ABSTRACT
The purpose of education is the deliberate transmission of knowledge, skills, and values. Agenda 21 of the Brundtland Report (Brundtland, 1987) identified education as an essential tool for achieving sustainable development and highlighted some of the areas of action for education. These include quality of education and reorientation of existing educational programs. Many higher educational institutions all over the world integrate learning technologies called Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and electronic learning (e-learning) in an attempt to attain quality education. E-learning, though ambiguous, means the delivery of all or parts of the course content in a virtual-learning environment (Rytkønen & Rasmussen, 2010), involving the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS), computer networks, and many other learning technologies. According to this research, e-learning encompasses learning that uses learning technologies and information networks: the Internet, an intranet or extranet, and electronic systems, whether wholly or in part, for course delivery, interaction, evaluation, and/or facilitation. ICTs have become so popular that they are getting local names—for example, TEHEMA (Technologia eHabari Mawasiliano) in Kiswahili (Walimbwa, 2010).
