The OU Malaysia views the use of advance technologies, especially e-learning as important as the University espouses a life-long learning culture with the intention to produce knowledge workers. This paper will showcase how the implementation of e-learning efforts in OU Malaysia through three methodologies: providing basic information, providing multimedia content and conducting online interactions. These efforts are in use to cater the different needs and expectations of the learners. This paper also explores on the various attributes in WebCT that are exploited to create a culture of e-learning. The e-learning design process, the adoption of the constructivist and objectivist approaches and the attributes of motivation are further described in this paper to sustain the instructional design strategies to enhance e-learning among learners at OU Malaysia. (Authors' abstract)

The technology acceptance model (TAM) proposes that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness predict
applications usage. The study-in-progress investigated TAM for work-related tasks with the e-learning, and used
TAM as a basis for hypothesizing the effects of such variables on the use of e-learning as the application. Elearning has become an increasingly popular learning approach in higher education institutions due to the rapid
growth of Internet technologies in Malaysia. It has been integrated in many university programs, and is one of the
new learning trends that challenge the banking concept of education (i.e. assumes that the instructor or teacher
owns the knowledge and deposits it into the students who attend the class). E-learning is not intended to replace
the traditional classroom setting, but to provide new opportunities for interaction and communication between
students and instructor or teacher. This study focuses on the individual users’ acceptance investigation for the elearning in universities as an effective learning tool. It develops a technology usage model for the e-learning .The
contributions of this study are three fold. First, this study may help identify whether learners or users would like to
accept e-learning or vice versa. Second, this study will help to determine what are the factors that significant in
explaining the intention towards e-learning. An attempt is made whether attitudinal belief such as perceived ease
of use and perceived usefulness has relationship towards the e-learning adoption. Third, this study is among the
first to use the technology acceptance model in the context of e-learning.