E-learing: Redefining tomorrow's education: Case study of E-learing in Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology

E-learning is a growing trend in the higher education community given all its merits compared with the traditional classroom education. A number of colleges and universities are pioneering the use of E-learning in higher education, dabbling in information and communications technologies (ICT) to change the traditional classroom education. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is a very young research oriented university, while it has been equipped a sophisticated ICT network and launched a pretty mature E-learning system. It is proud to be one of the first universities in Asia to offer a number of high quality web-base courses. This case study paper depicts the current paradigm of E-learning system and the related supporting system in this university and find out some experience. Four stages of E-learning models are established and applied to the current situation of E-learning