Help! What do you mean by i-learning, please?

[Eric Deeson]

I've come across several courses in i-learning (or iLearning or i-
Learning), but no two seem to cover the same kind of ground!

Do you have a definitive definition, preferably an agreed one, please?

[Steven Parker]

Inquiry Learning from what you see ;-)

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Hi Eric,
Interesting  topic. Thank you for sharing. I found this: http://ilearning.oracle.com/ilearn/en/learner/jsp/login.jsp

Nellie

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http://blendedlear.ning.com

[vmensah]

From reading Nellie's link, this is my thought:

iLearning is an eLearning management tool.

V.

[muthumari karuppiah]

Like elearning electronic learning this ilearning may refer to internet learning. Even the oracle organisation referring  ilearning as learning management...

2008/8/21 vmensah <mensah...@gmail.com>

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[Eric Deeson]

Very many thanks to all who have shared your thoughts on the nature (if any) of i-learning with me. I am also running a similar conversation in an educational technology forum, with much the same outcomes as from here.

It seems clear that there is no such term, officially, and therefore no definition.

It is also clear that
*  Oracle's use of the term (to mean learning management, however that can be) adds an impression of validity that it may not really deserve.
*  The i in i-learning could mean interactive, integrated, internet-based, information or something to do with Apple (ipod, iphone ....).

Many of the members of the other group are quite upset at all these jargon terms, and want us to discuss only learning. Prof Corrie Bergeron said "Do we call it b-learning if we use books, or c-learning if we use a chalkboard?"

Any further thoughts, colleagues, please, including in answer to the original question -

> I've come across several courses in i-learning (or iLearning or i-
> Learning), but no two seem to cover the same kind of ground!
>
> Do you have a definitive definition, preferably an agreed one, please?

Many thanks - Eric

[valerie]

Isn't it all just "learning" - I proposed that in a different forum
about eLearning and provoked a response from Stephen Downes. He sees
clear differences and insists that the distinction must be made.

Me, I'm not so sure...

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> Many of the members of the other group are quite upset at all these jargon

> terms, and want us to discuss only learning. Prof Corrie Bergeron said "*Do

> we call it b-learning if we use books, or c-learning if we use a chalkboard?

> *"
>