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New opportunities, new learning environments
e-Learning  offers  new  opportunities  for  both  educators  and  learners  to
enrich  their  teaching  and  learning  experiences,  through  virtual  environ-
ments that support not just the delivery but also the exploration and appli-
cation of information and the promotion of new knowledge. The focus for
any  exploration  of  the  state-of-the  art  of  e-Learning  is  therefore  no  more
and no less than the combination and convergence of the most advanced
features of digital information and communication technologies, for exam-
ple,  live  broadcasts,  mobile  video  and  audio  telecommunications,  three-
dimensional (3D) graphics, email, the Web and object-oriented interfaces,
all of which can be designed to support, create and deliver significant edu-
cational experiences and environments. Concerns about a lack of face-to-
face contact have given rise in some contexts to a mix of e-Learning, which
may be ‘at a distance’, and more conventional face-to-face learning in the
classroom; a process entitled ‘blended learning’. e-Learning enables learn-
ers to have as much choice as is practically and economically possible.
e-Learning takes place in online environments that range from providing
information  to  engaging  the  learner  in  complex  interactive  simulations.
Managed learning environments have been developed to provide an elec-
tronic  solution  to  managing  the  complexity  not  just  of  the  learning

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