ITunes U post #4

Universities are beginning to go the way of teaching online inorder to try to expand their market because before this inorder for the universities to get students the students would have to go to the university and learn there but that is not the case anymore. Universities are trying to expand their clientel by posting lectures online in places as ITunes U because this way there is no more location barrier and students can get the same learning from anywhere at anytime.

The rewards for this could be that after the students see some of the lectures that they become drawn to the University and decide to attend there. Also universities could put their programs online but charge people tuition so this way they expand their potential market and revenue without having to expand their school.

ITunes U post #3

The course I have chosen for this ITunes U assignment is Cost Accounting and it is provided by the University of Central Missouri. This course consists of 20 lessons and they all deal with different aspectd of cost accounting. This course is video taped by a student throughout the proffesors lectures and provides a video of him teaching all the concepts.

One of his lectures deals with unethical behavior and how it is a very large concern in the accounting field. He goes over how it is very easy to make an unethical decison inorder to benefit the company but it is important to not let that get in your way as an accountant and to always choose the ethical decision that also helps the business.

In another one of his lectures he deals with relevant costs and this lecture looks at the recording of costs that are only relevant to the operation of the business. Here he points out how costs such as personal ones for the owner of the business should be avoided and that the only costs recorded were used for the business.

ITunes U post #2 This new type of learning makes it easier for both the teacher and student because it is a much more effective way of learning because the resources are unlimited. This is easier for students to learn because they do not have to rely solely on the teacher and they can use the web and the people around them inorder to get help with things they do not understand. This is easier for students because they are now able to learn how they want to and this suits their learning style more because it is more visual. This is also easier for teachers because they do not have to do as much work all they have to do is give the students assignments and show them all the tools available for them. These teachers do not have to just stand there and teach they are teaching by allowing the students to research on their own. There are many advantages to using a learning style like this because it actually provides students with information that they will use later in life by showing them all the resources available to them on the world wide web. This shows them how they will be able to find help if they need it while in university. Overall i feel that this learning style is very good for students because they learn skills that will actually help them later in life and their resources for learning are unlimited.

ITunes U post #1

I believe that teaching videos such as the videos the Khan Academy posts are very helpful in aiding the learning of many students. I personally have never used videos like this to help me but I wish I knew earlier that there were videos like this out there because these could have been very helpful earlier in my high school career. These videos would have been very helpful for math and would have provided me with the extra help i would of needed instead of paying for a tutor... 

 These videos provide people with the ability to go back and review concepts that they may not have understood which is very helpful while trying to learn a new concept. These videos also help people who learn by visuals such as myself because they receive well drawn demonstrations of how things work and that clears up many questions.  These videos can also be accessed from pretty much anywhere cause they are on youtube which can help people because if they are trying homework and don’t understand it they can use this videos for clarification when there are no teachers around.

These videos are changing the way we learn and it all for the better instead of relying solely on the teacher students are now able to get help all the time not just by the teacher. This will really take learning to a new level because this teaching strategy will begin to be implemented by more and more schools worldwide.

 Overall, I feel that teaching videos like this can really help students in all areas receive more clarification and helps them to become more independent learners. These videos are the future and I can see why after watching one and realizing how helpful and useful they truly are.

Shakespeare post #4 yaa its a little late

This is the video I found to be better

This video is better than the other two because of the fact that it does not do the scene in the typical old fashioned way of doing it it takes it and transforms it into modern day which makes it much easier to watch and understand. This video actually intrigued me because it was entertaining to watch unlike the others that put me to sleep. The fact that it was set in modern times but the language stayed the same really helped me to actually understand the words better because i was better able to understand the context that surrounded them. Overall this modern version i found much better than the other two because it was actually interesting and exciting instead of being the typical shakespeare scene.