E-Learning_How Technology effects education The internet allows for more information to be spread at a lower cost

The internet allows for constant communication between teachers and students

The internet allows for greater convenience of study and more engaging lessons

Spreading information at low cost

Textbooks cost more than publishing text on the internet

The internet provides cost-effective publishing options for educational materials

Bates, 2005, p. 8 citation

Classrooms cost more to maintain than web hosting

Constant communication

Today's world is defined by an ability and expectation to be constantly available

Development of the internet and smart phones influences today's constantly connected culture

i. Mealy, Loller (Eds.), 2000, p. 233 citation

IV. Greater convenience

A. Students can learn on their own schedule at a location of their choosing

B. Students can engage in multimedia lesson presentation, thus engaging their interests

a. By providing easily-accessed multimedia integration, students do not find their studies tedious

i. Kwan, 2008, p. 251 citation

V. Conclusion

A. Increased online presence at universities is a growing trend (OECD/CERI survey)

E-Learning: The Effect of Technology on Education

Both education and technology are, in and of themselves, organic and ever changing. They are perhaps the two elements of society that change most frequently and in the shortest amount of change. One need only consider the educational standards of two generations, or even one generation, to realize how much education has changed in so short a period of time. Technology too changes with great rapidity, and in large leaps and bounds. When combined, one can only expect the changes technology influences in education to be vast and fast. At the creation of the internet, E-Learning became inevitable for a number of reasons. The internet offers the capability to spread copious amounts of information at very little cost to the distributors. The internet allows for constant communication between and among teachers and students. The internet provides a greater convenience than pursuing an education limited...

For most college students attending campus classes, textbooks for a full two semester schedule can cost upwards of five hundred dollars, or more if the student is studying in the sciences. Of course, a large portion of that is markup and does not go directly to compensating the publisher for their costs, but it is far less expensive to publish information on the internet. Virtual space costs less than pages in a book. In Tony Bates' 2005 book, Technology, E-Learning and Distance Education, he writes, "The main reason for the growth of third generation distance education is the rapid expansion of the Internet and in particular the World Wide Web" (8). The explosion of information-sharing capabilities that took place toward the end of the twentieth century paved the way for a massive shift in education. While certain schools will still hold sway over reputation (mostly Ivy league schools such as Harvard, Princeton and Yale), many who seek education beyond high school are turning toward online distance-learning opportunities for their cost-effectiveness. The less cost there is to distribute information, house students, maintain classrooms…the less cost is passed onto the consumer or, in this case, student.
Technology has advanced to the point today when it is more difficult not to be constantly connected to the rest of the world than the opposite. This change has come about because of two things: the internet and cellular phones. Developed during the last two decades of the twentieth century, these technologies advanced dramatically in the last ten years, and have allowed everyone to have a world of information (quite literally) at the touch of…