Meaning And Meaning Of E-Learning

Meaning of Learning: Learning is an activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught or experience. It produces changes in the organism through education, personal development, schooling, or training and the changes produced are relatively permanent. The study of learning is consist of educational psychology, neuropsychology, learning theory, and pedagogy. Learning does not occur all at once , is based on previous knowledge. It may be goal-oriented and may be aided by motivation. Learning may be viewed as a process, it can be measured by its result only.

Introduction

This is the age of globalization where the world is connected through World Wide Web(WWW).The e-learning initiatives have connected

Associated with such expressions as 'online learning' or 'virtual learning', this word was meant to qualify "a way to learn based on the use of new technologies allowing access to online, interactive and sometimes personalized training through the Internet or other electronic media (intranet, extranet, interactive TV, CD-Rom, etc.).

History of E-Learning

 E-learning has been invented in the early sixties, probably PLATO in 1963.

 The inventor of the word "e-learning" probably was "Jay Cross" in 1998.

 In the mid-nineties, so called learning management systems came into existence. WEST (later renamed to Top Class) was probably the first well known system.

 In the early 2000, SCORM and IMS data standards became popular. In particular the IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standard (LOM), IMS Content Packaging (and associated IMS Simple Sequencing) became sort of industry standards and also have been adopted by some decision makers and funding agencies in

i. First generation e-Learning is a one-way technologically-driven transmission mode; ii. second generation e-Learning is an interactive pedagogically-driven learning mode; and iii. third generation e-Learning is a comprehensive mode of e-Learning.

E-Learning 1.0

First generation e-Learning started in the early 1990s and developed in the late 1990s. During that period, e-Learning depended on professional technical staff having advanced technological knowledge and skills to develop e-Learning platforms and courses. Teachers and trainers only provide course contents used in the classroom to technical staff to upload in the course website. It formed a one-way transmission e-Learning mode dominated by technology. The first generation of e-learning 1.0 is related to the delivery and experience of online training courses of 60 and more minutes.

E-Learning 2.0

“Web 2.0” refers to a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services (such as social-networking sites, wikis, weblogs / blogs, social bookmarking, podcasts etc.), which enable creativity, cooperation and sharing between users. It describes the shift from the web being a “read” platform to a “read-write” platform. The term “web 2.0” was introduced by Stephen Downes, in October 2005 in National Research Council of