The benefits of online usage

The more I observe teaching and engage in it myself, the more I become convinced that blending traditional in-class teaching with online teaching/communication is definitely the way of the future. Teaching is severely limited by several time consuming activities, namely note-taking, information delivery and testing. Online communication can improve these areas dramatically. Instead of having students spend the class taking notes, the teacher can post them online before class so students can print/read them, then the class can be spent in discussion/activities to make the material clearer. Various other forms of information could also be delivered online, some class discussions could take place online. You could encourage students to do readings by having quizzes at the end of online readings that count for a small percentage of their course mark. And of course there are all the advantages of online testing that I have already commented on in the course discussion. It is definitely a technology and communication form that I hope to take advantage of in the future.