Web-based training

Definition

• Web-Based Training (WBT) is mostly a form of Computer-Based Training and that generally uses a Learning Management System (LMS).

• It also is defined as E-Instruction or Web-Based Instruction or simply as E-Learning.

• See E-Instruction and more generally E-Learning for more.

History

• One of the first Web-based systems was WEST (Web Educational Support Tools) developed at University College Dublin in 1995 (?). It later evolved into the high-end commercial product [TopClass] System that is still sold. WEST back then contained already most of the features of a typical Learning Management System.

• It is interesting to know that even at the beginning of the Web on could find more advanced uses, e.g. Bertrand Ibrahim's [World-Wide algorithm animation] (Postscript file) presented at the [First International Conference on the the World-Wide Web].

Standards

See E-Learning

References

• J.K. Campbell, S. Hurley, S.B. Jones and N.M. Stephens,Constructing Educational Courseware using NCSA Mosaic and the World Wide Web, http://www.igd.fhg.de/archive/1995_www95/proceedings/papers/52/www3.html