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Design of an E-Learning System
Based on the Socialization,
Externalization, Combination,
and Internalization Model
Dong Yun Lee and Jussi Kantola
INTRODUCTION
The Internet has changed the way people learn in their daily lives. People use the Internet to search
for valuable information for their learning or to collect materials for their research. Organizations
such as companies and schools are actively utilizing the technological advance by introducing elec-
tronic learning (e-learning). As Hiltz and Wellman (1997) said, e-learning has several advantages,
such as time and location exibility, cost and time savings, self-paced and just-for