Few days ago, I posted up my response on the e-learning issue as requested by my lecturer. I was quite shocked after found out that not more than 5 people posted their response. Is this a sign showing that even though we are studying computer science, but we still do not appreciate and utilize the internet connection wisely? Or this shows that our e-learning system has some problem because it doesn’t help attracting students to login (in other word, it sucks)?
But then, I am quite impressed that there are people who rely on the internet resources in studying in my course. This is because in my college, we are rely on the lecturer for notes. If a lecturer does not provide notes for photocopying, then he/she will be in trouble when students evaluate him/her during the end of semester. Not many who are really interested finding out more on the subject somewhere else and this is probably why not many logged into the BlackBoard and post their response.
In my response, I pointed out that constant electrical supply is a main factor in order to make e-learning a success. It is quite insulting when we are already used to electricity black-outs even in this so-called “Advanced State”. Besides that, decent broadband coverage is also another important factor because not many residents in Malaysia are able to surf online with the help of broadband. Even one can surf using broadband, if he/she is using Streamyx’s service, then he/she will probably suffer from the constantly service down. Even though there are other ISPs providing broadband connection but they cant provide low cost connection. This is because wired connection that is generally cheaper is already monopolized by Telekom. In order to use other ISPs’ services, we will need to pay more for the hardware because they use wireless technology to deliver broadband connection.
If these problems are left unbothered, then I do not expect E-learning will become a trend in Malaysia.
Recently our English for Science unit’s lecturer posted an issue about e-learning at the college’s “e-learning” system (which is actually a blackBoard Learning System that is also used by many other colleges) and we are required to write a response to that issue. She also provided a link to a page that clearly explains about “e-learning”. Until now, I have really no idea on this issue since I am still reading that webpage while I am posting this.
If only looking at my college’s so called “e-learning” system, I really don’t like it much because it is not as useful as I expected. Blackboard Learning System is no doubt a good system handling “e-learning” things but it is not being well used at my college. I myself prefer looking for information at another websites rather than the e-learning system because there are almost nothing provided by our lecturer through the system except for some lecture notes / tutorial questions / assignment questions etc. I have a friend studying at another college and I heard from him that he can get a lot more things through their college BlackBoard System besides notes / assignments etc. And the participation of his lecturer is much better compared to my college. I found that sometimes it is very rare to see any lecturer to join in our discussion in the discussion board and probably this is why Blackboard System is not popular in my college.
But these are only some problems that only occur in my college, and this doesn’t mean that they will happen in other colleges as well. Therefore these cannot be the only points in my response to the issue, *sigh*. Now I would need to start thinking what to write and post them this Friday since I do not have much spare time because the units I took in this semester are quite tough (at least 4 credit hours) and I am definitely don’t wish the same thing happened as the “Introductory to Discrete Mathematics” unit last semester.
前两年我有去过槟城走走顺便探望个曾经一起去柬埔寨背包的朋友(天,那篇游记确定泡汤了),事隔多年她终于投身了新闻业。那几乎就是我们在背包后第一次面对面见面吃个晚餐,想当然尔经过了那么多年不见话题大概不会断。吃到半途有个卖报纸的安哥走过,然后我朋友就有点神经兮兮的在看是什么报,知道是另一家报社的报纸后整个呈现心痒痒的表情,刚好是遇到我还没看到隔天的新闻,所以我就买了顺便借给她们看(她当时带着同事)别家报社的头条和内容是什么。
说实在的,我一直以为我会喜欢寻宝这个题材的电影的。目前比较算是能够达到我的期望的plot大概只有那部拍得很烂的达文西密码(虽然故事结局处理很草率,不过那是后话)。真的,寻宝电影要拍得好看真的不容易,先不论中西,从(我认识的)特务迷城到天脉传奇到达文西密码到国家宝藏2一直到最近的Indiana Jones,拍得真正精彩的有多少部?我说精彩不说好看是因为这些电影绝大多数真的很好看(特效)。
所谓的好消息,大概也没什么悬念的,小喵被派到高孟手下成为他的学生。一直到后来我才很迟钝的从第三者口中得知原来她一直都在欣赏着高孟,也难怪,高挑的身型总是比较吃香的,我这小矮人还是别傻了的好。很快地,因为高孟被调派到外地区的关系,所以身为学生的小喵也自然得跟着去了。也就因为这样,跟小喵的联系也随着距离的拉长而渐渐淡化。
每个学期最棘手的,除了午餐吃什么,大概就是这个了。其他的,顺其自然啦,物理也有学过,船到桥头自然直的道理。可是这种问题确是怎么分,也分不出个人人满意的结果。我想当今世上,黄金分割的难度也大概不过如此了(我是胡扯的,数学系的不要打我,虽然我也是半个数学系)。在我开始进入正题之前,我首先需要很郑重,很严肃的说一声对不起,并加上90度的鞠躬,但是目前不走Kennysia的路线不打算拍照作证,所以暂时你看不到就算了,不能因此质疑我的诚心。
今年除了繼續爲難自己每週死三篇文章出來外,我還跳了另一個坑。是說有時候人何苦要不斷給自己找麻煩呢?今年的第一季就這樣悄然過去,而我參與的這個活動到現在仍然毫無進展。現在人已經剛開始工作了,看來也是時候準備進行這個了。只是三個月過去了,我還不知道要怎麼着手進行第一個就是。不過無論如何,在下個星期生日前還是必須做出一個決定。至少在當天要把這第一個五分之一給完成。