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The benefits of e-learning

For participants

 
Before the course:

- Provide prospective students with clear course descriptions including learning objectives, start and end dates, estimated time requirements, prerequisites, tuition, etc.

- Offer a simple, hassle-free registration system.

- Provide ease-of-navigation for course reading materials.

During the course:

- Enable students to view profiles of their fellow classmates.

- Where appropriate, provide content mastery quizzes.

- Offer simple bookmarks, particularly for self-paced courses.

- Provide intuitive tagging for quick referencing.

- Make it easy for students to contribute and feel their contributions are valued.

After the course:

- Provide summaries of collective learnings and suggestions for follow-up courses.

- Offer workspaces within the Commons Learning Alliance for course graduates to get involved with commons-related projects.

- Provide orientation to the Knowledge Garden so that course graduates can develop educational briefings and presentations for use in their home communities.


For course instructors and facilitators

Before the course:

- Allow for easy uploading of course materials.

- Enable breakout rooms to be formed within a given course.

- Support access to participant/student profiles.

During the course:

- Provide a “green room†for instructors and facilitators to communicate.

- Generate use statistics to track activity of course members.

- Build-in the capability for administering surveys and quizzes.

- Support easy retrieval of tagged material and discussions.

- (Future) Enable VoIP video calls and "WebEx"-type communications.

After the course:

- Enable simple and effective harvesting of participant insights and lessons learned.

- Support dynamic revision of syllabi, curriculum, and course materials.

- If instructor payment is required, to generate remuneration in a timely way.

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