eLearning Roadmap and Initiatives in Malaysian Higher Education.

• Main Authors: Ansary, Ahmed, Philips, John Arul
• Other Authors: Sanjaya, Mishra
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia 2013
• Subjects: LB2300 Higher Education
• Online Access: http://ur.aeu.edu.my/545/1/eLearning%20Roadmap%20%20and%20Initiatives%20in%20%20Malaysian%20Higher%20Education%20.pdf; http://ur.aeu.edu.my/545/

The emergence of web technologies and tools, and the massive amount of resources has seen a surge of eLearning in education and training. Despite these advancements, technology is not being used innovatively in education though it may sit quite comfortably within current teaching and learning. It may partly be due to the lack of conclusive evidence on the effectiveness of these tools and technologies in enhancing teaching and learning. At the very best, eLearning tends to be confined to a small circle of individuals, which is representative of the situation in Malaysia. The word has been written in many different ways: e-Learning, eLearning, E-Learning, ELearning. Besides that, other terms have been used interchangeably with eLearning and they include: online learning, technology-based learning/training, web-based learning/training, computerbased training and so forth.