Glossary: International Teaching Terms

BYOD = 'Bring your own device' - the term used to capture the increasing use of personal mobile devices being used for work in organisations/ schools.

Bridge in

Objective

Pre-assessment

Participatory learning

Post-assessment

Summary

B.Y.O.D. means "Bring Your Own Device". Students are now able to bring and use any internet accessible device, such as a "smart phone" or tablet to use in the classroom to complete an assignment.

Backward design is a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment. Backward design of curriculum typically involves three stages:^[1]

• identify the results desired
• determine acceptable levels of evidence that support that the desired results have occurred
• design activities that will make desired results happen.

Wikipedia

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Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside the primary group activity or live spoken remarks.

The term "backchannel" generally refers to online conversation about the conference topic or speaker. Occasionally backchannel provides audience members a chance to fact-check the presentation.

First growing in popularity at technology conferences, backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where WiFi connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat like IRC or AIM to actively communicate during class. More recently, researchers from Penn State University have explored bringing "backchannel" up front in classrooms - "ClassCommons, " to increase students' participation and promote community building in classrooms.

Twitter is also widely used today by audiences to create backchannels at technology conferences. When audience members add an event hashtag to their tweets [e.g. #learnmoodle] anyone can run a Twitter search to review all the backchannel tweets related to that event.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel

Capture the Backchannel from elearn Magazine By Laurie Rowell / August 2009

Moodle is now using badges, which may be used to reward students when they've completed an activity or other task.

Not to be confused with the YouTube badger.

Teacher center learning, in which the teacher deposits information into the students. 

A process whereby learners are actively engaged in the learning process, rather than "passively" absorbing lectures. Active(Engage-in) learning involves reading, writing, discussion, and engagement in solving problems, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Active learning often involves cooperative learning.

In an Educational related context, BDA can stand for British Dyslexia Association

The top of the list in my Google search; BDA is British Dental Association

And a couple of others: British Dietetic Association and British Deaf Association.

There used to be a British Diabetic Association but that's now Diabetes UK.  They made a sensible move, I think. Take a look at the web addresses of the other links that I gave...

bda.org, bda.uk.com, bda.org.uk (OK the Dyslexia one is bdadyslexia.org.uk)

This is why I hate acronyms. I get confused by acronyms. I feel excluded when people speak using them. Why make an acronym? (Yes, MOODLE is an acronym (so is LASER). They have morphed into words.)  My argument is to beware of using acronyms lest they confuse.  Nuff said.

A simple mathematical acronym which outlines the order of operations required when evaluating multi-step mathematical formula.