What Are the Different E-Learning Styles

This style blends the characteristics of the other two styles. A group of students meet with an instructor over the Internet and can communicate. But they are not necessarily online at the same time. Students act alone to study the student materials and interact with the instructor and with other students by leaving messages that [...]

“Self-directed learning” asks a student to act alone while working through a step-by-step arrangement of student materials. This is the “teach yourself” type of training. There is no instructor or group of peer students to communicate with. Tell Me More Let’s look at a typical scenario for self-directed learning. We’ll say you want to learn [...]

With synchronous learning, all the students and the instructor are “there” at the same time. This is much like the traditional classroom experience, except the “there” is online instead of being physically together. Tell Me More The word synchronous means “all at the same time” and refers to the gathering of all the students at [...]

There are three basic styles for e-learning that depend on how the learning event is scheduled and how inter- action with other people occurs. The three basic e-learning styles are: Synchronous learning Self-directed learning Asynchronous (collaborative) learning Tell Me More The style of an e-learning experience is “how it feels” to the student. Do you [...]