- Online learning
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Learning delivered by Web-based or Internet-based technologies. See Web-based training and Internet-based training.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Open Source
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The basic idea behind open source is very simple. When programmers on the Internet can read, redistribute, and modify the source for a piece of software (or any other form of knowledge), it evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, and people fix bugs.
Source: www.opensource.org
- Optical fiber
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Optical fiber cables consist of thin filaments of glass (or other transparent materials), which can carry beams of light. A laser transmitter encodes frequency signals into pulses of light and sends them down the optical fiber to a receiver, which translates the light signals back into frequencies.
Less susceptible to noise and interference than other kinds of cables, optical fibers can transmit data greater distances without amplification. But because the glass filaments are fragile, optical fiber must be run underground rather than overhead on telephone poles.
- Origination site
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The location from which a teleconference originates.
Source: Learning Circuits
- OS (operating system)
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A computer by itself is essentially dumb bits of wire and silicon. An operating system knows how to talk to this hardware and can manage a computer's functions, such as allocating memory, scheduling tasks, accessing disk drives, and supplying a user interface.
Without an operating system, software developers would have to write programs that directly accessed hardware - essentially reinventing the wheel with every new program.
With an operating system, such as Windows NT or Mac OS 8, developers can write to a common set of programming interfaces called APIs and let the operating system do the dirty work of talking to the hardware.
- Packet
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A bundle of data transmitted over a network. Packets have no set size; they can range from one character to hundreds of characters.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Participant
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Means a beneficiary or a member.
Source: European Commission
- Parties
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Means the Community and the beneficiary(ies).
Source: European Commission
- Password
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Secret code of letters and numbers needed to gain access to a time-sharing computer or FTP system, or to protect Web pages.
- PDA (personal digital assistant)
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Handheld computer device used to organize personal information such as contacts, schedules, and so forth. Data can usually be transferred to a desktop computer by cable or wireless transmission.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
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File format developed by Adobe Systems to enable users of any hardware or software platform to view documents exactly as they were created – with fonts, images, links, and layouts as they were originally designed.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Peer-to-peer network (P2P)
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A communications network that enables users to connect their computers and share files directly with other users, without having to go through a centralized server. Groove is an example of an application that runs on a peer-to-peer network.
Source: Learning Circuits
- People (structure) A3
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All types of people (stakeholders) within an organisation and interacted with externally. People may occupy a post within an organisation and additionally be appointed to a role such as being the appointed first aider or to manage a specific project.
Source: PROMIS@Service
- Perl
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Perl is a general-purpose programming language invented in 1987 by Larry Wall. With over one million users worldwide, it has become the language of choice for Web development, text processing, Internet services, mail filtering, graphical programming, systems administration, and every other task requiring portable and easily-developed solutions.
- Personalization
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Tailoring Web content to an individual user. Can be accomplished by a user entering preferences or by a computer guessing about the user s preferences.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PHP
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PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc.
PHP can be written as scripts that reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to the web browser. Alternatively, PHP can be embedded within HTML pages that are then saved with a .php file extension.
- Ping
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Packet InterNet Groper is a program and UNIX command that helps testing and debugging network and/or Internet connections. An 'Echo' command is sent to a specified computer and then waits for a response. The result is a report that displays the success or failure, usually a report back of a timed response in seconds, of the intended action.
- Pixel (Picture Element)
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Tiny dots that make up a computer image. The more pixels a computer monitor can display, the better the image resolution and quality. On a color monitor, every pixel is composed of a red, a green, and a blue dot that are small enough to appear as a single entity.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Plan, Do, Check, Act PDCA
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The PDCA is a natural cycle used by conscious animals to assess what must be done to perform something successfully before doing it, together with checking success and finally reviewing and taking action to continually improve when it it is done again.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Plug-and-play
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The ability of a personal computer s operating system to recognize and install with little to no intervention by the user new peripheral devices that are added to the computer.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Plug-in
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An accessory program that adds capabilities to the main program. Used on Webpages to display multimedia content.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
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The patent-free graphics compression format developed by Macromedia expected to replace GIF. PNG offers advanced graphics features such as 48-bit color.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Point-to-multipoint
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Transmission between multiple locations using a bridge.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Point-to-point
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Transmission between two locations.
Source: Learning Circuits
- POP (Post Office Protocol)
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The set of rules and standards that govern the retrieval of email messages from a mail server.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Portal
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A Website that acts as a doorway to the Internet or a portion of the Internet, targeted towards one particular subject. Also see learning portal.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Post
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To place a message in a public message forum. Also, to place an HTML page on the World Wide Web.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Power users
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Advanced, sophisticated users of technology (usually a computer application or an operating system) who know more than just the basics needed to operate it.
Source: Learning Circuits
- PPP
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A software package that enables a user to connect directly to the Internet over a telephone line.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Pre-Existing Know-How
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"Pre-existing know-how" means information, other than knowledge, held by the participants prior to the conclusion of the grant agreement or the membership agreement or acquired in parallel with them and necessary for carrying out the project, as well as copyright or rights attaching to such information following applications for, or the issue or registration of, patents, designs and models, plant varieties, additional certificates or other similar forms of protection.
Source: European Commission
- Pre-financing
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Any part of the Community financial contribution which is paid in order to provide advance funds to permit the work on the project to begin, as specified in Article 3.1, point a) of this Annex and any periodic instalments as specified in Article 3.1, point b) of this Annex.
Source: European Commission
- Processes (dynamics) B1
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Processes transform inputs into outputs and are hosted by structure and its elements.Processes can have desired but also undesired outcomes such as harming people, harming the environment and displeasing customers and other stakeholders.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Profit
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Shall mean any surplus of actual receipts attributable to the project over the costs, whether duly established or confirmed in the case of other outside funding, or whether determined by applying the principles laid down to establish the total actual costs of the project.
Source: European Commission
- Program
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See application.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Project
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Means all the work referred to in Annex I to this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- Project commencement date
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Means the date referred to in Article 2.1 of this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- Project deliverables
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Means the reports, requests for payments and financial statements referred to in Article 4 of this grant agreement and Article 4 of this Annex as well as any element designated as such in Annex I to this grant agreement.
Source: European Commission
- PROMIS@Service
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PROMIS@Service, means the company established in May 2008 in Luxembourg to commercialise the PROMIS® solution and services in Europe and beyond
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- PROMIS®
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PROMIS® means the whole service offered to the customers containing the internet platform, the methodology, the content, including also eLearning, the services and integrated tools. PROMIS comprises two interlinked parts, the Knowledge base, which embraces the first four levels of the Pyramid, and myPROMIS® that is a web based, intranet, as well as software application for hosting an organisation’s integrated management system and its structural and dynamic data.
Source: PROMIS@Service
- Protocol
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The rules make possible the exchange of messages between users on the Internet, or within any given network.
A formal set of standards, rules, or formats for exchanging data that assures uniformity between computers and applications.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Proxy servers
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A proxy server is a system that caches items from other servers to speed up access. On the Web, a proxy first attempts to find data locally, and if it's not there, fetches it from the remote server where the data resides permanently.
- Pull technology
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In reference to the Internet or other online services, the technology whereby people use software such as a Web browser to locate and "pull down" information for themselves. See also push technology.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Purchase orders or letters of credit
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Making compliance with the company policy a contractual obligation for suppliers.
Source: http://www-old.itcilo.org
- Push technology
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In reference to the Internet or other online services, the technology whereby information is sent directly to a user s computer. See also pull technology.
Source: Learning Circuits
- RAM (Random Access Memory)
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Temporary storage built into a computer system that functions as a "workspace" for data and program instructions.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Real-time communication
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Communication in which information is received at (or nearly at) the instant it is sent. Real-time communication is a characteristic of synchronous learning.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Receipts
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Means financial transfers made available to a participant by a third party to be used to carry out the project, and any income generated by the project itself, if generated during the life of the project or up to the time when the final financial statement is submitted to the Commission, whichever is later.
Source: European Commission
- Receive site
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A location that can receive transmissions from another site for distance learning.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Registry
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The Windows Registry stores system configuration details so that Windows looks and behaves just as you want it to. The Registry stores user profile information such as wallpaper, color schemes, and desktop arrangements in a file called user.dat. And it stores hardware- and software-specific details, such as device management and file extension associations, in a file called system.dat.
In many ways, the Registry (Windows 95 and later) replaces functions of win.ini and system.ini from earlier versions of Windows, though these files persist because so many Windows applications refer to them. Registry details can be edited using a program called RegEdit (which ships with Windows 95 and later) and exported to text format as a file with the extension REG.
- Repurpose
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To reuse content by revising or restructuring it for a different purpose than it was originally intended or in a different way.
Source: Learning Circuits
