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  2. Computer-assisted language learning - Wikipedia

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    The term CALI (computer-assisted language instruction) was in use before CALL, reflecting its origins as a subset of the general term CAI (computer-assisted instruction). CALI fell out of favour among language teachers, however, as it appeared to imply a teacher-centred approach (instructional), whereas language teachers are more inclined to ...

  3. Social networking service - Wikipedia

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    Illustrations showing various icons of some popular social networking services. A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

  4. Learning Tools Interoperability - Wikipedia

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    Learning Tools Interoperability ( LTI) is an education technology specification developed by 1EdTech ( IMS Global Learning Consortium at the time of creation). It specifies a method for a learning system to invoke and to communicate with external systems. [1] In the current version of the specification, v1.3, this is done using OAuth2, OpenID ...

  5. History of virtual learning environments - Wikipedia

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    Tandata Td1400 Prestel terminal. A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system specifically designed to facilitate the management of educational courses by teachers for their students. It predominantly relies on computer hardware and software, enabling distance learning. In North America, this concept is commonly denoted as a "Learning ...

  6. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. . It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologi

  7. Wi-Fi - Wikipedia

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    Antennas. Wi-Fi ( / ˈwaɪfaɪ /) [1] [a] is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves. These are the most widely used computer networks, used globally in ...

  8. Verizon Fios - Wikipedia

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    In September 2005, Verizon Communications began offering a fiber optic digital television service, which became available for 9,000 customers in Keller, Texas. Called Fios TV, the service aimed to replace copper wires with optical fibers. [3] By 2006 Fios was offered in areas of seven US states. [4]

  9. BERT (language model) - Wikipedia

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    The design has its origins from pre-training contextual representations, including semi-supervised sequence learning, generative pre-training, ELMo, and ULMFit. Unlike previous models, BERT is a deeply bidirectional, unsupervised language representation, pre-trained using only a plain text corpus.