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Glossary of terms in use in HHE and ICT

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Term Definition
Distance Education

A mode of delivering education and instruction, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present; provides access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both.

Domiciliary Learning

Teaching children and students with medical conditions at home or another venue instead of hospital.

See also Home Education and Home Tuition.

Education

In its general sense it is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others, but may also be autodidactic. Any experiences that have a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. Education is commonly divided into stages such as preschool, primary school, secondary school and then college, university or apprenticeship.

Formal Learning

Normally delivered by trained teachers in a systematic intentional way within a school, academy/college/institute or university, is one of three forms of learning as defined by the OECD, the others being informal learning, which typically takes place naturally as part of some other activity, and non-formal learning, which includes everything else, such as sports instruction provided by non-trained educators without a formal curriculum.

HHE

The acronym has been introduces by the project LeHo itself. As far as we know, it didn't exist before. With HHE we mean all the activities related to the wide word of the education for children or youngsters with medical needs, being it in hospital (with hospital sections or hospital schools) or at home (as home tuition).

See also Hospital Education and Home Education.

Home Education

A form of learning in terms of knowledge, skills, and habits through teaching, training, or research at home. In some countries this term includes all learning with children and students with medical conditions apart from learning in hospital and in the usual lessons of the mainstream school.

Home School
Home school as a synonym for Home Tuition and Home education, depending on the country
Home Tuition

In the context of Hospital and Home Education (HHE) teaching pupils and students with medical conditions at home or another venue instead of hospital, e.g. during a home therapy or in a phase of aftercare, to allow him to carry on the studies. (See Home Education)

Hospital Education

A form of learning in terms of knowledge, skills, and habits through teaching, training, or research in hospital.

Hospital Education

A form of learning in terms of knowledge, skills, and habits through teaching, training, or research in hospital. 

Informal Learning

Is not organized, has no set objective in terms of learning outcomes and is never intentional from the learner’s standpoint. Often it is referred to as learning by experience or just as experience . For all learners this includes heuristic language building, socialization, inculturation, and play. Informal learning is a persistent and pervasive ongoing phenomena of learning via participation or learning via knowledge creation, in contrast with the traditional view of teacher-centred learning via knowledge acquisition.

Learning

The act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviours, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.

Mainstream Education

A form of learning in terms of knowledge, skills, and habits through teaching, training, or research in mainstream schools for 'Special Education', offered for approximately 1% - 5% of the
population, often realised through multi-disciplinary teaching, training or research, conducted in mainstream schools with or without a specialist resource

Non-formal Learning

A loosely defined term covering various structured learning situations, such as swimming sessions for toddlers, community-based sports programs and conference style seminars, which do not either have the level of curriculum, syllabus, accreditation and certification associated with 'formal learning', but have more structure than that associated with 'informal learning', which typically take place naturally and spontaneously as part of other activities.

Outreach

Working with children and students in a place other than their mainstream school or in the hospital school. Could be at home or another venue.

Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD)

Commonly associated with pronounced Developmental Delay with significant physical and sensory impairments and Epilepsy.

NOTE: no accepted definition available, seems very specific - only a small group of children with medical condition meet th term (Alto Merkt).

http://www.specialeducationalneeds.co.uk/profound-and-multiple-learning-difficulties-pmld.html

Temporary Home Schooling

A right, regulated by Flemish law, for long term and chronical ill children between 5 and 18 years old to get 4 hours of home schooling per week, organised by their school of belonging.

Training

The acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies.