Monday, April 7, 2014
Advice to My
College
With
the rapidly changing technology the usage of information technology has been adopted
by every function in life and education is no exception to it. For the present
article, the term ‘new media’ is used for getting benefit from the technology
to substitute the current medium of transferring information i.e. books (Flowers) . On the same lines,
the process of doing assignments and the system of grading them could also be
innovated that would provide students with interactive learning experience.
Such usage of technology is equally beneficial for teachers to monitor the
performance of students and taking corrective measures accordingly.
Colleges
should use the new media to improve the learning experience for students at the
same time reducing their operational costs. The lectures that are delivered by
professors in classrooms could be recorded and broadcasted live so that those
students who are unable to come to college could attend their classes sitting
from home. Moreover, the lectures should be available to registered students
online, so that they can access the material later on if they encounter problem
in understanding the concepts discussed in classes. Research has proven that
teaching models that were broadcasted on web were better compared with the
traditional models of demonstration based teaching (Flowers) .
Although the topic of new media seems quite closer to distance learning, but
effectively we should accept that when media is broadcasted, it is easier to get
converted to a distance learning program.
Other
than lectures, grades and assignment marks should be there on secured servers
so that students are well-informed about their performance and can track their
grade average over time. Putting grading on secured system helps students only
when teachers continuously update the grading instruments on portal in time.
References
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffpiu016.pdf.
