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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. change management
  4. critical success factor
  5. digital university
  6. e-learning
  7. Failed E-Learning Initiative
  8. Further Education
  9. Giant E-Learning Initiative
  10. Higher Education
  11. interactive university
  12. Major E-Learning Initiative
  13. multicampus university
  14. Notable E-Learning Initiative
  15. open university
  16. pathfinder
  17. virtual campus and synonyms in other languages
  18. virtual mobility
  19. 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).



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