E-learning: the 21st century knowledge upgrade

We often hear e-learning around the internet community were in modern education even embraces the system of e-learning ; without a doubt, to some notions e-learning can be practiced at schools and universities only.  This belief will not give the true meaning of e-learning. 

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The basic concept of e-learning is a collaborative educational system that an individual can refer its educational feedback across the internet universe.  E-learning further gives the meaning of continues education through internet usage.  Even an individual is finished its professional career in universities, an e-learner must continuously upgrade its professional knowledge through e-learning. 

Most of the multi-national companies are integrating e-learning to their Human Resource appraisal by collaborating other global branches of the Company or other companies with the same nature of product operation orientation.  In this system human resource of a given company will have the idea and knowledge as to what is the actual operation to other business companies.  To give an idea, say for example if the marketing department of a given company is engaging e-learning with other company’s marketing department a creative knowledge can be formed different from the usual appraisal of human resource inside the company.  

In other words, e-learning is a personal appraisal not only can be practiced by professionals inside the universities or companies.  What I’m trying to convey that learning inside the school and the HR appraisal inside the companies are not enough to sustain the interactive knowledge in this 21^st century.  To give a case on the individual on e-learning appraisal, say for example an entrepreneurial businessman is having a business venture that requires knowledge to maintain the business.  

Usually, governments around the world give programs to small and medium enterprise through seminars conducted by the government.  But with the new system of e-learning, citizens running the SME businesses may not rely only from the knowledge imparted through the public and private SME seminars but rather SME businessmen can upgrade their knowledge through online formal educational upgrading.  To some who still cannot visualize the system of personal e-learning, let me bring you back to my blog few months ago regarding the internet program of MIT and Harvard University.  

MIT & Harvard are running the new educational program that solely involves e-learning.  The system allows student graduates from different regions of the world to collaborate their knowledge with the standard discipline of MIT & Harvard.  The brilliant part with this program is that the raw gathering knowledge torrents around the world will define the new knowledge suited towards accomplishing the human resource task of the 21^st century.  As part of the program of e-learning, one university should electronically collaborate with other universities provide that the faculty or discipline of the subject matter must be the same.  

Further proof for individual educational knowledge enhancement is the opening of Google Education http://www.google.com/edu/ this platform being offered by google to all the world population is simply to collaborate teachers to teachers, students to students, and most of all students to teachers in a global sense.  If we can recall the classroom activities this late 90’s teachers and educational institutions are more incline towards case study and analysis which will depict the actual business situation outside the classroom and apply it in the theories studied inside the school.  Further advancement of e-learning will not only collaborate the theories to actual recorded cases but rather the advance benefit of e-learning will allow the student to reflect the classroom knowledge towards the actual business in real time and moreover students can further seek advice and peer review across the internet using google education and other platforms.  

As e-learning is being accepted in the mainstream education of many top universities, the future of e-education and e-learning is a long way to go.  What we see from the latest updates of e-learning usage of Harvard and MIT is just the beginning of e-learning.  But what is vital today is to integrate e-learning not only in schools and universities but to the existing companies as well. Global education can be realized through the usage of e-learning in the classroom.  Just make sure that the students or the human resource inside the company are interacting with other people around the world with an equivalent academic faculty and discipline to define the true meaning of e-learning.