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Benefits of E-Teaching
4Enhances student-to-student and faculty-to-student communication
- Students share perspectives
- Students experience a sense of equality
- Instructors are more accessible
4Enables student-centred teaching approaches
- Accommodates different learning styles
- Provide opportunities for exploration
- Encourage additional rehearsal time
4Provides 24/7 accessibility to course materials
- Continual access to materials
- Remove reliance on physical attendance
4Provides just-in-time methods to access / evaluate student progress
- Adds pedagogical benefits
4Reduces amount of time faculty time on "administrivia"
- Utilize time efficiently
- Maximize the classroom experience
- Reduce faculty workload
from Blackboard's
Educational Benefits of Online Learning
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/courseinfo/manuals/
BenefitsOnlineLearning.pdf
Other articles which discuss benefits (especially for instructors) include:
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Why Teach Online and Benefits of Online Teaching - Part of a presentation "Introducing Online Learning" (University of New England, Australia).
- What’s in it for Me? Incentives for Faculty Participation in Distance Education - Encouraging faculty to participate in distance education involves the interaction of a number of variables including an individual’s locus of motivation, personal values, institutional values, and intrinsic and extrinsic rewards (Journal of Distance Education).
- Faculty Incentives to Participate in Distance Education - Faculty generally teach in distance learning programs for the same reasons they do in traditional programs: intrinsic rewards (Michigan Community College Journal).
- Faculty Issues in an E-Learning Environment - General, Compensatory, Intellectual Property, and Training Issues are highlighted (from BEEP).
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