Why e-learning is a challenge.

Historically, education and teaching was done by a teacher in front of you, giving you punishments when you did mistakes. But nowadays, new technologies have changed dramatically this traditionnal "way of teaching". In fact, with computers, cameras and with the Internet, the teacher can be far away from his class and giving his lesson.

On the one hand you cannot denied the fact that it is an important evolution on a technological point of view. On the other hand, the loss of human contact is not a good thing. It's more difficult to explain some ideas if there is not a human contact. Moreover, for students it's not so easy to be as concentrated as in class.
E-learning is a real challenge because it is a rupture with the traditionnal aspect and changing customs is a long work.

Obviously e-learning present some benefits because in the workplace we have to be used to this impermanence of things. We have to be ready to get used to unbelievable situations. Furthermore, it is a way to learn some transerve competences. Look at this pattern :


To my mind, this pattern summerizes all the contributions of e-learning. This way of teaching is a bit frightenning but it can brings us some new vision and learns us how to work differently.