This standard for the software development in the training area comes, at the origin, of the sector of aviation. It was gradually extended to the whole of the problems related to the electronic formation. Compatibility with this standard allows in particular inter-working between heterogeneous platforms and contents thus offering enrichment and increased upgrading capabilities.

They constitute the pupils of a training scheme on line. According to the rights which are granted to them on a given platform, they can reach a certain number of formations. They also often have a virtual office in which they can visualize their progress and their results with the tests.

This acronym corresponds to the one of the first stages towards the electronic training, namely the possibility of receiving a course via a computer not connected to a center of resources, like Internet for example. The support of course is generally CD-Rom.

Name given to the group formed by the tutor and his learning on a training course on line.

This term refers to the modules of formation developed to answer given problems (the training of Word for example). The interest is to be able to very precisely target its need for formation and to save time (example: to make a table under Word).

The term of distance learning evokes, in a general way, the formation remotely generally deployed thanks to courses diffused in Web-conference, videoconference or videos in real time (synchronous) or remote (asynchronous).

Often based on the Intranet of the company, a E-campus corresponds to a gate. This one plays the role of interface between learning and formation offers it. It makes it possible to visualize an offer of formation built to answer specificities of the company and which could be personalized according to the employee.

In this type of formation, the exchange with the others learning or the tutors is carried out in a non simultaneous way via forums of discussion or exchanges of e-mail. This mode of formation rests moreover on a training known as "car-directed ", with courses, exercises and evaluations automated, implying a certain autonomy of learning.

One speaks about synchronous formation when the participants connect themselves simultaneously to their training course. They can then communicate in real time that is to say by Web-conference or videoconference, or by "cat". The synchronous formations also make it possible to share applications and to interact on those at the time when the tutor gives them the hand on the divided document.

Also called "formation in room", it corresponds to the traditional mode of formation in physical classroom, according to a masterly mode (primarily downward information).

It is about a conversation, exchanges from synchronous or asynchronous points of view which are carried out remotely via Internet or Intranet.

The content providers of formation often choose software of training based on technology "to learn while making". That amounts really placing learning it in situation, under the monitoring of the software who will be able to correct it at any moment. These virtual environments reproducing the real environment can nevertheless suffer from long times of loading on line. This is why certain editors preferred the training in real environment in order to obtain sizes of files optimized during the diffusion on the network.

This Anglo-Saxon term indicates a platform of e-learning supplements including/understanding the waiter of diffusion of contents, the data base managing the catalogue of the formations available, the waiter of management of the profiles of learning, the access to the formations and the follow-up of the courses with memorizing of the results obtained and progress. Lastly, this one will include a brick of management of planning to the courses de training according to availabilities' of the tutors and of learning (scheduling system).

It is about a teaching solution which can gather various modes of formation: in room with remote formation, in room with training in center of resources, remote formation with tutored.

The free software of Microsoft, integrated into Windows offers functions of exchange of images in real time and Web-conference. It also makes it possible to carry out vocal calls in voice on IP This technology is often used by defect on the platforms not having clean technology for the synchronization of the speakers and the dialogue in real time.

This term indicates the follow-up (or alignment) behaviors and results of learning. It includes/understands the follow-up of the modules carried out, time spent, the number of times where learning a tutor solicited, results with the tests… Within the framework of a tutored solution, this course could be personalized according to the progress of learning.

A platform of e-learning is an information processing system which allows: To integrate, diffuse an offer of formation on line including/understanding of the supports multimedia to install follow-up and management tools of learning.

The gate gives access a bouquet of services, which answers a double finality. The customers, companies or private individuals, can profit from a broad pallet of services: from the platform to the formation in its totality (tutors, accompaniment, diagnosis of competences and evaluation of knowledge…) The regrouping by communities of interest guarantees to the suppliers the presence of a sufficiently large audience to support the teaching investments and to thus improve the offer of formation.

The statute of tutor on a platform of e-learning implies various functions: fixing of teaching targets, the creation of groups of learning, the composition of menus of formation, the follow-up of learning (use of the teachwares, times of use, results obtained…). This one has specific orders which can be a bar of management of the participants (speech, to give the hand…) and the possibility of reaching all the profiles of its pupils.

This term indicates a software commonly used on the platforms using the videoconference. It makes it possible to the tutor to animate the training courses by restoring with its virtual class the results of a test carried out in real time or following a collectively put question. This module generates in real time the percentages of the various emitted answers.