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An Internet driven, convenient, and cost-effective means to deliver on-demand training
e-Learning is training delivered through the Internet. e-Learning is also sometimes called online learning, distance learning, and distance education.
e-Learning includes:
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Self-paced trainings: after registering, users log-in to a website any time, from anywhere, and with the click of a button, begin taking a course online at their own individual pace.
Real-time trainings: groups of users log-in to a website at the same time, and participate in a session led by a "live" instructor. Participants can talk to each other and the instructor online. These are sometimes called online meetings or Webinars. e-Learning can also include bulletin boards, where users read and respond to what others have written, podcastsA podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like broadcast, can refer either to the series of content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster., wikisA wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. For example, the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in businesses to provide affordable and effective intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work." and blogsA blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog..
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