Online education allows students to learn through online content and testing via the internet. It provides flexibility for students of various backgrounds and reasons for learning. Podcasts, videos, and slideshows are examples of media that can be used to teach online. Popular websites for online learning include Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseware, SlideShare, and online degree programs from accredited universities. Overall the document discusses different aspects of online learning including benefits like flexibility and weaknesses like lack of in-person interaction.

1. Online
Education

2. What is “Online Education”?
Online Education is a type of
education in which the majority of
the content and testing involved is
done online –through the Internet.
Today there are many different
places people can go to learn a
variety of things. Unlike more
traditional types of education such
as an Elementary School or
University, the students of an online
learning course may be there for
many different reasons and come
from many different walks of life.

3. Opening Discussion
• What do you think might be some of the
benefits and weaknesses of online education?
• Have you ever studied anything on the
internet? What did you use? Where did you
go?
• Are some things easier to teach online than
others? What might be the best things to
learn online?

4. Podcast
A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of
a series of audio files (usually mp3s)
downloaded through the web. Podcasts enable
students and teachers to share information
with anyone anytime. If a student is absent, he
or she can download the podcast of the
recorded lesson. Teachers may also create
podcasts to be used as a preparation tool for
students.
Podcasts are a great way for people to learn
while on the go. With any portable mp3 player
a student can listen to language lessons on the
subway, bus, or out on the street.

5. ChinesePod
ChinesePod is a web-based Chinese language-
learning service composed of three key
components: audio lessons, mobile & online
review tools, and live speaking practice with
professional Mandarin teachers. The service
was founded in October 2005 in Shanghai, P. R.
China, by Hank Horkoff, Ken Carroll, and Steve
Williams.
ChinesePod Mandarin lessons, study tools and
teacher services are designed for adult
learners of every level. The company mission is
"to make language learning easier for adult
students by taking advantage of modern
educational principles and the latest web and
mobile technologies." Learners can access
content via mobile phone, mobile apps, RSS
feed, and directly on ChinesePod.com.

6. Screencast
A screencast is a video recording of
computer screen output, often
containing audio narration. The term
screencast compares with the related
term screenshot; whereas screenshot
is a picture of a computer screen, a
screencast is essentially a movie of
the changes over time that a user
sees on a computer screen, enhanced
with audio narration.
Screencasting has proven to be a
great way to teach people how to use
new computer software.

7. Online Traffic School
Online traffic school refers to a traffic school
course that is completed over the Internet.
These courses are similar in content to a
traditional classroom traffic school course;
however, online traffic school allows the
student to complete the course on his own
time and at his own pace. Online traffic
school programs were born out of the
concept of “home-study” traffic school and
the increasing popularity of the Internet.
The main purpose of taking a traffic school
course is to maintain a clean driving record,
and preventing a point from the DMV point
system being added to your driving record.

8. What do you think?
• Is a free education as good as one you pay
for? Why or why not?
• Do you ever use your mp3 player to listen to
anything besides music? What do you listen
to?
• Can you think of a better way to teach people
over the internet?
• Do you think that people can learn about good
driving from the Internet?

9. SlideShare
SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload
files privately or publicly as PowerPoint presentations and view them
online. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be
similar to YouTube, but for slideshows.
The website gets an estimated 58 million unique visitors a month, and
has about 16 million registered users. SlideShare.com was voted
amongst by the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-learning in 2010.

10. Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by
American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of
"providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies
a free online collection of more than 2,800 micro lectures via video tutorials
stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine,
finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic
chemistry, American civics, art history, microeconomics and computer science.

11. Online Degree
An online degree is an academic degree (usually a
university degree, but sometimes the term
includes high school diplomas or other certificate
programs) that can be earned primarily or entirely
through the use of an Internet-connected
computer, rather than attending college in a
traditional campus setting. Improvements in
technology and the increasing use of the Internet
worldwide have led to a proliferation of online
colleges that award associate, bachelor's,
master's, and doctoral degrees.
There are several online universities are fully accredited by the educational
departments of many countries, including the United States. This means that the
degree is as official as a degree offered by traditional university.

12. The Open University
site: http://www.open.ac.uk/
The Open University (commonly Open University or its
initialism OU, but officially "The" is part of its name) is a
distance learning and research university founded in the
United Kingdom. The university is funded by a
combination of student fees, contract income, and
government funds. It is notable for having an open entry
policy, i.e. students' previous academic achievements are
not taken into account for entry to most undergraduate
courses. The majority of the OU's undergraduate
students are based in the United Kingdom and
principally study off-campus, but many of its courses
(both undergraduate and postgraduate) can be studied
off-campus anywhere in the world.

13. MIT OpenCourseWare
site: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is
an initiative of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) to put
all of the educational materials from
its undergraduate- and graduate-level
courses online, partly free and openly
available to anyone, anywhere. MIT
OpenCourseWare is a large-scale,
web-based publication of MIT course
materials. The project was announced
in October 2002 and currently offers
over 2080 courses available online.

14. What do you think?
• Do you think a University education is more
valuable than an online course? Why or why
not?
• In the future do you think there will be more
or less people getting online degrees?
• If you were the boss, would you hire someone
who got their degree online?
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