Challenges to E-learning Success:The Student Perspective

This paper reports in-depth qualitative findings based upon direct comments from students" evaluation and perspectives of e-learning paradigm and tools. A focus group interviews with nine students were used at the main data collection tool. Findings indicate several challengesto elearning success that include increasing awareness and understanding of elearning, managing resistance to new learning methods, guaranteeing continuous availability of the e-learning system, focusingmore on the role of educator and institute in influencing student positively to use e-learning, supporting clear e-learning use policies, and designing elearning platforms that blends the rich aspects of social networking within its learning tools.