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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