L&D & eLearning glossary

AI course generation is the use of AI to turn source material — documents, PDFs, slides, or URLs — into a structured course with lessons, slides, narration, and assessments automatically.

Blended learning combines online, self-paced training with in-person or live instruction, letting each format do what it does best.

Completion rate is the percentage of assigned learners who finish a course or training program — a core metric for engagement and compliance.

Compliance training is mandatory workforce training that ensures employees understand laws, regulations, and company policies — with documented completion for audits.

Instructional design is the practice of structuring content and activities so people actually learn — defining objectives, sequencing material, and building assessments that measure understanding.

A Learning Experience Platform (LXP) is learner-centric software that emphasizes content discovery, personalization, and recommendations, often layered alongside or on top of an LMS.

A Learning Management System (LMS) is software for creating, delivering, and tracking training courses — including enrollment, assessments, completion records, and certificates.

Microlearning is a training approach that delivers content in short, focused units — typically a few minutes each — designed to teach one objective at a time.

SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a widely used e-learning standard that packages a course so it can be deployed and tracked in any SCORM-compliant LMS.

xAPI (the Experience API, formerly Tin Can API) is a learning data standard that records a wide range of learning experiences — online, offline, and outside the LMS — as "actor-verb-object" statements.