E-learning Tools and Technologies in Education: A Perspective

Many e-learning tools are currently available for using in education. E-learning tools can provide training and education to large number of students with diverse cultural backgrounds and educational levels. However, e-learning could be failed in education when overestimating what e-learning can accomplish. Some people normally do not understand the weaknesses and limitations of e-learning and some of them may expect too much. In this paper, we review the different e-learning tools such as MOODLE, and Blackboard. We also comment on the most important aims of each tool and analyze the advantages and disadvantages. From this analysis we obtain a global view of the current and future tendencies of e-learning tools and therefore we provide possible important comments for using elearning tools such as MOODLE in the classroom. Upon to our teaching experience, MOODLE is effective in the e-learning development. Authors and practitioners showed a greater preference for MOODLE over Blackboard. However, MOODLE is not fully pure social software because MOODLE does not provide social networks.