If you start to do research about what online learning is, you're likely to come across a number of unfamiliar terms used to describe this type of education. Part of the reason for this "jargon" is that online learning is a fairly new infrastructure in the educational system. With any new concept, there is new vocabulary that has been created to describe the different variations of online learning.

This departure from traditional learning is likely to continue to evolve and change as the Internet becomes even more heavily embedded into society, and as people see more successful graduates come out of online learning. The following terms are just a few of the most common terms you might come across in your research of online schools and programs.