Electronic learning challenges & techniques

The entrance of new communication technologies to the domain of education has changed the process of teaching-learning process. These technologies not only has changed face-to-face educational methods in universities, but also has extended its domain to establishing new environments. The responsibility of these universities, instead of transferring information, is to improve the skills of solving problems, critical thinking, the skill of information management, and also to improve students' skill in communication and negotiation. This method has some advantages such as consuming less time, accelerating the speed of reading, accessing to up-to-date information. Besides these advantages, it has some disadvantages such as: lessening social communication of the students, lessening face-to-face and no-word communication. In this article employing the theoretical framework, a meticulous definition for electronic learning and studies of improvement at Iran's universities in this domain is given. Besides, we will study the advantages and disadvantages and also suggest some methods to eliminate shortcomings of this method.

Keywords:

E-Learning , E-Learning definition , E-Learning methods , E- Learning challenges