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Forum Title: Online Learning (Group 3)

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: Good eveni evening ng ladies ladies and gentl gentleme emen. n. Welcome Welcome to to the night night forum forum of today. today. First First of of all, I would like to thank to all of the audience in front of me. Thank you very much for attending the forum for today. Our issue for tonight is “ Online Learning ”. First of all, I would like to introduce our panels for tonight. Right on my left is Noor Hajah Sanita, a student from UPSI, next to her is our specially invited parent, Pn Nor ‘Awaathif ‘Awaathif Bt Mohd Ghazali Ghazali Lee. Lee. For your informati information, on, she is the the winner of of the best mother mother for the year 2009. 2009. A big claps for her her and congratulation congratulation for the award. award. How are you doing Pn Nor ‘Awaathif? “I’m good, and glad to be here this evening”. Beside Beside her is Profes Professor sor Norharyan Norharyan Erdayu from the Depar Departme tment nt of

Modern Language University of Malaya. How are you today professor? “I’m doing Great. Thank you”. At the end of the corner is the very experience counselor, Dr

Salmiza Zainal Abidin. Welcome to our forum for today, Dr. “Thank You”. Ladies and gentlemen, As we all know, online learning is also known as web based learning. Online learning learning can also be define define as a specifi specificc mode mode to attend a course course or progra program m of study where the students rarely or never meet face-to-face, nor access on-campus educational facilities, because they use to study online. For further detail about this topic, I would like to seek an information from the first panel next next to me, me, Noor Hajah Hajah Sanita. Sanita. As one of theUPSIl student, when do u know about online learning and why you choose online learning as one of your way to study? Studen dent

: Thank you miss chairperson. Assalamualaiku kum m w.b.t and a very good evening to all the panelist panelist and the audience. audience. I’m so glad to be one of the guests guests here. As what miss miss Eliana has said just now, I’m a first year student student at UPSI and I’m taking science science education. education. I knew this kind of learning learning since i was was in secondary school. However it is not widely used as we must depends only on text book and teacher’s guide. The reason why i choose online learning is

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firstly it is a flexible way. Why? It is because it work when it make sense for me. I can use it whenever either at night, evening or morning. With the online learning I am not tied to the class schedule. Sometimes, the class timetable is too pack pack that make students students feel so stressed stressed about about it. The pack pack and tight schedule can cause the student cannot perform well in their study due to fatigue condition. So by using the online website learning for an addition, I can lessen my work load. Besides going to campus, I also used to surf internet to study. I can go for it whenever I want to and at any place I like as long as there is internet connection. Furthermore I can improve my time management. It is because I don’t have to wait for a bus to go to the campus in order to see my lecturers. I also can communicate directly with my lecturers through the web cam although at home. I can even ask questions and opinions to them. It is really really a conve conveni nient ent way to study study as long long as we have good good intent intention ion and passions to succeed. I also can save money because at university I also get the wireless connections. So I don’t have to use broadband at my hostel. Aside from time management management aspects, I become more control of my learning process with some online courses. I can even learn on my own page and also choosing the subjects that I want to learn. Other than that by having this kind of technologies, I can make friends all over the world. I can share ideas and informations with my friends from other universities of other countries. By doing this my knowledge will be widen and get to know their country too. From From this this,, I also also can lea learn more ore lear learni ning ng skil skills ls and and impr improv ovin ing g my communication skills.


: Next we we move to to our counse counselor lor,, Dr Salmiza Salmiza Zainal Zainal Abid Abidin, in, may may be she would would like like to share her precious experience with all of us. Based on your experienced, what are the positive about online learning?

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from anyway. That mean, the student can attend the class from anywhere in the world that has internet access. So, they can still get the information about cour course ses. s. Be Besi side de that that,, onli online ne clas classr sroo ooms ms also also prov provid idee chat chat room roomss and and newsgroups for meetings and joint work. From this, it helps the student to share share inform informati ation on and and give give opini opinion on in cer certai tain n topic topic.. For For examp example, le, when when student have a problem in study or misunderstands in some topic in the class, they can get the information from this online group discussion. Student also fined the course material that may not be available in the library or from their read readin ing. g. So, So, at the the sam same tim time stud studen ents ts can can get get more more info inform rmat atio ion n and and knowledge about the topic they found. Advantage of online learning is the course material is accessible 24 hour a day 7 days a week. From this material, students have the ability to read, discussion, explanation and comment. Using the internet internet to attend attend class, class, researc research h informa information tion and communica communication tion with other other studen students ts teach teaches es skills skills in using using tec techn hnolo ologie giess that that will will be critic critical al to workers in the 21st century business community that works with colleagues globally and across time zones.

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: Next Next we move to to Pn Nor ‘Awaat ‘Awaathi hif, f, as a mother mother to 7 childr children, en, how how far do you agree with online learning Pn Nor ‘Awaathif?

Mother

: I do agree with the online learning because it did not require any specific time and place. So it made my life easier by reducing the cost of sending my children to the tuition that sometimes might be so far. Instead of reducing the cost, I also can have a look on my children progression in front of my eyes. This also could avoid them from creating a reason to loafing and so on. Besides that, from what I know the online instructors come with practical knowledge and may be from any location across the globe. This allows students to be expos exp osed ed to kn know owled ledge ge tha thatt ca can’t n’t be lea learn rned ed in boo books ks an and d see how cla class ss concepts are applied in real business.

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: Thank you to miss chairperson. Online learning is other option for students to improve their knowledge. As a lecturer, I also encourage my students to learn English by online. For instance, I suggest them to surf MyLinE website. For your information, this website provid provides es addit addition ional al resou resource rcess for learni learning ng in En Engli glish sh for acade academi micc and and professional purposes. Besides that, it does also provide a platform for selfaccess interactive learning. The learning process will be more attractive and interesting instead of learning in class. There are many activities provided in this website. The most attracted me is the student forum site. This is a place for sharin sharing g of experi experienc encee and and ideas ideas as studen students ts in a un unive iversi rsity. ty. Th They ey can can express their views and opinions on academic and non-academic issues, seek assistance or they can communicate with other fellow students. The other one is ‘Correct My English’ site. This is a platform where where students can post a short text that has written and other users could help correct the text. I believe that this is one of the affective ways of learning but yes, there will be pro and cons. It depends on the students to decide.

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: Wel Well, l, from from what what Prof Prof Norha Norharya ryan n mentio mentioned ned just just now now,, for ever every y good good thing thing ther theree must must be a bad thing on it. The same thing goes for online learning. What do you think about the negative impact of Online Learning Dr.?

Counselor

: The disadvantage of online learning is lack of interaction you will get with classmates and instructor. For example, in the class, students have a change to speaki speaking ng in class class prese presenta ntatio tion n and and discu discussi ssion on and and give give the their ir own own opini opinion on clearly. But in online learning, student just can sit at the front of the laptop, type their opinion and wait the answer. The second disadvantage is missing out non-verbal non-verbal communication. communication. As we know, non-verbal communication is very importa important nt than verbal verbal commun communicat ication. ion. Non-ver Non-verbal bal commun communicat ication ion is also know as body language which refer to, among other things, gestures people





motivated, responsible for your own learning and have good time management skills. If you don't have those skills, traditional classes may be a better choice for you.

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: Back to to Pn Nor ‘Awaa ‘Awaathif thif,, what do you you think think the benefi benefitt that your your childr children en can get from the online learning?

Mother: The online learning that my children join was very interesting one. I did not mean to

over promoting this online learning but this is the real thing that my children told me. One of my children said that she got what she did not get in class. She added more that in this program she could test her understanding whether by discussion or a short quiz provided there. Furthermore, over 75% of colleges and universities in the U.S offer online degree programs, with online degrees resp re spec ecte ted d as “o “on n th thee gr grou ound nd” ” de degr gree ees. s. (L (Lew ewis is). ). If th this is pr prog ogra ram m is no nott conventional, why the big country willing to take the risk? There must be a reason of success behind it. Just think about it.

Chairperson Chairp erson

: Prof Prof Norharyan, Norharyan, could you you please please tell tell us what is the the different different betwee between n student student who who practice practi ce online learning learning and and who are are not?

Lecturer

: There are different between the students who practice online learning and who are not. For my students students who are practic practicee online online learning learning,, they have improved a lot. That’s why I ask all of my students practice online learning. This is compulsory for them and extra credits will be given. I would like to advise all of the students to take this opportunity to improve their knowledge not only in English but in all fields of study. Please use the technology for good purposes that will give benefits to you, especially in your study


: Back Back to Hajah Hajah Sanit Sanita, a, where where do you heard heard about about this online online learn learning ing and and how it give impacts to your academic achievement?





through my friends. They shared with me all the online websites learning such as wikipedia, wikipedia, portal portal pendidikan pendidikan utusan, utusan, myline myline online resources resources for learning in English and many more. Furthermore, my lecturers also advised us to find additional informations through the websites that are linked to our subjects. Since the lecturers also are using technology so they give the links where we should should ref refer er to. Th Thee websi websites tes help help us to gain gain more more kn know owled ledge ge by surfi surfing ng internet. This additional information is important because the contents I get from the reference books, lecture notes and text book are not enough. There are too many assignments I have to do. However all of them are grouping activities. Sometimes, my friends and I share the online web learning whenever and wherever wherever we want want to. In this group discussi discussion, on, we will discuss discuss what we find and we gathered all together. We will make hard copy for each of us. Finall Finally y we can can use use it as our our ref refere erenc nces es in our our prepa preparat ration ion towa towards rds final final examination. My parent and family also supported me in this way of learning. As I cannot access internet at home due to no wireless connection, my parents bought a broadband broadband for me. So from the sources, sources, now I can easily continue continue using online learning. That’s all from me. Thank you.

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: “Cong “Congra ratul tulat ation ion,, Haja Hajah h Sanit Sanita. a. Now we know know that that online online learnin learning g is prove proven n to boost everyone knowledge”. knowledge”. Finally we have come to the end of our forum for tonight where we have shared a lot of knowledge which we don’t even know before. Online learning learning is build up with the modern modern technology nowadays. Besides Besides the good things there is also bad thing. So it is everyone right to choose. For the last word from me, I would like to thank again to all ladies and gentlemen for tonight and also to our panels. A billion thank I dedicate to everyone for cheering up this forum for tonight. See you again for next week on the other issue.







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