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Abstract-Research indicates that successful adoption of information systems (IS) to support business strategy can help the organizations gain superior financial performance. e-Learning can be defined as learning through information and communication technologies and it should include a mechanism for forecasting the actual expected benefits, converted to monetary values, and then comparing the benefits to the projected cost. This study focuses on the relationship between the e-Learning and organizations' financial performance and objective, using secondary financial data draw from the COMPUSTAT. The results indicate these firms significantly reduce cost, increase profitability after adopting e-Learning. The research outcome provides new insights into the productivity paradox associated with eLearning adopters and helps applications of e-Learning across different organizations.

Among the existing Web resources, there is an exponentially increase need of content retrieval and manipulation, and this has caused the demand for Semantic Web. With the evolutions of Internet development and international standards, multimedia learning assets could be exploited from WWW and be described as an ontology for high durability, reusability and portability of educational contents. In this paper we present our approach to the design of service-oriented architecture which adheres to the e-Learning and Semantic Web standards in an attempt to cater for the repository of multimedia learning objects, keeping a storage of the contexts among them and allowing their retrieval and manipulation. We also present our prototype example of implementation to prove the feasibility of our proposed framework.Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2007 -Workshops 0-7695-3084-2/07 $25.00