Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
19 results found in Educational Technology.
- Blackboard Ally (Ally)
- A commercial accessibility-checking and alternative-format-generation service from Anthology (Blackboard) that integrates with learning management systems such as Blackboard Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and…
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- A hierarchical framework originally proposed by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 and later revised, classifying educational learning objectives into levels of cognitive complexity: remembering, understanding, a…
- Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit (Brickfield Toolkit)
- An accessibility scanning and reporting tool for Moodle developed by Brickfield Education Labs. It is distributed on a freemium model: a community-edition set of scanners is integrated into the Moodle…
- Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML, multimedia learning theory)
- A theory developed by Richard E. Mayer proposing that people learn more effectively from words and pictures together than from words alone, because the brain processes visual and auditory information …
- Dual User Interface (Dual Interface, Concurrent Accessible Interface)
- An interface design approach in which two distinct, purpose-built user interfaces are provided simultaneously for different user groups — typically one visual interface for sighted users and one non-v…
- Educational Video (Instructional Video, Video Lecture)
- Video content created to teach - including talking-head lectures, screencasts, animations, hand-drawn (Khan-style) explanations, recorded classroom sessions, programming/coding demonstrations, intervi…
- Electronic Textbook (E-Textbook, Digital Textbook, Interactive Textbook)
- A digital version of an educational textbook that goes beyond simply reproducing printed content on screen by offering interactive features such as searchable text, bookmarking, embedded exercises and…
- Flow Theory (Flow State, Flow)
- A psychological theory proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describing the state of deep immersion and intrinsic enjoyment that occurs when a person is fully engaged in an activity whose challenge leve…
- Makey Makey
- A small electronic invention kit that uses alligator clips to connect everyday conductive objects — fruit, foil, playdough, drawn pencil lines — to a computer, which sees them as keyboard presses or m…
- Moodle
- An open-source learning management system (LMS) used worldwide by universities, schools, and workplaces for course delivery, assessment, and content hosting. Moodle supports accessibility through them…
- Newsela
- An educational content platform that publishes news articles in multiple professionally-edited versions simplified to different U.S. school reading levels, enabling teachers to assign the same story a…
- Picture Prompting (Visual prompting, Pictorial instruction)
- An instructional strategy that uses photographs or illustrations to depict how to complete each step of a task, providing visual guidance for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Pi…
- Sign Language Learning (Sign Language Education, Sign Language Acquisition)
- The process by which people learn a sign language as a first or second language, through instruction, immersion, or self-directed study. For hearing second-language learners, reading back fingerspelli…
- Sociocultural Learning Theory (Sociocultural Theory, Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory)
- A theory of learning developed by Lev Vygotsky that argues cognitive development and knowledge acquisition are fundamentally social, mediated by language, culture, and interaction with more knowledgea…
- Talking-Head Video (Talking Head)
- A common educational video format in which a presenter speaks directly to the camera, typically filling the frame, with no or few accompanying visuals. For d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing learners, talking…
- Video Prompting (Video-based prompting, Step-by-step video instruction)
- An instructional technique that uses short video clips to show a person with a developmental or intellectual disability how to complete individual steps of a task, presented one step at a time. Unlike…
- Video-Based Learning (VBL, video-based instruction, VBI)
- The use of pre-recorded or streaming video as a primary medium for teaching skills, procedures, or concepts, ranging from YouTube how-to tutorials and MOOCs to specialised instructional content like s…
- Virtual Patient (Virtual Client, Simulated Patient, Virtual Standardized Patient)
- A virtual patient is a computer-generated simulation of a person with specific health conditions or disabilities, used in clinical education to allow healthcare students to practise assessment, diagno…
- Zeigarnik Effect
- A psychological phenomenon identified by Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927 describing the tendency for people to remember interrupted or incomplete tasks better than completed ones. The effect explains why part…