{"id":884,"date":"2015-03-17T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-03-09T12:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:04:36","slug":"terminology-tuesday-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/terminology-tuesday-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminology Tuesday: Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s term was inspired by an acronym-laden course I had the opportunity to recently review. Oof!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What is a Glossary?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A glossary is a list of acronyms, terms, or phrases used within a certain context. If you&#8217;re reading a book, you&#8217;ll often find a glossary of terminology in the back pages of the text. If authors feel that it&#8217;s necessary to include a glossary for their text, why shouldn&#8217;t course developers feel a similar urge?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why would I want to add a glossary to a course?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Every industry has their phrases and acronyms, and these acronyms might mean something different to different people. Good courses will want to avoid this confusion, and a glossary is a fantastic way for doing just that. One good example of how a glossary can be helpful: the military often uses the same acronyms across divisions (e.g. Air Force\/Navy\/Army), yet these acronyms change meaning &#8211; not always, but often. For individuals who have trained in multiple divisions, this can be extremely confusing, and a glossary will help ensure that the terminology used within the course is clarified, as necessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.articulate.com\/rapid-elearning\/5-easy-ways-to-add-a-glossary-to-your-e-learning-course\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Easy Ways to Add a Glossary to Your E-Learning Course by Tom Kuhlmann<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s term was inspired by an acronym-laden course I had the opportunity to recently review. Oof! What is a Glossary? A glossary is a list of acronyms, terms, or phrases used within a certain context. If you&#8217;re reading a book, you&#8217;ll often find a glossary of terminology in the back pages of the text. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s3cq-eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}