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Ebusiness Influences On Distance Learning Education

1. Introduction

In this report shows the evolution of Internet technologies to perform in the Distance Learning Education. It also reveals the transaction between stakeholders before there is the revolution of Internet. Before the Internet era, most industries transaction has to perform from time to time and any improvement or changing has to be done in office. But after the evolution of Internet, Information and communication technologies have provide the mean for this electronic revolution to occur. Rosenberg (2001) confines ‘e-learning to the internet: the use of internet technologies to deliver a broad array of solutions that enhance knowledge and performance.’ Internet continues to boom taking advantage of new technologies that offer to enrich the online experience. Through the use of emerging technologies, virtual communities are being built that bring together consumers and businesses to collaborate and share information. Web services allow data to be easily exchange between organizations and manage with high efficiencies.

2. Education Transaction before Internet era

In the past, Internet has not been opened to the public most businesses had to use the traditional way to communicate with their stakeholders such as messenger, notice board, mail or newsletter. Distance learning education also gets the big impact of not having Internet technology because it only operates at school or university. The way that education provider can reach out to consumers can be done by advertising on radio, television, newspaper or brochure. Moreover, all transacts are done by mail, phone or in person and manual process are very time consuming and require a lot of resources.
As the following examples demonstrate:

 In the enrolment process, people who interested with distance learning they have to come and find information from the provider in person or ask for the information to be mail out to them which could take the time from one to two weeks. Then, they have...