1 Glossary of eLearning Terms (drafty)
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- Academic Honesty
- Accessibility
- Accessibility Checker
- Alignment
- Ally
- Alternative Text (Alt Text)
- Andragogy
- Assessment
- Asynchronous
- Attendance
- Attribution
- Badging
- Big Blue Button
- Blended Learning
- Bloom’s Taxonomies
- Canvas
- Caption Hub
- Captions
- Case Studies
- Chunking
- Class Recordings Decisions Tree
- Cloud
- Copyright
- Correspondence Course
- Course Map
- Course Quality
- Creative Commons
- Descriptive Hyperlinks
- Digital Literacy
- Discussion Board
- Distance Learning
- Document Camera
- eLearning
- Engagement
- Face-to-Face
- Feedback
- FERPA
- Flipped Classroom
- Folksonomy
- Gamification
- Headings
- Headset
- Hybrid Learning
- HyFlex
- Instructional Design
- Instructional Technology
- Intellectual Property
- Interaction
- Intranet
- Learner-centered Teaching
- Learning Community
- Learning Management System (LMS)
- Learning Object
- Learning Objective
- Learning Outcome
- Lecture Capture
- Master shell
- Media/Multimedia
- Metacognition
- Mobile Learning
- Modality
- Modules (Canvas)
- Netiquette
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Online Learning
- Panopto
- Participation
- Pedagogy
- Plagiarism
- Presence
- Privacy
- Quality Matters (QM)
- Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)
- Scaffolding
- Self-efficacy
- State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)
- Student Engagement
- Syllabus
- Synchronous
- Tag
- Taxonomy
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Virtual classroom
- Virtual meeting
- Washington Canvas Conference (WACC)
- Web Camera
- Web-enhanced
- Webinar
- Zoom
Glossary – Full Definitions
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Academic Honesty
Respecting the integrity of one’s own and others’ work. See Encouraging Academic Honesty Online for information on designing online learning environments that promote academic honesty.
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Accessibility
“Accessible” means a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability. From ADA Compliance for online course design.
It is a course design best practice to include links to the Accessibility Statements for all products you use or provide access to in your course. Most product websites provide a link to their accessibility statement. See a sample Publisher Accessibility Statement here.
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Accessibility Checker
Web accessibility evaluation tools are software programs or online services that help you determine if web content meets accessibility guidelines. From Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools.
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Alignment
“Critical course elements working together to ensure that students achieve the d