The challenges of online learning

E-learning, or e-learning is a learning style based on the provision of educational content via electronic media  in the to develop skills while making the process of learning independent of time and place. The electronic medium is the Internet's most widely used because of the ease with which it can be used and the many benefits it offers. For example, at the college level, this means that projects previously presented to students through to a paper now available online. The student then has access to his project, via the Internet, and begins its journey. Several means of monitoring students are available on the market.


Although online learning shows definite advantages to improve teaching, many challenges still lie ahead. For example, the design of online projects inevitably leads to a modular approach. This means that the student must take a step and pass before starting another. So there is a path to follow and this modular approach leads to the fragmentation of content . This goes against a competency-based approach that aims to bring the learner to be able to mobilize all resources to address a set of complex situations. This holistic approach is more difficult to design a modular approach. The challenge is to harness the potential of e-learning to the learning process and access to knowledge are more effective. A second challenge is to build quality equipment with a process learning appropriate for the student. The online projects are built and hosted by software learning management (LMS). Given the novelty of e-learning, there is very little software available and affordable. In addition, several limitations are encountered especially in the management and monitoring of learning. For example, a learner has to complete a test consisting of 10 questions will have to complete all of them and succeed in full before continuing his journey. In the event that he would stop after five issues, he will have, in the prosecution of his work, to take the test early. This limitation on the monitoring of learners makes it difficult to stimulating growth of the latter.

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