Glossary: International Teaching Terms

Is an open file format standard for storing office documents such as spreadsheets, text, graphics and presentations. Some popular applications that use this format are OpenOffice, LibreOffice and GoogleDocs.

Online Educational Resource is a term used for a course packed together with assets to aid internet learning including video, images, blogs, documents, links to other sites with related articles on the course, just to mention a few

Online Educational Resource is a term used for a course packed together with assets to aid internet learning including video, images, blogs, documents, links to other sites with related articles on the course, just to mention a few

The Office For Fair Access (UK) is a govermental group to oversee that Higher Education Institutions (HEI) work towards fair access into Higher Education. Widening Participation initiatives target disadvantaged groups and individuals who live in areas of low participation in Higher Education as demonstrated on POLAR 3 mapping of the UK.

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The Learning Management System OLAT is being developed at the University of Zurich since 1999. Today it is used world-wide by educational institutions and other enterprises. OLAT is, same as Moodle, open-source and can be used and modified for free.

The Open Professionals Education Network has created a page where you can find a number of decent collections of open resources. There are
also many other websites offering a list of OER repositories. They are
all very useful but this collection is regularly updated and categorized
based on the nature of the resource.  

http://open4us.org/find-oer/

OSCE stands for Objective Structured Clinical Examination.

This is a practical form of assessment or examination often used in health disciplines, such as medicine or nursing.

It is designed to assess students performance and competence in various clinical skills (such as communication with a patient, history taking, physical examination, performing procedures).

Students rotate through a number of timed stations. At each station, they must perform a series of actions, which may or may not be directly witnessed and scored by an examiner using a structured checklist. Examiners may give feedback to students on performance.

Students may also complete written work at a station.

The OSCE was originally introduced by Harden et al, in 1975, in their paper "Assessment of clinical competence using objective structured examination" Br Med J 1975;1:447 (see link below)

Br Med J 1975; 1 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.5955.447 

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Objective assessment is a form of questioning which has a single correct answer.

Antonym: Subjective assessment is a form of questioning which may have more than one correct answer (or more than one way of expressing the correct answer).