February 23, 2023

[lizzybuffy2008]

23 – Digital Learning Day: What are the benefits of digital learning compared to other methods of learning? What are the disadvantages?

Advantages, I would think are fairly obvious: People who for some reason or another cannot leave the house/cannot get to where the class is taught can still participate. Disadvantage would be lack of interaction with other students.

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

I agree with both those points, but if you use Zoom/Teams etc well you can use break-out 'rooms' to ensure that students get a chance to interact together and then come back to the whole class. Rather like answering a question with classmates and then feeding back to the class afterwards. So few people do that though. The courses I don't like are the ones with hundreds of participants and then it's just a lecture. It's great to have the opportunity to learn something but with no interaction at all it's very isolating.