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In Coursera I learned that whenever you want to clarify the meaning of some of the basic concepts we are working with during ICT research or digital literacy /content theory, you may download  this Reference Document from this link:

https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/ictinprimary/week5/Activity-5.1.1-BasicConceptsonICT.pdf

or visit other useful resources like the TEL Dictionary or Educational Technology Wikipedia.

EXAMPLES OF BASIC CONCEPTS

Digital content 
From the broader perspective, digital content is any type of content that exists in the form of digital data. In the context of education, we usually refer to digital libraries of images and other data, all sorts of multimedia resources, and educational applications for simulations, interactive microworlds, games… and various subject­specific applications. Most usual formats to deliver the content are presentations, text documents, web sites, comics, puzzles, and multimedia libraries. What is also important in our educational content: digital content should facilitate and boost the development of all various skills important for the 21st century learning. Teachers often stress that the most important is how much the digital content supports interactivity, collaboration, and creativity, how much it meets and encourages individual needs of the students, how much it respects cultural and religious differences, how much it stimulates various aspects of the learning process.

LMS (Learning Management System) in the school context, it is a complex software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and supporting the learning process of our students, and also as a means to deliver and share the digital content with them. More experienced schools creatively exploit it for teachers to post assignments, manage, store, spread and share digital content, to collect students’ work and – in general – administer the whole teaching and learning process. Naturally, LMS is being used by students as well – at many schools at a daily basis. However, some schools encourage also parents to use LMS as a means to monitor the content and observe the progress of the teaching and learning process, or as a platform for home­school communication.

e-portfolio (digital portfolio) a collection of electronic evidence assembled and organized by a teacher, usually on the Web or otherwise. Such electronic evidence may (in the context of ECE) include inputted images, photographs, sound recordings, various scanned products etc. It can serve as a type of learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement. E­portfolio can advance learning and development by providing children and teachers with a way to organize, archive and display pieces of work – over the longer period of time. E­portfolios are becoming more and more popular because they offer practitioners and researcher.