Abstract: “This paper examines the Zimbabwean educators’ perceptions about e-learning systems in pedagogy. We use the term “educators” to refer to the teaching staff at a university context. The paper sought to present the views of the educators about e-learning. It is our assumption that these views could assist in explaining the existent second order digital divide currently persisting in higher education institutions in African developing nations such as Zimbabwe. The digital divide has resulted in a mismatch between the wide spread investment and the actual use of Information and communication technologies (ICT) like the e-learning systems. The anticipated contributions of such systems to education are yet to materialize since their pedagogical use in teaching and learning is still at its infancy. Higher education institutions are being robbed of the returns from the costly technological investments while digital natives are deprived of the ICT affordances, which their first world counterpart”

Keywords: Pedagogy, e-learning, Learning Management Systems, perspectives, educators, Higher education institutions, Zimbabwe