Active Classroom
- A classroom environment in which the student is engaged in his or her
learning through cooperative efforts.
Active Involvement
-The student participates in learning events rather than sitting passively.
Ad Lib -An
unplanned part of a presentation or script. It consists of words, gestures,
and/or movements.
ADA- The 1990
Americans with Disabilities Act. This law was enacted to create a clear and
comprehensive prohibition of discrimination against people with disabilities in
the areas of employment, public services, public accommodations and services
operated by private entities, and telecommunications. This law should be
reviewed before developing telecourses. The statute can be found at the address
(http://wwww.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/statute.html) (2)
Activity/Discussion/Application. The student is asked to do something and then
to think about what he or she has done.
Adaptive Hypermedia -
Using a user-profile or other means to identify what the user's specific needs
are, and then adapting the media to address that user's needs. For example,
adaptive hypermedia might provide text scaled to different reading levels or
images that provide a localized example of a learning concept.
ADC- Analog to digital converter. A special device
that converts an analog signal to an equivalent digital signal.
Address- A special identification tag that identifies a location
within the internet or the World Wide Web. Examples include e-mail for the
internet and URLs or IPs for the WWW.
Adult Learner- A
person who is responsible for decisions that affect his or her learning
opportunities and the resulting consequences. Could be legal-age designated as
18 or 21. Often refers to post-secondary learners. Adult learners often have
special learning considerations, andragogy, as identified by Malcolm Knowles.
Advanced Organizer
-A brief overview of new material to be introduced into a lesson. It is
presented before or as the class begins. Proposed by David Ausubel in 1960, it
is a cognitive instructional strategy that enables students to recall prior
knowledge and mentally organize their thoughts before the actual lesson is
viewed.
Advanced Research
Projects Administration Network (ARPANET) -A worldwide data communications
network established by the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s that evolved
into the Internet.
