The e-training glossary

This glossary is taken from the book by publishers Dunod " La e-formation"

Entire volumes (see bibliography) have been devoted to themes such as self-teaching or interactivity.

 

Application sharing

Allows several people to use a software when it is not physically present on their machine but emulates it from the teacher's workstation . .

Asynchronous training

Describes a self-teaching situation during which the student has no simultaneous (real time) contact with the teacher or members of the virtual class.

Author system

Software that enables the user to create multimedia pedagogical content usable on CD-ROM and/or on line

Computer Based Training - CBT

Designates a self-teaching pedagogical system on computer with the help of a local resource such as a CD-ROM.

Distance training or distance teaching

Distance training covers all technical systems and organisation models that aim to provide teaching or instruction to individuals remote from the training service provider.

E training

Two more or less broad meanings are possible. The first designates a training concept in which technology (e for electronic) permeates all sections of the training activity. The second is more restrictive affording e-training to be any training process or organisation using web technologies.

Granulation of training

Granulating training is breaking subject content down into numerous items so they can be combined in different teaching courses as a function of trainee level and expectations.

Individualisation of training

Is to consider the student as unique offering them a training environment and a context (tools, content, method of learning, calendar, etc.) adapted to their level, needs and preferences.

Interaction

Designates exchanges between the tutor and the student, the student and members of the virtual class, and the tutor and the virtual class.

Interactivity

Possibility for the trainee to intervene in the learning process and, thanks to that intervention, modify the context of the course.

Multimedia

It is the combination of existing media (texts, fixed or animated images, drawings and graphics, sounds, video) in a common digital format, staged in a dedicated computer programme and accessible by a drive unit enabling their operation (computer, game station)

Open flexible and distance training

In the distance training family, but positioned on integration of NTIC, adapting the individual and modular training.

Self-education

It is an individual's capacity to educate themselves alone, without referring to human mediation.

Self-teaching

Self-teaching is an individual learning method which enables the student to train at their own pace using resources created for that purpose. Self-teaching can be tutored once human mediation is included in the system.

Synchronous training

Describes an on-line training situation when the student is in simultaneous (real time) contact with the trainer or members of the virtual class and can exchange with them by means of chat, multi-point telephony, application sharing, shared whiteboard or visual conference system. (Also see virtual class)

Tutor

It is the new trainer, conducting his/her activity in the context of open flexible distance training sessions. Helping trainees progress by placing the functions of evaluation, monitoring and working together to the foreground rather than the ability to transfer a skill.

Virtual university

Very close to the definition of the virtual campus, it is surprisingly more part of the company world. The latter sees in these new systems the means to boost corporate culture and to display that they belong to a certain elite. It is true that the first virtual universities often have high-potential executives as targets.

Virtual campus

A virtual campus designates any web site whose aim is to address a learning community by making the corresponding pedagogical resources and collaborative communication functions available. Some of these sites go so far as to choose a graphic metaphor representing an actual campus with library, work room, canteen, classroom, etc.

Virtual class

The virtual class can:
either designate the group of individuals enrolled on a distance training course and who will interact among themselves and/or their teacher throughout the learning period.
or designate a synchronous distance training system replicating the physical class concept in a virtual environment. You then use live collaboration solutions like Centra or Learnlinc.

Web Based Training WBT

Designates a computer-based self-teaching pedagogical system using a resource accessible via internet or the company intranet and therefore stored on a distant server.