Abbreviations
The abbreviations and acronyms below are some you may see in reference to the Internet or to online teaching and learning. If you think of others you would like to see here, please let us know.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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- ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
- W3C Accessibility Initiative
- ADA Q&A: Section 504 & Postsecondary Education
- Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
- Nondiscrimination in Higher Education: Webpage; PDF format
- University of Washington: Legal Issues
- USDOJ: Accessibility of State and Local Government Websites
- Web Accessibility Initiative
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- CSS Cascading Style Sheets
- Wikipedia article
- W3C Cascading Style Sheet Specifications
- W3C CSS Validation Service
- W3C Cascading Style Sheets home page
- HTML.net Free CSS Tutorial
- A List Apart articles about CSS
- css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
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- DE Distance Education
- What Is Distance Education? Webpage
- DL Distance Learning
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- FAQ Frequently Asked Question
- FTP File Transfer Protocol
- A method of transferring files between two servers, usually used for uploading files from a personal computer onto a server
- Wikipedia article
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- GIF Graphics Interchange Format
- A digital file format for images developed by CompuServe. It limits colors to 256 to reduce file size. GIFs support transparency and can be animated.
- Wikipedia article
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- HTML Hypertext Markup Language
- Wikipedia article
- HTTP Hypertext Transport Protocol
- Wikipedia article
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- ID Instructional Design
- IT Information Technology
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- JPG or JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group (group that created this graphical format standard)
- JPEG is perhaps the most common file format for digital images displayed on the Web. Since it is a compressed format, it is also frequently used for images that need to be transferred electronically.
- Wikipedia article
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- PDF Portable Document Format
- PDF was developed by Adobe® to save documents in a format that can be transferred to any operating system platform, while preserving page and graphical elements.
- Wikipedia article
- PNG Portable Network Graphics
- PNG images are compressed without the loss of quality in JPEG compression. However, PNGs are somewhat larger than JPEG images. PNGs also have transparency capabilities, but unlike GIFs, PNG transparency does not display properly in some older browsers.
- Wikipedia article
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- RGB Red Green Blue
- The color format used for Web images.
- Wikipedia article
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- SHTML Server-parsed Hypertext Markup Language
- The shtml extension is ordinarily used on Web pages with standard server side includes (SSIs)
- Smart Computing® Encyclopedia article
- SSI Server-side Include
- An encoded statement within a Web page that is parsed by the server before the page reaches the browser. Since server-side includes are parsed prior to reaching the browser, they are invisible in the source code.
- Wikipedia article
- Breeze tutorial about using SSIs in modular website design
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- URI Uniform Resource Identifier
- Wikipedia article
- URL Uniform Resource Locator
- Wikipedia article
- VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
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- W3C World Wide Web Consortium
- An international consortium that develops Web standards, headed by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
- Wikipedia article
- World Wide Web Consortium home page
- W3C Site Index
- WCET Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
- WCET website
- WICHE Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
- WICHE founded WCET in 1989
- WICHE website
- WWW World Wide Web
- Wikipedia article
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- XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
- Wikipedia article
Note: We have provided links to Wikipedia articles for many of the terms above. Though Wikipedia is not considered to be a scholarly source for academic subjects, in the realm of Internet technology and the World Wide Web, it is a better source of information than traditional encyclopedias.