eLearning, E-learning, E-Learning or e-Learning?

Okay, so a lot of this discussion seems to be focused around the use (or not) of the hypen between "e" and "learning."

However, given the number of job titles that now BEGIN with ... it. Is there now a generally accepted way to call oneself , for example, which would it now be considered... 

E-learning Developer ?
E-Learning Developer ?
eLearning Developer ?
e-Learning Developer ?

( I recently got busted for calling myself an eLearning Instructional Designer, but then, two jobs later....  Elearning Developer... in my resume, and I/m trying to correct it)

THANKS!

Alison

Hi all

eLearning isn't a proper word and so not recognised by all screen reading software. For those with accessibility issues or developers using an automated tool for quick and easy voice overs the elearning version sounds wrong. E-learning is pronounced properly and isn't inventing a word. Interestingly, email is in the dictionary as both e-mail and email but clearly a far more popular word. So until elearning appears in all the dictionaries, best to stick to the hyphenated version for the sake of others. 

Gavin

Wow, there are a lot of posts on this subject!

I tend to follow the organizational stance on the word with one exception: if we use the hyphenated version (e-learning) in a title (of any kind), then we should go with all capitals or captilize the L (example: E-LEARNING or e-Learning).

Personal preferance?  e-learning

Just 'learning'  or 'training stuff' is easier to say for your average person.

A point to remember is this 'The iphone is not the last phone to made.'

Eventually there will be another form of learning coming along and we'll be saying 'Do you remember elearning?...Oh yeah..)

Nicholas

i think elearning is right

Another vote for eLearning. We dropped the hyphen internally when we started developing content for our LMS about 4 years ago. We needed consistency so landed on eLearning and have stuck with it ever since. I agree with everyone else that it shouldn't matter what you call it as long as you're consistent. I also remember when we all used a hyphen for email I suspect, as others have suggested, that we'll drop the hyphen but I imagine eventually also the capital 'L'. I wonder how long it'll take? 

Just my 2 cents.

PS... hmm... should probably stop using "cents" since the penny's been eliminated in my currency... soon no one will know what that means! Ahhh... evolution.

This discussion is quite curious for a non(hyphen)English(hyphen)speaking country like Spain.

We have additonal problems to this. Sometimes people would ask: "So what do you do for a living?" and I reply: "elearning". When I receive a deep silence, I continue: "you know, these computer online courses...". Then there are 2 options: I can get a "so you are a computer engineer??" The other option is: "Boring stuff". Uffff...

We still mix email (like that, in English) with other forms, including the most accepted one "electronic mail" (but in Spanish). 

As for messages, we say: "I sent him a s-m-s", but now most commonly: "I sent a whatsapp". Like that, no translations.

BTW, I like hyphens, make things seem more sophisticated (though I think it'll happen what Bruce says here: they will disappear together with the "e").

My 2 cents.

Happy eXmas Everyone!

It's e-learning in Horton's "E-Learning by Design" and Clark's and Mayer's  "e-Learning and the Science of Instruction" (and E-Learning in headlines/section titles in each). That's the convention I use when I mention it.