Sunday, August 1, 2010

1.0 Introduction

In today’s world, the Internet technology has become an integral part in our daily lives. Youngsters today particularly, use Internet almost every day to manage their tasks. These tasks include communicating with friends, searching for information, watching videos, reading and etc. Because of this, the concept of e-Learning has become a popular idea towards the students.

Exactly what is e-Learning? E-Learning can be defined in several ways. E-Learning is the use of technology in delivering the learning process anywhere and anytime. In clear introduction, e-Learning is typically in electronic forms stored in portable medias such as CDs, DVDs, or servers that can be accessed by students without any fuss. The contents of the materials are developed to be interactively interesting for the students to boost their interests and effortless learning. Along the way, the students would be “virtually” supported by the instructors of the particular content.

To develop a good and engaging e-Learning system, the concept of human-computer interaction (HCI) should be taken consideration. HCI is the study of interaction between people (users) and computers. Interaction between users and computers occurs at the user interface (or simply interface), which includes both software and hardware; for example, characters or objects displayed by software on a personal computer's monitor, input received from users via hardware peripherals such as keyboards and mice [1].
Currently in Malaysia, the concept of e-Learning has been vastly adopted by universities, colleges and big business companies to compliment a better and convenient learning environment for the students and employees.

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