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E-Learning
sprang out of the World Wide Web, created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
in the 1980s to utilise the concept of the Internet (then an embryo
military intelligence security facility) to link university computers
and academic databases enabling interactive research collaboration
and the timely sharing of information. A decade on, the Internet's
World Wide Web is returning to its roots.
E-Learning (sometimes called "online learning") is now the internationally
accepted generic term for learning processes delivered electronically,
using the Internet online or offline, Intranets, computer-based training
(CBT) accessing data stored on CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and hard disk, and
television-delivered information from broadcast material, video or
DVD
So, 'E' stands for 'electronic'. But
this only gives us part of the picture. |
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| 'E' also stands for 'experience'... |
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Learning is not a passive event;
it is an 'experience'. At the Business Campus the E-Learning experience
is born out of substantial learning expertise, meeting the real needs
of business, developing practical competence from computer-mediated
material distributed by the effective application of high-level Internet
technology supported by systems proven in the field.
E-Learning material must be designed with the opportunities and limitations
of the medium in mind. If, as with the Business Campus, the content
has grown from classroom-based seminars and workshops, it needs to
be presented as dynamic text pages, with case studies, references,
graphics, interactive tests, tutor-marked assignments and voice-over
commentary. This significant degree of interactivity between the material
and the student re-creates some of the unique characteristics of face-to-face
tuition. |
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