Glossary

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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