In recent year, the improvement of internet causes the development of online courses. Some students start to take class online. Because it has flexible time, many school has provide student online sections, but will online class may instead face to face class one day. I will revise the fourth individual post. Before I take the online section on zoom, I really wished that one day students do not have to go to school; we could take courses at home using computer or website like course space until the Covid 19. Because of the covid-19 pandemic, students have to stay home and use zoom to take courses online. However, after we joined the twitter chat last week, I realized that there are some drawbacks of study online. Therefore, I would like to share my experiences after I have used word press site and zoom or twitter chat. They are benefits for study online. Students do not waste time on traffic, and time is flexible. However, students get less contact with others. During the class time, we listen to teacher, and after the class is over, everyone leaves the meet. To me, I get less motivation when I take the course online. It might because tests are open book, or I do not have to take a lot of time on review. I prefer the feeling that discuss a question with my classmates, but for online course, everyone just does their own work, we do not need to meet at library and do the assignment together. In addition, I find is difficult to concentrate in a online section. It is too easy to be distracted by other things. Before the class begin, students may indulge in other things. They just join in the zoom, but teacher does not know is the student pay attention or not. Unlike online course, in a face to face class teacher have to contact with students, so students are fully concentrate during the class period.

Word press is a good pedagogy, and it is for free like twitter chat. They provide free access to both teacher and students. Like word press, some open pedagogy web even provide free primary source. “In the context of British Columbia (BC), Canada, the BC campus open textbook initiative has resulted in over 2,000 textbook adoptions by 435 faculty members, which equates to learners saving approximately 8–9 million Canadian dollars (£5–5.5 million British Pounds) in textbook costs (BCcampus, 2018)”(Paskevicius & Irvine 2019). Those resources are helpful for students, but it also cost a lot. Like Uvic library, It contains numerous resources for students to use, and Uvic cost a lot on collect those resources, so if the website is free, how does the website profits? School charge the money from students, and what the website does? “Open universities are faced with a paradox between the mercantilism of private education, the pressures of surveillance capitalism on the one hand, and the effort to increase the openness of public science and education by another”(Nascimento 2020). Therefore, this is a challenge for those open pedagogy webs to earn profits without distract students because they cannot pop up a window with advertisement during a student’s class time.

 

Nascimento Cunha, M., Chuchu, T., & Maziriri, E. T. (2020). Threats, challenges, and opportunities for open universities and massive online open courses in the digital revolution. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 15(12), 191-204. doi:10.3991/ijet.v15i12.13435

Paskevicius, M., & Irvine, V. (2019). Open Education and Learning Design: Open Pedagogy in Praxis. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2019(1), 10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.512