e-learning platforms

Online education software

E-learning platforms are digital systems that deliver educational content and instruction online.

They host courses, track progress, and facilitate interaction between instructors and students: She completed her degree entirely through an e-learning platform.

The term covers everything from university course management systems to commercial sites offering professional certifications or casual skill-building.

Related

SCORM · drag and drop · flipped classroom · students · Coursera · Moodle · microlearning · knowledge retention · instructors · student engagement · gamification · distance education · administrators · video · interactive · enrollment · progress tracking · digital certificates

Opposites
delivery medium

e-learning platformsclassroom learning

Instruction in a school setting

lecture halls · boarding schools · tutoring sessions

institutional formality

e-learning platformsself-directed learning

Education you control yourself

autodidacticism · learning by doing · trial and error · apprenticeships · street smarts

technological mediation

e-learning platformsSocratic dialogue

Inquiry through successive questions

oral tradition · library research · apprenticeship · one-on-one tutoring · outdoor classrooms

Family

learning, platform

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Everyday, not technical · Rated G