General Knowledge and Random Topics

Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference (also known as a video conference or videoteleconference) by a set of telecommunication technologies, which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions. It has also been called 'visual collaboration', and is a type of groupware.

Constructivism is a theory of knowledge that states - humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas.

Computerised adaptive testing (CAT) is a form of computer-based test that adapts to the examinee's ability level. For this reason, it has also been called tailored testing.

It aims at moving focus away from achieving grades and onto learning processes, in order to increase self efficacy and reduce the negative impact of extrinsic motivation.

Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

Source criticism (or information evaluation) is the process of evaluating an information source, i.e., a document, a person, a speech, a fingerprint, a photo, an observation, or anything used in order to obtain knowledge.

Physical barriers are often due to the nature of the environment. An example of this is the natural barrier, which exists if staff are located in different buildings or on different sites.

Different interpretations of the meanings of certain words. For example, the word weed can be interpreted as an undesirable plant in a yard, or as a euphemism for marijuana.

Meta-communication or metacommunication, is a secondary communication (including indirect cues) about how a piece of information is meant to be interpreted.

Haptics is any form of nonverbal communication involving touch.

Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).Proxemics can be defined as the interrelated observations and theories of man's use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture.