eMedical Teacher

Currently there are two dominant discourses in e-learning; technological and instructional. This reflects the speed and breadth of technical innovation and possibility and the inescapable dependence on the somewhat machine-like causality we require of our investment in technologies for learning. Generally, very little of the literature on e-learning has considered topics such as aesthetics, at best they consider the mechanics of layout and media use (Colvin Clark and Mayer 2008). But it doesn’t have to be this way, and there have been at least a few studies that have considered aesthetic dimensions such as: