E-Learning Can Improve Learning

ISBN-13: 9783838317168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 124 str.

Eileen O' Donnell

Opis

This book explores the hypothesis Can e-learning be used to further improve the learning experience, to better prepare students for work in industry? Initially a Survey of Representatives from Industry was conducted. From the responses received, surveys for students and lecturers were then created, to establish their views on whether e-learning was improving the learning experience (in accordance with the expectations of representatives from industry). In the context of this study, the term e- learning refers to the use of an e-learning platform as an enhancement to traditional teaching methods in the form of blended learning. The term industry is used here in a generic sense i.e. a form of employment that will remunerate the employee. The final conclusion is that e-learning blended with traditional teaching methods when used effectively, further improves the learning experience, to better prepare students for work in industry.

O autorze

Eileen O Donnell was conferred with a BSc and a MSc from Dublin City University. While lecturing on the Post Graduate Diploma in Business Information Systems in the Dublin Institute of Technology a research interest in e-learning commenced, which has since evolved into the pursuit of a PhD in Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.