 | "Information Technologies (IT) have revolutionized the concepts of time and space and are causing profound changes in how people learn. Expressions such as e-learning, blended learning, m-learning collaborative learning, learning communities, media in education, social media, Personal Learning Environment, Cloud Learning Environment and others, are ubiquitous in educational research. These expressions do not always have a rigorous definition that facilitates communication and sets limits in relation to their use. However, they have in common the fact that they emphasize the importance of technology and the flexibility of time and space for learning. The concepts of e-learning, m-learning, b-learning, c- learning and other similar ones are increasingly overlapping. Just as the celestial bodies are aligned for an eclipse, these terms have also aligned and will gradually eclipse. In fact, it makes progressively less sense learning without electronic means, namely the web-based ones, and, moreover, the boundary between learning on site and distance learning, due to the increasing importance of the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) that students build in the cloud, is increasingly blurred. The trend is that these expressions intended to define ways of learning will merge in the future, lose their prefix ("e", "m", "b", "c", ...) and give rise to the term "Learning" which will be intrinsically linked to all these meanings.)"
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