What are e-Learning and educational technology?

What is e-Learning?
e-Learning is a means of education. In other words, e-Learning involves the use of a number of technological tools that can be applied in various context; it is not a distinctive educational system in itself. Therefore e-Learning cannot be compared with face to face delivery or distace education because it can be used within either of these models. Instead, e-Learning is a means by which these education models can be implemented. This is confirmed by institutions such as the Open University, which uses e-Learning as an adjunct to its "supported open learning" model (Eisenstadt and Vincent, 2000:xiii).
There may be as many definitions of e-Learning as there are academic papers on the subject, but broadly speaking they focus on the same set of features. Take the European e-Learning Action Plan definition as an example ‘the use of new multimedia technologies and the internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration’

Educational Teachnologies
Media

e- Learning enlightens the learner in the way in which information is communicated to them. The learner makes sense and constructs new knowledge from the information which is presented. The key concept is that the teacher can transmit a fixed body of information to students via an external representation. She presents an abstract idea on a concrete image and then presents the image to the learner via a medium. The learner perceives, decodes, and stores it. E-Learning takes the form of curriculum enrichment.