Theoretical perspectives of enhancing e-learning within compulsory education

Research Review

Written By: Author(s): Scott Buckler

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Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Theoretical perspectives of enhancing e-learning within compulsory education Increasingly, education settings are moving towards greater use of e-learning. This is partly a natural progression, for example, in setting homework, but the COVID-19 epidemic has more recently prompted a mass migration to online learning. Since the use of e-learning within compulsory education settings has a limited research base, the focus of this article is to properly define e-learning, discuss its role in education and provide recommendations for effective e-learning within a school setting. What is e-learning? There have been several attempts to rename e-learning to provide greater clarity of the term with the 'e' prefix replaced with, digital-, electronic-, enhanced-, online-, mobile- and so forth (Harju et al., 2019). Within the last 20 years, e-learning has become more collaborative, with the introduction of Virtual/Managed Learning Environments (VLE/M

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