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Digital age (information / computer age) represents us many opportunities. Many transforms and changes have been made in public and private sectors. Society tries to adopt both new information technologies and new terms such as e-marketing, e-commerce, e-banking etc. day by day. Countries have developed e-governance strategies. The ratio of IT users has increased. Inquisitorial, curious, participating new human profiles have arisen in e-republics on e-world. It is clear to say that education is one of the most important areas that we have been trying to use IT tools, applications, and educational methods to be more successful for years. Especially universities have many contributions for research and development. Advanced ones are innovative, usually follow researches around the world and form their students and themselves at this point of view; however, students should be able to reach education institutions without time and place constraints too. Turkey has more young population when compared with The European Union. On one hand, it means that the number of rivals is increasing to be placed in an institution of higher education. They can be senior class level, graduated but not appointed before, graduated from tertiary education and appointed before. On the other hand, most of students cannot achieve success at Student Selection and Placement System (Higher Education Examination-Undergraduate Placement Examination) so they will not be able to continue their educational career, although they want to. Every year, applicants can be from undergraduate programmes, associate programmes or open education. It should be noted that to educate human is the best investment for the economic growth and human development to catch developed countries. Today e-learning is an important way of remove mentioned drawbacks between students and instructors. In addition, it is best way to make education sustainable in every organization. Not only universities but also many organizations in different sectors can face problems during their e-learning experiments. Having enough knowledge about elearning is not a must for every organization in every sector. However, if an organization wants to start elearning, it should consider some facts. In this study, basic aim is providing a rapid transition for organizations that wants to set up an e-learning system. This paper gives some hints related to transition process. Therefore, moreover theoretical framework of an elearning system, selection of learning management system (LMS) and content management system (CMS), designing of a virtual classroom, online course implementation are explained, future works related to the framework are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Distance learning provides a learning environment where teacher and student are in different places. These learning environments generally include instructors, students, learning materials and an administration. The only thing that has significantly differed from past to present in distance learning is effect of technology. Letters, computers and internet are already used in evaluation process of distance learning and finally, there are researches that aim to carry real learning environment completely to a virtual platform. Not only education foundations but also organizations from every sector give importance to distance learning all over the world. However, dealing with distance learning is not easy enough. One of the most important decision is how to build the organizational structure of the institution/company for developing a successful distance learning system. In this paper, authors try to examine distance learning applications in Turkey and suggest a proposal of organizational model for distance learning in order to be able to transmit to distance learning effectively and to reach the educational goals. Arise of the model requires analysis of needs and evaluation for distance learning. An independent unit which is connected to the General Directorate is suggested for foundations and also an independent organizational unit which is directly connected to rectorate is suggested for universities. This unit can be named such as Institute of Distance Learning or Distance Learning Center. Sub-units of it should be communication and assistance. From the proactive perspective, future promises distance learning based organizational structures and this will take place of traditional organizational structure for educational institutions. As a result, organizational structure will be discussed and proposed a model for distance learning in this paper, Because, one of the main factors of successful distance learning system is building the organizational structure to give services according to distance learning needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]