The creation of a Thesaurus and a dictionnary of TEL key terms and expressions has been initiated recently. This initiative intends to construct a common intellectual platform to support the conceptual and theoretical integration of TEL research. The idea is not to fix the meanings or to have just one way of seeing our field,  but to identify commonalities when possible and differences when needed. This is based on the analysis of the keywords in use in our domain, in conferences and journals, and in the TeLearn Open Archive (http://www.telearn.org/).

This initiative will acknowledge the multidisciplinary nature of our field of research, and also address multilingual and multicultural issues. A very pragmatic approach to handle this complexity is to analyse and structure the set of the keywords and expressions being used, the way they are understood within the different communities, the variety of their meaning and their translations across language.

The entries of the dictionary, "draft 1" at this stage, are available on the Stellar Scientific Portal (http://oa.stellarnet.eu/corner/) for possible comments or suggestions from the community. Modeover, for each entry a forum (http://oa.stellarnet.eu/thesaurus/) is open for discussions on any issue related to a term or expression.

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