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. 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. force field analysis
18. frugal innovation
19. Further Education
20. Giant E-Learning Initiative
21. Higher Education
22. interactive university
23. International initiative
24. International Standard Classification of Education
25. key success factor
26. liminality
27. Major E-Learning Initiative
28. Megaprovider
29. multicampus university
30. Multinational initiative
31. National initiative
32. Newly created institution
33. Notable E-Learning Initiative
34. open university
35. pathfinder
36. peak body
37. penumbra
38. Private provider
39. Private nonprofit provider
40. quality assurance
41. redirect
42. Technical and Further Education
43. University
44. University college
45. virtual campus and synonyms in other languages
46. virtual mobility
47. 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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