04/03/2008

What skills you need, to be an e-learner?

E-learning creates new learning invironment, demanding new learning skills for students who dosent have enough experiences of Internet use. Definitly, the skills needed for e-learning environment differes from those for face-to face or classroom environment. Such skills like : self confident, self responsibility, e-communication skills, team working skills and many other.
Learners can adapt some skills they used in traditional learning environment to the new e-learning environment, and also they have to gain new skills specific for e-learning.
For Example, learners who used The Cornell system for taking notes in traditional classroom , can use the same system when taking notes from PDF document in online course.
However, E-learner has to develop new skills for Communication through internet using e-mails, chat rooms, forums and other communication tools.
E-learner needs to have time management skills, so he can met the didlines of the projects. Also he has to be responsible about his own learning because no body will keep traking him in doing assignments and supmiting projects.
Another skill e-learner should have is searching the web for usefull and credible information, because in online learning there is no certine resource to depend on; it is an open environment where the learner can get huge number of resources, and he has to choose the credible ones.
Netiqate, or (net etiqate) is another issue have to be considered when talking about e-learner skills. E-learner has to be carefull about his writings e.g. writting in All CAPITAL letters is the Internet equivalent of shouting, it may be considered rude.
Here is some references
http://www.dso.iastate.edu/asc/academic/elearner/skills.html http://www.learningcircuits.org/2001/may2001/elearn.html

2 comments:

tech1 said...

thanks Khadeeja for this useful info. (even though u didn't speak a lot about urself as an e-learner). i like the references u post...
could explian to me about "the Cornell System"?

Asma Al-Moqbali

Khadeeja Al-Shidhani said...

Thanks Asma for the comment..

About me as an e-learner I think that I have some skills that enable me to be an e-learner,e.g initiative, self responsibility,confidence, and I'm familiar with internet use...

However, my typing speed is very slow and I have some dificulties in time management.

I think that I'll be more successfull in e-learning than in traditional classroom, because in the traditional classroom sometimes I know the answer But I don't like to speak. (Idon't know why??!)

However in e-learning I can write every thing that I think about with more confident.


about cornell system I provide a link in the post and in usefull links section.

thanks again for your comment..