Friday, 26 September 2008

Online Education

BBC Bite size (Revision website)
Bite size is a website set up to provide an easy to use revision tool to aid school and college students in there revision for exams. For its purpose as a revision aid bitesize is perfect but only when used in conjunction with textbooks and prior knowledge. As a reference tool bitesize is pretty much useless because the notes and presentations on the website only have relevance if you have already studied the subject.

Specialist sites concerning one subject
These sights are perfect if you want an in depth study of one subject or topic. The disadvantages of these sights are that they tend to delve into he subject very deeply and tend not to give you links to similar studies or topics.

Sites that link in with textbooks
These sites use a textbook as the original resource which usually comes with a CD. When you put your CD in the drive it will usually link you straight to the website that links to the book. The advantage of these is that it ads to the experience more than a textbook on its own would and also information can be updated. A disadvantage is you have to buy the textbook to be able to access the site and the information on the site is only relevant to the textbook.

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