Glossary

A real time learning event in which all of the participants are logged on at the same time and have the ability to communicate with each other.

Knowledge that people carry in their minds and, therefore, difficult to identify. Often, people are not aware of the knowledge they possess or how it can be valuable to others.

He or she helps the student to navigate, to fulfill the assignments in an online learning environment by using online communication and collaboration tools like e-mail, forum, chat, webinar. He/she follows the learning progress of the students and evaluate their performance.

Acronym for the digital version of the traditional classroom (Virtual Learning Environment), with electronic curricula, digital learning materials, communication facilities and interactive elements. It supports the learning process and the teachers' work (curriculum writing, storing, follow up students' development, controlling and evaluation).

Acronym for Web-Based Training. Delivery of educational content via a Web browser over the public Internet, a private intranet, or an extranet. Web-based training often provides links to other learning resources such as references, email, bulletin boards, and discussion groups. It also may include a facilitator who can provide course guidelines, manage discussion boards, deliver lectures, and so forth. When used with a facilitator, it offers some advantages of instructor-led training while also retaining the advantages of computer-based training.

The term is commonly associated with Internet applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Such applications serve functionalities for web-based communities, hosted services, social-networking, video-sharing, include wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies. They enables the users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.

A meeting of participants from disparate geographic locations that's held in a virtual environment on the World Wide Web, with communication taking place via text, audio, video, or a combination of those methods.

(Web + broadcast) A broadcast of video signals that's digitized and streamed on the World Wide Web, and which may also be made available for download. (verb) To digitize and stream a broadcast on the World Wide Web.

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Web + seminar. A synchronous online learning event in which a presenter and audience members communicate via text chat or audio about concepts often illustrated via online slides and/or an electronic whiteboard. These events are often archived as well for asynchronous, on-demand access.

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