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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Online Education: An Introduction
Education has been a piece of our world since people first began to set up communities and broadened their horizons. Digital Education (DE) or Online Education (OE), on the other hand has only been a reality for less than six decades. It transcends the walls of a classroom and anyone from anywhere in the world can join as long as they have access to the Internet.
Surprisingly, OE was used by students decades before home computers became popular. It began when scientists in the University of Illinois created a classroom system based in linked computer terminals in the 1960s (L.). This was considered a landmark experience in OE even though it does not match the Web learning offered today (L.). And this technology has only evolved as time passed.
OE itself has been defined as an online course in which at least 80 percent of the course content is delivered online (Brazina). While many might wonder why OE is not defined as completely 100 percent online, it is because OE has many categories and one includes a blend of both online and a traditional face-to-face classroom. The purpose of this paper is to explain the different methods of OE, their impact, and the technological evolutions of online education.
Surprisingly, OE was used by students decades before home computers became popular. It began when scientists in the University of Illinois created a classroom system based in linked computer terminals in the 1960s (L.). This was considered a landmark experience in OE even though it does not match the Web learning offered today (L.). And this technology has only evolved as time passed.
OE itself has been defined as an online course in which at least 80 percent of the course content is delivered online (Brazina). While many might wonder why OE is not defined as completely 100 percent online, it is because OE has many categories and one includes a blend of both online and a traditional face-to-face classroom. The purpose of this paper is to explain the different methods of OE, their impact, and the technological evolutions of online education.
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