E-LEARNING CONTENT DEVELOPMENT A ROLE IN VIRTUAL CLASS ROOM

For the past two decades, the e-learning is becoming more popular and vibrant among the learners world-wide. Developing e-learning is more costly than preparing teaching contents and pilot training (faculty training), especially if multimedia or highly interactive methods are used for delivering the course content. However, delivery costs for e-learning (including costs of establishment of the e-learning hardware and software requirements) are considerably lower than those for creating classroom facilities, instructor time, travel time of the students lost towards attending the class room sessions. Creating e-learning materials is a time-consuming process and requires expertise and experience in handling tools. There are various ways of creating e-learning content such as using html pages, videos, images and audio. In this paper, the various ways of creating e-learning is presented and discusses the design components of e-learning.