More than 1,000 years of formal university learning and teaching does not change quickly, or without a struggle. But we are starting to see some key tech trends engaging staff and students. Online Education produce great results by decreasing costs and improving performance. Also, unlike a one time classroom session, the Online Education course is available for others. This includes the static e-learning course as well as any ongoing conversations in networked communities.
We will see as much change in the next 20 years as we saw in the last 20,000! Click here to read more
Why content marketing is not a successful e-learning method ?
Google's survey on Indian Online Education
Changing Education
Some top free websites for E-Learning
https://www.coursera.org/ Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free.
https://www.khanacademy.org/ Learn almost anything for free
https://www.udacity.com/ Learn. Think. Do. Higher Education for Free
https://www.udemy.com/ Start Learning from the World's Top Instructors.
www.2tion.com : Students can clarify doubts with experts and also select best tutor for any subject.
http://www.codecademy.com/ Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
https://www.edx.org/ Explore free courses from edX universities
https://www.openlearning.com/ Enjoy teaching and love learning. Choose from a range of public and private online courses.
https://p2pu.org At P2PU, people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.
http://www.mathtv.com/ Professional video lessons in mathematics. Covers basic math through calculus.
http://learner.org/ Professionally developed programming for K-12 classrooms.
http://www.uwtv.org/ Offered by the University of Washington, UWTV has videos in the arts, K-12, social sciences, health, and more.
http://videolectures.net/ Get access to browseable lectures designed for the exchange of ideas and knowledge, offering videos in architecture, business, technology, and many more categories.
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ Comprehensive online directory of FREE educational videos aggregated from across the Web.
http://www.mentormob.com/ Featuring learning playlists, MentorMob is a great place to find lessons you want to teach.
http://www.apple.com/apps/itunes-u/ Free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more accessible via Apple iTunes.
http://www.academicearth.org/ Academic Earth aims to provide everyone with the opportunity to earn a world-class education by offering free online classes and online learning tools.
http://classroomclips.org/ Classroom Clips offers media for educators and students.
http://www.cosmolearning.com/ Aggregator of free educational website for students and teachers
http://www.edutopia.org/ An great resource to find learning ideas and resources, Edutopia has videos, blogs, and more, all sorted into grade levels.
http://www.brightstorm.com Brightstorm helps save you time studying so you have time for other things...
http://www.thefutureschannel.com/ High quality multimedia content ideal for use in the classroom.
http://explore.org/ shares live animal cams, films, educational channels, and more for your classroom to explore.
http://www.howcast.com/ Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how.
http://mit.edu/ Lectures and course materials for students, teachers, and self-learners.
http://www.neok12.com/ Aggregator of high-quality educational videos from around the Web.
http://www.ovguide.com/education Find education videos on this site, featuring author readings and instructional videos.
http://www.schooltube.com/ Video sharing platform for schools featuring original content created by students.
http://teachertube.com/ YouTube for online community of teachers is an amazing resource for finding and sharing educationally-focused instructional videos.
http://ed.ted.com/ Use engaging videos to create customized lessons.
http://www.videojug.com/ Expert advice with over 60,000 FREE, professionally-produced how to videos and guides.
http://www.wonderhowto.com/ Search engine and directory of free how-to videos.
http://www.youtube.com/education Free lectures from more than one hundred colleges and universities.
http://www.zaneeducation.com/ The essential and compelling visual learning teaching resource for every K-12 classroom.
http://www.schoox.com/ Schoox is an Academy for Self-Learners where members can teach, learn and certify their knowledge online. Users can create private or public online courses ...
We will see as much change in the next 20 years as we saw in the last 20,000! Click here to read more
Why content marketing is not a successful e-learning method ?
Even though e-learning is growing tremendously, many educational companies who concentrated in developing and promoting e-content couldn't grow well or vanished .
- High cost for preparing animated e-content.
- Alternate contents are available free on Internet
- Torrents/ free download of paid contents freely available
- Content have to modify year on year
- Students are not using much contents for learning
- Live interactions/ support not available with contents
- Students share contents among them
Google's survey on Indian Online Education
Changing Education
Given the growing momentum of these trends, what does it mean for students, teachers, schools, and the education community at large?
- Teachers’ and students’ relationships are changing, as they learn from each other.
- Teachers roles are shifting from owners of information to facilitators and guides to learning.
- Educators are finding different ways of using class time.
- Introverted students are finding ways to participate in class discussions online.
- Different approaches to teaching are being used in the same class.
- Students are getting a global perspective.
