ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the ‘new’ (in reality ‘evolving’) problems, threats and opportunities provided by e-learning; and it deliberates on how teachers need to work with this medium. E-learning demands that students develop not only a technical expertise, but also a far more critical capacity to make judgements about the learning materials with which they are presented. This skill will transfer to later life, and make them more discerning in making judgements about, for example, about they read in the Press. There are also social and behavioural concerns about information technology, and its potential for cyber-bullying and other improper exploitation. There is a look, too, at the ethics of keeping records on students – the parameters against which these might be compiled, and the uses made of them.
