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This paper examines eLearning from three related perspectives, two of which address the planning and administration of online courses. The second part of this paper examines the assessment and evaluation of learning outcomes in an eLearning environment. The initial phase thoroughly explores current and recommended front-end approaches to improving online instruction. It looks at the organizational alms and the vision within which eLearning can be applied. The second phase examines the planning, implementation and administration of online courses. It investigates characteristics of effective eLearning environments that address physical, technical, pedagogical, professional and environmental elements. The third and final phase explores several reliable and valid approaches to online measurement and testing methods that are designed to eliminate such problems as plagiarism, technical problems associated with access, matching learners' and instructors' technical skill levels, learner isolation, and the impersonality of computerized assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper posits an approach for the design of programming language courses. The approach consists of 7 steps. Step 1 was thought to help learners to rectify their negative beliefs in order to cope with the learners' emotional aspect. Step 2 proposes the intersection among the learners' knowledge and abilities background in order to help the learners to construct their own knowledge based on their prior knowledge Step 3 was established in order to determined the set of problems in which the course will be based. Step 4 gives some procedures to approach the designed syllabus. Step 5 and Step 6 introduce some guidelines for the teaching of programming concepts and the fostering of programming abilities. Step 7 introduces how to evaluate the new acquired knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]