- Slow scan converter
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A transmitter or receiver of still video over narrowband channels. In real time, camera subjects must remain still for highest resolution.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Small or medium sized enterprises (SME)
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Enterprises qualify as micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) if they fulfill the criteria in the table below. In addition to the staff headcount ceiling, an enterprise qualifies as an SME if it meets either the turnover ceiling or the balance sheet ceiling, but not necessarily both.
Source: European Commission
- Soft skills
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Business skills such as communication and presentation, leadership and management, human resources, sales and marketing, professional development, project and time management, customer service, team building, administration, accounting and finance, purchasing, and personal development.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Software
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A set of instructions that tell a computer what to do; a program.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Source code
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Program instructions written by a software developer and later translated (usually by a compiler) into machine language that a computer can understand.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Spam
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(noun) Junk email that is sent, unsolicted and in bulk, to advertise products or services or publicize a message. The term may have originated from a Monty Python song.
(verb) To send unsolicited bulk email to advertise products or services or publicize a message. Source: Learning Circuits
- Special documents
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(typically referred to as "codes of conduct") outlining company values, principles and guidelines in a variety of areas. These documents are a means for companies to clearly and publicly state the way in which they intend to do business to their suppliers, customers, consumers and shareholders.
Source: http://www-old.itcilo.org
- Specification
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A plan, instruction, or protocol for e-learning that is established or agreed upon. Specification is often used interchangeably with standard, but the two terms are not truly synonymous. Specifications become standards only after they have been approved by an accrediting agency.
Source: Learning Circuits
- SQL
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Language for accessing information in a database and updating entries.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Stakeholder
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A person with a vested interest in the successful completion of a project. Stakeholders in e-learning often include the developer, the facilitator, the learners, the learners managers, customers, and so forth.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Standard e-learning
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An e-learning specification established as a model by a governing authority such as IEEE or ISO to ensure quality, consistency, and interoperability.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Storyboard
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(noun) An outline of a multimedia project in which each page represents a screen to be designed and developed.
(verb) To create a storyboard. Source: Learning Circuits
- Streaming media (streaming audio or video)
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Audio or video files played as they are being downloaded over the Internet instead of users having to wait for the entire file to download first. Requires a media player program.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Structure
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Structure is everything that can be recorded with a still camera because it is not time related. It does not essentially change with time. Structure includes myPROMIS elements (containers) A1 to A6.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Studying
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The self-directed practice of reviewing instructional material (usually as a follow-up to instruction) to improve retention and understanding. Aims to increase or improve skills or knowledge in the long-term, although some people argue that studying only places information in the short-term memory and mainly serves the goal of improving performance on tests.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Style sheets
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In traditional print publishing and on the Web, style sheets specify how a document should appear, standardizing such elements as fonts, page layout and line spacing, repeated content, and so forth. Web style sheets help ensure consistency across Webpages, but HTML coding can also override the sheets in designated sections of the pages. Also see CSS.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Subcontract
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means an agreement to provide services, supplies or goods concluded between a participant and one or more subcontractors for the specific needs of the project.
Source: European Commission
- Subcontractor
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means a legal entity, an international organisation or the JRC, which has concluded a subcontract.
Source: European Commission
- Subject Matter Expert
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SHE-Q Subject Matter Expert:
A qualified consultant (ISO and/or EMAS and/or OSHAS) or recognized* experienced and competent technical expert, who provides advice, resources and training to Small and Medium Enterprises and other companies in required aspects of : best practice techniques, regulatory conformance, performance assessment and management and continuous improvement in the fields of Occupational and Process Safety and Quality in production.
*recognized = Practitioner whose industrial career is in leadership of his technical field within SHE-Q having demonstrated competence required by his employer and by regulatory authorities. Practitioner recognized by publication of technical work in the scientific and technical community. Source: Dr. Richard Gowland, Director of EPSC Center, UK
- Synchronous learning
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A real-time, instructor-led online learning event in which all participants are logged on at the same time and communicate directly with each other. In this virtual classroom setting, the instructor maintains control of the class, with the ability to "call on" participants. In most platforms, students and teachers can use a whiteboard to see work in progress and share knowledge. Interaction may also occur via audio- or videoconferencing, Internet telephony, or two-way live broadcasts.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Synergy
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The dynamic energetic atmosphere created in an online class when participants interact and productively communicate with each other.
Source: Learning Circuits
- System requirements
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The technological conditions required to run a software application. Includes the operating system, programming language, database, hardware configuration, bandwidth, processing power, and so forth.
Source: Learning Circuits
- T-1 (DS-1)
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High-speed digital data channel that is a high-volume carrier of voice and/or data. Often used for compressed video teleconferencing. T-1 has 24 voice channels.
Source: Learning Circuits
- T-3 (DS-3)
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A digital channel that communicates at a significantly faster rate than T-1.
Source: Learning Circuits
- TBT (technology-based training)
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The delivery of content via Internet, LAN or WAN (intranet or extranet), satellite broadcast, audio- or videotape, interactive TV, or CD-ROM. TBT encompasses both CBT and WBT.
Source: Learning Circuits
- TCP
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Stands for Transmission Control Protocol. both the protocol and software that ensure that data sent over the Net arrive in the correct order.
- TCP/IP
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Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A group of protocols that specify how computers communicate over the Internet. All computers on the Internet need TCP/IP software.
- Teaching
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A process that aims to increase or improve knowledge, skills, attitudes, and/or behaviors in a person to accomplish a variety of goals. Teaching is often driven more toward the long-term personal growth of the learner and less toward business drivers such as job tasks that are often the focus of training.
Some people characterize teaching as focused on theory and training as focused on practical application. See also Training and Learning. Source: Learning Circuits
- Telecommunication
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The science of information transport using wire, radio, optical, or electromagnetic channels to transmit and receive signals for voice or data communications.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Telecommuting
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Working at home but connecting to one s office by way of a computer network.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Teleconferencing
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Two-way electronic communication between two or more groups in separate locations via audio, video, and/or computer systems.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Telnet
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An Internet command that allows your computer to directly connect and interact with remote computers, often through a text-based 'terminal' environment. Often involves the need for passwords and access information.
- Template
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A predefined set of tools or forms that establishes the structure and settings necessary to quickly create content. A template contains predefined data or structure that may be used in total or in part, customised as necessary, to achieve a purpose within PROMIS by the user.Templates may include tree structured elements, documents, management tools etc.
- Thin client
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1) A network computer without hard- or diskette drives that accesses programs and data from a server instead of storing them locally.
2) Software that performs the majority of its operations on a server rather than the local computer, thus requiring less memory and fewer plug-ins. Source: Learning Circuits
- Third country
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means a country other than a Member State.
Source: European Commission
- Thread
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A series of messages on a particular topic posted in a discussion forum.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Tool
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A tool is a defined functionality within PROMIS that supports or delivers the achievement of a task or tasks.A tool may be related to one or more Modules.
- Training
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A process that aims to improve knowledge, skills, attitudes, and/or behaviors in a person to accomplish a specific job task or goal.
Training is often focused on business needs and driven by time-critical business skills and knowledge, and its goal is often to improve performance. See also Teaching and Learning. Source: Learning Circuits
- Training management system
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See LMS.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Transparent technology
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Technology that is easy to use, intuitive in nature, and not the focus of the learning experience. Also called seamless technology.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Tree
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A tree is a hierarchical array of myPROMIS elements.
Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl
- Tutorial
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Step-by-step instructions presented through computer or Web-based technology, designed to teach a user how to complete a particular action.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Unicasting
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Communication between a sender and a single receiver over a network. For example, an email message sent from one person to another.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Unix
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A computer operating system developed by AT&T Bell Labs and used to develop the Internet. It is no longer the sole operating system used to run servers.
- Uplink
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The communication link from a transmitting earth station to a satellite.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Upload
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Transferring a file or files from the user's computer to a remote computer.
- URI (uniform resource identifier)
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Name and address of information - text, graphics, audio, video, and so forth - on the Internet. A URI usually identifies the application used to access the resource, the machine the resource is located on, and the file name of the resource.
A Webpage address or URL is the most commonly used type of URI. Source: Learning Circuits
- URL
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Short for Uniform Resource Locator. A string of characters used to uniquely identify a page of information on the WWW. This information is used by browser software to find other WWW, FTP, telnet, gopher, etc. sites on the Internet.
- Usability
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The measure of how effectively, efficiently, and easily a person can navigate an interface, find information on it, and achieve his or her goals.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Use
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means the direct or indirect use of knowledge for exploitation purposes.
Source: European Commission
