ALISON: Free Online Learning for ALL!!

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ALISON or Advanced Learning Interactive System ONline (http://www.alison.com) is a free online resources for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners.

The mission of ALISON is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive self-paced multimedia. It is our belief that through ALISON, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed. Through the ALISON learning platform we can assist people around the world in educating themselves, thereby creating a more equitable and sustainable global society. More…

 

Online Coursewares

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Online courseware is an example of eLearning. It is also called as web based instruction. It is a teaching or learning supported by the attributes of internet. Unlike computer-based instruction, it uses the World Wide Web as the primary delivery method of information. A textbook is usually required and all other materials, as well as communication with the instructor, are provided through the course web-site. The terms “on-line courses” and “web-based instruction” are sometimes used interchangeably with WBT.

 

E-Learning: 21st Century Perspectives on Learning and Teaching

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History of eLearning

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eLearning started just about the moment the computer was developed for personal use. The concept and practice of eLearning already predates the computer world for almost 100 years. In England, in 1840, shorthand classes were being offered by correspondence courses through the mail. The improvements to the postal service made this method of distance learning popular in the early part of the last century. This cause the large number of “through mail” educations.

To know more about the history of eLearning visit:

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What is eLearning?

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eLearning covers is used to describe any type of learning that is computer enhanced. There are multiple techologies that can be employed in eLearning. This is a learning that utilize a network (LAN, WAN, or internet) for delivery, interaction or facilitation. The term eLearning has no generally accepted meaning. There are groups in the eLearning industry that argue about this technologically enhanced systems. They defend that eLearning would not be learning without pedagogy. But some proved that eLearning is: “pedagogy empowered by digital technology“.