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'''[[wikipedia:Mailing_list|Mailing list]]''' : A mailing list is a collection of email ids, such that a mail sent to the list, will be sent to all the member ids. A mailing list can serve as a forum for digital conversations /discussions.  They can be used to deliberate, express opinions about a topic in an asynchronous way which can facilitate greater participation. (Classroom discussions can continue on such virtual forums )  

'''[[wikipedia:Mailing_list|Mailing list]]''' : A mailing list is a collection of email ids, such that a mail sent to the list, will be sent to all the member ids. A mailing list can serve as a forum for digital conversations /discussions.  They can be used to deliberate, express opinions about a topic in an asynchronous way which can facilitate greater participation. (Classroom discussions can continue on such virtual forums )  

'''Open Education Resources''': Open educational resources (OERs) are freely accessible resources, with open formats and under open licenses  that are useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes. OER is to content, what FOSS is to software – allowing for free access, use, modification and sharing.  

'''[[wikipedia:Open_educational_resources|Open Education Resources]]''': Open educational resources (OERs) are freely accessible resources, with open formats and under open licenses  that are useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes. OER is to content, what FOSS is to software – allowing for free access, use, modification and sharing.  

'''Open document formats'''  

'''[[wikipedia:Open_format|Open document formats]]'''  

Open document formats are those which are not privately owned /proprietary, and are under a public ownership. Eg .odt for text, .ods for spreadsheet, .odp for presentations, .ogg and ogv for audio and video files. Government of India has issued a policy supporting the use of documents that conform to open standards.  

Open document formats are those which are not privately owned /proprietary, and are under a public ownership. Eg .odt for text, .ods for spreadsheet, .odp for presentations, .ogg and ogv for audio and video files. Government of India has issued a policy supporting the use of documents that conform to open standards.  

'''Social-Networking Service''': On-line platforms or web sites that facilitates the building of social relationships (virtual), among people who share common personal, professional interests or are known to each other in real-life, are known as social networking services. Orkut, Facebook, Twitter , LinkedIn, MySpace are some of the common online social networking providers.    Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.  

'''[[wikipedia:Social_networking_service|Social-Networking Service]]''': On-line platforms or web sites that facilitates the building of social relationships (virtual), among people who share common personal, professional interests or are known to each other in real-life, are known as social networking services. Orkut, Facebook, Twitter , LinkedIn, MySpace are some of the common online social networking providers.    Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.  

'''Wikis :''' Wiki is a free software used to enable collaborative writing on the web. Wikipedia is one of the well known on-line encyclopedias that includes not any single expert voice, but the collective voices of many on any particular topic. English Wikipedia has the largest number of articles – 4.5 million  as of June  2014. The Kannada Wikipedia (<nowiki>http://kn.wikipedia.org</nowiki>) has less than 20,000 articles, and can grow only from contributions made by Kannada scholars and enthusiasts. The Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) which is a OER portal of, for and by Karnataka school teachers, uses Wiki software.

'''[[wikipedia:Wiki|Wiki]]:''' Wiki is a free software used to enable collaborative writing on the web. Wikipedia is one of the well known on-line encyclopedias that includes not any single expert voice, but the collective voices of many on any particular topic. English Wikipedia has the largest number of articles – more than 5 million  as of April  2017. The [http://kn.wikipedia.org Kannada Wikipedia]  has around 20,000 articles, and can grow only from contributions made by Kannada scholars and enthusiasts. The Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) which is a OER portal of, for and by Karnataka school teachers, uses Wiki software.

'''World wide web (www)''' – this is one of the services (though the most popular) that runs on the Internet, consisting of inter-linked web pages, which is accessible using a software called a web browser (eg. Firefox) and a protocol (technical method) called the hyper text transfer protocol (http). The world wide web allows information to be stored and shared in the form of 'web pages', which are themselves 'hyper-linked' to other web-pages, creating a seamless mode of navigating the Internet.

'''[[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web|World wide web]] (www)''' – this is one of the services (though among the most popular) that runs on the Internet, consisting of inter-linked web pages, which is accessible using a software called a web browser (eg. Firefox) and a protocol (technical method) called the hyper text transfer protocol (http). The world wide web allows information to be stored and shared in the form of 'web pages', which are themselves 'hyper-linked' to other web-pages, creating a seamless mode of navigating the Internet.