Project work - Comparative analysis of various platforms of Learning Apps and Web tools

          As a part of ELT 2 paper I have selected the project of ‘Comparative analysis of various platforms of Learning Apps and Web tools’. I have selected this topic because I have completed three online courses in coursera and two in Flinnt. Both tools are also available in application form also. 

        In this project I have selected Flinnt and Coursera for comparison. I have compared both websites in the criteria of content sharing, interactivity, Quiz –Test – Assignments, evaluation and felicitation. I have also included my findings and observations.

Here I have shared my presentation on the project.

       

Comparative analysis of various platforms of Learning Apps and Webs – Flinnt and Coursera from yeshab68

For reading my experience and assignments of  Courses click on the links below.

1 – ModPo – Click here

2 – The Modern and The Postmodern – Click here

Online Course: The Modern and The Postmodern (Part 1) Wesleyan University

Hello friends,

     

      Recently I have completed my online course of “The Modern and The Postmodern (Part 1)” from Wesleyan University and secured 100% score.

Here is the screenshot of an e-mail which I have received by Coursera:

      This is the third course which I have completed. The learning experience was very good. Online learning is the best way to learn. It gives me pleasure every time I learn. There is not any kind of partiality and the process of learning is student friendly.

      

      In this course I have secured 100%. There were 7 weeks and 3 writing assignments. The system of grading and evaluation was different than two other courses which I have completed. There were strict rules regarding submitting assignments and plagiarism. Words limit was 800 per assignment. There were three criteria in which peers have to give marks out of 3 points,

Here are instructions:

Argument Feedback: Did the student develop a point of view in the essay by moving from premises to conclusion using evidence and logic?

Evidence Feedback: Did the student use quotations or examples from the reading assigned for the week to support their argument?

Exposition Feedback: Evaluate the quality of the writing. Look for clarity of thought and an organized essay structure. The writing should be understandable, but do not deduct for errors of grammar or spelling that do not impede the reader's understanding. Keep in mind that English is a second or third language for many students, and take this into account when grading.

Here are assignments which I have submitted.

1)    Instructions

         How did Kant define Enlightenment? Use Kant’s definition to discuss whether either Rousseau or Marx is an Enlightenment figure. In other words, choose one of the following comparisons to write about: Kant compared to Rousseau, OR Kant compared to Marx.

The essay response should be no more than 800 words.

I have selected “Kant’s definition of Enlightenment and Kant’s comparison to Rousseau”

Week 3 - Assignment 1

2) Instructions

       

    Compare the role of historical progress in the ideas of two of the following: Kant, Rousseau, Marx, Flaubert. In your essay, you should put the emphasis on role, not on an accounting of specific progress.

The essay response should be no more than 800 words.

    I have selected “Compare the role of historical progress in the ideas of two of the following: Marx and Flaubert.”

Week 4 – Assignment 2

3) Instructions

       

       Respond to one of the two following prompts Darwin wrote that: "Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." Compare Darwin's view of the persistent effects of the past with at least one other writer covered so far in the course (please try to write about someone you haven't written about in the previous assignments).

OR

Describe how Darwin makes use of the intellectual traditions of utilitarianism and romanticism in his work. Compare this use to how another thinker makes use of the past in his or her own work (this can be anyone covered so far in the course, but please try to write about someone you haven't written about in the previous assignments).

The essay response should be no more than 800 words.

I have selected “Describe how Darwin makes use of the intellectual traditions of utilitarianism and romanticism in his work. Darwin and Romantics - William Wordsworth”

Week 6 – Assignment 3

      

 I wanted to complete at least three online courses during my post graduation. I have achieved that goal. Still I am not satisfied and want to enroll more and more courses.

The Modern and The Postmodern - Week 6 – Third Writing Assignment

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Describe how Darwin makes use of the intellectual traditions of utilitarianism and romanticism in his work. Darwin and Romantics - William Wordsworth

Darwin was writing in middle of the 19^th century. Jeremy Bentham was the father of Utilitarianism. He was writing in eighteenth century. Utilitarianism includes thinking of social life. But Romanticism rejects this idea. As Darwin said,

“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quite war lurking just below the serene façade of nature”
-         Charles Darwin, 1839

What is Utilitarianism?
      
    Utilitarianism is the measurement of ‘utility’. ‘Utility’ is the measurement of all pleasures which a person has got from actions. It id also defined as

 “It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong”.
-           - Jeremy Bentham, A Fragment on Government

      Utilitarians are against God and they are interested into find a measurable reason why a certain practice is legitimate. Utilitarianism is for,

“Developing a rational schema for evaluating all practices and beliefs without resources to any essences or substance, avoiding as scrupulously as possible all those things that can not be measured”

Darwin vs. Wordsworth
     
      Darwin was looking towards nature as a biologist and as a cataloger of the variety of species. He was focusing on extraordinary richness of nature. Romantics were looking towards nature as something with which people can interact and feel intensity. Darwin was looking towards nature with the perspective of genealogy and Romantics were more sensitive towards the Mother Nature.  
     
       As per Darwin, the present is the key to the past. He wanted to investigate everything and he also investigated it. On the other hand for Romantics, nature was the key of joy. They were busy in enjoying the nature rather than investigating. That’s why they have rejected the idea of Darwin. But Wordsworth was also frustrated with the notion of war and revolution. For him, it was disillusionment of art and he also wrote it in The Prelude,

“Twas in truth and hour
of universal ferment; Mildest men
 were agitated; and commotion, strife
of passion and opinion, filled the wall
 of peaceful houses with unique sounds.
The soil of common life, was, at that time
too hot to tread upon.”
-         William Wordsworth, The Prelude, ix, 163-9
    
      Darwin was interested in what we achieve and results of the investigation and Romantics were interested in how we achieve and the process of achieving. For Romantics, Utilitarianism was clearly rejected and this is one of major reason that measurement of pleasure is not possible.

       Darwin has used these two views as the background of his work. He investigated the truth by focusing on illusions. Darwin is a traditional scientist, and also have a lovely wonder towards nature and that is that reason that he is connected with Romantics. Darwin was focusing on natural essence of species. He has used scientific approaches to nature like genealogy and many more. He wrote that,

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views if supported by some evidence. Do little harm for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness: and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.”

     Thus, Darwin has used the background of Utilitarianism and Romanticism as the background of his work and talked about  Naturalization of morality.