Chapter 5 & 6

These two chapters are to me the most critical factors for success for an online class. The first is building the web site. I think this is important because sometimes if people do not know web design they will include additional HTML scripts that slow down the processes of the page. The other is updating and maintaining the e course and sight. At school we are on a 3 year review process, but the courses might need to be updated before that, for reasons like bookchanges, new facts and figures, or realizing there maybe too much or too little content.

The Three e's

Well initially I was thinking how is this article any different than what we have already read. But what I did find was very nice was Merrill stating how problem-based and problem-centered are different. I think that I would have considered problem-based, as part problem-centered and not actually making the students solve a problem.

But moreover from that, Merrill gives us a really good description of problem-center, Effective peer interaction, and technology enhanced interface. The problem-centered we have already covered. Effective peer interaction really just outlines that there needs to be a mutual push and pull from partners, and the collaboration is what makes it very good. Technology enhanced interface really shows how to incorporate media into presentations.

My critique on this ariticle would be that it does not seem to be e-learning driven. How can students pull the information to themselves? I recently read another article in which elearning should not be linear but more where the learner can focus on what they don't really understands, and then they can create how the information builds on the previous. I will have to find that article for everyone. But that is my one critique.