online education
Internet-based instruction
Online education is instruction delivered through the internet rather than in physical classrooms.
Courses may be live or prerecorded, synchronous or self-paced.
The term covers everything from university degree programs to YouTube tutorials: She completed her MBA through online education.
Also called e-learning or distance learning.
- video conferencingReal-time audiovisual communication online
- e-learning platformsDigital education delivery systems
- discussion boardOnline conversation platform
- self-paced learningEducation proceeding at individual speed
- blended learningCombined online and classroom education
live streaming · flipped classroom · distance learning · screen readers · screen fatigue · asynchronous learning · adaptive learning · assistive technologies · e-books · peer reviews · office hours · webinars · collaborative learning · MOOC · certificate · self-paced · quiz · Zoom
- digital societysocial networks, internet, digital age, internet culture, digital natives
- online servicesweb services, cloud services, SaaS, web hosting, e-commerce
- modernizationdigitalization, digitization, computerization, mechanization, industrialization
- digital learninge-learning, eLearning, virtual learning, learning platforms, MOOCs
- Information Industriespublishing, broadcasting, journalism, news media, television
- women's educationSmith College, Vassar, Radcliffe, Spelman, Seven Sisters
online educationclassroom learning
Instruction in a school setting
traditional schooling · traditional education · boarding school
online educationautodidacticism
Practice of self-instruction
self-teaching · unschooling · school of hard knocks · learning by doing · apprenticeship