E-learning
E-learning Unlike traditional learning, whereby students physically attend school in order for them to learn; e-learning is conducted through internet-enabled devices. The system is based on formalized teaching on an electronic platform therefore, one has to have a computer and internet to access e-learning. There is a lot of educational content on the internet, most of it free and one could use a phone, computer, tablet to gain access to it. Students from any part of the world can attend classes or lectures and sit exams. One of the first instances of online learning in the world can be traced back to 1960, at the University of Illinois, USA. The internet had not yet been introduced back then but the students were learning from a terminal interlinked to form a network. E-learning was later on introduced in November 1999, by Elliot Masie during his TechLearn conference at Disney World and that was the first time the word was used in a professional context. Online lea...