Durch eLearning ist ein einfacher und breiter Einsatz von Lernangeboten möglich, dem jedoch oft ein hoher Entwicklungsaufwand für die Lerninhalte gegenüber steht. Die Entwicklung von effizienten Verfahren und Werkzeugen zur Produktion von eLearning-Inhalten sowie die Entwicklung von Basistechnologien für die effektive Wiederverwendung von Inhalten sind daher von entscheidender Bedeutung. Der Be...

ChemgaPedia is a multimedia, webbased eLearning service platform that currently contains about 18.000 pages organized in 1.700 chapters covering the complete bachelor studies in chemistry and related topics of chemistry, pharmacy, and life sciences. The eLearning encyclopedia contains some 25.000 media objects and the eLearning platform provides services such as virtual and remote labs for expe...

Although eLearning is the use of technology for teaching, learning and assessment, there is no common approach to it across South African Higher Education Institutions. There is therefore a concern that the full potential of eLearning approach is not utilised. This paper examines the nature and the extent of eLearning activities in South African (SA) universities. The research method employed i...

New technologies offer opportunities for the developing countries to resolve their long-standing problems of national/international isolation and mass-education. However, it is neither automatic nor devoid of challenges and problems rather there are both development and use problems for the developers, users and institution. The effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)...

This paper summarises the findings of a research project which applied the meansend chain methodology to analyse the relationship between the personal values of teachers and eLearning system functionalities. While eLearning is being promoted for implementation in learning and teaching settings, there is a lack of understanding of the critical functionalities of eLearning systems which teachers ...