e-Learning

e-Learning – What is it?

Because on-line learning has exploded in the past few years many people equate e-learning to learning on line. While on-line learning is part of e-learning, e-learning encompasses a larger aspect then just on-line learning. Part of this confusion may be because on-line learning many different facets that are part of e-learning. Basically, e-learning is “...training delivered on a computer (including CD-ROM, Internet, or Intranet) that is designed to support individual learning...” (Clark and Mayer, 2008, p. 7). This being said, one comes to realize that e-learning has been around for a long time.

The computer is the focal point or the vehicle in which information in the learning realm takes place. This exchange can take place between student and teacher or student and student or student and lessons or teacher and information, to name a few.

E-learning is not intended to take the place of conventional learning methods but to augment offer alternative methods. But when one looks at the learning process to day it is had to find learning that has not been touched in some by computers.

Clark, R. C. & Mayer, R. E. (2008). E-learning and the science of instruction: Proven guidelines for consumers and designer of multimedia learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.