Benefits and challenges of e-learning over approximately a decade

Abstract In the recent decade, e-learning has been immensely accepted and achieved great success in education. This study, aiming to identify the e-learning pedagogy in a recent decade, adopts the narrative literature review method via a comprehensive online database elicitation with English key words “e-learning, technology assisted learning, mobile learning, distance learning, ubiquitous learning, education, teacher”, and “instructor” to retrieve the literature examining e-learning. Through reviewing the publications in the recent decade and main research themes, the study explores the role of information technology literacy in e-learning, e-learning acceptance and effectiveness, e-learning outcomes, interactions in the e-learning context, adaptation to e-learning, motivation and enjoyment, e-learning devices, barriers to e-learning, and ineffectiveness of e-learning alone. Future research directions could focus on specific e-learning situations, e-learning readiness and adaptiviy through interdisciplinary empirical studies.