Week 1 Discussion – The Impact of Technology on Education

Course: EDU 522 Theory and Practice of e-Learning

As a student who has likely taken multiple online courses, you maybe have experienced both positive and negative effects of technology on your education.

Reflect on your experiences. Share how technology has impacted your learning process, positively or negatively, beyond the obvious convenience of being able to take classes on your own schedule.

Be sure to respond to at least one classmate’s post.

Solution – Week 1 Discussion

I feel as if technology has impacted my personal learning process both positively and negatively at times depending on what I am trying to get out of it.  On one hand technology has made it much easier to access information that we would normally spend hours on end trying to locate and study in order to understand.  We literally have the world at our fingertips and no longer or bound by physical books, ledgers, and journals to obtain scholarly insights into topics of study.  We can video conference with a professor in India or Tokyo and learn the newest technologies without ever having to leave our homes.  Technology is literally bringing the world together as one and making it possible for more information to be shared than ever before. 

The downside is as technology brings the world together, it is taking the human connection out of learning and leaving certain individuals behind…Please click on the Icon below to purchase the full answer at only $5

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