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Education

Training people to do a different job. It is often given to people who have been identified as being promotable, being considered for a new job either lateral or upwards, or to increase their potential.

Educational Technology

A complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems, and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.

Eduquo

Eduquo is online education website that assists students improving their studies by providing useful articles related to their academic subjects, particularly in education, management, and psychology.

Efficiency

A measure (as a percentage) of the actual output to the standard output expected. Efficiency measures how well someone is performing relative to expectations.

eLearning

The use of innovative technologies and learning models to transform the way individuals and organizations acquire new skills and access knowledge.

eLearning 2.0

Learning through digital connections and peer collaboration. It is driven by the technologies of Web 2.0 due to it being an extension of the term "Web 2.0." Learners become empowered to search, create, and collaborate information. It differs from traditional eLearning (sometimes called "eLearning 1.0") by encouraging everyone to contribute in creating and sharing information and their experiences.

Elements

Components of a task or the smallest meaningful activity that describes what employees in an industry are expected to be able to do. Elements combine to form a task, tasks combine to form a duty, and duties combine to from a job. Elements depend on other elements and are always components of a procedure. Also, the sub-division of a unit of competence. The element encapsulates: * Skills - the performance of relevant tasks. * Management - the skills required to manage a group of tasks to achieve the overall job function. * Contingency management skills - i.e. responding to breakdowns in routines and procedures. * Job/role environment - i.e. responding to general aspects of the work role and environment, such as natural constraints and working relationships

Enabling Learning Objective (ELO)

A statement in behavioral terms of what is expected of the student in demonstrating mastery at the knowledge and skill level necessary for achievement of a Terminal Learning Objective (TLO) or another ELO.

Epistemology

A branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. The study of how we know what we know.

Ergonomics

An approach to job design that focuses on the interactions between the person and the environmental elements such as the work station, light, sound, tools, etc.

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