Effectiveness is the essence of e-learning

Modern corporations and state institutions in developed countries have accepted e-education as a way to educate larger groups of employees in less time and reducing the use of various resources. In many countries the employees of modern companies will take at least 60-80% of in-job training courses online, without having to travel and postpone urgent or priority tasks. For example, in Croatia e-education is used in Ericsson Nikola Tesla.

It should be noted that, after substantial initial investment and excitement about the possibilities of e-education, the results of conducted evaluation of this kind of training showed that there are many sources of difficulties and dissatisfaction of the online instruction or course participants. Evaluation also emphasized that on the average a relatively large number of participants (sometimes over 25%) do not finish the online education they started (to check this data search the web using expressions "dropout rate" and "e-learning" ). It became obvious that only putting course content on the Internet/web, without using appropriate pedagogical models and principles, as well as without sufficient share of appropriate communication types between participants and with the instructor, are not enough to fulfil the educational goals if the participants are not sufficiently independent.

On these pages you will find out more about the pedagogical principles in e-education, the factors of successful communication with participants of online courses, as well as the influence of new information technologies on online education.

Tips & tricks: Unlike European pedagogy, Anglo-American pedagogy rarely uses terms such as methodology and didactics. When searching the web use terms such as "pedagogy" and "teaching method" combined with "e-learning", "distance education" and "online".