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ABSTRACT
The Internet can be a useful tool that can enhance
interactivity in classes. Accordingly, offering distance learning courses
using the Web, especially in the asynchronous mode for the additional
flexibility of time, is becoming an established practice in higher
education. Web-based distance learning comes with numerous benefits, but
not without worries for potentials deficiencies. One such deficiency in
the current distance learning framework is the lack of lecture, the most
relied-upon and proven means of instruction in the traditional classroom
settings. This paper raises an issue of the lack of lectures in Web-based
distance learning, and proposes that streaming video take the role of
online lecture in that setting. Described in this paper are the rationale
to put the lecture back into e-learning in higher education, two case
studies in which the steps were taken to implement the proposed method,
and the feedback from the students who took such courses in the
undergraduate business curriculum and the MBA program. Responses from
those who surveyed after taking distance learning courses reveal a
tendency of reservation towards distance learning in general, and
specifically toward the distance learning courses without lectures.
Keywords:
Web-based education,
Asynchronous learning, e-Learning in Higher Education, Sage on the Stage,
Guide on the Side, Online Lecture, |
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