These tools enable educators to build and adapt elearning systems to suit the specific needs of their classrooms.

A division of elearning, m-learning is learning that takes place via smartphones and other mobile devices using technologies such as educational apps.

As noted above, this stands for Learning Management System (here are some US-based examples). These systems enable you to deliver instructional content and assess your students online and can be tailored to suit your needs.

Elearning that takes place outside of the classroom. This is a good way of motivating students to pursue autonomous private study.

Elearning that takes place within the classroom and is synchronized with classroom activities.

Is online learning that takes place on the cloud – a virtual space that is not tied to any one computer. There are various cloud-based elearning management systems available, and they bring with them a whole host of benefits for the classroom at all educational levels.

A Virtual Learning Environment is a platform that enables both students and educators to share materials relevant to the course. Modern VLEs such as Blackboard and Moodle support a wide variety of learning technologies, including online quizzes and video broadcasts of lectures.

This stands for Massive Open Online Course. MOOCs are courses that are made freely available to a substantial number of people over the internet.

I am sure that you have heard this term before, but unless you work in the tech industry, you probably don’t know exactly what it means. I mean on the face of it, the term sounds sexy and cool, but what exactly does it mean and what does it encompass?

The main goal of this advanced technology is to increase the participation of students who can’t come into the classroom regularly. Physical presence in the classroom isn’t always possible, whether it is due to distance, illness, or scheduling. When these issues begin to compromise academics, telepresence robots can lend a