In the rapidlychanging world of the Internet and the Web theory and research struggle to keep up with technological social and economic developments. In education in particular a proliferation of novel practices applications and forms from bulletin boards to Webcasts from online educational games to open educational resources have come to be addressed under the rubric of elearning. In response to these phenomena Rethinking ELearning Research introduces a number of research frameworks and methodologies relevant to elearning. The book outlines methods for the analysis of content narrative genre discourse hermeneuticphenomenological investigation and critical and historical inquiry. It provides examples of pairings of method and subject matter that include narrative research into the adaptation of blogs in a classroom setting the discursivepsychological analysis of student conversations with artificially intelligent agents a genre analysis of an online discussion and a phenomenological study of online mathematics puzzles. Introducing practical applications and spanning a wide range of the possibilities for elearning this book will be useful for students teachers and researchers in elearning.