Glossary
- Authentic Assessment
- Blended Learning
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Collaborative Technologies
- Communities of Practice (community building)
- Constructive Alignment
- Digital Citizenship
- Flexible Learning
- Flipped Learning
- Formative Assessment
- Instructor Presence
- Learning Management System (LMS)
- Metacognition
- Motivation
- Mind mapping
- Online Learning
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Scaffolding
- Social presence
- Summative Assessments
- Technology-enhanced learning/Technology-mediated learning
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
“authentic assessment is one that requires students to apply what they’ve learned in a new, complex circumstance or situation” (Wiley Education Services, n.d., n.p.).
“is the thoughtful fusion of face-to-face and online learning experiences” (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008, p. 5).
“Bloom’s taxonomy engendered a way to align educational goals, curricula, and assessments that are used in schools, and it structured the breadth and depth of the instructional activities and curriculum that teachers provide for students” (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2013, n.p.).
“Web 2.0 offers community and user involvement that maps well onto many learning activities” (Gordon, 2014, p. 6).
“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” (Wenger, 2014, p. 1).
is the act of aligning the learning outcomes, the assessments and the activities (Biggs, n.d.).
“is the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible, and empowered technology use (Digital Citizenship, 2017, n.p.).
focuses on “tailoring the learning experience to an individual’s needs and desires” with a “focus on how the material adapts to an individual’s progress” (Gordon, 2014, p. 6).
is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter” (FLIP Learning, 2014).
“refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course” (The Glossary of Education Reform, 2014, n.p.).
“is defined as the design, facilitation, and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing personally meaningful and educational worthwhile learning outcomes” (Anderson, Rourke, Garrison & Archer, 2001, n.p.).
“is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs” (Wikipedia, 2019, n.p.).
refers to the concept of self-directed learning whereby learners actively take the time to reflect on their own learning (Extend, ecampus Ontario).
“is defined as a situation that gives energy to behavior, directs and sustains it” (Yilmaz, Sahin, & Turgut, 2017, p. 112).
A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole” (Wikipedia, n.d.).
“All course activity is done online; there are no required face-to-face sessions within the course and no requirements for on-campus activity. Purely online courses totally eliminate geography as a factor in the relationship between the student and the institution” (Online Learning Consortium, 2015).
“are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions” (UNESCO, 2019).
“refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process” (The Glossary of Education Reform, 2015, n.p.).
refers to an online learner feeling personally connected to the instructor and other students in the online learning environment (Sung & Mayer, 2012).
“are used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period—typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year” (The Glossary of Education Reform, 2013, n.p.).
“refer to face-to-face courses that are supported by any number of technologies in or out of the classroom in order to enhance or facilitate the learning experience” (Concordia University, n.d.).
“is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” (CAST, Inc., 2019).
