Educators around the world use a variety of phrases and acronyms. Add yours to this glossary.
A framework developed by Bates and Poole, used with the intent to provide instructors with guidelines to consider when selecting and integrating technology in their instruction.
The Acronyms represent:
Students
Ease of Use
A sandbox is somewhere to play, and this term is usually applied to a website, or other environment, that has been set up to experiment with new ideas. The Practice Moodle people on this MOOC are using is an example of a Sandbox.
Scaffolding is a method of supporting students to learn new concepts or deepen their understanding, helping them to the next level.
Scaffolding students may involve modeling, provision of support resources, and utilising previous knowledge to help students link concepts.
To learn more about scaffolding learning you could read works from Jerome Bruner, or Jesper Hoffmeyer. Reading up on Lev Vygotsky is also useful in understanding how scaffolding might be useful in education.
Simbolic and simplified representation, very useful to understand complex mechanisms and events.
A document used to to show a week by week plan of the course content and the basic principles to be covered.
