Literature Review of Evidence on e-Learning

s — and where available for downloading articles — were read and rejected, or included according to the above criteria. Articles were ordered where appropriate. Bibliographies were investigated for possible further research for inclusion. Websites of organisations and departments having conducted research in the field were searched. These included: EPIC, Brandon-Hall, the Masie Centre, elearning network, LSC, TUC, LSDA, CourseShare.com, learningcircuits, ASTD, elearningcentre.co.uk. Keith Shaw of Keith Shaw Associates was contacted for advice, as was Dr M Kerrin, formerly of IES. In addition, a limited amount of speculative searching was done using the Google search engine, in addition to following up leads and investigating key authors’ work in the area. The report follows the structure set out, above, in Section 1.1.