Supporting sustainable e-learning

Scaffolding: A way for supporting learners in e-learning environments

Introduction: One of the effective ways to help learners improve their learning in learning environments is scaffolding. Scaffolding can be defined as teachers, other learners and resources support of learner on tasks that can’t be done alone. Experts strongly demand scaffolding to be used to help learners on abstractive and complex issues. The aim of this study is to examine the scaffoldi...

Sustainable Business Models for E-Learning

E-learning becomes more and more important. Reasons are the paramount importance of knowledge, life-time learning, globalization and mobility. Not all providers of information system components for the specific domain of e-learning succeed in closing the gap between costs and revenues. Especially in the academic sector e-learning projects suffer more and more from decreasing funding. For many c...

Information Technologies for Supporting in Classroom Learning and e-Learning

Sustainable Development of E-learning Material for Opengis Standards

In this paper we discuss our experiences in creating lectures-on-demand using Flash streams based on MS PowerPoint slides that are enriched by author’s comments (audio as well as video streams). We depict the drawbacks concerning up-to-dateness of lecture content and compatibility with different desktop and mobile devices. According to this, we focus on our workflow to create lectures using pod...

Sustainable e-Learning: Toward a Coherent Body of Knowledge

This paper explores the concept of sustainable e-learning. It outlines a scoping review of the sustainability of elearning practice in higher education. Prior to reporting the outcomes of the review, this paper outlines the rationale for conducting the study. The origins and the meaning of the term “sustainability” are explored, and prevalent approaches to ensure sustainable e-learning are disc...