TY - JOUR AU - AB - We are IntechOpen, the world’s leading publisher of Open Access books Built by scientists, for scientists 131,000 160M 5,300 Open access books available International authors and editors Downloads Our authors are among the TOP 1% 12.2% Countries delivered to Contributors from top 500 universities most cited scientists Selection of our books indexed in the Book Citation Index in Web of Science™ Core Collection (BKCI) Interested in publishing with us? Contact book.department@intechopen.com Numbers displayed above are based on latest data collected. For more information visit www.intechopen.com 2 Xinyu Zhang and Lu Yuhao Tsinghua University China 1. Introduction With the rapid development of information society and wide spread of life-long learning, the needs for knowledge are growing dramatically. With the fast pace of modern life, most people cannot afford to take formal courses in the classroom. Therefore, more and more people turn to distance learning for its flexibility in time and space. Different from face to face learning, both the learners and tutors can resort to information technology to facilitate communication and information transfer. As PCs become popular and the bandwidth increases, e-Learning has gained major popularity among the learners. Consequently, a well-designed and sophisticated online learning environment can stimulate learners TI - Knowledge Building in E-Learning JF - eLearning - Theories, Design, Software and Applications DO - 10.5772/29436 DA - 2012-04-11 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/knowledge-building-in-e-learning-tUW7vV0q83 DP - DeepDyve ER -