User:Eml4500.f08.delta 6.castrillon/Wiki & E-Learning Comparison

There are two main differences between both applications, each having a deep impact on the experience of the user, i.e. the student. Wikiversity has proved to be based on very sturdy programming code that ensures its reliability, while E-Learning has showcased bugs and other obstacles.

As past experience dictates, E-Learning has caused problems with navegation and file downloads. This problem can be very frustrating as it can lead to crashing of the internet browser, Internet Explorer in my case. Also, the E-Learning site produces various useless pop-up windows that ask for checks and permissions to perform orders from the user. on the other hand, Wikiversity is a very rigid program that is very well maintained and easy to use. It works with any internet browser. You can tell that the site is monitored by site managers constantly to ensure safe, serious, relevant, clean, information is posted.

As far as using E-Learning vs Wikiversity for a classroom purpose, then they both perform diferent functions. For once, E-Learning is able to store documents for the students to download and use. This method requirs a course that relys on homework. The student downloads the homework problems from the site and solves the problems. However, Wikiversity is geared towards posting information online. This method is geared towards a class that requires assignments with the written word such as essays, poems, editorials, etc. It great advantage that Wikiversity has is that the users can edit content and view changes real time. E-Learning does not feature the possibility to edit documents real time for other contributors to witness, as it acts as a way to post different versions of documents, not edit the original.

As far as the EML4500 class goes, I feel that the idea of posting notes online is very advantageous only for the student that did NOT attend class. I think that attending class and having the notes on paper is sufficient, as I learned the material anyways by being in class. Furthermore, having the same set of notes 8 different times seemed superfluous. Having to learn the Wiki code for re-copying notes was not an efficient use of my time, even more since I am a graduating senior who was looking for a job. The aim was to learn about the advantages of the Wiki applications (like being able to immortalize the inforamtion), but I think that reading or hearing about these applications and advantages would have been enough to make me understand. Despite it all, I did gt a firm grasp of the subject and the Wiki code.

The EML4500 class is an engineering course that should be based on complete homework problems for practice, which could be turned in through Wikiversity. Seeing the homework problems online was very useful since they were clear and required minimal time to post. Posting notes was very tedious since learing had occured in the classroom.