Online Services- Education

Online Services- Education

Online education is now very popular. People or students uses online to revise, research, get information and learn. Websites are specifically created for learning and revision purposes like my maths, BBC bitesize and forums or students rooms. Even teachers now uses online for teaching, this gives them variety of ways that make their teaching better, improve it and make it less tedious. Schools emails is also a great source for education, you can now communicate with your teachers via online. In today’s busy lifestyle, people need as much information they can get in small period of time and online education does this.

Revision- Revising online is now easier as you have many resources you can revise from. You have bitesize, mymaths and more. You can also get past papers online which is very helpful for revising specific subjects.

Buying books and other resources- different websites now sells school books, textbooks and revision books which is very helpful for students especially when they need another source of help from something else. Different books also give different views which are very helpful for gaining more information and making a specific topic easier to understand.

Mymaths- mymaths is a specific subject just for maths and a little bit of statistics. Mymaths is also used by teachers as well as students. Mymaths explains a specific maths or statistics topic clearer and explained in little stages. Teachers can also set homework in mymaths for students to do.

Research- lots of people now a day find it easier to get information in the internet or online. It is quicker and you can get variety to choose from. Collecting information by yourself or personally would be time consuming and maybe expensive, the online community take that away. Additionally you can search on the internet or online every hour of every day.

School websites- education online doesn’t just satisfy students but it can also satisfy parents. Parents can now also visit school websites to get information, contact that school and read news about the school. This will keep the parents updated.

Virtual learning environment (frog) - i think that frog can be very useful. You can access it 24/7, get your documents and your teachers can share information or additional studies that needs to be done. Teachers can also put documents that are important and the students can just read about it. I think that is a good way for revising and a good way for getting information about a specific subject as your teacher specifically put that item or document for you as resource.

Email- school email is very important. It’s a good and easy way to communicate with your teachers and maybe other students. You could easily ask teachers about subjects or lessons and any revisions that should be done or need doing and they could response to you immediately. Teachers could also send student important information that would help students.

Forums/ student room- forums and student room is very helpful for getting information as it enable student to talk and collaborate with other students.  Students’ gets different and variety of views but some might be unreliable. It also allows you to share your views.

Video conferencing (Skype) - video conferencing is really not that popular for students to use especially if they are using it on their own time. Some students would rather just do the work by themselves instead of being recorded but video conferencing could be very useful if it’s a group work etc as it’s free and could work with more than 2 people. It could also benefit people who need help from others and need support from others enable to do some work.

YouTube- YouTube is a site where you can share videos to all of the users all over the world. It’s a good way to get recognise and show talent but it’s not just all about that, users or video makers also uses it to help others, either for education or just for everyday thing.  There are YouTube videos that are good for revising a specific subject like maths etc. They sometimes explains that subject clearer and easier.

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Research- have you used Google? Or even yahoo? Or maybe even Bing? All of these sites are use for researching and getting information about a specific subject. Most people or students now use search engines like Google to collect information and use this information for their work. Google and other search engines changed everyone’s life and maybe made our life easier.

Advantages

• You can get variety of information from different search engines.  
• Quicker to use
• Easy access

Disadvantages

• Its secondary date therefore, some information may not be reliable
• Data you've collected might not be the one you necessarily need

Mymaths- Need helps with mathematics or statistics? The mymaths is the site for you to use. It is specifically made for stats and maths. Mymaths is good for a student who needs extra help with maths GCSE and A level, statistics GCSE and A level.  You can learn and practice different topics easier and more accessible.  

Advantages

• Easy access and can use it anytime
• School protected

Disadvantages

• Might be hard for some people to understand the way a topic is explained
• Some topics you need to learn might not be in the site

School website- ever had a problem knowing when the next half term is? The latest news and updates about your school? Well your problem is solve, most school now have their own school websites.  Unemployed teachers and new students also firstly look at school websites to find details about the school etc. School websites is now one of the most important features of the school.

Advantages

• Updated about the latest news and goings on about the school
• Parents could check and contact teachers

Disadvantages

• Cost lots money to create the website
• Hard to update regularly

Email/ school email- everyone are use to calling to school to contact teachers, maybe writing a letter was an old way of contacting a teacher or the school but now school has their own email, teachers has their own school emails. This allows the parents and the students to contact teachers and the school easily and more convenient.

Advantages

• Easy to contact teachers and schools
• More accessible
• Can send messages to more than one people at the same time

Disadvantages

• Spam and maybe even viruses can be transmitted through
• Responses might take a long time

Forums/ student rooms- ever needed help from other students? Ever want to share your opinion or views about a specific subject with everyone? Then forums and students rooms are what you need. A student room is a unique site where you can get help from other students and where you can look up universities and revision help.

Advantages

• Help from other students
• Responses is quick
• Can argue or talk about a specific subject

Disadvantage

• The argument or the forum may go off topic