Online Distance Education and Communities for Learners

a form of learning without a face to face contact with the teacher and delivered via telecommunications.

• Distance Learning

• Online learning

• E-learning

• All of the above

A platform developed by Google for educational institutions that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments.

• Schoology

• Google Classroom

• Moodle

• Edmodo

A platform for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course.

• MOOC

• Schoology

• Edmodo

• Google Classroom

A platform that takes the ideas of a social network refines them and makes them appropriate for a classroom.

• Schoology

• Edmodo

• Educause

• MOOC

• A type of communication in which course participants meet in a virtual classroom and discuss a topic in the lesson.

• Blended Learning

• Asynchronous

• Synchronous

• All of the Above

A combination of learning activities wherein a part of the lesson is delivered online while the other part is handled in the actual physical setting of a classroom.

• Synchronous

• Asynchronous

• Blended Learning

• Face to Face Driver

When questions or tasks are posted and course participants answer the questions or post their reply at anytime convenient to them

• Asynchronous

• Blended Learning

• Online Lab

• Synchronous

A kind of blended learning where students rotate on a fixed schedule between learning online in a one-to-one, self-paced learning environment and being inside a classroom with a teacher

• Flex

• Rotation

• Face to face driver

• Self Blended

A kind of blended learning which system provided by the school where the students can choose courses they would like to have in addition to their typical brick-and-mortar classroom classes

• Flex

• Self Blend

• Online Lab

• Rotation

The teachers delivers curricula most of the time and utilizes online learning at certain with the purpose to augment or provide an alternative experience

• Flex

• Face to Face Driver

• Rotation

• Google Classroom