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A Learners’ View (ALV) is the Straightest and Fastest Path with the Least Number of Steps to Learning, the Oxygen Of Social Life. Introduction to the GlossaryThis glossary is a step toward offering real time, on-the-fly choices that support planners and instructors trying to increase rates of learning promptly. Educators and others may use it to identify how far behavioral and social science researchers have made learning transparent and manageable. Each word and term includes technical, operational criteria for reporting measurable increases in the probability of a learner learning promptly from. Many parents, Educators as well as other human service and industrial workers have used these ideas for decades when assessing instruction, venues, and software. The glossary offers written descriptors of what observers can see, hear, etc. in classrooms, while evaluating software for instruction potential, etc. It also indicates the breadth and depth of Tablet PC education today as well as its possible future. This glossary serves as a reminder of what is currently possible to accomplish when searching for empirical research, scholarly, and evaluation reports of and about learning. Perhaps you will also find it useful for other purposes. Some descriptors originated in empirical experimental research studies (symbolized by ER in the entry), mostly conducted by others; still more come from less rigorous efforts, such as proof-of-concept exercises (identified with symbol POC in the entry). Check the tabs on The Tablet PC Education Blog for details about POC entries. All entries have empirically based explanations that allow generalizations beyond uses in their original contexts. |