EDU430 Glossary

EDU430 · Glossary ·  Application

A computer software designed to help you perform a specific task.

 Bookmarks

Book marks can be defined as, a collection of direct links to predefined web pages which are stored in your web browser.

 Computer Assisted Instruction

A self-learning technique, usually offline/online, involving interaction of the student with programmed instructional materials.

 Computer Informatics

Informatics’ is the study of information processing

 Computer Network

Inter connected collection of autonomous computers

 Downloading

Download means to transfer a file from another computer to your own computer.

 E-Learning

ELearning (sometimes E-learning) encompasses all forms of technology enhanced (or enabled) learning (TEL) whether that happens on campus or at a distance. Learning & teaching is mediated through ICT services and hardware. This will include computers, tablets, mobile devices and handheld devices. It also includes services supplied by the University such as Moodle and Google Apps as well as external services which are not directly controlled by the University.

 Homepage

Home page is the first hypertext document to be shown when a user follows a link to the web server.

 Hyper Text Markup Language

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a standard language used for developing web pages’. Hyper Text Markup Language is a markup language that web browsers use to interpret and compose text, images and other material into visual web pages.

 Hypertext

Hypertext is generally the text displayed on a computer display or other electronic device.

•  ICT

Communication Technology implies the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to exchange information verbally or non verbally.

 Internet

Internet is a huge collection of computer networks that can be communicated with each other. This word is coined from the words ‘interconnection’ and ‘network’. Through this, each computer user can communicate and share common resources with other users.

 Local Area Network

Local area networks are networks with in a single building or campus or up to a few kilometers in size

 Markup Language

Markup language is a modern system for annotating a document in a way that is distinguishable from the text.

 Software

A generic term describing all kinds of computer programs, applications and operating systems.

 Uploading

Upload means to transfer a file or files from your own computer to another computer.

 Web Browser

It is a programme that allows a user to display and interact with a ‘hypertext’ documents e. g. Internet Explorer, Net Scape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome.

 Web Page

It is a file of information stored on a web server

 Web Server

It is a programme and a computer clubbed into one entity which responds to the requests from web browsers for internet resources. The primary function of a web server is to deliver web pages to clients’ e. g. Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Sun Java System Web Server.

 Website

Website is defined as a collection of related pages on particular information.

 Wide Area Network

It is defined as networking in a large geographical area, often a country or continent.

 World Wide Web (WWW)

WWW is a vast collection of documents stored on internet computers.