Thefirst question in the survey asked: “Is there a difference
between distance learning, e-Learning, and online learning? If so,
please explain”. This seemed to be an intriguing question to many of
the participants, as they tried to explain the differences through
words or diagrams.Table 1provides an overview of the different
description types, and how they were categorized into themes of“No
Difference”,“Hierarchical Organization”,“Media Type”,“Access Type”,
“Correspondence”and“Interaction Type.”Hierarchical Organization
was then further defined into a parent relationship and child
relationship where the parent relationship denoted a term that
identified as the“broadest”label and the child relationship was a sublevel, or representative of a subset of a larger description of the
environment