Is it effective to replace traditional classroom teaching with learning activity management systems (LAMS) to improve personalized learning?
Yes, it is effective to replace traditional classroom teaching with learning activity management systems (LAMS) to improve personalized learning. The ongoing experience of the pandemic has taught educators the invariable lesson of improving tools to protect personalized learning. The next-generation digital learning ecosystem is all about replacing traditional classroom with LAMS for learning whether personalized or collaborative.
Replacing the traditional mode is difficult, if not impossible. There some laboratory teaching that are difficult to teach on the Internet. Blended mode is suggested. However, certain points are important:
Its important to keep real time communication, there should something to keep discussions going, hypermedia is also very important.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION is meant to be impersonal and effective means for mass delivery of education to a nation. Anything else that pretends to give personalized lesson breaks down to private tutoring and non-institutionalized delivery of education.
TRADITIONAL VS. FAKE MODERN EDUCATION may be differentiated by the infusion or implementation of technology at the expense of quality education. The introduction of the LCD projector breaks down the professorial delivery of a lecture to nothing more than a sales pitch with LCD slides of presentation. Look at Ivy League institutions, such as Stanford, Oxford, MIT, Harvard, etc.---they still use blackboard and white chalks---LCD here and there, but for the most part education remains traditional...and they still produces top doctors, lawyers and scientists.
FAILED EXPERIMENTS can be seen all over the world university campuses. What is meat as instructional scaffolding now turns into ineffectual and failed delivery of university education. The best example of this failure in professorial work is the "flipping the class" system where instructors are relegated to the role of "coaching." Instructional scaffolding means the instructors help students with increasing difficult tasks to the point where students could carry on their own, i.e. laboratory classes are good example where students attend lecture with a professor and immediately apply the knowledge in the lab with Teaching Assistant (TA). Many American universities follow this model at university level. Even the case-based study system employed in the US, despite the availability of technology, is very much traditional with real-life instructor leading the class discussion. While computer simulation is a good way to exercise scenario analysis, basic knowledge is still acquired through traditional learning.
NOVEL METHODS OF LEARNING. The names such as Leonardo Da Vinvici, Galileo, LaPlace, Newton, Albert Einstein, Plank, Stephen Hawking, etc. these great minds were not products of any "novel learning methods." How many great minds of the 21st century did the so-called novel learning methods produced?
LEARNING BY DOING? Certain types of classes have already been implemented. most science courses are accompanied by lab hours. Some principle courses, such as economics and philosophy, learning by doing is not applicable. University education, for the most part, is NOT a trade or vocational school. Learning by doing or activity-based learning is be more appropriate for vocational courses. in hotel management course, for instance, no theoretical treatment is more appropriate than hands-on learning when it comes to making beds and cleaning the lavatory. People advocating learning by doing or activity-based learning is either confused the difference between university courses from vocational training or is just too lazy to teach.
I would say - not to replace (as direct personal contact can't be effectively replaced, especially in fields of human or social sciences etc.), but it can be very efficient to support "traditional" teaching methods with online teaching/learning activities... However, it must be still well prepared by teacher, otherwise it could be rather confusing and inefficient...
Definitely yes, dear @PeymanKurdpour. Although in Sciences there are many subjects that would be very difficult to implement and develope an efective class, as on practical sessions or lab lessons, there are several learning activity management systems (LAMS) that you could use in your classes. On these times of COVID19 it is not only useful, but necessary to use them. You can learn about them in: https://www.lamsinternational.com/
Yes, but we can't completely eradicate traditional classroom teaching because there are some courses or subjects that students can not fully understand them with teaching them on the internet except having student-teacher explanation. It's good to incorporate e-learning to educational system but not totally eradicating traditional classroom teaching but we can ease it as development on online grows. I think this one good thing this pandemic as taught us not to sleep on our status quo or routine way of teaching.
Online learning has widened scope of education and transcended it beyond a digital classroom boundaries.India is witnessing a digital revolution with new 5-- million users set to join the bandwagon of the internet revolution..E learning opens a Pandora box of resources in front of both students and teachers ,the access to which they would not have had earlier irrespective of their status and location.E learning has made it easier for students from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to learn industry specific skills and paid a high paying job .In addition to it ,the cost of a degree college is higher than cost of a degree in a traditional college is higher than the cost time attached ,and you can take up online courses from the comfort of your home.
On the other side E learning is hence steadily disrupting the hackneyed chalk and talk of education system in India because of the immense benefits it has to offer
Although e-learning is a fantastic mode of teaching. LAMS should only support traditional classroom teaching for certain disciplines. This explains why a lot of laboratory based programmes (for example: Science, Engineering & Technology, Medical Science) are not offered online.
Yes it is effective but there are some pediments especially when learners are poorly equipped with technology, failure in internet connectivity and social-cultural
inclinations.
Many of the educators, in general, have been experimenting with the E-learning tools for teaching and assessment during the COVID-19. It is a great initiative to get away with traditional classroom teaching. However, in our local context, access to stable internet facilities to students in rural areas is a big challenge to educators. Also, not all educators are IT savvy. So the process of experimenting with new virtual tools for E-learning and its implementation may have some hiccups.
The coming of the 21st century has drastically made various changes and challenges in the world of education. With our current situation, today with this Pandemic, learning styles and strategies will definitely differ as compared before. As a Physical Education teacher, it is really very challenging on our part to introduce skills ( movement education ) entirely ONLINE, this modality may not be effective or suitable for all considering the diversity of students we have in our classroom. For time being I am for a Flexible Learning Activity (FLA), but definitely we still need to harmonize this with face-to-face or traditional classroom teaching. Most experts say that learning is greatly dependent on the kind of pedagogical approaches used by the teachers in the classroom which refers to the practice of teaching and methods employed.
In all reality, "Blended" learning may be the easy route of maintaining new technology in classroom with traditional method. The fact that is certain is that the next-generation digital learning ecosystem is here. While we cannot run away from it, we can however blend where necessary and as applicable to most subject areas. There are core subject matters that a teacher cannot but meet with the students face-to-face. There are also subjects that may contain with technology without having to bother meeting with students. However, in all situation, blended method will support both theories.
Agreed Emmanuel Ogbonnaya
The latest researches proved the effectiveness of blended learning, although there are some courses in medical science education, for example, drug information, that can be taught online. Information on medications is a piece of mere knowledge, not a complex content needs teacher explanations.
Thank you Samy Azer for your noteworthy comment. Even though there are not high-quality researches to prove online learning efficacy in the COVID-19 pandemic, its benefit is undeniable.
There are several situations we depend on online learning; for example, teaching in remote areas and the bush with no availability of teachers or ultra-structure, online learning is a suitable solution. Also, doing Masters or higher education degrees online found to be useful for subjects who cannot travel for any reason and willing to study at a particular institute for a specific purpose. These are two examples. However, when we come to generalisation and making decisions about undergraduate education and high school education, the ministers together and decision-makers have to decide based on evidence. That is the point I am making.
It was an interesting experience. We have learned how to employ technology in learning but the critical question is HOW reliable were our students' results? Each institution followed different assessment methods.
Dear Peyman Kurdpour , I think yes, and according to changes of human preferences, also i think we must test novel methods ever.
Thank you, dear Jesús Pérez and Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh for your valuable comments.
In my opinion, blended is suitable but we have a different style of individual learning, not all suitable. We must learn to adapt to new norm education.
All teaching models I am informed about, I could not find any drawback in any of these. Each model has its own merit in terms of its applicability that we need to put it our mind. But why situations sometimes inform us to look forward for other alternatives, because we fail to realize and understand the knowledge base that lies beneath every model. in abbreviation, we must be enough experienced to have know of which model to use or in other words how to connect different models instead of thinking otherwise.
This experience in the face of Covid-19, which made it necessary to use online activities, we still have no evidence of this implementation. Many studies were carried out in controlled situations or all students in the study had access to resources for the online experience. Today in many schools that need to use online education, we have many students with access difficulties and some even without access and who are not carrying out activities and in a situation of exclusion. There are many variables interfering in this process at the moment.
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