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What is Platform
1.
In order for the sensor to capture and record reflected or emitted energy from a target it must reside on a stable
platform
which can be on the ground (hand held camera), within the atmosphere (airplanes), and in space (the space shuttle or satellite).
Learn more in: Developments of the Digital World of Remote Sensing and GIS, Their Comparison to, and the Importance of the Human Side of Information Reference Services
2.
A technological system that works with interrelated parts.
Learn more in: Picturesque Rollouts: Marketing Online Learning Contents and Learning Sequences
3.
A comprehensive type of business model (e.g., marketplaces, freemiums, and multisided
platform
s) that integrates owner, provider, producer, and consumer.
Learn more in: The Past, Present, and Future of E-Business Models
4.
The term
platform
is often used to mean a set of software tools that help SMMs organize their social media accounts.
Learn more in: Use of Social Media by Tourists at Religious Tourism Destinations in India
5.
Technologies, products, or services that create value primarily interacting directly between two or more customers or participant groups.
Learn more in: New Strategies for Evolution of Business Ecosystems: Platform Strategies
6.
A learning management system, such as e-College or Blackboardy
Learn more in: Measuring Effectiveness in Online Instruction
7.
A virtual learning environment that allow for content delivery, student engagement with material, interactions between students and instructors, and assessment of learning ( Dale & Lane, 2007 ; Johnson, 2005 ; Ko & Rossen, 2010 ). Blackboard and Moodle are examples of online learning
platform
s.
Learn more in: Learning to Teach Online: Negotiating Issues of Platform, Pedagogy, and Professional Development
8.
Platform
refers to the specific combination of hardware and/or support software for a particular activity.
Learn more in: Group Collaboration in Education
9.
A business model based on digital transactions that connect customers and producers.
Learn more in: Discussions on How to Best Prepare Students on the Ethics of Human-Machine Interactions at Work
10.
A specific class of technologies that have sponsors and complementors that interdependent.
Learn more in: Platform Ecosystems for Smart Cities in Indonesia: Theory Building and Testing
11.
The
platform
is a major software environment where smaller applications run.
Learn more in: Higher Education Teaching and Learning With Augmented Reality
12.
Computer framework allowing software to run for a specific purpose.
Learn more in: A Comparative Study on E-Note-Taking
13.
A digital space that invites users to participate and engage each other.
Learn more in: “Sensitive but Essential Information”: Policy Debates on Fitness Application Privacy and Data Security
14.
An underlying computer system on which application programs can run.
Learn more in: Enhancing Learner-Centered Instruction through Tutorial Management Using Cloud Computing
15.
Various communication tools such as Google documents and Facebook to keep students connected and work on the shared assignments.
Learn more in: The Boone-Kabul Project: How Art Taught Us to Know and See Each Other
16.
Platform
as defined in the MDA process is a particular environment that influences a concrete product: machine, operating system, component
platform
, or domain ontology.
Learn more in: MADES FP7 EU Project: Effective High Level SysML/MARTE Methodology for Real-Time and Embedded Avionics Systems
17.
In the context of this Chapter, a web-based or network-based space where multiple participants interact virtually through sharing of messages, pictures and documents. Brightidea, Linkedin and Yammer are examples of
platform
s.
Learn more in: Innovation Through Social Media: A Case Study From the Oil and Gas Industry
18.
Broadly defined as a communication and transactional environment, the participants of which benefit from interacting with each other.
Learn more in: Digital Transformation of Small and Medium Businesses
19.
An integrated set of components, interfaces, algorithms, and data that enables service provisioning and utilization.
Learn more in: Opening Closed Business Ecosystem Boundaries With Digital Platforms: Empirical Case of a Port
20.
The format of the curricular or co-curricular experience typically associated with best-practices in leadership education (e.g., emerging leaders retreat, leadership certification programs, academic courses, and lecture series).
Learn more in: Strategically Preparing the Next Generation for Leading in a World of Social Change
21.
Broadly defined as a communication and transactional environment, the participants of which benefit from interacting with each other.
Learn more in: Electronic Government
22.
An Internet
platform
tool used for crowdfunding. The pledged goal, pledged date, delivery date, reward and other introduction of project using videos, photos and words will be posted on the
platform
.
Learn more in: Crowdfunding for Sustainable Utilities Tunnel Projects: The Case of China
23.
IT structure responsible for the provision of technological tools and services for the distribution of digital services, free or paid.
Learn more in: The Digital Divide in the World of Education at the Time of COVID-19
24.
Media for engagement in the exchange of products or ideas.
Learn more in: Spatial Justice: Design Agency in the Production of Space
25.
In order for the sensor to capture and record reflected or emitted energy from a target it must reside on a stable
platform
which can be on the ground (hand held camera), within the atmosphere (airplanes), and in space (the space shuttle or satellite).
Learn more in: Parallel Development of Three Major Space Technology Systems and Human Side of Information Reference Services as an Essential Complementary Method
26.
A
platform
is a non-physical digital place that provides several companies with the technological infrastructure to offer or provide their products and services.
Learn more in: Merchants Competing on E-Commerce Platforms: Influencing Factors on Buying Behavior
27.
The computing operating system hardware, a web browser or digital environment that runs software encompasses specific requirements, affordances, and limitations.
Learn more in: Early Childhood Teacher Professional Development on Technologies for Young Children
28.
The technology that facilitates the rental, lending of good and services in the
platform
economy.
Learn more in: Platform Economy Research in Africa: A Systematic Review of Themes, Frameworks, and Methodological Approaches
29.
A
platform
is a set of software components or hardware subsystems, with related technologies that provides a set of precise functionality defined via interfaces and usage patterns. Components supported by that
platform
can interact and execute without being aware for the details of how the functionality provided by the
platform
is implemented.
Learn more in: Putting Personal Smart Spaces into Context
30.
A
platform
represents a subsystem or a set of subsystems that provide certain functionality.
Learn more in: From Software Specification to Cloud Model
31.
A software application, or tool that serves a specific purpose for users.
Learn more in: Piloting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Facilitate Online Discussion in Large Online Classes: A Case Study
32.
It refers to the corporate management infrastructure for sustainably creating corporate value related to the entire logistics process, including facilities, transportation, and logistics processing.
Learn more in: Supply Chain Models and Functions of Food Service Chains in Japan: The Food SPA at Saizeriya
33.
A digital
platform
providing goods and services to organizations.
Learn more in: Digital, Decentralized Supply Chain and Its Implication for B2B Marketing: A Case Study From the Indian Medical Equipment Industry
34.
In order for the sensor to capture and record reflected or emitted energy from a target it must reside on a stable
platform
which can be on the ground (hand held camera), within the atmosphere (airplanes), and in space (the space shuttle or satellite).
Learn more in: Parallel Development of Three Major Space Technology Systems and Human Side of Information Reference Services as an Essential Complementary Method
35.
Environment for the management of learning interaction which involves, with different roles and access levels, the various figures implicated in the learning process, supports the various synchronous and asynchronous functions of the same, and enables the use of content modules (learning objects).
Learn more in: E-Learning Function Integration with Corona 2
36.
A common area for anyone in digital collaboration.
Learn more in: Digitalization Strategies in the New World Order: A Conceptual Study to Understand Digitalization Strategies
37.
An open medium that allows different parties to interact in such an organized way.
Platform
also being used to represent a new kind of business model that creating values by facilitating interactions.
Learn more in: Regulating Digital Platforms: A Case of Indonesia
38.
It is a group of technologies that are used as a base upon which other applications, processes or technologies are developed. It is the basic hardware (computer) and software (operating system) on which software applications can be run. It is a building block, providing an essential function to a technological system—which acts as a foundation upon which other firms can develop complementary products, technologies or services.
Learn more in: Platform for Citizen Engagement for Good Governance in India: A Case Study of MyGov.in
39.
Is a group of technologies that are used as a base upon which other applications, processes or technologies are developed.
Learn more in: Creating an Educational Social Network Based on the Private Cloud Simulation and User Interaction in Solving Educational Problems
40.
IT structure for the provision of tools and technological services for the distribution of digital services, free or paid.
Learn more in: Innovative System for Education: The Advent of E-Learning in the University System in the Pandemic Age
41.
It is a computer or hardware system on which to run various hardware or software applications or both, with a type of use license.
Learn more in: Tools, Technologies, and Methodologies to Support Data Science: Support Technologies for Data Science
42.
A shared context where heterogeneous ideas and activities can productively interact with each other.
Learn more in: Testing Assessments of Integrated Experiential Learning
43.
The hardware system on which the game is played, for example, PDA, GBA, and cell phone.
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