Online Learning

May 02, 2010

Digital media technologies will transform teaching and learning. Also known as distance learning, e-learning, online learning, Open Education Resources (OER.), or open learning, it has enabled people to share different forms of knowledge across all kinds of content. Higher educational institutions such as Yale, M.I.T. and Carnegie Mellon, have been offering their course materials for the public to access. Anyone from the world can access their professors’ lectures about Anatomy, Philosophy, or the Solid State of Chemistry. Furthermore, Amazon’s Web Services enable both learners and educators to easily access their infrastructure services, including CloudFront and Mechanical Turk, for teaching, research projects of large content, coursework, survey forms, translations and lecture transcriptions. Not only will the movement of curriculum to a digital, online environment transform the learning experience for students, but it will eventually shift the way our society views education by displacing the traditional educational system.

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