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The Various Modes of E-learning for Corporate Training

CommLab India

CD-ROM based learning. Today, eLearning has come a long way from CD-ROM to mobile-based learning. Employees can gain knowledge and acquire new skills by interactions and employees who could not make it to the online session can participate in online forums, live chats, instant messaging, and use message boards.

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Terms e-Learning Designers Should Know

Mindflash

e-Learning: e-Learning is a broad term used to describe learning that occurs through the use of electronic means, which can include web-conferencing, CD-ROM, and web-based training. technologies grow in importance, synchronous learning can be facilitated on enterprise social networks and on on-line chat and instant messaging services.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

Boyd defines social software more broadly as the sum of these categories: Support for conversation online : Instant messaging, e-room, etc. If you accept that CD-ROMs and classrooms are poor substitutes for mentoring and real-time advice, social software starts to look more impressive.

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Paradigm war

Clive on Learning

CBT online is almost exactly the same as CBT on CD-ROM, even on videodisc, just without most of the multimedia. If virtual classroom software wasn't so inexplicably expensive, it would also be by far the cheapest of the three methods (you can use chat rooms and instant messaging but they don't yet provide a comparable experience).