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We
are providing a glossary of Distance Education Terms.
If
you want a glossary of terms about the technologies used
in distance education first connect to the International
Teleconferencing Association site: http://www.itca.org/web/infoseek/glossary/glossary.html
Besides
providing its own glossary, ITA provides hotlinks to other
technology related glossaries.
Another
good technology glossary is: http://olt-bta.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/learning/glosse.html.
This site provides links to resources in both English and
French.
Glossary
of Distance Education Terms
- Distance
education:
- Teaching
and learning in which learning normally occurs in a different
place from teaching.
- Distance
learning:
- Term
often used as synonymous with distance education, not
strictly correctly since distance education includes teaching
as well as learning.
- Distance
education courses:
- Structured
programs of instruction for learners in a different place
from the teacher, having learning objectives, one or more
teachers, a medium of communication, and subject matter.
- Distance
education system:
- All
the component processes that result in distance education,
including learning, teaching, communication, design, and
management
- Distance
education Institution:
- College,
university or school system organized exclusively for
distance education.
- Distance
education Unit:
- A
special unit dedicated to distance learning within a conventional
college, university or school system
- Distance
education Consortium:
- Two
or more distance education institutions or units who share
in designing distance education courses, teaching them,
or both.
- Distance
education Program:
- Distance
education provided by same staff of a conventional college,
university, school system, or training department whose
primary responsibilities are classroom instruction.
- Course
design:
- Setting
learning objectives, chosing media applications, planning
evaluation and preparing instructional strategies in advance
of student recruitment.
- Course
team:
- Group
of specialists in content, instructional design, learning
and technologies convened to produce distance education
course.
- Technology:
- Mechanisms
for distributing messages, including postal systems, radio
and television broadcasting companies, telephone, satellite
and computer networks.
- Media:
- Messages
that are distributed through the technologies, principally
text in books, study guides and computer networks; sound
in audio-tapes and broadcast: pictures in video-tapes
and broadcast; text, sound and/or pictures in a teleconference.
- Interaction:
- Exchange
of information, ideas, opinions between and among learners
and teachers, usually occurring through technology with
the aim of facilitating learning.
- Instructors
(also tutors):
- Specialists
in learning who interact through technology with students
as they learn content, usually designed by course team,
though quite often by the instructors themselves.
- Counselors:
- Specialists
in learning who help individual students with academic
or personal problems that interfere with learning.
- Assignments:
- Work
produced by students and used by instructors for purposes
of interaction and also evaluation.
- Economies
of scale:
- Effect
on unit cost of producing large quantities. In distance
education the larger the number of users of a course or
the larger the number of users of the system, the lower
the cost for each person.
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