Avatar

{{Term|AVATAR|Virtual digital image representing a person in online environments. In e-learning avatars usually represent the learners. The term comes from a Sanskrit word with origins in Hindu culture referring to the descent of a deity to earth in an incarnate form. Avatar was adopted in the mid 1980s by computing and science fiction genres as a representation of a person or character in a computer generated environment.^[1]
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