TECHNOLOGY CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK FOR E-LEARNING PURPOSES FROM A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE

Often there is skepticism whether there is an overestimation of the capabilities that the integration of Information Technology (IT) offers in learning. The fact that learning is contextual means that technology has to support this contextualism of the phenomenon. Many researchers claim that e-learning is just a waste of time as, the effectiveness and the performance of the effort undertaken is not interpreted in high retention rates or high learner’s satisfaction. In this paper the intention is twofold: Firstly to apply a basic Knowledge Management approach in e-learning and to analyse the e-learning phenomenon as a process and as a product; secondly, to propose a Technology Classification Tool for the realization of the conceptual abstraction that the knowledge management oriented approach offers to e-learning.