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Hard Skills
As opposed to "soft skills", this term relates to
technical or IT related skills.
Hardware
Physical equipment like computers, printers, and scanners.
Compare to software.
HCI
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) is the study of how people
interact with computers and to what extent computers are or are
not developed for successful interaction with human beings.
A significant number of major corporations and academic
institutions now study HCI.
Help Desk
A team that can be contacted by end-users for assistance with
hardware and software problems. Launching any e-learning
initiative should give some thought to end user support. Even
well designed programs will get 1 - 2% of the target audience
needing help (e.g., "Do I really need to complete
this training?")
High-bandwidth
A high-bandwidth connection, like a cable modem, will allow
transmission rates in the range of Gigabits per second and
allow the use of data intensive information like video, audio
and complex animation. e-learning will always be somewhat
limited in quality until we all have high-bandwidth access
everywhere -- see Cable Modems!
Hosting
The verb describing the physical storage of a Web page or
other Internet content. As in, "we are hosting our program
on our in-house computers."
HTML
See Hypertext Markup Language.
Hypermedia
Hypermedia links text, graphics, video, audio, and animation
and leaves the control of navigation through its elements
in the hands of the user.
Hypertext
Text elements within multimedia documents, classically underlined
and in colored font, that can be clicked on by the user to
follow a path to a new location in a document, supplemental
material like a graphic or another page on the net. Many
so-called e-learning programs are just former word documents
that have been converted into HTML with some cross links put
in. Hypertext is a nice feature, but is a poor substitute
for task analysis, instructional design, practice and feedback.
Hypertext Markup Language
More commonly referred to as HTML. The standard programming
language for web documents meant to be accessed by browsers.
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