Differences between e-Learning and e-Teaching

... Differences between e-Learning and e-Teaching Introduction Education through the use of computers and information systems has had a long history in education. However, there is a big difference between the earlier and current forms of online learning, as the earlier type, called Computer Based Instruction or Training (CBI or CBT), focused on the interaction between the student and computer drills, tutorials or simulations (Zwass, 1998(. Today, the prevailing paradigm is Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), where the primary form of interaction is between students and instructors, mediated by the computer. CBI is usually individualized (self-study) learning, while CMC involves teacher/tutor facilitation. In this book, when we refer to online learning, we are always talking about CMC, not CBI (Kearsley, 2003). E-learning and e-teaching have rapidly developed over the year. The scope of this paper is to identify the differences between them. On their very core, these two issues share a single

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