Discovery 3 - Online TEFL

TEFL is the acronym for Teaching English as a Foreign Language and TESOL for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Ultimately they are the ‘concept’ of teaching abroad and are terms used interchangeably, usually depending on the country you're in or more frequently the course provider you are working with. When assessing course providers, it is more important to look at course content, delivery and accreditation criteria than the acronym they have chosen to use.

In its previous life, the delivery of online TEFL/TESOL courses was presented as a correspondence course or ‘distance learning’ one, in which the participant would simply download assignments and send them, through snail mail or via e-mail as attachments, to their tutor.

This is still the case for some TEFL/TESOL course providers even though the needs and demands of internet users cry out for the technological advancements that can so easily be made available to them. Not only has this involved the leading TEFL and TESOL suppliers providing audio and video tutorials, course components are now being completed online, reducing the need for textbooks or other reference materials. Knowing all your work is in one place, on one user interface is reassuring - especially to those of us who remember spending hours pouring over textbooks, journals and tabloids to write essays before submitting them and never seeing them again.

This old-style teaching technique significantly hampered learning and development and the new features of the online course have come a long way towards gaining the respect of the industry. It is also refreshing for online TEFL/TESOL tutees to have easy access to their course tutors. Now they can ask questions and get answers within a twenty four hour period and course feedback is much the same.

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Portal Kementerian Pertahanan Malaysia - Distance learning education

Purpose :
E-Learning is a distance learning education programme (PJJ) jointly-organized between Malaysia Ministry of Defence and Tun Abdul Razak University of Technology (UNITAR). This programme was suggested by Defence Minister in several management meeting which was held and this programme was launched in August 2002.

Actually nowaday a lot of association, university, college were doing the Distance Learning education. It is designed to produce personnel who are innovative and creative especially in information technology.

Distance Learning Education programme will benefit the personnel of Ministry of Defence. This approach is taken because it will produce skilled and knowledgeable apprentices especially in the field of information technology. This programme will also provide opportunity especially for the other ranks to improve their readiness in the era of globalization.

Internet is used for each participant as medium of presentation for information between lecturer and participant. Nevertheless participant should also meet the lecturer on monthly basis. With the cooperation from the ministry and UNITAR, this programme has its own courseware according to the level undertaken.

PXGT6308_2009 Lesson 2

This is our second class. Today seem like not many people turn up. We thought the rest had been dropped this course. But ended up, our friends turn up. Today's lesson only I knew that Distance learning and PJJ are differenced. And Hana shared that USM was using the video conferencing which is the student gain the info just by next door only....That's why we always think that Distance learning is really a distance occured for some people to communicate...like door to door communication, a lot of wrong concept was in our mind since we are young till now....

For me, before I enter this class, I thought PJJ and distance learning was the same. Not much different. Anyway, I really hope to know more about DL and heve a better concept after this course. Dr. Tee really a experince lecturer. The knowledge which he gained really help us a lot and I am sure will get more than what I think....

PXGT6308_2009 Lesson 1

Today is my first day at UM. It was quite excited because the campus look like quite new to me. Haha. My second class was Dr Tee class. When I saw him, he really gave me a shock because so far at UM, i have not been meeting any male lecturer for our department. The teaching method which is using by Dr Tee quite interesting and attractive. For me, I am a person who is easy to fall asleep and fly to another space. But, due to his teaching method ( I meant the first day witht he movie clip), I noticed that he is a techno person. He will used and recommed a lot of technology during the lesson. Wow, then be sure I will be fly half way and fly back because of the techno thingy.

Distance learning really is a quite new stuff for me because I never think of myself to take up this course. This time because of no choice, but have to take it before graduate. But after the first lesson, it was quite impressed me ..I meant the syllibus.....haha...and somemore 7 pages .....anyway, my friend Khor Bee Hua also keep telling me the techno thing which is in the movie clip really open her eyes...for me, i knew that kind of technology occured quite some time. But one thing I like this class is, the enviorment and the student + teacher for this course. All of them look like very enthusiasitic in whatever situation...

Share more in next lesson ( sorry, Dr Tee...no time to write the blog according to the time ...anyway, will do better after Chinese new year)...


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