Ecommerce Case

Inherent in our traditional view of education, there is the belief that information is delivered by face-to-face human contact. This certainly was true until the printing press, television, video, and lately, technology came along. Recently, it was felt that texts could be read and video could be watched.

During the past 20 years, technology, particularly the computers, has vastly altered the way in which information is generated, stored, accessed and used. Computers have been incorporated into every product under the sun. They have been woven into the fabric of our systems of transportation, administration, finance and government to name but a few. They have begun to transform the way we live, the way we work, the way we play. Inevitably they will be woven into the fabric of our education systems, too, and they will transform the way we teach and learn.

E-learning often referred to as online learning or web-education, has developed rapidly in recent years. It has been widely recognized and accepted by many and has fundamentally altered the practice of teaching and learning. It is through the convergence of the Internet and learning that made online learning possible. This educational method is growing in popularity as a cost-effective method of providing access to education for a large population. There are five main reasons behind the growth in online learning: access, efficiency, stability, cost, and technology. The explosion in online learning tools and the adoption of this method around the world speaks to the fundamental desire for more education. The expanded access to knowledge and information provides the groundwork necessary for many people to start new careers and gain new skills.

Since then, e-learning has been used in every level of education, from elementary schools all the way up through graduate programs and even in corporate training. There has been excessive publicity surrounding the advantages of e-learning such as time-and-location-independent learning, the easy updating of teaching material, and as a consequence of these advantages, it seemed that e-learning would totally supersede traditional education.

While some people agree that e-learning has come a long way and opened new vistas in the field of education, some researchers are still questioning the value of learning through nontraditional means, there is still an ongoing debate on the effectiveness of distance learning versus the traditional mode of teaching