Amanda’s E-learning Blog

Why do you need an e-learning glossary?

Because all this technology is new to me, glossaries will be a point of reference for the future and any terms that i dont know of.

 Where do you start searching?

In class we started by searching through the search engine ‘google.’

How do you judge their relevance and credibility?

We checked the credibility by looking at the websites homepage. A good one was: http://www.e-learningguru.com/gloss.htm I saved more into my Delicious account.

New terms I have learnt:

I learned that USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. Interesting..

In week one we were given an introduction to the subject and to the terminology used around e-learning. At week ones class I noted that my definition of e-learning was:

“Using computers, internet or other communiation program as a way of learning. Increasingly used by businesses for training and development. Can be used within groups or alone and with or without a facilitator. Benefits include constant access worldwide and easy communication.”