The Center of training for regional integration (CEFIR, in Spanish) was founded more than 20 years with the firm intention to dedicate efforts on issues of regional integration in the four countries of MERCOSUR. Since 2008 has promoted the creation of a platform for elearning and delivered some courses in blended learning and e-learning mode, for training in regional integration issues. E-learn...

In an e-learning system, it is difficult to grasp the learner’s condition for learning. In the face-to-face learning environment, we tend to notice if there is something unusual about learners and help them out of difficulties. In addition, we often cannot keep learners from dropping out of the e-learning course. This suggests a requirement for a research study specially focused on how to predi...

E-learning is usually part of the strategies that organizations use for continuing education and training. Knowledge management initiatives usually consider the use of e-learning as part of the processes for development of intellectual assets. Most of the time, e-learning is used because of economical reasons such as cost reduction and mass delivery of the contents, rather than possible improve...

Traditional teaching methods have changed as a result of COVID-19's prominence. For many teachers, the lack traditional face-to-face training was effectively made up for by online learning. Under emergency management, learning may support students and schools while also generating special opportunities. In reaction to epidemic, educational institutions from nations introduced extensive course o...

As long as students use Web 2.0 tools extensively for social purposes, there is an opportunity to improve students' engagement in Higher Education by using these tools for academic purposes under a Personal Learning Environment approach (PLE 2.0). The success of these attempts depends upon the reactions and acceptance of users towards e-learning using Web 2.0. This paper aims to analyse the fac...

This study investigates user acceptance of a new e-learning system when users can choose between the old and the new systems. Drawing upon construal level theory and technology acceptance model, this study proposes that users’ construal level of an e-learning system interacts with their perceptions of the system (i.e., PEoU and PU) and affects their adoption intention. Data collected from 131 p...

In this paper, the author focuses on learner perceptions of the characteristics of learning technology as explanatory variables for acceptance behavior. The author presents an empirical study examining the effects of these perceptions on two outcomes: uptake of an e-learning technology and effectiveness of such technologies that results in the intention to continue to use. The effectiveness of ...