Useful Terms and Acronyms
Acronyms
CAI: Computer Assisted Instruction
CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
CBI: Computer Based Instruction
CMI: Computer Mediated Instruction
CMS: Course Management System
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
IMI: Interactive Multimedia Instruction
IT: Instructional Technology
L1: First Language
L2: Second Language
MOO: Multi-user domain, Object Oriented
SLA: Second Language Acquisition
TELL: Technology Enhanced Language Learning
VLE: Virtual Learning Environment
WBI: Web Based Instruction
WBMT: Web Based Machine Translation
WWW: World Wide Web
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get