It’s all about knowledge

Sorry for being a little bit late!

Part1: Please check the Web or Library for more definitions and find one which fits for your needs or is close to what you think eLearning is or should be.

I think eLearnig is a quite feasible term. I would maybe only add auxiliarys like virtual education or dynamic education to define the term quite more and to connect it to what it is supposed to be, learning in an electronic form which is related to a learning environment and which can be very dynamical, because of the continuous change which can be happen to the learning content but also to the learning environment. Beside that it is really hard to nail one term down to describe the whole range of types which are related to eLearning. For example there are learning communities, virtual classrooms, blended learning, computer-supported cooperative learning, web based collaborations, whiteboards, rapid eLearning, micro learning, etc. Quite a few! I don’t know, to me all of these terms are having the same root “eLearning”. So maybe the right term would be a mix of all terms, but on the other hand they are all relative specific tasks to new learning forms and so they are quite different.

Part 2: What are your expectations from eLearning, when is it useful, what are advantages and what is missing in eLearning compared to presence learning.

What are the advantages of eLearning?

- With eLearning you can learn everywhere - everytime. There is no obligation to be at a specific

place (excepting computer access) or to learn at a specific timerange.

- With eLearning you can recapitulate the learning matter how often you want. If you don’t have

understood it, just to do it again.

- With eLearning you can learn in you own specific pace.

- eLearning is interactive.

- learning contents which aren’t quite understandable, could be supported by medias chunks.

- learning courses are highly adaptable tp specific requirements.

- learning contents are reusable

- media support is easy integrateable, for example audio or video files

- specific types of learning (reading, audio, video, games, etc.)

What are the disadvantages of eLearning?

- The learner had to have some kind of technological knowledge (hardware knowledge, media knowledge,

etc.)

- New didactics elements.

- Social environment - Isolation - teacher to student contact - student to student contact

- Self-discipline to learn the content.

- It is easier to get distracted by something.

Part 3: Please name 2 Settings, Situations or Contents where eLearning is a good solution, in your opinion and why.

The first setting which I would like to see something like eLearning could be it’s commitment in the third world country’s, where knowledge is a matter of luck. I think it is an obligation to offer knowledge to everyone. But to achieve something like that you must also have disclose the needed requirements. For example the hardware (computer), but also the infrastructure, which contains electricity, the possibilities of communication like Internet and so on.

The second setting would be the possibility to learn a specific task, which aren’t available in an country, but in another. To speak in the term of globalization, everyone has the potential to learn everything and everywhere. There are no more borders which are hinder the people to learn what they want and who they want it. The freedom to learn.

http://loveitorchangeit.com/seminars/summer2008/2008/04/08/task-2-what-is-elearning/

AnimationMentor.com is an online school that teaches character animation to students from more than 50 countries worldwide. A place of learning for the new digital age, Animation Mentor moves the best of educational tradition in the arts—professional mentors, creative community and group critiques–into a Web 2.0 environment that is individualized.

About the Program

Animation Mentor developed its animation fundamentals-based curriculum and the educational technologies used to teach it from the ground up. All of the school’s instructors are working animators at creative hot shops such as Pixar, ILM, DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky and they pass on their skills and experiences within a mentor/student relationship.
The core character animation program is eighteen-months and is patterned on the studio production process, with the mentor taking the director’s role and the weekly assignments replicating shots on a film or game. Formal learning takes the shape of live, real-time, interactive Q&A sessions with small groups of students and their shared mentor; rich media expert lectures
about storyboarding, physiology, acting and other critical character animation topics; and frameby- frame eCritiques, audio-visual critiques of student work filmed weekly by the mentors. These regularly scheduled events take place within a thriving, 24-hour community in which students guide and support each other in Animation Mentor forums and chat rooms, maintain personal profile pages with blogs and vlogs, communicate via the school’s proprietary, embedded Instant Messaging Tool (AMIM) and learn from the expert classes and eCritiques stored on the online campus. After 1½ years, students graduate with a certified diploma in Advanced Studies in Character Animation from the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.

About the student body

More than 40% of Animation Mentor students live outside the United States, in every continent except for Antarctica.

The philosophy of education is the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education.

(Wikipedia, 07.04.2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_education)

Whooohiii… my new term at Animation Mentor started last week and my new mentor is tatataataa Pete Paquette!

Pete is an awesome guy who worked at films such as “Robots”, “Ice Age the meltdown”, “Going for nuts” and the lately arrived movie “Horton hears a Who”. This Term will be awesome…so much to learn! And now let the fun begin

Bye

Heya to all!

My name is Sascha and I’m interested in eLearning since 3 or 4 years, didn’t really know anymore when it all started.
Since then I attended on many seminars which were dealing with topics such as “New media, Visualization, eLearning…etc”.
Right now I’m also a student at an Online-School which is teaching Character Animation…some kind of a eLearning Platform, where students all over the world a participating.
The school is called Animation Mentor.

So thats it for now…if you will have questions don’t hesitate to ask

See ya all in the next class!

Bye