Web-based Teaching / eLearning – some definitions:
1. "Web teaching is all about making connections: connecting your
students to one another and to resources around the world;
combining different materials – music, motion, text, narration – into
one presentation; collecting related information from multiple sources… enable
students to make their own connections by offering materials for download and
use in their
scholarship or by having them construct web documents
as part of their coursework. And this process of making meaningful connections
is at the core of all learning." (Sarah
Horton, Web Teaching Guide, Yale University Press, 2000)
2. "The overarching umbrella that encompasses education, information,
communication, training, knowledge management, and performance management.
It is the web-enabled
system that makes information and knowledge accessible to those who need it,
when they need it - anytime, anywhere." (Cisco Systems)
3. “elearning….as instruction delivered on a computer by way
of CDROM, Internet, or intranet with the following features (RC
Clark & RE Mayer, e-Learning and the Science
of Instruction,
J Wiley & Sons, 2003):
- Includes content relevant to the learning objective
- Uses instructional methods such as examples & practice to help learning
- Uses media elements such as words and pictures to deliver the content
and methods
- Builds new knowledge and skills linked to individual learning goals”
4 Web-based Instruction (WBI) as 'a hypermedia-based instructional program
which utilises the attributes and resources of the World
Wide Web to create a meaningful learning environment where learning is fostered
and supported'. (Khan,
B.H. Web-Based Instruction, Educational Technology Publications,
1997; ISBN:
0877782962)
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