e-Learning Technologies

E-learning technologies continue to expand. Today, computer and Internet technologies are more integrated with professional, academic, and personal lives. Instructional designers have access to more and more new flexible technologies, as do learners have a multitude of choices. These technologies are opening ways for courses, seminars, discussion forums and other approaches to learning to be delivered online with innovative ways to interact with instructors and other students. The following are different learning technologies in use today. Various tools in various combinations are used in e-learning environments.

• Electronic Portfolios (ePortfolios)
• Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS)
• Personal digital assistants (PDAs)
• MP3 Players
• CD-ROM
• Web sites
• Web 2.0 tools
• Discussion and bulletin boards
• Collaborative software
• e-mail
• Blogs
• Wiki
• Chats
• Computer aided testing and assessment
• Educational animation, simulation, and games
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Podcasts