<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/9999720" mdate="2014-11-01 00:00:00"> <author>Samson T. Obafemi and Seraphin D. Eyono Obono</author> <title>Educators&amp;rsquo; Adherence to Learning Theories and Their Perceptions on the Advantages and Disadvantages of eLearning</title> <pages>3522 - 3529</pages> <year>2014</year> <volume>8</volume> <number>11</number> <journal>International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999720</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/95</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are pervasive nowadays, including in education where they are expected to improve the performance of learners. However, the hope placed in ICTs to find viable solutions to the problem of poor academic performance in schools in the developing world has not yet yielded the expected benefits. This problem serves as a motivation to this study whose aim is to examine the perceptions of educators on the advantages and disadvantages of elearning. This aim will be subdivided into two types of research objectives. Objectives on the identification and design of theories and models will be achieved using content analysis and literature review. However, the objective on the empirical testing of such theories and models will be achieved through the survey of educators from different schools in the Pinetown District of the South African KwazuluNatal province. SPSS is used to quantitatively analyse the data collected by the questionnaire of this survey using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations after assessing the validity and the reliability of the data. The main hypothesis driving this study is that there is a relationship between the demographics of educators&amp;amp;rsquo; and their adherence to learning theories on one side, and their perceptions on the advantages and disadvantages of elearning on the other side, as argued by existing research; but this research views these learning theories under three perspectives educators&amp;amp;rsquo; adherence to selfregulated learning, to constructivism, and to progressivism. This hypothesis was fully confirmed by the empirical study except for the demographic factor where teachers&amp;amp;rsquo; level of education was found to be the only demographic factor affecting the perceptions of educators on the advantages and disadvantages of elearning. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 95, 2014</index> </article>