Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

Chapter 2. TECHNOLOGY AND E-LEARNING: A TUG OF WAR

Ed Cohen

Advances in technology have not always advanced e-learning, not in the short run at least. The Internet, for example, while it has provided lower-cost distribution with both global and around-the-clock access, set effective use of interactive computing for learning back to primitive designs that had been evaluated and discarded decades before its arrival. The author traces transitions of e-learning through a chronology of technologies traversed more successfully by other media and then envisions opportunities missed by not fully embracing the capabilities of today's technology.

Since the 1970s, the beginning of modern-day e-learning, the industry has prided itself on being on the forefront ...