e-learning in mordern world

In todays world you can perform many tasks at the touch of a button. The computerworld has revolutionalised the way we think, work and relate to others even socially. Not left behing is learning (education in broad thinking) which has moved tremendously in what is now regarded as elearning. Learners (read students) and teachers are able to meet irrespective of distances and share information, receive instruction, assessment and the list is endless. The available resources such as virtual learning environment (VLE) has greatly facilitated learning thru hosting of blogs, wikis and podcasts. I wonder why students should not graduate in record time seeing that they can work whenever, wherever and at their pace. One cannot however forget the fact that there are institutional frameworks the students must operate in and sometimes can be either facilitatory or bottlenecks. Medical students, engineering and many other disciplines have a practical component that cannot be offered any other way but thru a physical hands on mode. This in a way is a bootleneck because the student (learner) will move at the pace of the slowest learner. The solution however may not be far of as instructional podcasts can now be uploaded onto a server allowing the learner a bit of flexibility in terms of accessing practical elements.