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Tablets

Since smartphones, tablets and notebooks have become affordable, highly available and a mostly self-evident (work) medium, they are also increasingly seen in courses.

Tag

Tags are used to label or keyword a content. For example, content tags can be assigned to a post on a weblog so that it can be found by search engines or so that a term is displayed in a tag cloud. (Linked page in German.) 

Tagging

Describes the process by which a certain content in the WWW, e.g. a text or an image, is marked in such a way that others can find it under a keyword. As a rule, any keyword can be conceived and entered. In most cases, newly entered text or images can be assigned to one or more existing keywords; however, new keywords can also be assigned. As soon as a keyword has been assigned to a content, it can be accessed under this keyword, e.g. via a tag cloud. Tagging is often an integral part of Web 2.0 applications and leads to a user-generated categorization of content. (Linked page in German.)

Teaching Management Systems at JLU

A teaching management system or Learning Management System (LMS) is a web-based learning platform that enables communication between teachers and learners and provides numerous possibilities for taking over administrative tasks and contributes to reducing the workload in the teaching process. JLU Giessen provides Stud.IP as a content management system and ILIAS as a learning management system.

Teaching methods

A comprehensive repertoire of methods helps to find the appropriate approach for different fields of knowledge and target groups. The testing of new methods can help to teach in a more target-group-oriented and motivating way and thus promote the learners' own activity.

Thread

A thread is a coherent sequence of posts on a specific topic in a newsgroup or discussion forum of an online system. The thread consists of an initial message and the comments and replies posted on the same topic. (Linked page in German.)

Thumbnail

Thumbnails are small images. Usually these are reduced thumbnails of a larger image, which allow a faster image build-up. (Linked page in German.) 

Tool

In the computer world, utilities are often referred to generally as tools. A common type of tools in the e-learning field are authoring tools. (Linked page in German.)