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The advent of Internet technologies since decades ago has propelled distance learning drastically. In this modern world, knowledge develops so fast that the amount of intellectual information that needs to be learnt before it becomes obsolete again is so huge. Distance learning through the use of Internet technologies has the advantage of being able to get across the information to the students remotely and effortlessly. The other advantage, which is the main focus of this paper, is that students are able to learn from their instructors on an entirely new media platform – the Internet-enabled tangible user interface. This paper discusses the two main new media, multi-modal Internet technologies, namely remote physical interface and remote augmented reality technology.

With the fast pace of innovations and development in Internet technologies, Web-based learning has become a major mode of dissemination of knowledge within modern educational setting. However, the effectiveness of using new technologies in education is increasingly controversial in the absence of a flexible E-pedagogical model that underpins the learning process. Addressing the pedagogical principles with formal classroom teaching practices, this paper presents the results of applying our proposed E-pedagogical model that has been incorporated into a Web-based English Learning System (WELS) for elementary English Second Language (ESL). Particularly, we compare the effects of guided and unguided learning through a web-based learning platform as well as demonstrate the effects on students’ participation and learning patterns through the design of suitable motivating schemes. Teachers’ feedbacks on crisscrossing pedagogy and students’ experiences on multi-dimensional learning opportunities with WELS will be explored and the potential values of a flexible E-pedagogical approach for web-based learning will be discussed.