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The recent launching of Universiti Maya Tun Abdul Razak, the first virtual university in Malaysia marks the significant attention the Internet technology has received from many higher education institutions in Malaysia. Long before its launching, many educators in this country have been experimenting with this technology for their classes, particularly using e-mail to improve writing skills and using the Web to provide supplemental instructions.
This paper attempts to describe an experiment using a dummy character to stimulate on-line discussion for a campus-based course in English Morphology, Syntax and Semantics. Ninety second-year B.Ed. TESL (Teaching English as A Second Language) students were involved in this experiment. The findings reveal a number of complex attributes of the virtual classroom interactions, including psychological and linguistic barriers affecting participation in the Virtual environment. Some unanticipated problems pertaining to on-line tutorial, and the use of the Web to supplement the course are discussed. Some suggestions are also made to help those interested in using the Web to supplement their on-campus courses.
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Note: This is an unedited version of the paper that appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Teaching and Learning organized by the Faculty of Education, University Kebangsaan Malaysia.
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The potential use and actual uses of the Internet technology in education have been documented in numerous literature. Most have focused the discussion on screen designs, learning approaches and activities, the Internet as a valuable resource for learning, and computer mediated communications such as using e-mail. Many of these literature have been written to document online learning for distance education, and a literature for online learning to supplement a campus-based course is almost non-existent. This paper attempts to discuss some issues in using Web-based learning to provide supplemental tutorials for an on-campus course. Among the issues discussed include language proficiency, special fonts, support system and feedback. Discussion on these issues is hoped to shed some light on why on-line learning fails to work, and how educators may be able to effectively design a virtual classroom to supplement their campus-based courses.
Download: op-3-2000.pdf