Preparedness of teachers and learning materials for e-learning

Time has shown that technology has always had a significant influence on and role in education. The more advanced technology was the greater contribution it made to education. When we look back we can clearly see how great an influence film, radio and television have had on education. The second half of the twentieth century was marked by the results of the use of computers and information and communication technologies in education as well as by extensive research in this field. The intense development of e-learning educational technologies initiated the process of transferring contextual meaning through media. In the paper we will analyze and describe the condition of e-learning at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, university teachers´ competence necessary for this type of teaching, as well as the models and lifecycle of e-learning materials.