A pedagogical overview on e-Learning

Abstract

Today, there are multiple approaches that serve as guide for the elaboration of an e-Learning system by means of theoretical viewpoints as constructivism. However, these approaches are not fit for stating, in a clear and solid way, their basic pedagogical principles. The analyses of the approaches though this paper aims to link the concepts that they present with the specific pedagogical concepts that, in the authors' opinion, they include. In this way, it is intended to show that this type of proposals should be explicitly sustained by the educative theories that they contain, therefore they would act as a theoretical grounding for developers of e-Learning systems, who would then perform their choices with a pedagogical basis. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.