- Instant messenger (IM)
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Software that lists users selected "buddies" (friends, family, co-workers, and so forth) who are online and enables users to send short text messages back and forth to them. Some instant messenger programs also include voice chat, file transfer, and other applications.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Instructional designer (ID)
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An individual who applies a systematic methodology based on instructional theory to create content for learning.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Integrated Management System
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A single set of coherent, structured management arrangements designed to establish the organisation's policy and objectives, and to control and guide the totality of its processes in order to meet those objectives and equitably satisfy its stakeholders.
Source: adapted from ISO 9000
- Integrated management system consultant
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Person who assists an organization in establishing, operating and improving an integrated management system.
Source: I. Dalling and S. Singer
- Integration
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Combining hardware, software (and, in e-learning, content) components together to work as an interoperable system. The process of integration may also include front-end planning and strategy.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Intellectual property
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An idea, invention, formula, literary work, presentation, or other knowledge asset owned by an organization or individual. Intellectual property can be protected by patents, trademarks, service marks, and/or copyrights.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Interactive media
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Allows for a two-way interaction or exchange of information.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Internet
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An international network first used to connect education and research networks, begun by the US government. The Internet now provides communication and application services to an international base of businesses, consumers, educational institutions, governments, and research organizations.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Internet Explorer
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Browser software that enables users to view Webpages.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Internet-based training
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Training delivered primarily by TCP/IP network technologies such as email, newsgroups, proprietary applications, and so forth. Although the term is often used synonymously with Web-based training, Internet-based training is not necessarily delivered over the World Wide Web, and may not use the HTTP and HTML technologies that make Web-based training possible.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Interoperability
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The ability of hardware or software components to work together effectively.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Intranet
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A LAN or WAN that is owned by a company and is only accessible to people working internally. It is protected from outside intrusion by a combination of firewalls and other security measures.
Source: Learning Circuits
- IP
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Abbreviation for Internet Protocol. A protocol that ensures data goes where it is supposed to go on the Internet.
- IP multicast
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Using the Internet Protocol, delivery of a learning event over a network from a single source to multiple participants.
Source: Learning Circuits
- IRC
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Abbreviation for Internet Relay Chat. An Internet service accessed through software programs that features real-time communication on channels devoted to specific topics.
- Irregularity
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any infringement of a provision of Community law or any breach of a contractual obligation resulting from an act or omission by a beneficiary or a member which has, or would have, the effect of prejudicing the general budget of the European Communities or budgets managed by it through unjustified expenditure.
Source: European Commission
- ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
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A telecommunications standard enabling communications channels to carry voice, video, and data simultaneously.
Source: Learning Circuits
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
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An international federation of national standards bodies. See the ISO Website.
Source: Learning Circuits
- ISP (Internet service provider)
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A hosting company that provides end user access to such Internet services as email, the World Wide Web, FTP, newsgroups, and so forth.
Source: Learning Circuits
- IT (information technology)
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The industry or discipline involving the collection, dissemination, and management of data, typically through the use of computers.
Source: Learning Circuits
- IT training
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A combination of desktop training and information systems and technical training. Includes training in areas such as system infrastructure software, application software, and application development tools.
Source: Learning Circuits
- ITFS (Instructional Television Fixed Service)
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Microwave-based, high-frequency television used in educational program delivery.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Java
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A high level programming language used to create web applications, run scripts or mini-programs embedded in web pages or applications, or to create an interface for a web site residing database and many other purposes. Created by Sun Microsystems and a chief rival of XML.
- JavaScript
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A proprietary scripting language by Netscape that adds author-specified user events to static pages.
- JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
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An application program interface used to connect programs written in Java to the data in databases.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Job aid
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Any simple tool that helps a worker do his or her job (for example, a flow chart to follow when answering a customer service call). Job aids generally provide quick reference information rather than in-depth training.
Source: Learning Circuits
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
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This file format for color-rich images was developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee. JPEG compresses graphics of photographic color depth better than competing file formats like GIF, and it retains a high degree of color fidelity.
This makes JPEG files smaller and therefore quicker to download. You can choose how much to compress a JPEG file, but since it is a lossy format, the smaller you compress the file, the more color information will be lost. JPEG files can be viewed by a variety of downloadable software on both the PC and Mac.
- Just-in-time
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Characteristic of e-learning in which learners are able to access the information they need exactly when they need it.
Source: Learning Circuits
- kbps
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Your modem's speed is measured in the number of bits it can transfer in a second. Modems rated in kilobits per second are now the standard.
- kernel
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Modern operating systems are typically built in layers, with each layer adding new capabilities, such as disk access techniques or a graphical user interface. But the essential layer, the foundation on which the rest of the operating system rests, is typically called a kernel.
In general, the kernel provides low-level services, such as memory management, basic hardware interaction, and security. Without the kernel, your system would stop.
- kilobyte
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Although kilo is Greek for a thousand, a kilobyte actually contains 1,024 bytes (that is 2 to the 10th power). In other words, a thousand bytes is actually less than a kilobyte. Remember that the next time you download a file. Abbreviated as KB.
- KMS (knowledge management system)
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See knowledge management.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Knowledge
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Knowledge, means the property of the contractor carrying out the work leading to that knowledge. It also means the results, including information, whether or not they can be protected, arising from the project governed by this contract, as well as copyrights or rights pertaining to such results following applications for, or the issue of patents, designs, plant varieties, supplementary protection certificates or similar forms of protection.
Source: European Commission
- Knowledge - legal meaning
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Knowledge means the results, including information, arising from the Project as well as copyright or rights attaching to the results following application for, or the issue or registration of, patents, designs and models, additional certificates or other similar forms of protection
Source: European Commission
- Knowledge asset
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Intellectual content possessed by an organization. Any piece of information that a worker at a company knows, from customer names to how to fix a piece of machinery, can be considered a knowledge asset.
Assets can be codified in a variety of formats, such as PowerPoint slides, Word documents, audio and video files, and so forth. Source: Learning Circuits
- Knowledge base
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A specialized database that stores knowledge assets.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Knowledge Management
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Knowledge management is the management of the organization towards the continuous renewal of the organizational knowledge base - this means e.g. creation of supportive organizational structures, facilitation of organizational members, putting IT-instruments with emphasis on teamwork and diffusion of knowledge (as e.g. groupware) into place. –
Source: Thomas Bertels
- LAN
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Abbreviation for Local Area Network. Used to connect computers over a short distance such as computers within the same company or office.
- Laser printer
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While considerably more complex and expensive than most other common printer types, laser printers are capable of producing extremely high-quality text and graphics (including color) at fantastic speeds. At their most basic, laser printers apply an electrostatic charge to a drum inside the printer cartridge.
A laser or a light-emitting diode then discharges portions of the drum to form the characters or graphics. Charged toner attaches itself to these discharged sections. A charged piece of paper is passed over the drum, transferring the toner. The toner is heated and fused to the sheet.
- LCMS (learning content management system)
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A software application (or set of applications) that manages the creation, storage, use, and reuse of learning content. LCMSs often store content in granular forms such as learning objects.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning
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A cognitive and/or physical process in which a person assimilates information and temporarily or permanently acquires or improves skills, knowledge, behaviors, and/or attitudes.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning environment
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The physical or virtual setting in which learning takes place.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning object
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A reusable, media-independent collection of information used as a modular building block for e-learning content. Learning objects are most effective when organized by a meta data classification system and stored in a data repository such as an LCMS.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning objective
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A statement establishing a measurable behavioral outcome, used as an advanced organizer to indicate how the learner s acquisition of skills and knowledge is being measured.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning platforms
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Internal or external sites often organized around tightly focused topics, which contain technologies (ranging from chat rooms to groupware) that enable users to submit and retrieve information.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning portal
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Any Website that offers learners or organizations consolidated access to learning and training resources from multiple sources. Operators of learning portals are also called content aggregators, distributors, or hosts.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning solution
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1) Any combination of technology and methodology that delivers learning.
2) Software and/or hardware products that suppliers tout as answers to businesses training needs. Source: Learning Circuits
- Learning space
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An imaginary geography in which the learning enterprise flourishes. Mapped by market analysts and mined by consultants, this territory is a recent annexation to the business landscape.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Legitimate interest
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Means any interest, in particular of a commercial nature, of a participant which may be invoked in the cases provided for in this Annex provided that he demonstrates that the damage to that interest is likely, given the circumstances, to cause a specific prejudice that is disproportionate, considering the objectives of the provision in respect of which it is invoked.
Source: European Commission
- Link
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The result of HTML markup signifying to a browser that data within a document will automatically connect with either nested data or an outside source. Used in the design of hypertext.
Source: Learning Circuits
