ELearning

Electronic learning or ELearning is a general term used to refer computer-enhanced learning. E-learning is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, web-based training, and technology-delivered instruction. E-Learning lessons are generally designed to guide students through information or to help students perform in specific tasks. Information based e-Learning content communicates information to the student. Examples include content that distributes the history or facts related to a service, company, or product. In information-based content, there is no specific skill to be learned. In performance-based content, the lessons build off of a procedural skill in which the student is expected to increase proficiency.
ELearning 2.0 refers to a second phase of e-Learning based on Web 2.0 and emerging trends in eLearning. It can include such features as e-Learning where students create content, collaborate with peers to form a learning network with distribution of content creation and responsibilities, e-Learning that takes advantage of many sources of content aggregated together into learning experiences and e-Learning that utilizes various tools including online references, courseware, knowledge management, collaboration and search.
The term ELearning suggests that the traditional model of eLearning as a type of content, produced by publishers, organized and structured into courses, and consumed by students, is reversed; so as that content is used rather than read and is more likely to be produced by students than courseware authors. Structure in eLearning 2.0, is more likely to resemble a blogging tool rather than a book or a manual.