more capabilities than older technologies. In comparison of technology years ago distance education was probably a thought and the Internet was in full bloom with limitations. New technologies are created each day that are improving the way we learn and teach that encourage educators to learn more so that they are able to teach more. The benefit of distance education and new technology is it is enabling technology to reach more rural areas and countries that have technology limitations.
The advantages for teachers and students are:
- Teachers and students do not have to be in the same place and meet face-to-face in a classroom.
- Teachers are able to meet with students online in group discussions.
- Students have the ability to access online materials and complete assignments.
- When students are out sick and unable to attend school they still have access to course materials and they do not fall behind.
- Teachers have the ability to leave instruction to course materials and students complete assignments.
- Students that live in rural areas can have problems accessing materials.
- Teachers that need professional development can experience problems preparing materials.
- Low bandwidth will cause connection issues.
- Students could require more hands on learning and need to be in a physical environment with the teacher.
- Lack of equipment.
Working on this weeks assignments has been an experience. I have used Weebly more than once to create a website or a portfolio, but never a quiz. This was not a hard process everything I needed was available. I did encounter a few problems before discovering how to create the quiz with other applications on Weebly that can be used to create a quiz. I learned that Fyrebox quiz you cannot mix open-ended questions which means that all of the questions were either multiple-choice or what ever was selected, but they could not be a variety. This was bad because our quiz questions were suppose to be a mixture of questions.
Creating the forum was a new experience. Learning new software such as Rubistar was new to me because I had never heard of it. It was easy to use. I have created rubrics before for another class, but this application made it really easy. I really liked the download options with Rubistar for an Excel spreadsheet. Most download are pdf or a link for sharing the file. Quizizz was new to me as well. I decided for this assignment to combine two lessons and create a quiz because I need ten questions. Loads of fun and easy to use. This week was a great assignment.
Quizzizz: Click the Quizizz button ink below and follow the steps below.
1.Enter the 6-digit game code 383582 , and click "Proceed"
2. Now enter your name and click "Join Game!"
3. You will get an avatar, and then see a "Start Game" button. Click it to begin!