Computer-Based instructions have been used as synonyms to e-learning.The large storage and calculating capacities of the computer suggest great potential for its use in the classroom. It can give instructions to the learner, call for responses, feedback the results, and modify his further learning accordingly. The computer can also be used to measure each student’s attainments, compare them with past performances, and then advise teachers on what parts of the curriculum they should follow next. A CBI is an organized integration of hardware and software technologies and human elements designed to produce timely, integrated, accurate and useful information for decision making purposes. Advantages of utilizing modern technology for given applications need to consider 5 points
Interactivity – Easy to interact with the internet
Mobile Communications via satellites
Global coverage
Irrelevant location of either party – WAP phones
A WAP enabled mobile can use its WAP browser to access pages coded in WML (Wireless Markup Language) – a language designed to take account of the limitations of mobile networks and phones.
Video Conferencing
Distance, time, jet lag – all irrelevant
E-mail
Global, not dependent on location
Attachments
Group Working ie Ofice Suite. Each application works easily within the same suite due to the engine that’s employed.
Software – editing changes, combined with other technologies – e-mail, WAP, digital TV
Participants