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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. Consortium
  7. critical success factor
  8. digital university
  9. distance learning
  10. e-learning
  11. Evolution of existing institution
  12. Failed E-Learning Initiative
  13. flatten
  14. Further Education
  15. Giant E-Learning Initiative
  16. Higher Education
  17. interactive university
  18. International initiative
  19. Major E-Learning Initiative
  20. Megaprovider
  21. multicampus university
  22. Multinational initiative
  23. National initiative
  24. Newly created institution
  25. Notable E-Learning Initiative
  26. open university
  27. pathfinder
  28. peak body
  29. penumbra
  30. redirect
  31. Technical and Further Education
  32. virtual campus and synonyms in other languages
  33. virtual mobility
  34. 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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