Create an eLearning system where ANYONE can learn the way they want to learn. For example, if I am comfortable learning with the help of a person, I click on a subject and poof! appears a window with a live person web-camming with you. It is an interactive session on-demand, when you need it, in the language of your choice.
Or, imagine that I am reading a book and need some clarification on a concept. I go to the website and either chat or have an audio or video call with the person who can help. I will be able to search for the availability of such a person on the site. When I search, I can specify the topic, language etc. so that the search will throw up the available persons. I could even look for people who have read the book or professors and teachers who teach using that book.
I can of course learn about these topics on the self learning module and at any time of the learning ask a live person for clarifications, as if I am one-on-one with a private tutor who is available 24×7.
While reading an article on the system, I might get tired and just want to hear the rest of the stuff. Can I do it? Yes of course. I just click the point till which I have read and an audio starts from that point.
The system is a also a wiki; so whenever people learn about new concepts in their own way, they can add to the learning system. So, you have a wiki-banking, wiki-maths, wiki-physics and so on. Naturally, I believe in the goodness of people and that they will not post useless or malicious content. In case they do, then there will be bots who will identify the garbage and throw it out.
I can also broadcast my query to all the members of the learning system and people would respond at their convenience. I would then find the best answer and add to the wiki so that others can benefit. People could also respond by posting audio/videos.
Is this idea possible to execute or just too impractical? Is there a real need for such a system? How can we create a huge community of subject matter experts on just about any subject from nuclear engineering to philosophy. It will obviously require a lot of storage and capability to deliver large amount of data in an efficient manner.
Any thoughts….?
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Hi All,
I have a idea similar to Shashank but different in approach and implementation.
Consider this, that in current scenario teaching and learning in more “top down” i.e. from teacher to learner. There is no focus on actual learning made by the student.Primary reason being the cost and time associated in evaluation and detailed feedback on work of each student.
Now imagine if we could have a service where students could simply scan or upload their daily assignments and tests. Or simply click a snap of their documents and send them for evaluation.
After which there would be a team of people working on these documents and with the help of a detailed framework for assessing the answers they could analyze the student’s response. The framework would consist of defined set of questions that a analysts needs to answer. So, the analysts simply sees the correct solution of a problem and evaluates the student’s answer on the predefined set of questions.
These pre-defined questions and their answers(i.e. Correct, Incorrect, Silly mistake, Conceptual Problem) gets linked to personal learning record of the student which identifies the strength and weakness of the student. It also links to the future learning need(i.e. Type of questions the student needs to be practicing, learning content on a particular topic on which he/she is weak) of the student. And based on the aggregated data the student could be informed about his overall rank at a national level on a continuous basis.
As the personal documents of the student are there on a website he/she could continuously added learning material from the web and link the documents together to create a more comprehensive learning record which he/she could use later.
Is this idea really feasible or just to impractical? What would be the major challenge in such a idea?