E-Learning In Education

E-learning refers to the use of information and communications technology (ICT) to enhance and/or support learning in tertiary education. But this covers a wide range of systems, from students using e-mail and accessing course work on line while following a course on campus to programmes offered entirely online (OECD 2005:2). The increasing influence of globalization and the emerging information society, set new requirements for all areas of social life, including to higher education. E-Learning became an important instrument in the new Higher Educational Environment in the digital age which creates student-centered learning and educational practice, offering new more flexible learning methods (UNESCO 2005).
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There is much indirect evidence, including student satisfaction surveys, but these may not be enough to offset the prevalent doubt about the pedagogic value of online learning among students and academics. One reason for the scepticism probably lies in the fact that e-learning has not really revolutionised learning and teaching, although it already offers fascinating experiments (organization for economic co-operations and development,

E-learning system offers the opportunity for information to be presented in various forms – text, sound, pictures, etc. More than that, it affords the opportunity for the information to be stored in various mediums and formats over long periods of time and accessible over long distances. Compared to face-to-face learning, these mediums can provide means of revision several times over in a day and over a period in a manner more accurate and convenient to students who are at the centre of the teaching and learning activity.
E-learning offers great flexibility in learning (Kocur & Kosc, 2009). This flexibility provided by the various forms in which the learning material can be presented, allows the students a variety of options to learn from at their own pace and time. Writers such as Hemsley (2002) express the view that full time and part time students can now partake in their chosen degree courses from any location, giving people who travel or who are relocated, a transferable and easily accessible learning resource and experience. Through the use of advanced technology, students who have previously not had access to higher education now have the opportunity to study at the location that best suits their needs (Sadler-Smith