Distance Learning
Presentation points
There are various points regarding distance learning that have to be highlighted. The aim of the teaching program planned here is for students to be somewhere other than the school and still be able to go through a learning process. The name of the different methods used here depends on the networks like Internet, the local school's local area network or a corporation's wide area network. Considering that we are planning a system to provide education to students for ancient languages, we have to try to approach a wide area and thus the site has to be situated on the Internet. (Distance Learning) The system of such a presentation has the following points:-
The advantages of this system are that it provides the education generally provided by qualified teachers for students who would not otherwise have the money to afford learning from them.
This will help students who are not able to afford the learning of this subject, and this happens only because the students can get the required amount of help from this site.
3. It will help the students who have difficulties in attending regular school but can attend this class as they can attend it when they want. (Distance Learning)
4. If the students are staying in a distant place and are not able to attend the classes for this subject due to the remoteness of their house, then this method will help them to attend class.
5. Some of the students in these types of courses are already working and are not able to attend regular classes due to their commitments of reaching the place of work at certain times.
6. Certain incidents occur where the organizations may be willing to set up teaching institute, but cannot do so due to the costs of paying the teachers and the small number of students available.
7. Since the distances between areas requiring such education are quite high, the traveling expense to be paid to the teachers is quite high and that would be difficult to pay for the teaching organization.
8. After some time, the courses reach a high level and the experts available for advanced courses for a short time are low and thus none may be available. (Issues addressed)
These are the disadvantages of the existing sources of getting the same information, and the new course will try to solve the problems of solving these difficulties. At the same time, this is an electronic teaching program and will provide the following advantages for teaching.
1. The development of the course will be only through a certain number of fixed instruction modules
2. The progress will be judged only through a certain number of tests.
3. For every lesson there may be mediation by the concerned teacher.
4. Instead of just taking down some instructions in the dark, there is an instructor who provides valuable guidance.
5. There are possibilities of using computer printers, floppy disks or files sent on the Internet for the students to send assignments. (Hefferon, 1995)
When one considers the situation regarding IT based ancient language instructions, there are many sites that are providing the required information. If a search is made on Google using the correct terminology, and one also provides for the removal of some unwanted elements that may come in, then for Latin, there are already some 1,800 sites which provide this. Similarly for Greek, the number of sites available is something like 700 sites. (Hyper rote: The Role of IT in Ancient Language Teaching) The question is then that we are not trying to get into an area of operation that is totally out of date, or something that cannot be profitable. Many students need to get credits so that they can continue on the courses that they are pursuing. Apart from that, our course shall give them an opportunity to get directed learning as we will have the teacher as the moderator to provide guidance for the students and their development. (Background)
List of materials
The presentation will be made in a hall with full video facilities and this makes it easy to carry the presentation in the form of a Video Disk. The VD may be prepared after charting down the main points in an acceptable format, which should also contain the required images. By following this method, the...
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