data-gathering
= collecting information, usually in numerical form
Mobile phone companies employ many people in data-gathering Tasks, to see how users are
using the phones and Internet.
distance learning
= learning by the Internet or email, rather than face-to-face
My mother took an entire degree by distance learning over a period of five years.
self-study
= studying using a course without a teacher’s involvement
There are many self-study guides to improving your English, and some of them are actually
quite good.
to discriminate between sources
= to decide whether one source is better or more reliable
than another source
Children should not study using unsupervised Internet access, because they can’t discriminate
between the sources of information they find.
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