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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. Synchronous: Synchronous learning refers to a learning environment in which everyone participates at the same time. As enterprise 2.0

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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).