Advantages And Disadvantages Of Telecommunication Technology In E-Learning

Introduction: Many students do their courses in universities e-learning. According to (Katz, 2000; Katz, 2002; Trentin, 1997) "E-Learning is the use of telecommunication technology to find information for training and education. With the progress of the development of information and communication technology, e-Learning is emerging as the paradigm of modern education. The great advantages of e-Learning include liberating interactions between learners and instructors, or learners and learners, from limitations of time and space through the asynchronous and synchronous learning network model". E-learning has taken in ten years ago a lot of developments globally and locally, and a shift from just a fictional idea into practice contributes to

The most important is that ease of communication and access to the teacher, Came up e-learning great ease of getting the teacher and access it in the fastest time by outside official working hours, because the trainee became able to send queries to the teacher through e-mail, and this feature is useful and appropriate for the teacher more, rather than to remain tied to his office. And be more useful to those who are incompatible with their working hours schedule for the teacher, or when there is a query at any time is not likely postponed. Secondly, student can be study anytime from anywhere in the world therefor can fit it into your schedule, but also saves money on the costs of travel. A third advantage is that e-learning could be helping students to improve knowledge of the Internet. After that this knowledge will help students throughout their careers to take personal responsibility for their own learning. It could be developed self-knowledge and self-confidence in them. On the other hand, One disadvantage of e-learning is that some of the students might not be too comfortable using computers because there are many technical problems and communications in the Internet also slow Internet connections or older computers, so students need to have computer skills with programs such as word processing, Internet browsers Without these skills it is not possible for the student to succeed in e-learning. The second disadvantage of e-learning is that teacher cannot or difficult to control the student. ' Learners with low motivation tend to fall behind when using eLearning as there are no set times to be doing it and they are responsible for the organization themselves, Without the routine structures of a traditional class, students may get lost or confused about course activities and deadlines causing the student to fail or do poorly" (Berman2006). The