List of Abbreviations
| AI | Artificial Intelligence | |
| ALT DISS | Alternative Dissertation | |
| AML | Association for Medial Literacy (Ontario) | |
| ANT | Actor Network Theory | |
| CATE | Canadian Association for Teacher Education | |
| CAQDAS | Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software | |
| CC | Creative Commons | |
| CDL | Critical Digital Literacies | |
| CFTF | Creatively Flexible and Technologically Fluent | |
| CMEC | Council of Ministers of Education, Canada | |
| COP | Community of Practice | |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management | |
| FoE | Faculty of Education, Faculties of Education | |
| FOSS | Free and Open-Source Software | |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |
| GO-GN | Global Open Graduate Network | |
| IPA | Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis | |
| ISTE | International Society for Technology in Education | |
| LMS | Learning Management System | |
| MDL | Media and Digital Literacies | |
| MIL | Media and Information Literacy | |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Course | |
| OE | Open Education | |
| OECD | Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development | |
| OEF | Open Educators Factory | |
| OER | Open Educational Resources | |
| OEP | Open Educational Pedagogies | |
| OEPr | Open Educational Practices | |
| OTESSA | Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association | |
| Portable Document Format | ||
| P-IP | Post-Intentional Phenomenology | |
| PLN | Personal / Professional Learning Network | |
| PNG | Portable Graphics Network (file format for images) | |
| REB | Research Ethics Board | |
| SSPP | Safety, Security, Privacy, Permission | |
| TCs | Teacher Candidates | |
| TEd / TEds | Teacher Educator / Teacher Educators | |
| TETCs | Teacher Educator Technology Competencies | |
| TPACK | Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge | |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator | |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
As a feature of the interactiveness of this dissertation, each of these acronyms is linked to it's corresponding glossary description located in this Scalar document. In the flat PDF version of the dissertation document, the page number for the location of the initial use of the acronym is provided as a courtesy to the reader.