i am taking courses online.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Educational technology is \"the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources\". Educational technology is the use of both physical hardware and educational theoretics. It encompasses several domains, including learning theory, computer-based training, online learning, and, where mobile technologies are used, m-learning. Accordingly, there are several discrete aspects to describing the intellectual and technical development of educational technology:  An educational technologist is someone who is trained in the field of educational technology. Educational technologists try to analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate process and tools to enhance learning. While the term \"educational technologist\" is used primarily in the United States, \"learning technologist\" is synonymous and used in the UK as well as Canada. Richey defined educational technology as \"the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources\". The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) denoted instructional technology as \"the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning\".\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hey there!  Ever taken a online education course?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Several m-learning courses using my tablet."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is a 'm-learning' course?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's online courses, often using mobile or smart technology."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh.  Are these college level courses?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "These were actually though Univerty of phoenix. Also done some through MOOc platforms, or massive online open courses, like COursera."}, {"role": "user", "content": "OK.  That's cool. I have never heard them described as 'm-courses'."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's not new, just more of a coined term because of how popular mobile devies are."}]