Apart from digitizing traditional teacher-to-student (T2S) and student-to-teacher (S2T) communication, learning management system enables real-time student-to-student (S2S) communication using multi-media and other creative ways. After lesson, all feedback loops can continue in both synchronous and asynchronous ways.
Learning from peer is something effective but teachers are hard to drive in the past. Today, social network among students get much stronger and make each student a "peer teacher". In the future, our children will become our "teachers" if not "professors".
In a learning management system (LMS), students and teachers can comment each other's work. Comment could be as simple as giving Facebook "Like".
Learning from peer is something effective but teachers are hard to drive in the past. Today, social network among students get much stronger and make each student a "peer teacher". In the future, our children will become our "teachers" if not "professors".
2. Self-directed Learning
The traditional approach of teaching is through curriculum setting. This is for mass scale production. More personalized education will become more popular. By catering learning differences in terms of capabilities and objectives, students can direct their own effort effectively to different activities in the learning process. Tracking system and assessment system (so-called "Learning Analytics") will guide them through the process and allow students to move more effectively towards their learning goals. Longitudinal assessment will become feasible for each person through-out their lives.
In a learning management system (LMS), students and teachers can have cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis on students' performance. This enable teachers to adjust their teaching strategy and perform remedial actions for students lacking behind.
3. Seamless Learning
In every minute of students' lives when they are awake, learning could happen. Apart from formal lessons, students can watch a Shakespeare's play (e.g. Romeo and Juliet) and immediately want to wiki Shakespeare's other plays. By creating a survey, students can collect opinion on Shakespeare from their friends world-wide through social media network (e.g. facebook and twitter) or conduct face-to-face interviews outside an opera house. Students can let their curiosities flow through their learning process and guide them to explore a new knowledge domain.
4. Early Adaptation to New Economy
4. Early Adaptation to New Economy
The Internet world has abundant resources which not only give us knowledge but improvements on our quality of life. Creativity unleashes from billion of users through trillion of hours we spent here. More and more value creation happens on the Internet and it becomes a new form of economy without country barrier. Teachers could give an edge to students by integrating classroom learning effectively with the new world around their students. The earlier students get in touch with the emerging new world, the stronger they can be in the future. (Ref: The Internet and the New Economy, Alan S. Blinder, January 2000, http://brie.berkeley.edu/sc/cp221/blinder%20on%20productivity.pdf )
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