Badge
An Open Badge is a validated indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be earned in various learning environments. They comply with the Open Badges Specification and are shareable across the web. Each Open Badge is associated with an image and information about the badge, its recipient, the issuer, and any supporting evidence. Students can earn badges from different institutions and can display their badge collection in an online environment like LinkedIn.
Blended learning
Blended learning is a mixture of face-to-face and ICT-based educational activities, learning materials and tools. Both types of learning activities are a substantial part of education; ideally they reinforce each other. The goal is to develop education that uses ICT to enable effective, efficient and flexible learning, with an increase in learning efficiency and student / teacher satisfaction as a result.
Digital Learning and Working Environment
The digital learning and working environment (DLWE) is the entirety of systems that enable students, researchers and employees of an educational institution to carry out their activities. The DLWE is therefore a combination of digital services.
Digital Learning Environment
The DLE is the digital learning environment: the whole of systems or applications that supports education and learning. Students and teachers use the DLE for many different educational activities such as communication, organizing education and exchanging content. The DLE is a subset of the DLWE.
Digital testing and assessment
Digital testing is about the use of ICT in the process of testing or assessing. ICT can not only be used when administering tests (via a computer, mobile or other device) but in virtually all phases of the test cycle.
Educational logistics
monitors the coherence between processes, systems, information flows and produced documents throughout the cycle of education development and with certification.
And: To ensure in a cost-efficient manner that the right group of students and teachers meet at the right times and places for education to take place.
Education catalog
The education catalog is the central, generic facility in which the total education modules or products are recorded. These educational products are described by means of a collection of metadata and refer to the place in the qualification structure (taxonomy) to which they relate. The exam activities and products can also be recorded in the education catalog.
Educational services beyond connectivity
The responding organisation provides additional services to educational institutions beside connectivity (fibre, network, wifi, eduroam). These services for example could include: learning management systems (LMS), electronic learning environments (ELE), digital learning environments (DLE), EduID, Blended learning, Badges, digital testing and assessment, learning analytics (LA), online learning, weblecture, transnational education...etc.
EduID
An eduID is an identity owned by a student or researcher, not bound to a specific institution and usable in the research and education domain. It can be used for services or administrative processes delivered by institutions other than their home institution. It is primarily focused on enabling student mobility and flexible education across institutional boundaries. Furthermore, an eduID makes it easier for cooperating institutions to recognize a student and it supports life-long learning use cases.
Electronic learning environment (ELE)
Electronic learning environment (ELE) can relate to specific digital learning applications (such as Blackboard or Moodle) and to the whole of digital applications for education. When it comes to one application, the term learning management system (LMS) is also used. When it comes to the whole of applications, we prefer the term digital learning environment (DLE).
Flexible education
Flexible education is education that offers students freedom of choice. This allows students, for example, to attend time and place independent education, at their own pace and according to their own planning. Teaching methods and teaching materials can also be offered flexibly. Flexible education can be related to what students learn (substantive freedom of choice, education appropriate to their background) and how students learn (at their own time and place and at their own pace, on their own level and manner).
Infrastructure for open learning materials
Infrastructure for open learning materials supports the mutual sharing of educational material by students and teachers. The infrastructure consists of various parts:
Educational repositories for storage and sharing of open learning materials. It is not necessary to store learning materials in one repository. Institutions can organize their own educational repository.
A harvester for the collection and search of learning materials. A prerequisite for making it searchable is that all linked repositories comply with national and international standards, such as NL-LOM and OAI-PMH, and that the learning materials are provided with metadata that systematically describe the learning materials.
A search portal for open learning materials. To be able to search in the various repositories of universities and colleges, and to search for other national and international collections, a search portal is needed. A search portal can enable the assessment of high quality learning materials that are suitable for reuse.
Integration with the digital learning environment. An open API enables integration with digital learning environments of higher education institutions, so that teachers are able to find or share open learning materials through their own development or learning environment.
Integration infrastructure
An integration infrastructure is the provision of information (data, processes, tools and services) that makes it possible to exchange data between applications. An integration infrastructure can allow a collection of separate systems to function as a single system. We distinguish between visual integration, data integration and system integration.
Interoperability
Interoperability means that different applications and ICT systems connect and cooperate. This is of great importance within the digital learning environment, in which various components (eg testing, communicating and scheduling) are combined. Interoperability requires common standards, protocols and procedures
Item banks
An item bank is a digital collection of questions that can be used for a test. The test questions can be provided with characteristics, such as metadata, tags, keywords and labels. The results of the tests and of the (psychometric) analyzes are also stored in the item bank.
Learning analytics architecture
Architecture that shows how the different layers within a system for learning analytics - input, data storage, analysis and presentation - are connected.
Learning analytics
Learning analytics is collecting, analyzing and reporting data from learning environments in order to improve the learning process of students. This information can then be made available to students, teachers or training management.
Learning management system
Learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses or training programs or learning and development programs.
Learning record store
A learning record store (LRS) is a system where all data is stored from the various online (learning) environments that students use.
Alternative name: Learning Record Warehouse, learning data hub
Micro-credentialing
Micro-credentialing is the process of earning a micro-credential, which are like mini-degrees or certifications in a specific topic area. Once you've completed all of the requirements for a micro-credential, you will be awarded proof that you've earned it. This might take the form of a digital certificate, which may be a document or an open badge as evidence that you've completed the necessary work.
Online education
Online education is education where learning materials, tools and services are available for at least 80% via the internet.
Open courseware
Open courseware refers to a composite set of open learning materials (see Open content). Open courseware is available free for (re) use. Users can copy, edit and distribute these learning materials under certain conditions by using an open license (such as Creative Commons). With open courseware the learning material is central; students do not receive guidance and can not obtain credits.
Open Education API
The Open Education API is a set of definitions that ensures that educational data from different applications are standardized and can therefore be reused in other (mobile) applications. The Open Education API is an initiative of SURFnet and a number of higher education institutions.
Open content / Open educational resources (OER)
Open content stands for creative work (such as texts, images, sound or video) that has been published with an open license (such as Creative Commons). Such a license allows users to copy, (re) use, edit, rearrange and distribute this work. Open content for educational purposes is also called Open educational resource (s) (OER) (in Dutch: open learning materials).
Online proctoring
Online proctoring (online surveillance) is a form of online security for digital assessment. This enables programs to allow students to independently take a test. Remote monitoring using monitoring software, webcam and / or smartphone images and / or watching on the screen should prevent the student from committing fraud.
Peer feedback
In peer assessment (also called peer review or peer feedback) students (peers) assess each other's products and provide each other with feedback. In some digital assessment systems you can set the possibility of peer assessment.
Remote delivery of education (transnational education)
Transnational education (TNE) can be defined as the delivery of degree programmes in a country outside the awarding institution e.g. students based in country Y studying for a degree from a university in country Z.
Supporting staff
Supporting teachers with expertise in the field of subject matter and didactics, but also that of multimedia, animation, design, et cetera, and organizing co-creation of education with different expertise.
Value proposition for NRENs regarding education
A statement of why R&E networks are useful and appealing for the education community: why they are funded, what they are for, why they are so important and what are their characteristics and features. What value do they bring for education and impact for society as a whole. See: https://www.inthefieldstories.net/why-re-networks/
Weblecture
A web lecture is a video recording of for example presentations, lectures or lectures. These recordings can be enriched with additional materials such as PowerPoint presentations, websites, knowledge clips or publications.