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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. Cloud computing
  7. College
  8. Commercial enterprise - see Private provider
  9. Consortium
  10. critical success factor
  11. digital university
  12. distance learning
  13. e-learning
  14. Evolution of existing institution
  15. Failed E-Learning Initiative
  16. flatten
  17. frugal innovation
  18. Further Education
  19. Giant E-Learning Initiative
  20. Higher Education
  21. interactive university
  22. International initiative
  23. International Standard Classification of Education
  24. key success factor
  25. Major E-Learning Initiative
  26. Megaprovider
  27. multicampus university
  28. Multinational initiative
  29. National initiative
  30. Newly created institution
  31. Notable E-Learning Initiative
  32. open university
  33. pathfinder
  34. peak body
  35. penumbra
  36. Private provider
  37. Private nonprofit provider
  38. quality assurance
  39. redirect
  40. Technical and Further Education
  41. University
  42. University college
  43. virtual campus and synonyms in other languages
  44. virtual mobility
  45. virtual university

Other glossaries

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

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:

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:

glossary.

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).



See also Abbreviations
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