本文是一份由美國賓州大學兩位教授所撰寫的專案報告之摘要和讀後感。該專案報告乃針對電子化學習在美國地區高等教育和市場方面的發展近況。該報告作者提出證據說明電子化學習近年的發展如何形成了萎縮的創新。其造成電子化學習萎縮的主要原因包括：在網路公司泡沫化前的過度樂觀預測、電子化學習的早期成功是先驅者的個別經驗且尚未經過市場考驗、電子化學習的dominant design停滯於輔助課堂教學和課程教材的管理、高等教育機構的預算遭刪減、企業所開發的學習科目偏向實用賺錢的商管、學生上網學習仍有困難、以及大學教師開發和交流學習物件的需求未見踨影。本文引用其他網路上的資料加以澄清或查證兩位作者所言，並參考目前國內國家型數位學習發展計畫的發展近況少量資料，顯示從2002年起，美國和臺灣的電子化學習的發展趨勢的確有所不同。

This article is a summary and comments on a project report entitled "Thwarted innovation: what happened to e-learning and why" which was written by professor Zemsky and professor Massy on July in 2004. This Project has undergone 15-month long to collect the data using the research methods other than the one-shot survey starting from February of 2003. The results indicated a number of the factors leading to the thwarted market and innovation of e-learning. They are over-optimistic predictions on the future market in 2002, the unchallenged success stories based on individual efforts, serving as the managerial aids to the face-to-face courses domination the core design of e-learning, the budget cut in the U.S. higher education, the focus on more profitable subjects than the others by the e-learning product providers, college students having difficulties in engaging with e-learning, and the uneasy university professors who show no needs in developing and exchanging e-learning materials. The author of this article cross-referenced the other survey results and commentaries in order to clarify the results of this project reports. In the meantime, the e-learning trend and markets developed in Taiwan in the recent years seems to rapidly grow and flourish, due to the endowment and support by our nation-scaled e-learning projects lauched in 2002.