The teaching is normally interpreted to mean teaching a 'Class of Students'.What is this Class? Is it not true that each individual is a Class?
The most important contribution of E-Learning is the ability to transform from teacher Centered to Learner Centered mode of pedagogy.ICT mediation in e-Learning ought to address the individual needs of the learners.The learmer is not a Class but an individual and has to tracked individually for the best ourcomes in ensuring learning.While the distance learning is effective in enhancing the reach, the group effect characteristic of a Class must not be done away with and thus attending Class has to coexist with the ICT enabled pedagogy.The essence of e-learning lies in tapping the vast potential of Computing(including AI) to let the individuals learn at their own pace while at the same time conducting the class as if teaching a group of learners.The effect created by e-Learning is like several classes going on within the confines of a single physical class-The analog of a multiprocessing OS running on a single processor.Thus normally the group learns together but at certain times or slots(the frequency and duration of slots to be decided based on learner tracking)the individuals get treated and pulled up to keep pace with the class.IT thus lets the curricula be jiggled and tailored to the individual at certain defined slots by tracking his or her 'learning patterns'. The progress in learning of the class as a whole is thus decided by each individual and not the brighter ones only.