Digital Learning Glossary of Terms

Digital Learning
Glossary of Terms

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• It is a broad term used to cover
anything and everything which involves
technology to enhance the learner
experience.
• These slides will explain some of the
most commonly used words and
acronyms to help you to better
understand the world of digital learning.
What is Digital Learning?
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A self-contained program of piece of software
designed to deliver a single training course, or to
provide access to a learning portal.
Apps

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The idea that students learn the same material
at different times and locations. It is also
referred to as Location Independent
Learning, and is opposite to synchronous
learning where students learn at the same time
by activities such as attending a classroom
based course or a live webinar.
Asynchronous Learning

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A software package which developers use to
create and package e-learning content
deliverable to end users.
Authoring Tools

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The combination of face-to-face and digital
learning experiences to deliver course content.
Blended Learning

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High impact short training courses typically lasting
between 30 and 90 minutes and addressing one
aspect of a topic.
Bite-size Training

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Digital content provided to support a training
programme.
Courseware

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Training content delivered via a website or
application on a computer, tablet or
smartphone.
e-Learning

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Face to face
F2F

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Allows learners and instructors/facilitators to
interact and discuss the training material, either
individually or in a group setting.
Instructor Led Training (ILT)

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A dynamic PDF document is a good way to
create an interactive slideshow. You can create
interactive documents with buttons, movies and
sound clips, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and page
transitions.
Interactive PDF

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A digital video that supports user interaction
through gestures, voice, touch, and clicks. Users
can interact inside the video itself by playing with
game-like experiences, filling out forms, or
following along with interactive tutorials.
Interactive Video

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A website that contains links to all different types
of learning and training materials for employees
at an organization. It may display upcoming
classes, online courses, e-learning, job aids,
programs, links to web sites, etc.
Learning Portal

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Stands for Learning Management System. It
is a software application for the administration,
documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery
of electronic educational technology (also
called e-learning) courses or training programs.
LMS

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The process where live video content is
broadcast using a camera and a computer
through the Internet, and viewers to play the
content via the web, iOS, Android etc.
Livestreaming

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A web-based service to provide 360 degree
feedback on an employee with automated
collation of individual scoring into a detailed
report.
Online 360

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A process of measuring a candidate's relevant
strengths and weaknesses. This form of
measurement is primarily employed to assess
employment suitability, including company-
candidate fit.
Psychometric

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Standards and specifications for e-learning that
defines the communications between the e-
learning and the LMS to enable the LMS to track
learner activity.
Sharable Content Object
Reference Model (SCORM)

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Training which is delivered in a virtual or
simulated environment, or when instructor and
learner are in separate locations. Virtual
instruction environments are designed to
simulate the traditional classroom or learning
experience.
VILT
(Virtual Instructor Led Training)

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Virtual Classroom
An online classroom that allows participants to
communicate, view presentations, interact with
learning resources and work in groups.

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VoIP
Voice over IP (internet protocol) is internet
based telephone calls, using services such as
Skype, or an internal network.

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Web-enabled
An application which is created with HTML and
can therefore be accessed with a browser.

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xAPI
The Experience API (also known as Tin Can
API) - a digital learning specification that allows
learning content and learning systems to speak
to each other so that all types of learning
experiences are tracked. Learning experiences
are recorded in a Learning Record Store (LRS).

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