E-Learning 2.0 and How Students Learn from Content Use and Creation

E-learning has been around for quite some time now, and throughout the years, there are a lot of improvements made to it in order to make it an more effective tool businesses and organizations can use to their advantage and growth.

During research, I encountered an interesting article that discussed about E-learning 2.0. The title itself, “Learning 2.0”, exudes technological advancement, an always welcome change for development. It spoke of the trends that are currently surrounding E-learning, and how it is slowly evolving into something almost entirely different.


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The central theme of the author tackles how E-learning and online learning is starting to become a learning platform instead of a medium. Content and learning is no longer delivered, but instead is authored or created. This is interesting mainly because E-learning has always followed a model that focuses on content produced by publishers that are then organized and structured into learning courses that are used by students to get information and gain knowledge. Content is no longer merely read, but is actually used. E-learning 2.0 is starting to resemble conversation instead of a manual.

It is starting to resemble blogging tools such as Wordpress, or Blogger which supports content creation—a personalized learning center where various content is mixed and reused according to preference. Instead of a system, E-learning has now evolved into an environment comprised of a collection of interoperating applications.

This personalized center is a place for students to create or showcase their works, hence making the entire environment look like their portfolio. This is appealing to a lot of people because creativity, of certain degrees, is innate in human beings. Having a portfolio provides them with the opportunity to collect information and organize and interpret them as they seem fit. An example is a student blog that focuses on book review. It will involve considerable amount of research, analysis and creativity. This creative creation of content acts as a tool for different learners to be responsible for the demonstration of the learning they have acquired.

Learning through E-learning no longer comes from design, strategies and content, but from utilization. This development in E-learning is quite a feat which would definitely appeal to an even broader audience

The Secrets to a Profitable E-learning Business

Like many aspiring entrepreneurs, I have my eye on one very important aspect of business and that is profit generation. Eventually, I joined the bandwagon of e-learning mostly because of its profitability, especially with the dawn of the internet/digital era. However, like many before me, I discovered that the unique e-learning market did not ensure instant success and riches. But there are those who reap financial benefits from it.

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How did they do it? I know for a fact that it wasn’t enough that it’s an ingenious idea and a great service product. Neither was it enough that it’s a popular innovation. And so, I did a bit of research online to find out their secrets to success.



Their secrets, as it turns out, focuses on customer satisfaction, trends in online culture, emerging revenue models and pioneering approaches. According to these successful businesses, there are some areas that can be explored in order to guarantee profits in e-learning. Ten of the numerous examples are: (1) become known and broaden contacts by offering a free product or service and building a reputation of competence and consistency; (2) provide consultation to potential businesses by achieving e-learning specialization. Some potential ways to do this is by implementing standards in e-learning, as well as ideal design models and so on; (3) develop useful software that penetrates the market through service solutions; (4) offer e-learning web development and customization that entails creativity, and finding an appropriate market; (5) develop affordable template games that support content mastery for every level and situation; (6) create relevant, quality content that covers media development areas such as videos, animations, graphics, creative and technical writing, simulations and games; (7) create a forum or association that offers free services for simple tasks, and a certain price for advanced ones. This can also generate revenue with membership fees or publication subscriptions; (8) offer “off-the-shelf” course content packages by building a course library; (9) create an advertising portal. In order to draw in advertisers, website traffic must be significant and; (10) provide content and translation management services that can assist organizations with content transition.

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These are only some examples of the different ways a business can thrive and earn in E-learning. It is important to keep in mind that a business success is highly dependent on creativity, innovation, user awareness, consistency, and marketing.