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8 years 8 months ago #198825 by
Do you have much experience with different e-learning websites?

What qualities in an online class do you like?
What do you "not like"?

What sites rise to the top?

Has anyone used google classroom?

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8 years 8 months ago #198832 by Edan
Are you looking to find a good e-learning website baru?

I study for my degree online through a university in my country. I like classes that have a mix of reading, videos and interactive elements (shame my own degree doesn't always provide this).
I don't like powerpoint presentations where there's no lecture over the top (presentations will always only be able to be brief), and I also don't like just reading (because I could do that myself without a course).

I have used Coursera before, and also edX when it first came out. Both have many different courses run by different institutions. Obviously though because of this it means that the media through which course content is delivered varies. You would have to look at the overview of each course to know.

I've never used google classroom before (honestly didn't know about it until now), but it looks like you have to sign up from an institution, which means it doesn't seem suitable for individual users.

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8 years 8 months ago #198833 by Jestor
I just finished a Coursers class on "Intro to Philosophy"...

While I though "how hard can watching an hours worth of video and questions be?"

I found out that time management is tricky, and did finish s couple assignments late...

Even an hours worth of video, on new info, is tough...

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8 years 8 months ago #198849 by Whyte Horse
I like moodle. I hate blackboard. I've both as both a student and a teacher.

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8 years 8 months ago #198850 by Edan

Whyte Horse wrote: hate blackboard.


My uni uses this. I completely agree.

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how is the learning curve with moodle? what do you do about the hosting?

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8 years 8 months ago #198866 by Tellahane
Much like any open source project moodle has had contributions from a large number of coders so the project ends up with a big pile of this idea's mixed with that idea's, so it can be hard to navigate and figure out, unlike other projects like blackboard where its built from the ground up with a design in mind.

I've written a private LMS(learning management system) before, its quite a large project to take on.

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I much rather liked Moodle. Blackboard ... :sick:

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8 years 7 months ago - 8 years 7 months ago #198952 by Adder
Do you have much experience with different e-learning websites?

I've done heaps (too many am burnt out lol) at Coursera, and had a look at various other MOOCs such as EdX. I think the Uni I did postgrad at used an early version of Moodle but that was awhile ago now.

What qualities in an online class do you like?
What do you "not like"?


Video lectures, and the speed up playback option of Coursera was great as some lecturers speak a little slow sometimes. I like a tight assessment process such as a timer - as without the pressure it does not forge learning IMO. I liked provision of lecture content such as text and images available as separate downloads to assist self study. The forum mediated participation has potential but would need to be much more structured, perhaps like more like a live lecture in 'text' form but over 24 hours and not actually live. I was never able to participate in live video lectures due to timezones so unable to comment on that.

I don't like self paced stuff so much... the internet is big enough already for me to self pace in basically anything, so I think an online class should push the student through a body of material as a supported process of mental exercise.

What sites rise to the top?

Coursera was my fav, of those few I tried.

Has anyone used google classroom?

Nope, I had not heard of it, will have a look though, thanks!

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