Title: Instructional Design for the Web

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN FOR THE WEB

The birth of Information Technology in the field of business and education industries , paved way to the revolution of the training and learning processes of people around the world . The innovative design of the internet and its availability to a large number of populations around the globe makes it a feasible environment for learning new things (Carchidi , 2001 ,

10 ) and now even earning a degree from the World Wide Web

This is why many critics say that the IT generation holds so much promise on

producing more skillful employees as well as new graduates These products of virtual education are expected to be the ones who could handle the challenges of this technology driven world in both for the present and future era . Aside from this , the effectiveness of the online learning invites many existing companies to engage in the said venture . True , there might be some differences on the payment for the training services compared to that of traditional ways of educating the people , the online classes are still by professionals who would like to learn more without actually taking so much time and effort staying in the university or training camp classrooms

Virtual schools as well as virtual training programs work in a way that a person or a student in that matter who is a member of a virtual program is given his or her own security number , which serves as a security access to the virtual class . Then , the virtual lessons could already be presented to that member in a virtual class setting . The instruction in such classes usually occurs between a panel or a group of instructors interacting with at a maximum number of 200 students around the globe simultaneously (Robins , 2003 ,

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The students are aided with the knowledge they need to understand their lessons better with the use of online libraries , electronic sources and both visual and audio materials used for better explanation of the subject matter being tackled (Robins , 2003 ,

8 . Virtual learning started in the year 1996 , when Virtual High School had been first established in Canada . The said virtual school offered two complete courses on Biology and Canadian literature . The said school grew into becoming groups of interconnected classes and became among the pioneer providers of virtual education (Carchidi , 2001 ,

21 . The challenge of offering online courses and assisting students online proved to be a challenge for these pioneers but they strived and thus were able to survive up until the present time . Today they are known to have been hosting at least a thousand students from all over the globe and assisting these people attain their goals of both gaining more knowledge and finishing a degree at their own convenience (Preston , 2004 ,

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Virtual learning is closely related to the systems used by home schooling only that this time instructors are able to completely communicate with their students through the Internet . Not to mention the high tech presentation...