I even had been accepted into the Nisbet Scholars Program, which was designed to provide students with the freedom to carve out a truly liberal arts curriculum for themselves instead of following a predetermined schedule set by the college. Like many other things, however, my early avowal to avoid all computers proved unrealistic. My first job out of graduate school was at Data General, which had an internal e-mail system that was easy to use and clearly superior to the typewriter approach. I could edit press releases neatly and cleanly and distribute them en masse internally for approvals and review. E-learning means different things to different audiences.
Many people have an outdated and incorrect perception of what it is.
They envision dry, scrolling text on a screen, sitting motionless in front of a desktop for hours with no instructor interaction and nothing but sheer will and discipline to carry the student through. Other e-learning vendors most likely have similar results. There is no annoying delay, therefore, between the graphics and the audio. The live e-learning class is held at regularly scheduled times and features multiple instructors, mentors and engineers, allocated according to the number of students registered. For my particular class, there were two instructors, three mentors and two engineers.