Introduction to eLearning

Introduction to eLearning, definitions, 1. ICTs in education 2. internet in education 3. how education changes due to ICTs and the internet, the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration, education, learning outcomes, 3 forms of the activity of educating, 3 basic elements in education and in the didactic contract, 3 remarks, technologies of the word, taxonomies, electronic texts characteristics, philosophies towards ICTs, 3 learning processes, formal learning, non-formal learning, informal learning, cultural heritage learning, 4 areas of activity, main characteristics, a model to interpret and design, people, methods, contents, different approaches to instructional design, the linear approach, the heuristic approach, prototype models, constructivist approach, technologies, web 2.0, categories, commercial vs. open software, learning objects