User:Whakanuia

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Hello just came across an article talking about webucation from what I can understand on it and my experiences so far it is education in it's may forms on the web. It is provided by individuals, charities, organisations, private or public educational institutions and corporations. In fact anyone that has a course or area that they feel people would be interested in. This information is provided in many forms, text, audio, video and is only limited by the party's preferred method of communication or the forums they have available to them. This particular site is an example of the written form radio stations with their recordings of particular session is audio and of course television would be video as this is also their normal forms of communication in the non internet world. Some places will concentrate on their single subject and area in their preferred communication method whereas others will go across all platforms. In the UK a university called Open University seems to use the web and other areas print, televison etc as well as their site to provide education, a commercial site that I came across logicl.net/elfcapi supposedly based in The Seychelles seems to provide written, audio and video all on the net, from what I can see it is all electronic. All these participants seem to have different ways of providing this service on the internet relying soloey on the internet and various resource areas on the internet soley or in conjunction with other media or expanding out form the internet and providing a wider area of access. With all of these it is dependent on what you require and where it is based and in particular for web based education what technical items you have to access the internet. If you have broadband the world is your oyster but obviously with some of the participants due to the download or feed times if not having access or being able to afford it, only certain options are accessible for them. Still if they have access to the web they do have access to the world and be open to things that they do not even know about or be aware of in their area. Will look into this further and maybe provide a more concise and broader discourse on this when I have the time. Another area if private wikis which members can share or discuss in areas they are interested in and make it private or available to the public. Look forward to other peoples comments

--Whakanuia 19:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)