e-Learning Ecologies, the book and the videos, explore transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learning―the use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachers―to present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions. We suggest that e-learning ecologies may play a key part in shifting the systems of modern education, even as technology itself is pedagogically neutral. The result is an analytical framework with which to differentiate those aspects of educational technology that reproduce old pedagogical relations from those that are genuinely innovative and generative of new kinds of learning.

In the age of the “social Web” (Boulos & Wheleer, 2007). The metaphor of ‘ecology’ has variously been adopted to shed light on the entangled facets of socio-cultural activities and educational contexts. Drawn from studies on ecosystems, the notion of ‘ecology’ refers to the dynamic relationships between

individual organisms and their environment (as a whole identified as an ‘ecosystem’), characterized

by interactions with other living or non-living organisms. Key attributes of ‘ecology’ such as ‘complex’, ‘self-organized’ and ‘adaptive’, as applied to digital ecosystems (Louviere, 2012) lead to consideration of the range of conditions underlying the self-organization of learners exchanging information and knowledge in the open Web. The notion of ecology refers to the activities occurring among learners and digital tools and is concerned with the endless cycle of technology change to which users and educational institutions are subject and have to respond. Ecological perspectives “may offer a new ‘language’ to conceptualise change and stasis in a variety of environments, contexts and spaces of activity, which exist in linked scales or levels, ranging from the global to the local, from the micro to the macro” (Hodgson & Spours, 2009, p. 9).

 

Advantages Of eLearning

You are able to link the various resources in several varying formats.
It is a very efficient way of delivering courses online.
Due to its convenience and flexibility, the resources are available from anywhere and at any time.
Everyone, who are part time students or are working full time, can take advantage of web-based learning.
Web-based learning promotes active and independent learning.
As you have access to the net 24x7, you can train yourself anytime and from anywhere also.
It is a very convenient and flexible option; above all, you don't have to depend on anyone for anything.
Not only can you train yourself on a day to day basis, but also on weekends or whenever you have the free time to. There is no hard and fast rule.
Through discussion boards and chats, you are able to interact with everyone online and also clear your doubts if any.
The video instructions that are provided for audio and video learning can be rewound and seen and heard again and again if you do not happen to understand the topic first time around.

 

 

 

 

Disadvantages Of eLearning

 

Well, there are not many disadvantages of eLearning, the main one being that you get knowledge only on a theoretical basis and when it comes to putting to use whatever you have learnt, it may be a little different. The face-to-face learning experience is missing, which may matter to some of you.

Most of the online assessments are limited to questions that are only objective in nature.
There is also the problem of the extent of security of online learning programs.
The authenticity of a particular student's work is also a problem as online just about anyone can do a project rather than the actual student itself.
The assessments that are computer marked generally have a tendency of being only knowledge-based and not necessarily practicality-based.

 

https://elearningindustry.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-elearning

https://newlearningonline.com/e-learning

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270050505_Learning_ecologies_as_new_challenge_and_essence_of_e-learning_The_case_of_PhD_e-researchers

e-Learning Ecologies, the book and the videos, explore transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learning―the use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachers―to present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions. We suggest that e-learning ecologies may play a key part in shifting the systems of modern education, even as technology itself is pedagogically neutral. The result is an analytical framework with which to differentiate those aspects of educational technology that reproduce old pedagogical relations from those that are genuinely innovative and generative of new kinds of learning.

In the age of the “social Web” (Boulos & Wheleer, 2007). The metaphor of ‘ecology’ has variously been adopted to shed light on the entangled facets of socio-cultural activities and educational contexts. Drawn from studies on ecosystems, the notion of ‘ecology’ refers to the dynamic relationships between

individual organisms and their environment (as a whole identified as an ‘ecosystem’), characterized

by interactions with other living or non-living organisms. Key attributes of ‘ecology’ such as ‘complex’, ‘self-organized’ and ‘adaptive’, as applied to digital ecosystems (Louviere, 2012) lead to consideration of the range of conditions underlying the self-organization of learners exchanging information and knowledge in the open Web. The notion of ecology refers to the activities occurring among learners and digital tools and is concerned with the endless cycle of technology change to which users and educational institutions are subject and have to respond. Ecological perspectives “may offer a new ‘language’ to conceptualise change and stasis in a variety of environments, contexts and spaces of activity, which exist in linked scales or levels, ranging from the global to the local, from the micro to the macro” (Hodgson & Spours, 2009, p. 9).

 

Advantages Of eLearning

You are able to link the various resources in several varying formats.
It is a very efficient way of delivering courses online.
Due to its convenience and flexibility, the resources are available from anywhere and at any time.
Everyone, who are part time students or are working full time, can take advantage of web-based learning.
Web-based learning promotes active and independent learning.
As you have access to the net 24x7, you can train yourself anytime and from anywhere also.
It is a very convenient and flexible option; above all, you don't have to depend on anyone for anything.
Not only can you train yourself on a day to day basis, but also on weekends or whenever you have the free time to. There is no hard and fast rule.
Through discussion boards and chats, you are able to interact with everyone online and also clear your doubts if any.
The video instructions that are provided for audio and video learning can be rewound and seen and heard again and again if you do not happen to understand the topic first time around.

 

 

 

 

Disadvantages Of eLearning

 

Well, there are not many disadvantages of eLearning, the main one being that you get knowledge only on a theoretical basis and when it comes to putting to use whatever you have learnt, it may be a little different. The face-to-face learning experience is missing, which may matter to some of you.

Most of the online assessments are limited to questions that are only objective in nature.
There is also the problem of the extent of security of online learning programs.
The authenticity of a particular student's work is also a problem as online just about anyone can do a project rather than the actual student itself.
The assessments that are computer marked generally have a tendency of being only knowledge-based and not necessarily practicality-based.

 

https://elearningindustry.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-elearning

https://newlearningonline.com/e-learning

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270050505_Learning_ecologies_as_new_challenge_and_essence_of_e-learning_The_case_of_PhD_e-researchers