What are the long-term effects of fully automated/computerized
multimedia education?
What can be done about "terminal illness"--that addiction or repelling that occurs because of a computer screen? Who will teach the children? Why is the Internet good or bad for teaching? When will systems be implimented? Where will we have to be to learn and will the poor have the same access in their homes? How will education change or stay the same?
These are questions that somebody will have to answer. Because the Internet has not be available, for the most part, to an entire generation, we cannot answer them yet. But we will . . . and what will the answers be?
Survey of college students and teachers
We wanted to find out what people what people think about Internet and automated education. The following statistics were taken from a small sampling of college students and faculty at Webster University. This section of this page will continually be updated with new information, surveys, and current data.
Question to students: % Answered Yes
Have you ever taken a class through the Internet? 10%
Would you like to? 30%
Would you get the same learning experience? 0%
Do you think it would be better? 10%
Could you learn this way? 100%
Question to teachers: % Answered Yes
Have you ever taught a class through the Internet? 50%
Would it be an easier class to teach? 50%
Would you prefer to teach this way? 25%
Do you think you could reach students effectively this way? 50%
Links to other relevant education information sites
"Engines for Education" link site to educational facilities around the world.
http://www.ils.nwu.edu/~e_for_e/
"Computer Mediated Education" - using computers for education.
http://www.umich.edu/~nikole/index.html