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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. change management
  5. critical success factor
  6. digital university
  7. distance learning
  8. e-learning
  9. Failed E-Learning Initiative
  10. flatten
  11. Further Education
  12. Giant E-Learning Initiative
  13. Higher Education
  14. interactive university
  15. Major E-Learning Initiative
  16. Megaprovider
  17. multicampus university
  18. Notable E-Learning Initiative
  19. open university
  20. pathfinder
  21. penumbra
  22. virtual campus and synonyms in other languages
  23. virtual mobility
  24. 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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