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| Knowledge-Workflow Architecture |
| ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) |
| An US Department of Defense initiative
to achieve interoperability of courseware through a
common technical structure, which has reusable learning
content. |
| Assessment: |
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The process of documenting in measurable
terms, knowledge, skills, beliefs and attitudes. |
| Blog: |
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A Web site on which items are regularly
posted and displayed in reverse chronological order,
and is a shortened form of web log. |
| Competency management: |
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Supports HR functions such as selection,
training, succession planning, performance, and professional
development. Focus is on investment in people for payoffs
in performance, in turn, for business results. |
| CMS (Content Management System) |
| A computer software that helps to
organize and to facilitate collaborative creation of
documents, content, and publishing process. It also
means the use of Web application that manages Web sites
and Web content. |
| CORDRA (Content Object Repository
Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture ) |
| A model that aims to improve access
to learning by identifying and specifying appropriate
technologies and existing interoperability standards
to make content ubiquitous. |
| EPSS: (Electronic
Performance Support Systems) |
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An integrated electronic environment
that is available to empower an employee, and is structured
to provide quick, customized online access to a wide
variety of supportive tools to perform tasks with minimal
support, intervention or training by others. |
| ILT (Information Learning Technology) |
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Describes the methods of using technology
to enhance the learning experience and learner’s
attention. For example, movies or audio clips in a PowerPoint
presentation. |
| IMS (Instructional Management System) |
| A collection of government organizations
that aim to explain and distribute specifications (open
architecture interoperability) for e-learning products. |
| Instructional design: |
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Involves learning needs analysis
and development of systematic instruction to facilitate
the transfer of skills, knowledge and attitude. |
| Knowledge management (KM): |
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Technological and human applications
that create, organize or share knowledge. |
| LCMS (Learning Content Management
Systems): |
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Provides sequencing, authoring and
aggregation that structure content for the learning
process. |
| LMS (Learning Management Systems): |
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Enable organizations to plan and
assess the learning needs and accomplishments of employees,
customers, and partners, and are critical to facilitating
the widespread adoption of e-learning within companies. |
| Mashup |
| A Mashup (web application hybrid)
is a website or web application that seamlessly combines
content from more than one source into an integrated
experience. Content used in mashups is typically sourced
from a third party through a public interface or API.
Other methods of sourcing content for mashups include
Web feeds (RSS or Atom) and JavaScript. |
| Mobile learning: |
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Successor to e-learning practices.
Mobile devices such as laptop computers, hand-held PDAs
(personal digital assistants) and cell phones, which
allow greater degree of access to learning resources
irrespective of constraints related to distance, time
and location, pivot mobile learning. |
| Moodle: |
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An open-source e-learning platform
and designed to help educators in the design of online
courses. |
| Open Source |
| The open source paradigm facilitates
for the concurrent use of different goals and methods
in production and development to promote access for
end product sources, unlike the more isolated models. |
| Sakai Project: |
| An open-source educational project
that is creating and releasing e-learning course management,
collaboration and research team support software. At
present in production at University of Michigan and
Indiana University and as pilots at a number of places. |
| SCORM (Sharable Courseware Object
Reference Model) |
| A most important e-learning standard
today. A suite of specifications and standards from
multiple sources for learning systems for interoperability,
accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning
content. |
| Sequencing |
| A set of rules for a learner that
mention an order of content objects. |
| S1000d (Technical Documentation Standard) |
| A new technical publication standards
for civil and military aviation. An initiative of Air
Transport Association (ATA), Aerospace and Defense Industries
Association of Europe (ASD), and Aerospace Industries
Association (AIA) for a common, single documentation
standards as planes in military and civil have similar
issues. |
| Wiki: |
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A type of Web site that allows users
to add and edit easily content, especially for collaborative
writing, and also referred to collaborative software
itself (wiki engine) that manages such Web site. |
| Workflow learning: |
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A new type of learning technology
that emerged in 2002 to optimize business performance
and to advise, inform and help employees to perform
tasks well with unique software. It leverages Web services
to embed e-learning functionality into business applications. |
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| Information Technology
(IT) |
| AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and
XML) |
| A Web development methodology to
create interactive Web applications to increase a Web
page’s interactivity, speed, and usability. |
| BPM (Business Process
Management): |
| A collection of activities –
modeling and automating -- to increase profitability
or to adapt to changing, new organizational needs. Often
these activities are viewed as software tools. |
| CRM (Customer Relationship Management) |
| A set of business processes and
strategies that are oriented on customer needs, especially
the integration and automation of various services to
serve the customer better. |
| ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) |
| A system that integrates operations,
production and distribution functions of a company into
a single system, and caters to the needs of each department.
It is a methodology that includes several software applications
for a unified, integrated interface. |
| EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) |
| EAI enables business process execution,
inter-application communication and data propagation
through various distinct networked applications that
exploits the Internet, e-commerce, extranet, and other
new technologies. EAI is a distributed transactional
approach and aims to support operational business functions
such as taking an order, generating an invoice, shipping
a product, linking customer education to customer relationship
management, etc.
EAI may involve in developing a new perspective for
enterprises and its business processes and related
software applications, exploring and analyzing how
existing applications could fit into the new integrated
perspective. Methodologies include enterprise resource
planning (ERP), XML, Web Services, middleware, message
queuing, object-oriented programming, distributed,
cross-platform program communication and other approaches. |
| Flash (Adobe) |
| Refers to both Adobe Flash
Player and to a multimedia authoring program that creates
content. Adobe Flash is an integrated development
environment (IDE), and Adobe Flash Player is used to run the
Flash files. |
| HRIS (Human Resource Management System): |
| A software application that manages
the employees and information about them – contact,
payroll, benefits, and performance information. It is
usually has some marginal utility for reporting and
competency management. |
| Meta-tag |
| HTML elements that provide structured
metadata about a Web page, and they are placed as tags. |
| RDBMS (Relational Database Management
System) |
| A database management system where
data is organized into tables with related columns and
rows for easy manipulation and use. |
| SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) |
| An architectural concept for parts
of a system and their relations between them -- the
supporting services of software users. SOA often use
the Web services in its implementation. |
| Web Service: |
| A software system that enables interoperable
machine-to-machine interaction on a network. |
| XAML |
| Extensible Application Markup Language
(XAML) pronounced "Zammel" is a declarative
XML-based language used to define objects and their
properties, relationships and interactions. XAML is
used extensively in the .NET Framework 3.0 technologies
where it is used as a user interface markup language
to define UI elements, data binding, eventing, and other
features, and in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in
which workflows themselves can be defined using XAML.
XAML - is the revolutionary new model of Internet-based
computing that is being adopted widely by all major
systems and software vendors. |
| XML (Extensible Markup Language) |
| A simple and very flexible markup
language, and facilitates and playing an important role
in the sharing of data on Internet. |
| XQuery (W3C XML Query) |
| XQuery provides flexible query facilities
to extract data from real, virtual documents, and collections
both locally and on the World Wide Web. Thus, finally
providing the much needed interaction between the web
and the database worlds.
XQuery or XML Query Language is a W3C specification.
XQuery is a query language that uses the structure
of XML intelligently. It can express queries across
all kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML
or viewed as XML via middleware. XQuery is designed
to be broadly applicable across many types of XML
data sources. |
| Healthcare |
| CCR (Continuity of Care Record ) |
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A standard for summary of a patient
data that clinicians use when a patient is referred.
Flexible documents contain core health information about
a patient that can be timely retrieved. |
| EMR (Electronic Medical Record) |
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A term for computer-based patient
record systems. Some of the functions are easy access
of patient data by clinical staff, reliable claims processing,
automated alerts for drug and allergies, prescriptions,
clinical notes, lab results, etc. |
| HL7 (Health Level 7) |
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An ANSI standard for application
protocol for clinical data in healthcare institutions.
The standard supports clinical practice, management,
delivery and assessment of health services. |
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| Finance |
| Sarbanes-Oxley: |
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Also known as the Public Company
Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
(known commonly SOX or Sarbox) is a United States federal
law that outlines issues establishing company oversight
board, auditor independence, corporate governance, and
improved financial disclosure. Read
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