27/9/16

E-learning enables us to ‘obtain and deliver knowledge anytime anywhere’ (Horton, 2000:6).

Technology has advanced so quickly, which has enabled e-learning to be incorporated into our daily lives, such as education, home, work and is accessible anytime and anywhere (Welsh et al, 2003).  Most people have mobile phones and tablets, among other technological devices, even televisions incorporate e-learning.

Children that are currently in education have been growing up with access to advanced technology and can appear to be more tech-literate than their parents and other relatives.

I remember my childhood when I only had four television channels; then we got our first computer (when you had to connect to dial-up to get online); then a little later we got a 5th television channel.  At age 16 I got my first mobile phone, which was originally my mothers, passed down from my father and my brother; prior to this, I had a BT phonecard that had about 12 digits to remember, to make a phone call using a public telephone box.

I feel that I had the best childhood and I would not change it; however, comparing it to today’s childhood, there are so many differences, which have mostly been due to technological advances.

Having studied ICT GNVQ and ICT AVCE in college, and having originally studied an engineering degree at Portsmouth University where some assignments were about building websites through coding rather than visually building it; I feel that I am very technologically literate and able, however, this is my first time writing a blog and using wordpress.

As this is my first time in the blog world, I have to be honest…it feels very daunting to write and reflect but not get to continue redrafting what I have written before I submit this assignment in May.  As I am applying for teacher training for a Sept 2017 start, I am extremely focused on achieving high grades this year as I need to achieve a 2:1.  However, having written this post, I now feel more confident in just going for it and writing what I feel is right at the time, as well as being interactively reflective .

I feel that e-learning is now very much at the forefront of our lives and very strongly influential in education.  I am very much looking forward to advancing my knowledge and understanding in this e-learning module; through interacting with different types of e-learning, multimedia principles, and developing a different appreciation of e-learning, for future advances, future generations and future implementation into my own classroom.

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Horton, W. (2000) Designing Web-based Training. New York: John Wiley and sons.

Welsh, E.T., Wanberg, C.R., Brown, K.G., & Simmering, M.J. (2003) E-learning: emerging uses, empirical results and future directions. International Journal of Training and Development. 7(4) pp.245-258. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-3736.2003.00184.x (Accessed: 26/09/16).