Glossary
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Teaching
- Blended Learning
- The range of possibilities presented by combining Internet and digital media with established classroom forms that require the physical co‐presence of teacher and students.
- Constructivism
(learning theory)
- This theory assumes that there is no objective way of representing reality. Instead, there are as many constructions of reality as there are people in the world. In a learning context this means: both learners and teachers are constantly constructing realities, meanings and concepts. There can be communication and exchange about these constructions but there is no final model that could be transferred from a sender to a receiver. A starting point is that the individual mind decides whether knowledge is viable or not. The precondition for viability is the possibility to connect new knowledge to existing mental concepts. Observation, differentiation and individual responsibility are thus crucial for the success of constructivist learning. In this context, the main role of the teacher is to offer opportunities for authentic encounter, diversity experience, discourse, communication and mutual awareness in order to facilitate and stimulate constructivist learning processes (Fetzer, 2013). The approach of interaction-based constructivism provides a practical model for specifying learning processes. There are three main phases of knowledge processing: reconstruction, construction and deconstruction.
- Competence
(professional, horizontal)
- A dynamic combination of attributes - with respect to knowledge and its application, to attitudes and responsibilities - that describe the LEARNING OUTCOMES of an educational programme, or how learners are able to perform at the end of an educational process. These consist of subject-area related competences (specific to a field of study) and generic competences (common to any degree course). The European Qualifications Framework describes competence in terms of responsibility and autonomy. It refers to the proven ability to use knowledge, skills and personal, social and/ or methodological abilities, in work or study situations and in professional and personal development.
- ISP
- Short full time course of one to four weeks concentrating on a particular topic. It may take place at another institution or in a summer school.
- ECTS
European Credit Transfer System
- A system for increasing the transparency of educational systems and facilitating the mobility of students across Europe through credit transfer. It is based on the general assumption that the global workload of an academic year of study is equal to 60 credits. The 60 credits are then allocated to course units to describe the proportion of the student workload required to achieve the related LEARNING OUTCOMES. Credit transfer is guaranteed by explicit agreements among the home institution, the host institution and the mobile student.
- SWOT Analysis
- Situation analysis in which internal strengths and weaknesses of an organization, and external opportunities and threats faced by it are closely examined to chart a strategy. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (see also PEST analysis).
Reference:http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/SWOT-analysis.html
- PEST Analysis
- A type of situation analysis in which political-legal (government stability, spending, taxation), economic (inflation, interest rates, unemployment), socio-cultural (demographics, education, income distribution), and technological (knowledge generation, conversion of discoveries into products, rates of obsolescence) factors are examined to chart an organization's long-term plans (see also SWOT analysis).
Reference:http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/PEST-analysis.html
- DPSIR
- A causal framework for describing the interactions between society and the environment: Human impact on the environment and vice versa because of the interdependence of the components. This framework has been adopted by the European Environment Agency. The components of this model are: Driving forces: e.g. industry, tourism, economic growth; Pressures: e.g. pollution, land-use change, population growth; States : e.g. water quality, soil quality, air quality, habitat, vegetation; Impacts : e.g. ill public health, habitat fragmentation, economic crisis, environmental damage, biodiversity loss; and Responses : e.g. taxes, environmental laws
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPSIR accessed on the 10th of August 2020
Coastal Landscapes
- Coastal Landscapes
- “An area of sea, coastline and land, as perceived by people, whose character results from the actions and interactions of land with sea, by natural and/or human factors.” (seascape)
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- Rural Landscapes
- Definition
- Productive Landscapes
- Definition
- Blue and Green Infrastructure
- Definition
- Waterfront
- Definition
- Transect
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- Term to define
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Implementation Process
- Integrated Coastal Management
- Definition
- Integrated Planning
- Definition
- Landscape Planning
- Definition
- Landscape Policies
- Definition
- Participatory Planning
- Definition
- Physical Planning
- Definition
- Spatial Planning
- Definition
- Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment
- Definition
Vision
- Strategy
- Definition
- Strategic Planning
- Definition
- Strategy Implementation
- Definition
- Monitoring
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- Policy
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- Dissemination
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- Stakeholder
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- Urban Design
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