CULTURAL CHALLENGES OF E-LEARNING
CULTURAL CHALLENGES OF E-LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with e-learning’ cultural challenges. The first part emphasizes the notion of e-learning. E-learning means learning in a virtual world where technology cooperates with human creativity to accelerate and facilitate deep knowledge of the area studied. In a broad sense, e-learning means all learning situations where the resources of information and communication technology are used. Online education is, to a certain extent, different from traditional education that we are all accustomed to. Once the access to a computer is done, who wants to study online must be used to search the Internet, e-mail, send and receive attachments, word processing. Writing is the main method of communication in online classes. I also underlined the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning in comparison to the traditional education system. One of the major advantages of e-learning is the geographical independence, mobility, accessibility, flexibility; the user can decide the time he/she will involve in training activities. A disadvantage of e-learning is the fact that the trainees can drop out online courses easier due to a lack of motivation. Finally, the article ends up with the concept of blended learning, a combination of e-learning and traditional education. Blended learning responds to a wide variety of learning styles and needs through flexibility, high adaptability, economy of space and time, taking advantage both of cognitive resources and human resources. The conclusion is that the new information and communication technologies change the perspective on educational practice, completing the education system with modern learning methodologies specific to the information society.

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