A Day In My E-Learning Life

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Task Unit 2. English for IT
Manuel Ochoa Flórez
A day in my e-learning life.
“9 am . It's a good time to spend some time studying some of the subjects of the course and perform the tasks necessary to get a good grade.
With a coffee at my desk I turn on my computer and connect to the e-learning service offered by the school to train people like me. From what I see today the service is alittle slow. I guess that there are more people like me who like to study in the morning.
Well, after a few seconds waiting for the server, it seems that I get to the topic I want to study today. I haven’t had many problems to understand the topic in a first reading almost entirely. I check my queries and solve them online by surfing specialized pages. The truth is that it's easy to drown in a seaof information if you're not sure what you want and you don’t know how to extract only what you want.
When I have finished reading the topic a couple of times I try to do the self-assessment exam proposed for this topic. I notice that you are always time-limited and you can get a little nervous, because you know that if you have trouble there is nobody who can help you. The same goes if you haveany questions or if the connection fails.
It seems that everything has gone well. You get a good grade and your confidence in this system of learning increases. At first I was not convinced of how it would work but now you're sure it's a very comfortable system giving you a lot of flexibility and fitting your learning pace.
Well, it's time to end this study session. I have to make dinner soon.This afternoon I have a big challenge at work and do not want to be late. "
This could be a normal morning of study of one of the many students of universities, colleges and schools in the country. The e-learning services are being established as a modern and effective solution to the need for further training of many professionals who need to share work and studies as well as those who preferthe convenience of being able to choose what time of day they prefer to study.
Personally, studying from home is the biggest advantage I can get. I’ve been working as a programmer and computer technician for 10 years and the first thing I realize is how difficult is to stay well trained and updated with the overwhelming number of new technologies that appear every day in this world. The only optionyou have is to be continually searching the internet looking for small tutorials and online courses to meet the demands of your job.
My first experience with software development study was face-to-face, like a lot of additional training courses in different programming languages that I've done later. For a newcomer to the world of programming it can be very frustrating to learn without a teachershowing you the first steps to take. It is normal that after turning on a computer you don't have any idea where to start. For example, a few months ago I did a programming course in SAP environment. With all my experience, It took me a week to install the program needed to start writing the first lines of code.
The help of a teacher who is physically at your side is valuable in many ways. He isin charge of giving you a study line you must meet, review your daily work, meet the standards of programming world and give you the confidence to keep on doing it well.
But when you start working as a professional everything changes, and you become your own teacher, almost from day one. Nobody has prepared you for the thousands of different cases that will end up on your table, for which youhave not taken a single line of notes and you realize that your editor program has menus that you've never believed could exist.
Continually overcoming this feeling of loneliness is what has given me the peace to face this new cycle of higher grade. To start studying again was almost like a new work project, in which you have targets and dates to meet. Another blank screen to fill with code.
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