This review compared search for help during traditional classroom instruction and e-learning. It analysed the specificities of computer systems in offer of help to students during learning.
The basic relationship for the student's learning and his/her adaptive help-seeking is between what is given to the computer and what is kept to the own student's iniciative. That is why the review put emphasis to the student's self-regulation in learning.
In the more advanced phases of learning at the extrinsic control of a student with the computer programme retrocede to the benefit of self-regulation.