##  [Glossary K-O](/supporting-distance-learners/glossary-k-o) 

**Learner-centredness**: An approach to teaching that places the learner, and the learner's needs, at the centre of the learning process.

**Learning management system (LMS)**: Software for delivering, tracking and managing e-learning. LMSs range from simple systems for managing training records, to more complex software for making courses available over the internet and offering features for online collaboration.  
\[Ref: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning\_management\_system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system)\].

**Lifelong learning**: Continuing to learn throughout one's lifetime, for either personal or professional reasons

**Mobile technologies**: Wireless technologies such as hand-held PCs, PDAs, mobile phones, iPods and other MP3/ MP4 players.

**Netiquette**: Online etiquette; respectful communication within an online community.

Online learning: Learning using a computer connected to the internet, usually with the implication that Web 2.0 technologies are being used - hence this term is generally taken to mean the same as 'e-learning 2.0'.

**Open Educational Resources (OERs)**: Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, modify and distribute. (Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open\_educational\_resources](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources)). See [OER Africa What is OER?](https://www.oerafrica.org/understanding-oer)

**Open learning**: In open learning, learners are given a choice over what, where, when, at what pace, and how they learn.