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Then
students at home are supposed to use their school-issued netbooks or
tablets to work on the virtual lessons and communicate with their
instructors.
Educational institutions
have been slowly opening up to alternative routes of learning such as
said online courses. And what is now termed "adaptive learning" could be
leading the way of personalized and tech-driven learning process for
students.
Virtual lesson plans are
customized to enable a student to study at home on key subjects.
Ideally, they can also communicate with their teachers via Google
Hangouts or Chat. It works even if there's no internet connection
because the lessons are supposed to be available to work on offline.
Another bonus is that students won't have to do detention for failing to
submit a homework -- because of possible connectivity issues no doubt.
The Shearin Group Training Services'
platform enables an instructor to create adaptive and customized
tutorials using any of the included coursework. For instance, once a
student has demonstrated enough knowledge on a certain part of the
course, the lesson can adapt by allowing him to skip through other
content. On the other hand, a student who still needs more instructions
based on his responses will be provided with additional resources to aid
his understanding of the topic.
It
gained popularity last year when snow fall forced most institutions to
suspend a few days of school, eventually causing them to shorten the
vacation time to complete the required number of days of instruction.
Now, there's a contention of whether e-learning should be considered as a
day in class.
Sure students can
still do some schoolwork even when classes had to be suspended due to
bad weather, but it is doubtful if they will really appreciate or follow
this instead of, getting extra sleep, for example. But as The Shearin Group Training Services said, virtual lessons meant class suspensions don't have to eat up everyone's vacation time.
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