Online courses offer students easy access to up-to-date learning materials from any internet-connected device. They promote active learning through interactive content and accommodate different learning styles. Students also gain skills using internet resources that can improve employment prospects. Online courses provide a variety of tools for readings, presentations, communication, group work, assessment, homework submission, grading, testing, and plagiarism detection. Web 2.0 introduced more interactivity through user-generated content like blogs, wikis and podcasts. Advances in virtual schools, networking, standards and learning objects, along with open source options, continue expanding online education opportunities.

1. APT 502
Assignment 4
Module 9

2. • The technology is relatively easy for students to use.
• Learning materials are available across the entire World
Wide Web.
• Online course materials, once developed, are easy to
update, providing students access to current information.

3. • The Internet promotes active learning and facilitates
student’s intellectual involvement with the course content.
• A well-conceived online course provides a variety of
learning experiences and accommodates different
learning styles.
• Students become skilled at using Internet resources, a
factor that may improve employment options upon
graduation.

4. • Readings
• Content Presentation
• Course Communications
• Group Project Space
• Student Assessment

5. • Homework Collection and Grading
• Electronic Gradebook
• Electronic Testing
• Plagiarism Detection

6. • The term “Web 2.0” was coined by O’Reilly Media
• in 2003
• The Web presented information with very little
interactivity and user involvement beyond pointing,
clicking, and reading.

7. • Blogging
• Wikis
• Podcasting
• Other Forms of Content Creation

8. • Growth of Virtual Schools and Universities
• Advances in High-Speed Networking
• Development of Standards and Learning Objects
• Potential Impact of Open Source