THE USE OF COMPUTER IN EDUCATION THROUGH COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING September 29, 2007
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THE USE OF COMPUTER IN EDUCATION THROUGH COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
Writen by Romlan Syukur
INTRODUCTION
E-learning, Educational Technology, Information and Communication Technology, Computer Aided Learning, Computer Aided Assessment, Computer Mediated Communication – these terms and others are bandied about in recent years .
The use of the term Information and Communication Technology (ICT) rather than Information Technology (IT) emphasises this change. Computers now facilitate communication between people as well as between people and programs or people and data.
Those who were involved in developing CAL packages in earlier decades usually point out that there is nothing new under the sun – which the lessons we are learning today about using the Internet for teaching were learnt before. Others would go further and point out that distance education with print has also covered a lot of the ground before and it is only because most lecturers are only accustomed to the face to face setting that they stumble into well mapped pitfalls when beginning to use internet technologies to teach. All of this is true but it is also true that using the Internet for teaching brings new challenges and necessitates the development of additional teaching skills.
The arrival of the Internet made communication between machines much easier and a number of open protocols and applications were developed to make use of this. Of these, Email was the forerunner and there can be few academics and students that do not have access to this now. Email has its limitations and it was the World Wide Web that really brought the world of networked computers to the general public. The open standards of many of the technologies and the ease with which anyone could publish information encouraged participation by all and we need to remember what is about these technologies that makes them attractive when we try to deploy them for education. However, initially, a relatively small number of University lecturers adopted it for a range of teaching purposes but even fewer did more than post information about their courses or actual lecture notes – usually not modified in any way to take advantage of the strengths of the media such as hypertext.
One of the strengths and principle attractions of the Web is that it can provide authoring access to anybody and this is quite different from the one-way nature of education through CAL or any other media that predated it. The fact that the technology facilitates this does not of course mean that it will take place but then this is true of any educational forum.
Objective
The main objective of this paper is about the advantages of Computer Assisted Learning. As we know that The Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) program refers to the learning involving the utilization of the computer. In this point, the utilization of the computer is primarily directed to make provision to a language learning. There are many advantages of Computer Assisted Learning , such as CAL encourages users (students) to develop a non sequential reading habit. It allows users to make their own decisions to develop a selective and critical reading habit which enable them to scan a large amount of information (Hartoyo,2006).
Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)
The term Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) covers a range of computer-based packages, which aim to provide interactive instruction usually in a specific subject area, and many predate the Internet. These can range from sophisticated and expensive commercial packages to applications developed by projects in other educational institutions or national initiatives to simple solutions developed by individuals with no funding or support to tackle a very local problem. The amount of time and money invested in development is high and partly because of the very subject specific nature of the education market as well as the very personalised nature of the teaching process – particularly at FE and HE level – means that commercial success is difficult to achieve and work done in one subject area rarely transfers to others subject areas.In general, the use of computers in education through CAL has been sporadic a great deal of effort was expended with little general impact. Many of those academics that took part in that earlier crusade are now cynical about the effectiveness of computers in teaching.There are still good reasons to use CAL rather than Internet based technologies. CAL is run either straight from a CD or floppy disk drive, or over a local network so the constraint of the internet – slow download times for multimedia materials may not apply. This, coupled with the fact that CAL technology has been around a bit longer, means that CAL packages have the potential to offer more advanced, interactive, multimedia learning experiences than it is currently reasonable to expect from the Web. This has been changing as Web technologies develop and bandwidths improve but there are currently many things that can only be achieved with CAL rather than the Web and CAL has been an integral part of the curriculum in many departments at Warwick for some time. Analysis Nowadays many projects and activities utilize Computer Assisted Learning (CALL), especially in educational institution. People are used to search information from Internet,
Conclusion
To sum up, CAL is very important for students and teachers. It is an alternative way to maximize and motivate them selves . Many advantages for students and teachers if they eager to use it. CALL offers freedom for user to choose any topic. main objective of this paper is white
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