A Global Framework for E-Learning

With the Internet's and digital technologies' rapid growth, the web has become a powerful, global, interactive, dynamic, economic, and democratic medium of learning and teaching at a distance. The Internet provides an opportunity to develop learning-on-demand and learner-centered instruction and training. There are numerous names for digital learning activities, including e-learning, remote learning, Web-Based Learning (WBL), Web-Based Instruction (WBI), Web-Based Training (WBT), Internet-Based Training (IBT), Distributed Learning (DL), Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), distance learning, Online Learning (OL), mobile learning (or m-learning) or nomadic learning, remote learning, off-site learning, a learning (anytime, anyplace, anywhere learning), microlearning, etc. In this book, the term e-learning is used to represent open, flexible, and distributed learning. This chapter explores a global framework for e-learning.