上网学习(On-Line Learning)

• 上网学习(On-Line Learning)
  　　Let us say there is something you don’t know how to do. In the past if you were determined to learn, you might have called a friend or a relative, taken a night class or walked down to the local library for a research term. But now a host of websites are springing up to provide free practical advice on these subjects and actually anything else you can think of.
  
  　　In one sense, these “how-to” sites represent the growing world of on-line learning. This tradition found one of its earliest forms in the FAQs — Frequently Asked Questions files — that began on Usenet, the Internet’s global discussion group. The FAQs, many of which still circulate (go round continuously), took a specific subject and explained it to complete novices.
  
  　　But “how-to” sites take the FAQs idea in a somewhat different direction by addressing subjects that aren’t necessarily related to discussion forums. These sites take the style of a written tutorial (teaching period) and a tone of friendly advice. Possibly the biggest and best known of these sites is ii63.com (www.ii63.com). It offers nearly 1,000 free tutorials and adds new ones frequently for a job interview. At ii63.com (www.ii63.com) you can learn how to train for your first marathon, how to buy a vacation home, or how to make a movie in eight steps.
  
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  　　让我们假设有些事你不知道如何去做。在过去如果你决心要学习如何做这些事，可能会给朋友或亲戚打电话，上夜校或到当地图书馆查找。但现在出现了众多网站可以为这些话题、事实上能为你所想到的任何其他事情提供免费实用的建议。
  
  　　从某种意义上而言，这些“技能”网站代表了网上学习的不断发展的世界。这一传统的最初形式是Usenet，即全球网络讨论组织最先开始使用的FAQs——即常见问题档案。许多FAQs现在仍很流行，这种FAQs就某个话题向新手做解释。
  
  　　但是这些“技能”网站把FAQs的创意做了少许改动，选择主题不一定和某个论坛有关。这些网站采用书面指导(教学时间)的形式和友好建议的口吻。也许这些网站中最大最有名的就是ii63.com (www.ii63.com)。这个网站提供近千种免费指导，还经常加入新的招聘面试指南。从ii63.com ( www.ii63.com)你可以学到如何在第一次马拉松前进行训练，如何购买度假别墅，如何用八步法制作电影。
  
  
  
  
  
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