web-based learning methods and online education

Web-based learning methods and online education

Liliana Violeta Constantin 1

(1) National College “Elena Cuza”, Bucharest, ROMANIA E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract The internet is an extraordinary middle of communication which implies changes in the way of thinking and perception of the world, in the way of reporting at the surrounding reality. In this way, more and more students spend their time in front of the computer because the web-based learning offers them interactivity, the independence for equipments, distance and time. The complexity of this situation imposes restructures of different educational aspects. The accent must be moved towards making conscience of these methods, cooperation, towards analytic and selective thinking, towards adaptability and the interpretation of the ever changing world. The digital technologies must not represent a simple add in the list of didactic materials, they must be entirely integrated in the service of the education. In this way, the act of learning isn’t considered any more to be the effect of the perspectives and the work of the professor, but the fruit of the interaction between the students and the computer and of the collaboration with the professor. The lessons become more attractive, more interesting, and easier to understand. The internet navigation allows the students the development of their individual study competences, of analysis and selection of the information obtained by visiting different web pages. The paper presents a web page created for informing and gathering documentation of the students. This project permitted increase the efficiency of the learning activity, the responsibility of the students as well strengthens of the human relation. It used the programmes: Dream weaver, Flash, Fireworks.

Keywords: Computer, Web page, Online education

1. Introduction The modern teaching has to be based on the creative teaching, on the active participation of the student

during the classes, on the utilization of some teaching, learning, evaluation methods which can attract the students in the activity of studying. Living in an informational world, students spend good part of their time in front of the computer. This is the reason for it uses ever more the system Web-based learning.

The instruction and the learning based on the Web offer the students interactivity (the possibility of opinion change, materials), a multimedia medium (the materials present at least two multimedia elements: text, graphic, audio sequences, animation, video, etc.), an opened medium (there can be accessed different web pages or applications), a synchronic and non-synchronic communication medium, independence in front of the equipment , distance and time (students can use any computer connected at the Internet and can communicate with persons from all over the world).

Also, the students can visit a lot of more web pages or can realize web pages for presenting the school, the city, the country (with touristy objectives) ,of culture, customs and traditions of the Romanian people, of the didactic material elaborated by them and their teachers (professors), of information (subjects and correction standards for different exams and school competitions, scientific and cultural-artistic manifestations, books and school reviews, preparation and perfection courses for students and for professors, graphics of the Olympiad actions and exams, official documents, discussion forum, marks of the students and dates about their activity in school, advertisements and the small publicity, statistics realized by the students on diverse themes, messages, optional courses, faculties and colleges).

The demands of this system are complex and solicit the students the development of the flexible thinking, of the creativity, of the friendship relations, of collaboration, of appreciation of the work, of the values. Stimulates the participation of the students at learning activities, determines them to have trust in

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