affordances: the perceived and actual properties of a thing, primarily those functional properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used.
chasm theory: the sometimes unbridgeable gap between early adopters and early majority users that may cause an innovation to fall by the wayside (Geoffrey Moore)
just-in-time learning: used to describe the benefit of e-learning's accessibility.
learning objects: digital or web-based resources that can be used and re-used to support learning.
social loafing: the phenomenon of people making less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.
technicism: an overreliance on or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society.
