Proceedings of the 2 nd e-learning Regional Conference-State of Kuwait, 25-27 March 2013 NEW E-LEARNING STRATEGY PARADIGM: A MULTI-DISCPLINARY APPROACH TO ENHANCE LEARNING DELIVERY Melvin Ballera and Mosbah Mohamed Elssaedi Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science Sirte University – Libya maballera@yahoo.com.ph; mosbah_us@hotmail.com ABSTRACT Despite the ever-increasing practice of using e-learning in educational institutions, most of the applications perform poorly in motivating students to learn. There are many issues which are not addressed due to very complex and varying ideas in the development. Most e-learning applications fail to meet the needs of students and fail to serve the ultimate goal of having on-line learning. To solve this problem, we investigated and identified the fundamental elements necessary in developing a new e- learning paradigm; technology, instructional design, social context, continuous assessment and their relationship. This new multi-disciplinary approach centered on activities that enhance learning delivery, develop and improve critical thinking and knowledge acquisition. At the end, a prototype system has been developed and a set of experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new approach. 1 INTRODUCTION E-learning is the use of computer and internet technologies to deliver a broad array of solutions to enable learning and improve performance. It is now the fad in educational technology where to this date from Google, it has 625,000,000 related sites including articles, books and research papers. Inevitably, e-learning benefits have spread in different spectrum and increasing rapidly, a trend that is predicted to continue “learning for life” as initiatives being promoted by governments, educational institutions and research organizations [1]. In Libya, e-learning is seen as one of the possible solutions of many problems in the academe including factors from political, cultural and social aspects. Politically speaking, during the war or in the presence of security threat, or declared holidays, students were not be able to come to the university due to restricted mobility and treat to security and safety. Culturally speaking, majority of the university are women who are basically busy with family commitments and no time to attend classes physically. Socially speaking, the presence of communication barrier among foreign instructor who tasked to deliver information technology education and learners as effect of almost two decades of English embargo. Thus, the e-learning can fill this gap by allowing student to study anywhere, anytime at their own time and disposal. Allowing students to have their own pace in learning entails greater responsibility to e-learning developers and instructional strategist. It must answer what strategy should be taken or adapted in the design of the curriculum in such a way that learning process will occur. Many e-learning strategist develop e-learning module and apply into specific domain by just rebuilding their existing materials into cyber-landscape, while others just converted their PowerPoint slides into e-lesson, these does not guarantee learning. There is need to develop alternative strategy to cater socialization, collaboration, personalization, assessments and content analysis must be incorporated in e-learning strategy. These aspects covered a wide range of applications and importance in e-learning development.