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ASP (application service provider): A third-party organization that manages and distributes software-based services to companies over the internet from a central location.
Asynchronous training: Training where interaction between teachers and students takes place intermittently, not simultaneously, such as through links to web content, email, news groups, or discussion groups.
Browser: Software that allows you to find and view information on the internet.
E-learning: Covers a wide set of applications and processes such as web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the delivery of content via internet, intranet/extranet, audiotape, videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, and CD-Rom.
ERP (enterprise resource planning): A set of activities supported by application software that helps a company manage core parts of its business and that includes modules for human resource activities.
Hosting: The outsourcing of the technology and commerce parts of a company's internet-based learning system to an outside organization.
ILS (integrated learning system): A complete software, hardware, and network system used for instruction.
ILT (instructor-led training): Usually refers to traditional classroom training. ILT courses are now being offered over the internet.
Internet-based training: Delivery of educational content via a web browser over the internet, a private intranet, or an extranet.
Intranet: A local or wide-area network that transports information. It is protected from outside intrusion by a combination of rewalls and other security measures.
Just-for-me: Characteristic of e-learning in which the learner can move as slowly or as quickly through an e-course as necessary, based on his or her current knowledge and informational needs.
Just-in-time: Characteristic of e-learning in which the learner can access the information he or she needs just when he or she needs it. |
Knowledge management: Capturing, organizing, and storing knowledge and experiences of individual workers and groups within an organization and making it available to others in the organization.
Learning object: Modular building block of e-learning content.
Learning platforms: Internal or external sites often organized around specific topics, which contain technologies (ranging from chat rooms to groupware) that enable users to submit and retrieve information.
Learning portal: A website that offers learners or organizations consolidated access to learning and training resources from multiple sources. Operators of learning portals are also called content aggregators, distributors, or hosts.
LMS (learning management system): Infrastructure platform through which learning content is delivered and managed. A combination of software tools perform a variety of functions related to online and offline training administration and performance management.
LSP (learning service provider): A specialized ASP offering learning management and training delivery software on a hosted or rental basis.
Multimedia: Encompasses interactive text, images, sound, and color. Multimedia can be anything from a simple PowerPoint slide show to a complex interactive simulation.
Online learning: Another term for e-learning.
Plug-in: An accessory program that adds capabilities to the main program.
Soft-skills training: Education on specific business topics, such as communications, presentation skills, leadership, and general management.
Streaming media (streaming audio or video): Allows audio or video les to be played as they are being downloaded over the internet instead of having to wait for the entire file to download first. Requires a media player program.
Synchronous learning: A real-time, instructor-led online learning event in which all participants are logged on at the same time and communicate directly with each other. |
