Glossary: International Teaching Terms

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - created in October 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee  -  is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

W3C's primary activity is to developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C's standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work.

The most important work done by the W3C is the development of a variety of Web specifications (called "Recommendations") that describe various protocols (like HTML, XML, CSS) and other building blocks of the Web.

Vendor-neutral standards and architectures, accessibility, usability, platform and browser independence aim at maximizing user interaction and information flow.
To facilitate this W3C offers various browsers, authoring tools and validators.

The WAG Method

• The Wild-Ass-Guess (WAG) is used for an activity that has no precedent. It  draws on simple rules-of-thumb instead of breaking down specific facets of a  project to build a more realistic estimate. If scientists want to build a ship  that will take people to Mars and back, they can work on calculating the  variables and foresee potential hiccups but in the end, because there is no  precedent to draw from, a large part of the estimating becomes a wild guess  entirely reliant on rules-of-thumb instead of smart  estimates.

Read more:  http://www.ehow.com/info_8054349_estimating-methods.html#ixzz2g6nyZAyo

Western Association of Schools and Colleges--

Work-based learning refers to any formal higher education learning that is based wholly or predominantly in a work setting.

WBT is a short for Web-based training, a generic term for training and/or instruction delivered over the Internet or an intranet using a Web browser. Web-based training includes

• static methods:  such as streaming audio and video, hyperlinked Web pages, live Web broadcasts, and portals of information
• and interactive methods:  such as bulletin boards, chat rooms, instant messaging, videoconferencing and discussion threads.

WIIFM stands for What's In It For Me. This is an essential tool for putting oneself in the shoe of others / learners which thinking and deciding on planning a learning activity, event or lesson. It helps in coming up with relevant and appropriate user centered learning program/lesson.

WIRIS editor is a visual WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that will run in any browser and allow you to insert mathematical formulas into web pages using a collection of icons. 

Wireless Sensor Network

What's the source? When students present information, often including facts or statistics, they forget to name the source. This acronym on the margin of their papers is a reminder.

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).
Source

The World Wide Web began as a project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where Tim Berners-Lee developed a vision of the World Wide Web.

See also W3C.