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Training and e-learning glossary

The words of workplace learning and training video, defined in one sentence, then explained with an example and related terms.

  • ADDIE

    ADDIE is a five-step model for designing training: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation.

  • Blended learning

    Blended learning combines, in one programme, online time (videos, e-learning, virtual classes) with in-person or on-the-job time.

  • Bloom’s taxonomy

    Bloom’s taxonomy classifies learning objectives by increasing complexity. Its revised version (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001) has six levels: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create.

  • Forgetting curve

    The forgetting curve describes how fast people forget information learned once: the loss is steep in the hours and days that follow, then slows down. Hermann Ebbinghaus first measured it in 1885.

  • Kirkpatrick model

    The Kirkpatrick model is a four-level method for evaluating training: how participants react, what they learned, what changes in their behavior at work, and the results for the organisation.

  • LMS (learning management system)

    An LMS (learning management system) is software that hosts online training, enrols learners, assigns them learning paths and tracks their progress.

  • Microlearning

    Microlearning is training delivered in very short sequences, a few minutes at most, each focused on a single idea or action. People use it at the moment they need it, often on a phone.

  • SCORM

    SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a set of technical specifications that lets an e-learning module run in any compatible learning platform (LMS) and report the learner’s progress back to it.

  • Storyboard

    A storyboard describes a video scene by scene before it is produced: for each scene, what the voice says, what the picture shows and how long it lasts.

  • Voice-over

    A voice-over is a video’s narration, heard without seeing the person who speaks. In training video, it carries the explanation while the picture shows.

  • Whiteboard video

    A whiteboard video (or whiteboard animation) is an explainer video where the drawing appears as the voice speaks, as if traced by hand on a board. Viewers watch the explanation build up.

  • xAPI (Experience API)

    xAPI (Experience API, sometimes called Tin Can) is a specification that records learning experiences as simple “who did what” statements in a dedicated store, whether the learning happens in an LMS or elsewhere.

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