The Changing Perspectives of Management, IT and Social Sciences in the Contemporary Environment : Impact of E-Learning on Higher Education in Indian Universities

E-learning, one of the tools emerged from information technology, has been integrated in many university programs. The E-Learning market is still small, but rapidly growing in all segments and geographies if one trusts the forecasts. There are several factors that need to be considered while developing or implementing university curriculums that offer e-learning based courses. The educational market landscape has developed several models to produce and deliver educational products. Some have their roots in the academic sector, some in the business sector. There is a thin line between academic education and corporate training. There is a need to bridge the gap between the academic learning environment and the corporate training environment. The traditional universities are in the transformation process focusing on implementing the new learning paradigm and new ways of delivering education. The emerging universities are under the new banner like “virtual universities”, “corporate universities” creating a change in the education system. This paper aims at discussing the various aspects of change brought about by implementing e-learning strategy in Indian Universities. It focuses on the impact of e-learning in different perspectives i.e. the teachers' perspective, the learners' perspective and the university perspective