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LIS Education through E-Learning M.Thamaraiselvi M.Manthiramoorthi Librarian information Assistant Anna Centenary Library Chennai – 25 Mthamaraiselvi.acl@gmail.com mmanthira@gmail.com Introduction E-learning, or electronic learning, has been defined a number of different ways in the literature. The American Society for Trainers and Development (ASTD) defines e-learning as â€Å"instructional content or learning experiences delivered or enabled by electronic technology. â€Å"Electronic technology encompasses everything from Computer-Based Training (CBT), to compact disks (Cds), to web-based applications. However, e-learning has increasingly come to mean â€Å"Web-enabled material deployed using the net.† In general, e-learning is the expression broadly used to describe â€Å"instructional content or learning experience delivered or enabled by electronic technologies† (Ong, Lai and Wang, 2004). 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