Innovation in Language Learning

Edition 17

Accepted Abstracts

E-Learning As A New Learning And Studying Practice

Veronika Katermina, Kuban State University (Russian Federation)

Abstract

What is driving change in our teaching and learning environment? What are the trends in information and communication technology that are creating these new conditions and new opportunities for learning?

The obvious trend is the increased use of electronic communication in our daily lives, supported through increased access to the Internet via a combination of mobile devices and communication infrastructures, and providing access to a growing library of information in electronic formats.

R. Andrews and C. Haythornthwaite consider by e-learning research a “research into, on, or about the use of electronic technologies for teaching and learning. This encompasses learning for degrees, work requirements and personal fulfillment, institutional and non-institutionally accredited programmes, informal and informal settings. It includes anywhere, anytime learning, as well as campus-based extensions to face-to-face classes” [2, 1].

E-learning is seen as a transformative movement in learning, not just the transfer of learning to an online stage, and the prefix ‘e-’ is used by some scholars in keeping with usage in the emerging areas of e-research and e-science. E-learning is not seen as bounded by institutional structures of courses, programs or degrees, but instead as embracing the way learning flows across physical, geographical and disciplinary borders. E-learning can be perceived as perpetual, sustained over a lifetime and enacted in multiple, daily occurrences as we search for information to satisfy our learning needs and contribute content that promotes our and others’ understanding. E-learning can be also regarded as an engaged act created through both technical and social decisions [3].

Where e-learning embodies a transformation in learning, it entails more than just a change in delivery mechanism, it changes the way we learn.

 

1. Anderson, T. (2004). ‘Toward a theory of online learning’, in T. Andersson and F. Elloumi (eds.), Theory and Practice of Online Learning. Athabasca: Athabasca University. Pp. 33-60.

2. Andrews, R. and Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007). The Sage Handbook of E-learning Research. London: Sage.

3. Haythornthwaite, C. and Andrews, R. (Eds.) (2011). E-learning Theory and Practice. London: Sage.

 

 

Keywords

e-learning, teaching and learning environment, transformation in learning, research 

 

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