On-line Education

In my research paper I'm planning to analyse modern on-line methods of educations. I think that education and popular culture are very close to each other. Good educated society could raise the culture, but bad educated people are not very interesting in the culture. Education is very important for the development of culture. I want to analyse different methods of education:  regular classes, on-line classes, combined classes, when students meet each other in the classroom and on-line.  It will be good to analyse D2Learn classes. They are new and very popular in Pima Community College. Students learn in these classes: WRT, Sociology, Health Information Technology, United States History, ART History, CSA and many other subjects.  It will be interesting to compare different ways to meet people in class and on-line. The main purpose of my future research is investigation of D2Learn classes and compares them to traditional classes. Why students love them, why they choose them and how they study popular culture in different ways? I think that is going to be one very interesting project.
In my project I’m going to use different source of information. In this way, the video “Information literacy series overview” is very helpful. It helps students improve their information literacy skills. Doctor Bob Baker said the “process of acquiring pieces of information is like trying to fill a teacup with a fire horse.” The Information literacy according to Dr. Baker include: ability to find, use and evaluate Information.
Information literacy series overview

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-GQtGDEp38

I would like to focus more on D2Learn. It was my last blog post and it was interesting to discuss it. Internet is new media. It opens a lot of opportunities for students. We can learn and work, because we schedule our time. We can learn on the distant and we can be involved in the developing of popular culture.
In my opinion, popular culture is a new way in the educational process. Since childhood, everybody learns songs, ferities, games, some famous poems for children. At school students learn more poems and they read popular stories and books, watch and discuss TV show. Teenagers post their thoughts on Facebook account and write on the walls of their friends, in this way people began to write, create, type, and read more often and young people desire to write more interesting, more creative to became more popular in Internet. In the same time other teenagers who are less creative, less educated begin to criticize. They do it not polite, not with real name. How can creative teenager protect himself? In this way very important to know how to ban impolite person, how to moderate personal page. It is good way to study possibilities of the Internet. Some of young people are ready for D2Learn without special education like computer literacy. Modern methods of education are more democratically influence the students. They learn by themselves.
Nowadays, it is very popular to know Internet very well. It is a culture of modern society. In this way, teenagers desire to have computers at home or they go to the libraries, and/or to the Internet-café.
On the other hand it is very good for teachers to teach students, using D2Learn classes.  On-line discussions are very popular in History classes, Literature classes, Sociology classes, WRT classes, especially on the high levels. Students are typing very fast; it saves a lot of time. For me, like for student, it is very interesting to read all posts in discussions. In WRT 126, it is very interesting to read all students short stories and literature’s discussions.
I can compare all these methods with methods of education in Moldova. Moldova is a new independent country in Europe. There are not so much opportunities for teenagers to use computer and Internet. Not enough computers at schools. Some schools don’t have computers at all. In some schools students have opportunity to use computer only in the computer information class. In my opinion, it is not enough sources for modern education in Moldova and in the other new independent countries after collapse USSR.
In this way, I find a great question for investigation:
How does the on-line learning trend affect other countries with fewer opportunities?

D2Learn Analysis

D2Learn Analysis

“Do you have desire?”

 “Of course, I have. My big desire is to learn. I want to have good profession, then great career and good life!”

“I understand you! Can you explain me what kind of classes are desire to learn? Are they media?”

“Yes, if you are Pima Community College student, you can take classes online. You can register online and choose a class online”.

“Are they specific?”

Yes! They are very specific! You should know very well Word 2010, Internet, Computer, and Keyboarding. You should have PC or laptop and schedule your personal time.

There is a great quotation about media:
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan’s said.

When you take D2Learn class, you have great messages. I read the syllabus online and follow all instructions in the syllabus and assignments. You create your own written works: post, e-mails to your class-mates and instructor. You receive e-mails and you study online materials and read e-books. You listen to voice-mails and send voice-mails. You watch video for studying course materials and sometimes you create your video. And every time you have a new message which is your new knowledge and your new experience. Finally, you take a test online.

While you study everything in the online class, you receive new credits for you future profession. When you will start your career in business or you are going to work in the modern office, you already will have not only knowledge, but you will have a great experience in working online. Try to focus on that!

If you are Pima Community College student, you would like to register for One of D2Learn class. If you already registered, go to Academic tab and then open D2Learn. You will see your online classes. It is very valuable, because you save your time. People say, “Time is money!” It is true. You shouldn’t go to your regular class, you just open your account and you can work online. You can do it home, or go to Learning Center and take any computer available. When you open the online class, you will see everything you need: content for every week, assignments, group and class discussions, quizzes and open forum. Feel free! You study and everything was done for you.

You can ask me, “Where is a message?”

“All materials for class are messages. For example, you take WRT26 class. Today you must read the short story “Replay All”, by Robin Hemley. This story is a message for you! Read it carefully and create your post about this story. In this way, you will post a new message for your classmates. Be creative! Your message must be unique and interesting for all readers. When your new post is ready, it is a new message for your class-mates and teacher. Then you will read all posts of your classmates and it is a deep analysis created by all your class. In this way, many students created one big analysis of one story. Many messages became one big message.

Studying online is a good way to be graduated in a College or University. Graduation in the College is a great value. People believe that the graduated person is very professional and can create a good career. Nowadays, new media is very important for good education. Every specialist must be well-known with new media. Business, Selling, Advertising are very prospering in the Internet. It is very popular now to create Website for every corporation and businesses. The competitions between corporations can be failed without using Internet opportunities.  That is why, when you take classes online, you became more familiar with media and you going to be good specialist in the near future.