摘要：Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have had asubstantial impact on current society. The way we communicate,work and entertain has changed deeply. Education is one of thefields where ICT applications have been used expansively overthe years. Educators have recognized the importance of digitalmaterials since the early days of computers and believed thatthese materials can be easily managed and distributed tolearners to improve the quality of education via multimedia,hyper media and interactivity.The advent of the Internet and the web has given theopportunity to educators to distribute the digital learningmaterials and support new forms of web-based learning.Accordingly, the development of e-Learning systems, whichsupport sharing of digital learning material and facilitating communication betweenlearners and educators, has become a vital issue in education platforms.At the same time, lifelong learning emerged as a vital necessity since all citizens need tobe educated throughout their lives in order to remain competitive in the knowledgebasedeconomy. To meet these needs of supporting access to education and training toanyone, anytime, anyplace, the e-Learning industry has experienced rapid growth overthe past decade becoming the second largest industry evolving around the Internet andthe web (second to e-Health industry). In this context, ICT in Education and e-Learninghave become a spirited research interest worldwide during the past decades.
