eLearning Jargon Explained: 5 Terms Every Newbie Needs to Know

eLearning Jargon Explained: 5 Terms Every Newbie Needs to Know: eLearning Jargon Explained: 5 Terms Every Newbie Needs to Know
Posted by Karla Gutierrez on Thu, Jan 16, 2014 @ 11:03 AM

Business owners, managers and executives new to the eLearning field sometimes find it hard to grasp industry concepts and terms. Though most of the times they’re not going to be developing the courses themselves, they need to fully understand industry terminology.

 Authoring Tool
When people hear the term ‘authoring tool’ for the first time they tend to think it refers to an elaborated form of word processing software... or sometimes they really have no clue what it is. Truth is, authoring tools go far beyond writing and word processing.

 Blended Learning
The keyword here is "blended." It's basically a learning approach that combines in-person (face-to-face) and online training. As a hybrid model

  LMS
enables all data, training materials, resources, statistics,
development paths and assessment results to be stored within one central
system.


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Avoid Learner Overload: Five Rules for eLearning Course Design

Avoid Learner Overload: Five Rules for eLearning Course Design: Avoid Learner Overload: Five Rules for eLearning Course Design
Posted by Karla Gutierrez on Tue, Feb 04, 2014 @ 10:55 AM on E-Learning 2.0
Imagine sitting down at a computer to complete an eLearning course and instantly becoming confused, overwhelmed, and frustrated with the amount of information that is being dumped on you at once.

Open educational resources (OER

Open educational resources (OER) have been defined by the Hewlett Foundation as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re - purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

 Babson Survey Research Group Higher Education Reports