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What does eLearning mean?

eLearning (also used in context to electronic learning) is a modern kind of education. It's based on new computer and information technologies, and the learning content is produced as electronic (multi)media. You will find eLearning more and more in a wide range of different contexts: learning and teaching with electronic media,  attempts to   increases the  standard of education compared to previous learning environments .  eLearning at universities and high schools includes different methods:

• Computer Based Training:
  the students learn with (often interactive) content, that is available on a CD-ROM or online on a server.
• Distance education:
  this means the integration of life, in-group instruction or interaction based on an distance learning curriculum, supported by different communication possibilities (eMail, Chat, whiteboards ...)
  • Teleteaching:
    the classrooms are virtually connected over the internet by videoconferencing systems.
  • Teletutoring: the students receive online-support by their tutors.
  • Teleseminars: in virtual groups,  student seminars are available over the internet
• Blended learning:
  a combination of multiple approaches to learning. The lessons, face-to-face, in the classrooom, are supported by new communication and information technologies, e.g. the content and follow-up materials are provided on an online-platform.

More and more eLarning at Universities is used to define a specific mode to attend new courses or study programmes. The students rarely, if ever, attend face-to-face for on-campus access to educational facilities, because they study online.