" A virtual learning environment (VLE) is a system that creates an environment designed to facilitate teachers in the management of educational courses for their students, especially a system using computer hardware and software, which involves distance learning (Wikipedia,2010).
The definition for virtual learning environments is more applicable to the present in terms of technology and applications then if it were applied to the past.
Traveling through time with the same class as now. Would you be able to earn a graduate degree with an audio/visual communication network as used in the early 1900’s? The standards have been raised and technology created to bring education into the 21st century. In 1990’s, Florida State University was still offering courses via television. The interaction between student and teacher has since tripled. Now feedback, group interaction, online class sessions, and so much more is available in and virtual learning environment. Today there are over 205 colleges and schools offering online learning and students are earning more than $300 per week with the MBA."
My comment:
It is indeed amazing that the foundation of today's online educational system was created and used for 40 years way back then yet, here we are today, struggling to prove that this type of learning works and can be better for some learners. Imagine if that type of learning would have been embraced and empowered, how many of our children would be on a better path today. How few children would there be in the judicial system if they had been given another alternative to sitting long hours in a classroom where they understood little due to the teacher's pace and not their own level of comprehension? I believe there could have been a difference. What do you think?
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