Glossary: International Teaching Terms

Reality Adventure Challenge Education

R: Recursos

A: Abiertos

E: Educativos

Recognising

And

Recording

Progress and

Achievement

REA es el acrónimo de Recursos Educativos Abiertos, o en inglés OER (Open Educational Resources).

Estos recursos son cualquier tipo de material relacionado con la educación y que tienen acceso libre.

Rich Internet Application (RIA) - Web application that extensively uses such technologies as Flash, AJAX and JavaScript. Wikipedia link.

RIOT is a model for data collection about students and their learning.  RIOT stands for Review, Interview, Observe, and Test or Task.  Instructors can use these different ways to assess learning of students and we are not always dependent on the final assessment for determining learning.

Doctor rerum naturalium. Doctor of Natural Sciences, is a post-graduate academic degree

Colours of the spectrum: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

Recognition of Prior Learning

 - a process of  formally recognising a students skills and knowledge from previous learning

RSS (Rich Site Summary); originally RDF Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple Syndication, uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio, video. An RSS document (called "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and authors name.

RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data automatically. A standard XML file format ensures compatibilty with many different machines/programs. RSS feeds also benefit users who want to receive timely updates from favourite websites or to aggregate data from many sites.

Once users subscribe to a website RSS removes the need for them to manually check it. Instead, their browser constantly monitors the site and informs the user of any updates. The browser can also be commanded to automatically download the new data for the user.

Software termed, "RSS reader", "aggregator", or "feed reader", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based, present RSS feed data to users. Users subscribe to feeds either by entering a feed's URI into the reader or by clicking on the browser's feed icon. The RSS reader checks the user's feeds regularly for new information and can automatically download it, if that function is enabled. The reader also provides a user interface.