The document discusses the growth of e-learning and blended learning globally. Key points include: - E-learning enrollments are growing significantly each year, with programs serving working adults, K-12 students, and higher education. - Online learning provides opportunities for flexible, self-paced study as well as challenges around guidance and engagement. - As Internet access expands globally, education is increasingly incorporating online and distance learning models, giving more people access to educational resources and connections worldwide.

1. E-Demand Around the Globe Opener #2: E-Learning and Blended Learning Timbul_2010

2. When a formal courses are dying…..

3. ‘‘ the day is coming when the work done by correspondence will be greater in amount than that done in the classrooms of our academics and colleges.’’ (John Heyl Vincent)

4. Web conferencing tools, radio, CDs and DVDs, television, online chat, mobile phones, etc…

5. 2 Model of Learning

7. Schools that take advantage of traditional and online forms of instruction

12. There was a 4– 5 month timeline for completing all her courses. There were specific assignment deadlines. She also realized that her parents did not know the materials so she needed to learn it all by herself. Bridey had to create a plan of study and then do it on her own. She has shown she could teach herself when needed. If she now has a bad teacher, she simply goes back to IU mode and thinks about how to teach herself the content

13. Studying while sailing gave me the chance to explore the world outside my comfort zone, while I remained a student. I am proud that I learned how to organize my time and be in charge of my education. My teachers at IU encouraged me to contact them when needed and they bent a lot of their rules to talk to me outside their office hours to fit better with when I was in port. My social life changed drastically. My sisters and I became closer and a really great evening was sitting on the tramp on the front of the boat watching the sun going down over the ocean, hoping to see the elusive ‘‘green flash’’ as the sun dips down below the horizon.

18. I think this new world of open access provides for students some exciting and unprecedented opportunities for learning. It also presents new dangers new dangers: The online learning equivalent of sending our kids into a wilderness with no map or compass. We have to be willing to provide the maps and the compass so that when they get out into this new open world of instant access, they will have guideposts, warning signs, and even a moral compass to keep them on a productive path

22. Ray Schroeder, Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning at UIS : a consortium of other mostly regional comprehensive universities to follow the path of the UIS online program

23. Dr. Sanjaya Mishra from the IGNOU distance education program : I think the University will get to 2 million students by 2010. Normally the addition every year is about 100 thousand. Interestingly, our system does not work in the normal class based way. Mostly the students receive printed learning materials, attend counselling/tutorial sessions (optional, but typically with about 30 students), do assignments, participate in teleconferences and sit in the final examinations. So, in a cohort, the registration of students ranges from 50 to 50,000 depending on programmes.

24. new learners.. new tutors.. new programs.. new procedures.. new buildings.. new ideas…

26. The Los Angeles Times : ‘‘ FreeRice.com is one of the most ingenious websites of 2007. In the best spirit of the Internet, it offers education, entertainment and a way to change the world— all for free.’’

27. A person could learn new words while helping feed people somewhere else on this planet