Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Online education tools

Online education is increasing. Parents want their children to study at home, tutored by a tutor using widely available live virtual class room tools. By 2003, more than 1.9 million students were participating in on-line learning at institutions of higher education in the United States.Many higher education, for-profit institutions, now offer on-line classes.

So many Indian and Us firms are in this business. There are number of online tools available in market which people are using to teach and learn online .Some of them are :

Elluminate,
Interwise,
WiZiQ,
Instant presenter,
Link system,
Smart thinking,
Socratic learning,
Horizon wimba,
Tutor.com

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Learn online for free

With the increased speed and easy availability of the Internet, online education has become more popular. No matter the type of instruction or information you need, you no longer have to learn through the traditional means of face to face teaching. Now you can learn and teach from the comfort of home. Browse through search engines and you will find extensive information and resources for today’s online learning and teaching. This concept of online teaching and learning will not only help teachers to earn money from home but will also help parents find right teacher for any subject and from any part of world.

Either you can enroll for self paced courses which includes documents, presentation and videos or you can also learn via online live classes using Virtual Classroom Technology. Many Universities and Govt. educations departments also run free MOOCS. Platforms like Udamy, WizIQ, Udacity offer ready to use platform for teachers. Students can go on platform and look for courses of their interest and enroll.