Glossary
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The Disability Standards for Education clarify, and make more explicit, the obligations of education and training service providers under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (the DDA) and the...
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A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early blogs were manually...
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML, capable of describing many...
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An Internet forum is a web application which provides for discussion, often in conjunction with online communities. Older forums date back to around 1996, following the newsgroups and bulletin board...
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IMS Learning Design Best Practice and Implementation Guide (Version 1.0 Final Specification) Weblink: www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/ldv1p0/imsld_bestv1p0.html
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Check ComLaw, the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department.
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Metadata is structured information that describes and allows us to find, manage, control and understand other information. In a web environment metadata acts like a virtual library catalogue – it...
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Online chat is a generic term for what are now mostly known as instant messaging applications—computer programs that enable two-way typing to connect users to each other. However, there are net...
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The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) uses the term Open Service Interface Definition (OSID) to differentiate its service based specifications from the broader class of application programming...
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Open Source: Programmers list, read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software enabling the software to evolve. People improve it, adapt it and fix bugs. And this can happen at ...
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Open Standards are recognised national or international platform independent standards. They are developed collaboratively through due process, are vendor neutral and do not rely on commercial...
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Podcasting is a method of publishing audio programs via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic...
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SCORM stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model. This is a standard for web-based E-learning. It defines how the individual instruction elements are combined on a technical level and sets...
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SOAP/XMLP Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP/XMLP) uses web protocols to exchange from one computer to another. SOAP/XMLP specifies how to encode an HTTP header and an XML file so that one computer...
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A Standard is a published document which sets out specifications and procedures designed to ensure that a material, product, method or service is fit for its purpose and consistently performs in the...
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop standards for the World Wide Web. W3C's...
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A Webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. It is a type of web conferencing. In contrast to a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, a webinar is ...
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A Wiki (pronounced weekee) is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. The term Wiki also refers to the collaborative...
