Glossary

**Terminology Terms You Should Know:**
(J) Assessment - the evaluation of a student's achievement in a course (A) Capacity-**ca·pac·i·tie** The ability to receive, hold, or absorb. The capacity for chage in an orgainization is it's innate potential to change through growth, development, or accomplishment.(TheFreeDictionary, 2010)

(J) Catalyst - One that precipitates a process or event, especially without being involved in or changed by the consequences (Houghton Mifflin) (V) Change Management - a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state.In project management, change management refers to a project management process where changes to a project are formally introduced and approved (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010) (V) Collaborate - two or more people or organizations working together in an intersection of common goals (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010).

(M) Constructivism - Teaching/learning model based on cognitive learning theory; holds that learners should generate their own knowledge through experience-based activities rather than being taught it by teachers. (Roblyer, 2006)

(A) Culture-The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. Is also refered to as the development of the intellect through training or education.(TheFreeDictionary, 2010) (M) Data mining - The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements. (Roblyer, 2006). (L) Educational assessment- is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs. Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community (class, workshop, or other organized group of learners), the institution, or the educational system as a whole. Instructional practices: (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010).

(L) A Facilitator- is used in a variety of group settings, including business and other organizations to describe someone whose role it is to work with group processes to ensure meetings run well and achieve a high degree of consensus (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010).

(J) Faculty Development Initiative – the process of creating and following through with a plan to train faculty members (A) Framework- A structural plan or basis of a project. (TheFreeDictionary, 2010)

(V) Googled - refers to using the Google search engine to obtain information on the Web (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010).

(A) Impact- The power of making a strong, immediate impression. Cultural imact is the ability to influence a group of people or an impression made by an idea. (TheFreeDictionary, 2010) (A) Innovation-The act of introducing something new.(TheFreeDictionary, 2010) (L) Instructional Design- is the practice of maximizing the effectiveness, efficiency and appeal of instruction and other learning experiences. The process consists broadly of determining the current state and needs of the learner, defining the end goal of instruction, and creating some "intervention" to assist in the transition. (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010). (A) Learner-Centered Instruction- An instructional process in which the content is determined by the student’s needs, the instructional materials are geared to the student’s abilities, and the instructional design makes the students active participants.(TheFreeDictionary, 2010)

(L) Literacy- has traditionally been described as the ability to read and write. It is a concept claimed and defined by a range of different theoretical fields. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) define literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society" (Wikipedia Dictionary 2010).

(V) Process - typically describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a manufacturing or administrative procedure (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010) (J) Professional development - skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. (Wikipedia, 2010)  (V) Project Managment - the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. It is sometimes conflated with program management, however technically a program is actually a higher level construct: a group of related and somehow interdependent projects (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010). (V) Wikipedia - a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia Dictionary, 2010). 