Glossary

Our Glossary

This is to be a Glossary of all terms used in Re.ViCa.

1. benchmarking
2. blended learning
3. Bologna Process
4. Ceased E-Learning Initiative
5. change management
6. charter school
7. Cloud computing
8. College
9. Commercial enterprise - see Private provider
10. Consortium
11. country
12. country code
13. critical success factor
14. digital university
15. distance learning
16. edublogger
17. e-learning
18. Evolution of existing institution
19. Failed E-Learning Initiative
20. flatten
21. force field analysis
22. frugal innovation
23. Further Education
24. Giant E-Learning Initiative
25. Higher Education
26. interactive university
27. International initiative
28. International Standard Classification of Education
29. key success factor
30. liminality
31. Major E-Learning Initiative
32. Megaprovider
33. multicampus university
34. Multinational initiative
35. National initiative
36. Newly created institution
37. Notable E-Learning Initiative
38. open college
39. Open Educational Resources
40. open university
41. overseas department
42. pathfinder
43. peak body
44. penumbra
45. Private provider
46. Private nonprofit provider
47. quality assurance
48. realm
49. redirect
50. supraregion
51. Technical and Further Education
52. underwiki
53. University
54. University college
55. virtual campus and synonyms in other languages
56. virtual college
57. Virtual learning environment
58. virtual mobility
59. virtual school
60. virtual university

Other glossaries

The main "official" UK glossaries with coverage relevant to this report are:

• The LTSN “Glossary of Terms in Learning and Teaching in Higher Educa-tion” at http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre/index.asp?id=17632.
• The LTSN-01 glossary at http://www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/resources/defs/search.
• The JISC glossary at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossary – however, this is oriented mainly to institutional terms.
• The CETIS “encyclopaedia” at http://www.cetis.ac.uk/encyclopedia.

In addition, several UK universities and related agencies have set up their own glossa-ries, presumably reflecting the lack of a clear model for the sector. Most of these are rather short; some of the best of these are at:

• Birkbeck College – http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/elearn/glossary.htm.
• The LTSN Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism resource guide with its glos-sary at http://www.hlst.ltsn.ac.uk/projects/specialists/erskine_glossary.html.

Outside the UK academic and governmental sector, there are a number of glossaries of some use, though none are comprehensive and most have very brief entries. Look in particular at:

• The EduTech wiki run by the University of Geneva has a large number of definitions of useful terms and concepts in e-learning.
• The “e-learning site” glossary, a good mix of technical and pedagogic, at http://www.e-learningsite.com/elearning/glossary/glossary.htm, with a Euro-pean flavour.
• The “official” European glossary, useful for the pedago-political jargon, at http://www.elearningeuropa.info/glossary.php?lng=1.
• The glossary from the US-based American Society for Training and Develop-ment (ASTD) Learning Circuits Web site at http://www.learningcircuits.org/

glossary.

• The “Commonwealth of Learning” glossary, with a Commonwealth flavour, at http://www.col.org/resources/startupguides/glossary.htm – useful for the more traditional open- and distance-learning terms.
• The so-called “World Wide Learning” glossary of e-learning and technical terms at http://www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning/elearning-glossary.htm.
• The “Encyclopaedia of Educational Technology”, a structured collection of in-formative longer articles, at http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/.
• The "Glossary of Terms Relating to Educational Development and Educational Technology" (PDF), prepared by IAC member Terence Karran for the World Bank Institute's Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) for Latin America and the Caribbean. It needs updating, but we want to include it as a resource until further updating. File:Glossary Karran 2006.pdf
• The Belgian site of the Higher Education Register has a Glossary which is available in English and Dutch and weaves related hyperlinks in its descriptions.

• Finally (for our purposes), the amusing and somewhat irreverent “e-Learning Guru” glossary at http://www.e-learningguru.com/gloss.htm.

Those unsatisfied with these lists can find many more on the Internet. A meta-glossary (list of glossaries) is at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/glossary.html – and there is a marvellous multilingual glossary of “open and distance learning” terms at http://stoner.phys.uaic.ro/idesc/glossary/.

SAGE has a comprehensive list of glossaries and encyclopedias under development, several of which are of relevance to our glossary work. See in particular 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook by Thomas L. Good and the SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences edited by Larry E. Sullivan (use the link given earlier in the paragraph).

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