Web Based

Environments

Brittney Roddy
GCU
TEC 561
3/27/19
Web based environments can assist
and elevate teaching and learning
experiences (Yagci, 2017).
Learning Management Systems
A learning Management System is a software application
that helps administer, document, track, report, and deliver
educational courses (Kwan, 2012).

Two Learning Management

Systems Are:
● Educational benefits: Easily tracks learner
progress and performance, provides unlimited
access to elearning materials, integrates social
learning experiences.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks: The
more students that access the platform, the
slower it runs. Sometimes hard to customize.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: Moodle is
open source and free!
● Educational examples: Moodle can be used for
fully online classes, hybrid classes, or trainings.
● Educational benefits: Enables student
collaboration, instant access to materials,
quick feedback on assessments.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
Can experience technology glitches and be
bumped out of sessions and threaded
discussions are hard to follow.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: about
$1200/student/year.
● Educational examples: Blackboard can be used
for fully online classes or hybrid classes.
Website Creation Tools
Website creation tools allow the creation of websites
without manual code editing. They normally provide easy
templates to edit to create a website.

Two Website Creation Tools are:

● Educational benefits: Can be used for class
websites, digital portfolios, and blogs. Students
can access from anywhere. Teacher can monitor
the site and create a safe learning environment.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
Accounts can only be set for up to 40 students.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: Free! Just
have to edit the website to your liking.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: I have used Weebly for both a
digital portfolio and a class website. I have had
no problems either time.
● Educational benefits: User friendly, can be used
for an eLearning website, blog or class website.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
Needs frequent updates, customization needs
coding, can be expensive.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: Personal
blogs are free. Premium plans range from $3 to
$20 a month.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: have students create a digital
portfolio or post class assignments and
homework on the class website.
Web 2.0 Tools
Web 2.0 tools are online software programs that allow
people to do many different things. Some of these things
include teaching curriculum, storing data, create/editing
videos, editing photos, collaborating, and more.

Two Web 2.0 tools are:

● Educational benefits: Helps teachers and
students use proper grammar. Will help students
turn in papers with no grammatical errors.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
Might cause students to rely on grammarly
instead of trying to use proper grammar in the
first place.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: Free
web-browser extension.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: Have students use grammarly
to proofread their work before submitting it.
Grammarly has helped me correct grammar
mistakes that I didn’t know existed.
● Educational benefits: Allows for collaboration
and communication. Easy to manage and access
resources.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
does not integrate with a student information
system.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: Edmodo is
free to use for teachers. Not compatible with
existing gradebooks
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: Allows teachers to share
content, distribute quizzes, assignments and
manage communication with students,
colleagues, and parents.
Emerging Web-Based Environments
A web based learning environment is accessed through a web
browser rather than being stored on a hard drive. It is meant to
meet the learning and teaching needs of its students (Yagci, 2017).

Two emerging web-based environments are:


● Educational benefits: Allows for the selling and
purchasing of courses to use. Is a fully
web-based learning environment that can be
accessed anywhere/anytime.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
Lack of focus on learning elements. Only allows
for text, media, and basic quizzes.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: There are
different plans. Depending on what you want to
do it could be free or up to $99 a month.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: Great for course creators who
are looking to market and sell their work.
● Educational benefits: Allows for modules,
quizzes, discussions, and more. Keeps track of
student progress and allows for access anytime
to materials.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
Limited customization and expensive.
● Cost and/or preparation demands: Ranges
from $75 (single instructor) to $125 (university)
a month.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: Easy online course creation.
Can be used for online, hybrid, or training
purposes.
 Online Inquiry Based Learning Tools
Inquiry based learning is about learners constructing their own
understanding through asking questions. Inquiry based learning is
student centered. Online inquiry based learning tools help students ask
questions and be involved in hands on activities (Aina & Sofowora, 2013).

Two Online Inquiry based learning tools are:

● Educational benefits: Innovative online
● Educational benefits: Take classroom video to
whiteboard that encourages collaboration,
the next level. The student is in control of the
engagement and distance learning.
pace. They can rewatch, respond to questions
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
or quizzes, and click on hyperlinks.
Requires learning on how to use the application.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks:
● Cost and/or preparation demands: $7.99 a
Must have Internet access. All teacher videos
month
are public.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
● Cost and/or preparation demands: 100% free
and/or reviews: Students and teachers can
for teachers
share thoughts and ideas in real time. Teachers
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
can create presentations that include video,
and/or reviews: Create interactive and
audio, and more. Students can create their own
student-centered videos. Use these for in class
tutorials, animated stories, and presentations as
or online presentations.
well.
 Online Training Environments
Online training is a form of instruction that takes place
completely on the Internet.

Two online training environments are:


● Educational benefits: Can be used to train
teachers and students. You can upload existing
presentations or create your own on the fly. You
can pull many types of reports.
● Educational limitations and/or drawbacks: The
classroom training functionality is basic
● Cost and/or preparation demands: $599/month
for 500 active users.
● Educational integration attempts, examples,
and/or reviews: asynchronous learning and
blended learning.
● Educational benefits: Unforgettable
classroom experiences with virtual,
hands-on training labs. Supports small
and large classes. Instructor led or
self-paced.
● Educational limitations and/or
drawbacks: Occasional issues accessing
Cloudshare due to security measures.
● Cost and/or preparation demands:
Unable to find pricing. You have to
contact them.
● Educational integration attempts,
examples, and/or reviews: Hands-on
training labs and individualized training
for students.
References:
Aina, & Sofowora. (2013). Perceived benefits and attitudes of student teachers to web-quest as a motivating, creative and
inquiry-based learning tool in education. Higher Education Studies, 3(5), 29–35. Retrieved from
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Kwan, A. (2012). From cherry picking to convergence - migrating E-learning delivery to an LMS (Learning Management System) -
the COLeLIO experience. International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning, 5(3), 58–63.
https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.3991/ijac.v5i3.2174

Yagci, M. (2017). A web-based blended learning environment for programming languages: Students’ opinions. Journal of
Education and Training Studies, 5(3), 211–218. Retrieved from
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