ABSTRACT
The title of this chapter could have been: Where is the learning in e-learning? The promise of e-learning, and the enabling learning technologies, is to make learning experiences in all types of settings more effective, efficient, attractive and accessible to the learners. In e-learning the Internet is used as the core medium for the delivery of information and the support of communication. Most people also think that the Internet, itself, is the key factor in the success of e-learning. However, a vast amount of research provides evidence for the proposition that it is not the medium (Internet), itself, which is accountable for the accomplishment of these promises, but the pedagogical design used in conjunction with the features of the medium (Clark, 1983, Clark and Sugrue, 1990; and Kozma, 1991).
