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Is There Compelling Evidence for the Effectiveness of E-Learning in Higher Education?
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E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Washington, DC, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-54-9 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

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Is there evidence for the effectiveness of e-Learning in the Higher Education sector? This paper offers an overview of theories of learning in instructional contexts and then lists some of the varied and diverse definitions of e-Learning. The question of the extent to which a learning philosophy is implicit (or even explicit) within each definition of e-Learning is raised. The development of a search strategy and the issues of inclusion and exclusion criteria in assessing the evidence for the effectiveness of e-Learning are briefly described. A modified form of a systematic review is offered as a methodology suitable to locate and evaluate the evidence needed.

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Coultas, J., Luckin, R. & du Boulay, B. (2004). Is There Compelling Evidence for the Effectiveness of E-Learning in Higher Education?. In J. Nall & R. Robson (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2004--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1828-1834). Washington, DC, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from .

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