The EMREX glossary is meant as a non technical reference for readers of the documentation. Since many parts of EMREX is fairly technical, there is a need to explain the terminology in a non-technical fashion so that the documentation can be understood by others than technical staff. The plan is to have a completed glossary by the end of the project, covering all technical terminology that might be unclear to the reader.
- National Vocabulary of Education, OKSA (Finland)
- Nordic glossary (for information only - do not make any changes!)
- Spåkrådet nordisk termbase
| EMREX term | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| EMREX Network | Technical | A network of countries and institutions that can share results |
| EMC | Technical | EMREX Client - A library of helpful methods to help countries joining the network; countries can use methods in this library to onnect to EMREG, validate ELMO and signatures, create requests to EMP and validate the student EMREX Client |
| EMP | Techncal | EMREX Contact Point - This is the clients access point to students results. This can either be a national application that has access to all of the country's data, or an institutinal contact point which provides data only for that institution. |
| EMREG | Technical | Registry of EMP's that participate in the EMREX network. Part of the EWP (Erasmus Without Paper) registry. |
| Public Key | Technical | The public part of the SSH key pair. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(cryptography) |
| Private Key | Technical | The private part of the SSH key pair. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(cryptography) |
| Certificate | Technical | An electronic document used to prove the ownership of a public key |
| ELMO | Format | The XML format EMREX uses to exchange results |
| Learner | Format | The student that the result is being fetched for |
| Issuer | Format | The institution that has issued the results |
| Schac | Format | Code that identifies the institution |
| Learning Opportunity | Format | A chance to participate in education or training. |
| Learning Opportunity Specification | Format | An abstract description of a learning opportunity, consisting of information that will be consistent across multiple instances of the learning opportunity (identifiers, credits, URLs, descriptions...) |
| Learning Opportunity Instance | Format | A single occurrence of a learning opportunity. Unlike a Learning Opportunity Specification, a Learning Opportunity Instance is not abstract, may be bound to particular dates or locations, and may be applied for or participated in by learners (time, result...) |
| Qualification | Format | A formal qualification from a study, such as degree |
| Credit | Format | A way of describing the work load of a study, see also ECTS |
| ECTS | Format | European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS explained) |
| Subject Area | Format | Area of study, see also ISCED |
| Isced | Format | The International Standard Classification of Education (Wikipedia) |
| Transcript of Records | Format | An official list of all the courses that you have completed, including information about the number of credits and the grades you have got |
| Grade distribution | Format | Distribution of grades for a given course, showing how many achieved what grade. Can be helpful to determine whether a certain grade was hard to achieve |
| Shortened grading table | Format | Shortened grading table contains threes numbers - number of grades lower, number of grades equal and number of grades higher than the grade obtained by a student. It is like grade distribution, but with only three values, making it easier to analyze as compared to a grade distribution with a fine grained grading scale. |