Current Trends in E-Learning and Future Scenario

Abstract

E-Learning is an emerging methodology of modern education. It is gradually growing very fast for last two decades in the education sector. All the university, schools and companies started offering online courses to satisfy the student needs, and to improve employee effectiveness. E-Learning can deliver more value at very less cost than any other traditional mode of education. This advantage is attached with high-operating leverage for e-Learning companies, should translate them into elevated margins and returns on capital in the industry. E-Learning provides more advantage and user friendly even though it has disadvantages. There are many issues that remain to be resolved including problems with assessment, plagiarism and high drop-out rates encountered at E-Learning. The findings released by the MIT-Harvard MOOCs collaboration are also known as edX with a University of Pennsylvania study that concluded only 4 percent of people who register for online course actually finished them. E-Learning provide classes as recorded lectures, E-Books, Blogs, Wikis etc. but it do not concentrate on the learner’s perception. On considering these issues it is forward for research which is discussed as further. By the way the course will be getting more effective in psychological perceptive of learner and it will create an effective teaching and learning process. This study is based on the current trends of E-Learning and its future scenario towards the research process on educational technology. The scope of the e-learning has spread its root wide and depth in all educational institutions varies from schools to colleges and even in organisation for training and development for their employees.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p484