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Knowledge

Terms related to knowledge, the understanding of a particular subject or field combined with experience in that subject or field.

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Knowledge

Non-formal learning

Education; Knowledge

Learning which is embedded in planned activities not explicitly designated as learning (in terms of learning objectives, learning time or learning support). Non-formal learning is intentional from ...

Digital literacy

Education; Knowledge

The competence to use information and communication technology (ICT). Basic information and communication technology skills.

Subject-field expert

Education; Knowledge

One who shows expertise and authority in his or her field.

Wheat and chessboard problem

Education; Knowledge

A famous problem, sometimes attributed to a conversation between a King and his muse. The question is simple - if a chessboard had a single grain on its first square, then two on it's second, four on ...

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Education; Knowledge

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (English: Library of Alexandria; Arabic: مكتبة الإسكندرية‎, Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah, Egyptian ) in Alexandria is a wonderful reincarnation of the famed ancient library of ...

Subject-field expert

Education; Knowledge

One who shows expertise and authority in his or her field.

Scrooge

Education; Knowledge

A miserly person; a cheapskate, or niggardly person. Word origin from Charles Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge, character in the storey A Christmas Carol (1843).

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