Evaluating electronic learning environments from a lifelong learning perspective

Abstract

For many educators and indeed for many learners, ICT appears to hold the key to the successful implementation of Lifelong Learning. The capacity of the technology to overcome temporal and spatial constraints has obvious synergies with the need to learn at a time, place and rate determined by individual requirements rather than by formal structures. This paper examines the extent to which the quality of electronic environments designed specifically for this type of learning should be judged according to the same criteria and parameters that we customarily use in evaluating face-to-face teaching. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers.