Paper Topic:

Web-based Training

Running Head : WEB - BASED TRAINING Web - Based Training

Web based training is a relatively new concept . We can also refer to web based training as e-training or e-learning . This new tool allows us to get training with the help of the Internet and the use of the computer anywhere in the world . This type of training is being used in many fields such as education . Web based training can be paced at the speed at which the learner will learn , thus it is self-paced . Also , the material which is learnt through it is

live or we can say fresh . The technology we have today allows this training to be exactly like the classroom training we get . There can be 3-D conferencing , interactions and chatting among other techniques . These allow training to be effective for today 's workers . Web based training has changed the world by making things easier (WBTIC

History

The first web based training system was developed in 1995 by the University of Dublin , called WEST or Web Educational Support Tool . At this time WEST was a basic program with most of features being like that of a leaning management system (J .K . Campbell , S . Hurley , S .B . Jones and N .M . Stephens

If we refer to web based training as e-learning , then its history starts a little earlier than 1995 . The first program to be made was PLATO in the early 1960 's but the word e-learning itself was coined by a man named Jay Cross . WEST was...

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