We hear it frequently:" If you want learners to embrace training, offer choices and let them
decide how they learn." We're told that focusing on learner preference is the key to more …

E-learning was also the innovation that garnered the most venture capital, the most press,
and, not surprisingly, the most grandiose promises. Among the claims made to support e …

The question of how technology affects pedagogy is not new, but has started to become a
focus for attention again. The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee, for example, has …

Abstract “Technology alone does not deliver educational success. It only becomes valuable
in education if learners and teachers can do something useful with it”(OECD, 2001, p. 24) …

Technology, globalization, and new knowledge about how people learn are having dramatic
effects on diverse approaches to teaching and learning worldwide. 1 Most of the literature …

The history of educational technology is replete with examples of promising technologies
that were embraced with naïve enthusiasm, only to be later discredited and discarded either …

Abstract1 There is a growing number of texts about e-learning, but most of them address
only the problem of how to teach ('e-teaching'). Few address the social implications of …

You work in a fast-moving computer company. Your CEO has written a popular book on
doing business in cyberspace. Getting started in e-learning should be a cinch, right? Wrong …

I t is probably safe to say that most designers and developers are considering or exploring
new perspectives on designing Web learning instruction and environments. Many recognize …

Many predict that the biggest growth in the Internet, and the area that will prove to be one of
the biggest agents of change, will be on-line learning, or e-learning. Recent surveys show …