Copyright © 2006 Anthony ‘Skip’ Basiel & Alex Moon
Aims / Glossary
PDA - personal digital assistant, electronic data management
Needs analysis (GRIP) - establish system requirements,
Mobility - m-learning, not restricted to desk-top, PDAs, Mobile phones, Messenger SMS, etc
List serve - email distribution list
GRIP - Global Rich Pictures - www.elearning.mdx.ac.uk/research/
Formative evaluation - feedback given throughout learning event ie: self-assessment quiz
Firewall / Security / Virus protection - technical issues for VLE data protection
FAQ - frequently asked questions help feature
Discussion Board - posting text over time
Autonomy - the abilty to learn and work independently
Apothegm - a short formula or expression
Anonymous  - the stakeholder's identity is not public
Glossary of terms:
White board - real-time shared program
Web metamorphosis model - models of adapting face-to-face learning to VLEs
VLE - virtual learning environment- ie: WebCT, Blackboard, FirstClass, Lotus Notes, etc.
Virtual Autonomy Value (VAV) - degree online autonomy is supported for the VLE component
Telepistemology - the way we view knowledge as applied to a VLE
System / data back up - technology and methodology to duplicate VLE
Summative assessment- Criteria referenced:standardised tests Norm referenced:change within group
SSM - Soft systems methodology (see Checkland 1999)
SMS - mobile phone text messges to/from Yahoo/MSN messenger service
SCORM, IMS, OKI - SCORM is an interoperability standard
Real time chat - live text, audio, video communication
Push-pull - data is 'sent out' or 'gathered in' by technology