The impact of e-learning in education

Abstract

It is evident that information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed our lives and reshaped the nature of everyday activities and contemporary times are often called the 'information age' or the 'knowledge society'. In today's day and age, education plays a big role in which we are and what we can achieve in our lifetime. Planning and implementing courses - no matter whether done for face-to-face education or within e-learning environments - deal a lot with pedagogical issues. Learning is influenced by a couple of factors such as attention, motivation, emotions, etc. as well as by learner characteristics like prior knowledge, cognitive and learning styles, intellectual capabilities, constitutional states and the forth. E-learning is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, web-based training and technology-delivered instruction. Nothing is changing as fast as all the terms related to E-learning. In E-learning environments learners interact with learning materials, their instructors and other learners from various locations and often at various times using network technologies.