CGPA otherwise called Cumulative Grade Points. Average is the normal of Grade Points acquired in every one of the subjects secured till date. It is trusted that it gives a general knowledge into the level of devotion, truthfulness and diligent work put by the understudy.
However there might be where an understudy who is remarkable at programming may not appreciate other hypothetical subjects like programming testing. Notwithstanding, CGPA comes up short when such a situation comes into picture.
This purpose assumes that educational websites in general are a good thing. Even so, we have heard arguments that many young people today use the internet so much for leisure and personal interest activities that they would advantaged by learning all of their formal school or college studies from paper textbooks
Developing online learning resources: Big data, social networks, and cloud co...eraser Juan José Calderón
"Developing online learning resources: Big data, social netorks, and cloud computing to support pervasive knowledge" de Muhammad Anshari & Yabit Alas1 & Lim Sei Guan
Published online: 21 May 2015 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Abstract
Utilizing online learning resources (OLR) from multi channels in learning activities promise extended benefits from traditional based learning-centred to a collaborative based learning-centred that emphasises pervasive learning anywhere and anytime. While compiling big data, cloud computing, and semantic web into OLR offer a broader spectrum of pervasive knowledge acquisition to enrich users’ experience in learning. In conventional learning practices, a student is perceived as a recipient of information and knowledge. However, nowadays students are empowered to involve in learning processes that play an active role in creating, extracting, and improving OLR collaborative learning platform and knowledge sharing as well as distributing. Researchers have employed contents analysis for reviewing literatures in peer-reviewed journals and interviews with the teachers who utilize OLR. In fact, researchers propose pervasive knowledge can address the need of integrating technologies like cloud computing, big data, Web 2.0, and Semantic Web. Pervasive knowledge redefines value added, variety, volume, and velocity of OLR, which is flexible in terms of resources adoption, knowledge acquisition, and technological implementation.
Project EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development and Research in Machine Le...Nelly Cardinale, Ed.D.
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2005
Publisher: American Society of Engineering Education in Washington, DC
Authors: Anagnostopoulos, GC, Georgiopoulos M, Ports K, Richie S, Cardinale N, White M, Kepuska V, Chan PK, Wu A, Kysilka M
Conference Name: Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition : The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World (2005)
Session type: Capstone & Educational Resource Developments (pp. 11749-11757)
Session: # 3232
Date Published: June 12-15,2005
Conference Location: Portland, Oregon June 12-15, 2005
URL: http://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/papers/asee05.pdf
Enriching E-Learning with web Services for the Creation of Virtual Learning P...IJERDJOURNAL
ABSTRACT:- The study aims at creation of virtual learning environment(VLE) using the context of web services .Now-a-days eLearning is gaining a wide spread acceptance since its inception. Much of the effort is placed on developing rich educational content & create global platform in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are used to transform education. Therefore education system need to be redesigned in a better way for which amalgamation of web services with eLearning is considered to solve the complex problems. The author tries to describe the web services architecture with the incorporation of eLearning that has defined a new way of learning. With the emergence of computer technology and urbane softwares, there is every possibility of enriching learning experience of students. Gamification, StoryBoard, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Localization are considered as supporting services for boosting up knowledge management process. Group Discussions, Twitter chats, Skype calls are performed in social learning. Web 2.0 services such as as blogs promote content creation, wikis make user enable of creating editable contents.
E- LEARNING IN NIGERIA : CURRENT IMPLEMENTATIONS AND CHALLENGEScscpconf
E-learning is a concept which came to limelight about two decades ago in Nigeria. It has gone
through several metamorphoses since then ranging from open skepticism to acceptance. It was
accepted by most people because the percentage of Conventional Universities in Nigeria to the
number of candidates seeking admission into these Universities were getting small every year
and such Conventional Universities cannot cope with the pressure from the candidates. This is
the main reason why many people embraced E- learning as option and a welcome supplement to
normal university learning. This study is designed to evaluate the current implementation of Elearning
in Nigeria and the current challenges militating against the full implementation of Elearning
as an option in Nigeria.
CGPA otherwise called Cumulative Grade Points. Average is the normal of Grade Points acquired in every one of the subjects secured till date. It is trusted that it gives a general knowledge into the level of devotion, truthfulness and diligent work put by the understudy.
However there might be where an understudy who is remarkable at programming may not appreciate other hypothetical subjects like programming testing. Notwithstanding, CGPA comes up short when such a situation comes into picture.
This purpose assumes that educational websites in general are a good thing. Even so, we have heard arguments that many young people today use the internet so much for leisure and personal interest activities that they would advantaged by learning all of their formal school or college studies from paper textbooks
Developing online learning resources: Big data, social networks, and cloud co...eraser Juan José Calderón
"Developing online learning resources: Big data, social netorks, and cloud computing to support pervasive knowledge" de Muhammad Anshari & Yabit Alas1 & Lim Sei Guan
Published online: 21 May 2015 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Abstract
Utilizing online learning resources (OLR) from multi channels in learning activities promise extended benefits from traditional based learning-centred to a collaborative based learning-centred that emphasises pervasive learning anywhere and anytime. While compiling big data, cloud computing, and semantic web into OLR offer a broader spectrum of pervasive knowledge acquisition to enrich users’ experience in learning. In conventional learning practices, a student is perceived as a recipient of information and knowledge. However, nowadays students are empowered to involve in learning processes that play an active role in creating, extracting, and improving OLR collaborative learning platform and knowledge sharing as well as distributing. Researchers have employed contents analysis for reviewing literatures in peer-reviewed journals and interviews with the teachers who utilize OLR. In fact, researchers propose pervasive knowledge can address the need of integrating technologies like cloud computing, big data, Web 2.0, and Semantic Web. Pervasive knowledge redefines value added, variety, volume, and velocity of OLR, which is flexible in terms of resources adoption, knowledge acquisition, and technological implementation.
Project EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development and Research in Machine Le...Nelly Cardinale, Ed.D.
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2005
Publisher: American Society of Engineering Education in Washington, DC
Authors: Anagnostopoulos, GC, Georgiopoulos M, Ports K, Richie S, Cardinale N, White M, Kepuska V, Chan PK, Wu A, Kysilka M
Conference Name: Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition : The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World (2005)
Session type: Capstone & Educational Resource Developments (pp. 11749-11757)
Session: # 3232
Date Published: June 12-15,2005
Conference Location: Portland, Oregon June 12-15, 2005
URL: http://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/papers/asee05.pdf
Enriching E-Learning with web Services for the Creation of Virtual Learning P...IJERDJOURNAL
ABSTRACT:- The study aims at creation of virtual learning environment(VLE) using the context of web services .Now-a-days eLearning is gaining a wide spread acceptance since its inception. Much of the effort is placed on developing rich educational content & create global platform in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are used to transform education. Therefore education system need to be redesigned in a better way for which amalgamation of web services with eLearning is considered to solve the complex problems. The author tries to describe the web services architecture with the incorporation of eLearning that has defined a new way of learning. With the emergence of computer technology and urbane softwares, there is every possibility of enriching learning experience of students. Gamification, StoryBoard, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Localization are considered as supporting services for boosting up knowledge management process. Group Discussions, Twitter chats, Skype calls are performed in social learning. Web 2.0 services such as as blogs promote content creation, wikis make user enable of creating editable contents.
E- LEARNING IN NIGERIA : CURRENT IMPLEMENTATIONS AND CHALLENGEScscpconf
E-learning is a concept which came to limelight about two decades ago in Nigeria. It has gone
through several metamorphoses since then ranging from open skepticism to acceptance. It was
accepted by most people because the percentage of Conventional Universities in Nigeria to the
number of candidates seeking admission into these Universities were getting small every year
and such Conventional Universities cannot cope with the pressure from the candidates. This is
the main reason why many people embraced E- learning as option and a welcome supplement to
normal university learning. This study is designed to evaluate the current implementation of Elearning
in Nigeria and the current challenges militating against the full implementation of Elearning
as an option in Nigeria.
E-Learning Project Write Up Case Study Ogun State Institute Of Technologydamilola isaac
Over the last decade, researchers and practitioners have developed a wide range of knowledge related to electronic learning or e-learning. This movement has affected different elements and components; infrastructures, tools, content-oriented applications, human-computer interactions, pedagogical issues, methodologies and models, case studies and projects. This chapter briefly describes the overall idea of the development of e-learning system for OGITECH by using Apache, PHP and MySQL. This chapter includes objectives of the project, scope of work, problem statement and features of project before developed the own sites.
E-Learning has its historical background in about 30 years of development in computer based on the training and education. With the growth of the internet this kind of training became much more accepted and the creation of multimedia contents and systems to manage learning activities went on faster. Additional e-learning is based on a long tradition of teaching and learning experience. The larger worlds Information Technology and Education and Training influenced the new term e-learning and so e-learning became a subset of both of them.
Nowadays, e-learning refers to learning that is delivered or enabled via electronic technology. It encompasses learning delivered via a range of technologies such as the internet, television, videotape, and computer-based training. In principle, e-learning is a kind of distance learning. Learning materials can be accessed from the web or intranet via a computer and tutors and learners can communicate with each other using e-mail, chat or discussion forums.
Therefore, it can be used as the main method of delivery of training or as a combined approach with classroom-based training. It can be valuable when used as a part of well-planned and properly supported education and training environment, but e-learning is not a magic bullet that replaces existing pedagogical theories and approaches.
Nevertheless, it has almost everything that those theories need to get implemented.
Many learning and technology professionals believe that e-learning will have become state of the art when we will stop referring to it by a separate name and begin considering it as an integral part of a complete learning environment.
FUNCTIONAL SEMANTICS AWARE BROKER BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR E-LEARNING WEB SERVICESIJITE
E-learning enables the learner to gain diverse knowledge anytime, anywhere and on any device. Learning
resources (objects) and resource providers play a very important role in e-learning applications/systems.
The increasing demand for interoperability in existing heterogeneous e-learning systems to support
accessibility and reusability is the most challenging research issue. Web services and SOA enables
interoperability between heterogeneous applications over the Web. To adopt Web services technology
towards the reusability and aggregation of e-learning services, the conceptual Web services architecture
and its building blocks need to be augmented. In this paper, a well formed functional semantics approach
is proposed to describe e-learning Web services providing variety of learning objects/resources. The
paper presents an extendible functional knowledge to map the learner’s or provider’s versions of service
descriptions into a standard form called Abstract Description. The authors propose a broker based elearning Web service architecture which facilitates effective e-learning service publishing and discovery
mechanisms. The paper explores a scheme to extend the WSDL 2.0 document in order to incorporate
functional semantics of e-learning Web services and their operations. The paper presents an e-learning
service knowledge called Learning Operation Tree (LOT) for the quick e-learning service discovery. The
experimentation shows that, the proposed broker based architecture for e-learning Web services
facilitates effective discovery with moderate performance in terms of recall and response.
E-LEARNING FOR ALL WITH INTERFACE INCORPORATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT USER acijjournal
The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is an asset for e-learning.This is a new form of distance education that relies on the Internet and the Web. This new pedagogical approach promote that the learner is the protagonist of his/her own training and thereby put in range that he/she needs to complete his/her apprenticeship. These resources are made available on the platform by
the trainers. Unfortunately, in the majority of e-learning platforms, the course is offered, regardless of the
state of the learner (disability, level of education, age, etc ...). Many people thus excluded from e-learning. This somewhat mitigates e-learning possibilities. According to world statistics, 10% of the world population, about 650 million people, lives with disability [1]. The promotion of employment for all,
advocated by human rights, will dwell on this mode of learning to train all young people who for many reasons do not always have the opportunity to attend a campus training center. E-learning should also be available to disable persons such as blinds, deafs, mutes,… This work develops new interfaces that adapt according to knowledges of the learner to facilitate e-learning. The illiteracy rate is therefore reduce in its
simplest form.
ELIG-Pearson Interactive Learnshop: How to Guide Innovation in a Changing Education Ecosystem?
Case: Open University UK
Online Educa Berlin 2013; Friday 6th December 2013: 11:45 - 13:30
Facilitators: Kelwyn Looi, Vaithegi Vasanthakumar, Fadi Khalek, Dr. Adam Black, Dr. Andreas Meiszner, Elmar Husmann
Open Source Software to Enhance the STEM Learning EnvironmentMaurice Dawson
ABSTRACT This chapter examines the use of Open Source Software (OSS) technologies that can be used to improve the learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Explored are the various methods that can be utilized to improve the percentage of STEM majors in the American educational system with resources such as: Open Source as Alternative (OSALT), virtualization, cloud computing, Linux distributions, open source programming, and open source hardware platforms. Increasing the amount of students that pursue STEM majors is important because the projected job growth in the STEM field compared to non-STEM jobs is 33%. OSALT provides cost-effective alternatives to commercial products such as Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Photoshop. Second, creating Virtual Machines (VMs) is another avenue to teach complex concepts in computer science, engineering, and Information Technology (IT). Third, cloud computing is an inexpensive way for clients to access information from multiple locations and devices. Fourth, universities can use the Operating System (OS) Linux and its various distributions as replacements for commercial operating systems like Windows in order to reduce IT costs. Lastly, open source programming languages like Python and their associated Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide comprehensive facilities for software engineers for application development or testing.
On the way towards Personal Learning Environments: Seven crucial aspectseLearning Papers
Authors: Sandra Schaffert, Wolf Hilzensauer.
The practice of learning and teaching is not pre-determined, but always related to the tools and systems used in the process. The development and rising success of social software applications such as weblogs and wikis and so-called Personal Learning Environments (PLE) changes, enables and challenges learning with the Internet.
Digital technologies for learning in prison: what one Australian university i...Helen Farley
In most Australian correctional jurisdictions, prisoners are not allowed access to the internet precluding them from participating in higher education online. Making the Connection is an Australian government funded project which is taking digital technologies, that don’t require internet access, into prisons to enable prisoners to enroll in a suite of pre-tertiary and undergraduate programs. A version of the University of Southern Queensland’s learning management system has been installed onto the education server of participating prisons. The second stage of the project will see notebook computers preloaded with the learning management system and course materials, allocated to participating prisoners. At the time of writing, the project has been deployed at thirteen sites in Queensland and Western Australia, with a further three sites coming on board in time for semester I 2016 and negotiations underway for further rollout to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory.
One of the changes that the "Information Age" has b rought to classrooms is that a Web-Based Classroom Management Support System (WBC) is now re quired for more efficient classroom management in elementary schools. This research aim s at finding desirable Internet uses for more efficient classroom management through designi ng and implementing a web-based classroom support system. It has been possible to s upport classroom management beyond the limits of time and space with content found on the web and through guiding learners' internet usage in educational directions utilizing the resou rces on the web in more academic ways, and when applied in classrooms to help direct learners' active participation developing each learners' own special abilities and aptitudes. A WB C system is expected to offer upgraded classroom management
Campaign makes your website operate more intelligently. It creates a profile of each visitor which you can then use to target them appropriately and to test their response. Campaign makes A/B testing, targeting and content personalisation simple and straightforward.
Slipping into your website with minimal fuss, Campaign can be up and running in minutes, without significant technical resource. Simply insert the pre-configured Campaign tags onto the pages you want to influence, select your media creatives, and create a campaign.
Take a look at campaign in action to see how it can help you better understand who you customers are, and what they want.
E-Learning Project Write Up Case Study Ogun State Institute Of Technologydamilola isaac
Over the last decade, researchers and practitioners have developed a wide range of knowledge related to electronic learning or e-learning. This movement has affected different elements and components; infrastructures, tools, content-oriented applications, human-computer interactions, pedagogical issues, methodologies and models, case studies and projects. This chapter briefly describes the overall idea of the development of e-learning system for OGITECH by using Apache, PHP and MySQL. This chapter includes objectives of the project, scope of work, problem statement and features of project before developed the own sites.
E-Learning has its historical background in about 30 years of development in computer based on the training and education. With the growth of the internet this kind of training became much more accepted and the creation of multimedia contents and systems to manage learning activities went on faster. Additional e-learning is based on a long tradition of teaching and learning experience. The larger worlds Information Technology and Education and Training influenced the new term e-learning and so e-learning became a subset of both of them.
Nowadays, e-learning refers to learning that is delivered or enabled via electronic technology. It encompasses learning delivered via a range of technologies such as the internet, television, videotape, and computer-based training. In principle, e-learning is a kind of distance learning. Learning materials can be accessed from the web or intranet via a computer and tutors and learners can communicate with each other using e-mail, chat or discussion forums.
Therefore, it can be used as the main method of delivery of training or as a combined approach with classroom-based training. It can be valuable when used as a part of well-planned and properly supported education and training environment, but e-learning is not a magic bullet that replaces existing pedagogical theories and approaches.
Nevertheless, it has almost everything that those theories need to get implemented.
Many learning and technology professionals believe that e-learning will have become state of the art when we will stop referring to it by a separate name and begin considering it as an integral part of a complete learning environment.
FUNCTIONAL SEMANTICS AWARE BROKER BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR E-LEARNING WEB SERVICESIJITE
E-learning enables the learner to gain diverse knowledge anytime, anywhere and on any device. Learning
resources (objects) and resource providers play a very important role in e-learning applications/systems.
The increasing demand for interoperability in existing heterogeneous e-learning systems to support
accessibility and reusability is the most challenging research issue. Web services and SOA enables
interoperability between heterogeneous applications over the Web. To adopt Web services technology
towards the reusability and aggregation of e-learning services, the conceptual Web services architecture
and its building blocks need to be augmented. In this paper, a well formed functional semantics approach
is proposed to describe e-learning Web services providing variety of learning objects/resources. The
paper presents an extendible functional knowledge to map the learner’s or provider’s versions of service
descriptions into a standard form called Abstract Description. The authors propose a broker based elearning Web service architecture which facilitates effective e-learning service publishing and discovery
mechanisms. The paper explores a scheme to extend the WSDL 2.0 document in order to incorporate
functional semantics of e-learning Web services and their operations. The paper presents an e-learning
service knowledge called Learning Operation Tree (LOT) for the quick e-learning service discovery. The
experimentation shows that, the proposed broker based architecture for e-learning Web services
facilitates effective discovery with moderate performance in terms of recall and response.
E-LEARNING FOR ALL WITH INTERFACE INCORPORATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT USER acijjournal
The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is an asset for e-learning.This is a new form of distance education that relies on the Internet and the Web. This new pedagogical approach promote that the learner is the protagonist of his/her own training and thereby put in range that he/she needs to complete his/her apprenticeship. These resources are made available on the platform by
the trainers. Unfortunately, in the majority of e-learning platforms, the course is offered, regardless of the
state of the learner (disability, level of education, age, etc ...). Many people thus excluded from e-learning. This somewhat mitigates e-learning possibilities. According to world statistics, 10% of the world population, about 650 million people, lives with disability [1]. The promotion of employment for all,
advocated by human rights, will dwell on this mode of learning to train all young people who for many reasons do not always have the opportunity to attend a campus training center. E-learning should also be available to disable persons such as blinds, deafs, mutes,… This work develops new interfaces that adapt according to knowledges of the learner to facilitate e-learning. The illiteracy rate is therefore reduce in its
simplest form.
ELIG-Pearson Interactive Learnshop: How to Guide Innovation in a Changing Education Ecosystem?
Case: Open University UK
Online Educa Berlin 2013; Friday 6th December 2013: 11:45 - 13:30
Facilitators: Kelwyn Looi, Vaithegi Vasanthakumar, Fadi Khalek, Dr. Adam Black, Dr. Andreas Meiszner, Elmar Husmann
Open Source Software to Enhance the STEM Learning EnvironmentMaurice Dawson
ABSTRACT This chapter examines the use of Open Source Software (OSS) technologies that can be used to improve the learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Explored are the various methods that can be utilized to improve the percentage of STEM majors in the American educational system with resources such as: Open Source as Alternative (OSALT), virtualization, cloud computing, Linux distributions, open source programming, and open source hardware platforms. Increasing the amount of students that pursue STEM majors is important because the projected job growth in the STEM field compared to non-STEM jobs is 33%. OSALT provides cost-effective alternatives to commercial products such as Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Photoshop. Second, creating Virtual Machines (VMs) is another avenue to teach complex concepts in computer science, engineering, and Information Technology (IT). Third, cloud computing is an inexpensive way for clients to access information from multiple locations and devices. Fourth, universities can use the Operating System (OS) Linux and its various distributions as replacements for commercial operating systems like Windows in order to reduce IT costs. Lastly, open source programming languages like Python and their associated Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide comprehensive facilities for software engineers for application development or testing.
On the way towards Personal Learning Environments: Seven crucial aspectseLearning Papers
Authors: Sandra Schaffert, Wolf Hilzensauer.
The practice of learning and teaching is not pre-determined, but always related to the tools and systems used in the process. The development and rising success of social software applications such as weblogs and wikis and so-called Personal Learning Environments (PLE) changes, enables and challenges learning with the Internet.
Digital technologies for learning in prison: what one Australian university i...Helen Farley
In most Australian correctional jurisdictions, prisoners are not allowed access to the internet precluding them from participating in higher education online. Making the Connection is an Australian government funded project which is taking digital technologies, that don’t require internet access, into prisons to enable prisoners to enroll in a suite of pre-tertiary and undergraduate programs. A version of the University of Southern Queensland’s learning management system has been installed onto the education server of participating prisons. The second stage of the project will see notebook computers preloaded with the learning management system and course materials, allocated to participating prisoners. At the time of writing, the project has been deployed at thirteen sites in Queensland and Western Australia, with a further three sites coming on board in time for semester I 2016 and negotiations underway for further rollout to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory.
One of the changes that the "Information Age" has b rought to classrooms is that a Web-Based Classroom Management Support System (WBC) is now re quired for more efficient classroom management in elementary schools. This research aim s at finding desirable Internet uses for more efficient classroom management through designi ng and implementing a web-based classroom support system. It has been possible to s upport classroom management beyond the limits of time and space with content found on the web and through guiding learners' internet usage in educational directions utilizing the resou rces on the web in more academic ways, and when applied in classrooms to help direct learners' active participation developing each learners' own special abilities and aptitudes. A WB C system is expected to offer upgraded classroom management
Campaign makes your website operate more intelligently. It creates a profile of each visitor which you can then use to target them appropriately and to test their response. Campaign makes A/B testing, targeting and content personalisation simple and straightforward.
Slipping into your website with minimal fuss, Campaign can be up and running in minutes, without significant technical resource. Simply insert the pre-configured Campaign tags onto the pages you want to influence, select your media creatives, and create a campaign.
Take a look at campaign in action to see how it can help you better understand who you customers are, and what they want.
THE USE OF CLOUD E-LEARNING PLATFORM TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY OF HOSPITAL IN JOB...ijcsit
Hospital in order to host multimedia content, licenses and staff in-service education in learning, learning platform to promote construction of the clouds. In this study, quantitative research to explore the building through the clouds to enhance the learning platform with the hospital staff in the benefits of the correlation.
First, literature review to identify the factors that measure the effectiveness of e-learning. Second, using a questionnaire designed to identify factors that enhance the effectiveness of online learning platform and build the relationship between the cloud-learning platforms to identify design strategies. The again, using these factors to design cloud e-learning platform for hospital. Finally, the assessment review of the applicability of the cloud-learning platform.
Hospital in order to host multimedia content, licenses and staff in-service education in learning, learning platform to promote construction of the clouds. In this study, quantitative research to explore the building through the clouds to enhance the learning platform with the hospital staff in the benefits of the correlation. First, literature review to identify the factors that measure the effectiveness of e-learning. Second, using a questionnaire designed to identify factors that enhance the effectiveness of online learning platform and build the relationship between the cloud-learning platforms to identify design strategies. The again, using these factors to design cloud e-learning platform for hospital. Finally, the assessment review of the applicability of the cloud-learning platform.
Hospital in order to host multimedia content, licenses and staff in-service education in learning, learning
platform to promote construction of the clouds. In this study, quantitative research to explore the building
through the clouds to enhance the learning platform with the hospital staff in the benefits of the correlation.
First, literature review to identify the factors that measure the effectiveness of e-learning. Second, using a
questionnaire designed to identify factors that enhance the effectiveness of online learning platform and
build the relationship between the cloud-learning platforms to identify design strategies. The again, using
these factors to design cloud e-learning platform for hospital. Finally, the assessment review of the
applicability of the cloud-learning platform.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud Classroom in the Cloud White Paper + InfographicAlcatel-Lucent Cloud
Alcatel-Lucent Classroom in the Cloud strategic white paper explains how a classroom in the cloud building on service provider infrastructure and business models to create a k-20 Education platform that reduces cost, improves engagement and measures student success. Transformational change is required in the area of education to improve outcomes for students. Telecommunications service providers are in a unique position to help educational institutions harness the rapidly expanding base of mobile and connected devices to accelerate the use of digital content in the classroom. By provisioning reliable network infrastructure, supplying standardized devices to all students, and partnering with a flexible teaching and learning application, service providers can create high-value opportunities while delivering effective new digital resources that help educators reduce costs, improve teaching tools, access more meaningful performance analytics, recast student engagement, and remodel educational standards worldwide.
LearningMate’s GoClass is a subscription-based, teacher-centered, classroom workflow- management application. Teachers use GoClass to develop and store lesson-plans in the cloud. In the classroom, they project those lesson-plans at the front of the room and broad- cast them to students’ mobile devices. Students can save content in their own accounts, and can annotate that content and collaborate around it with classmates. They can also access or buy additional related content. GoClass links students notes and annotations to the related lesson plan element by design. Students can elect to share this work with their teacher and can also collaborate with other students working on the same material.
E-learning, often known as "online learning," "virtual learning," "remote learning," and other similar terms, is an alternative to traditional classroom instruction. "Distance education," "digital learning," or "mobile learning." E-learning involves using several distinct technologies, including the web, open broadcast, loop, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fibre optics, satellite, wireless communications equipment, audio/video conferencing, and others, for one-way or two-way transmission. To improve educational knowledge, e-learning makes use of interactive technology and communication infrastructure. It has the ability to change how we typically teach and learn across the board. It will improve standards and increase long-term learning involvement. Although it cannot completely replace teachers and lecturers, it will improve the quality and scope of their instruction and reduce the time spent on administration. Each learner will be changed to reach his or her full potential, and it will make it easier to give an academic force the freedom to change. It makes a very ambitious educational system for an emerging learning society feasible. As demand grows, there is a need to standardise the E-learning system and to use new technologies to raise the standard of the current system. Despite the fact that many corporations and academic institutions have previously adopted various standards, there are still certain issues with these standards' benefits and drawbacks that must be addressed by incorporating new technical standards into the current norms to improve their usability and systematicity
E-LOOX, A HYBRID LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMijseajournal
E-loox is an educational software application that has been designed specifically for students located in areas with limited Internet access. Unlike the majority of existing educational applications, E-loox is a “hybrid app”– meaning it can function both on and offline. As a hybrid app, E-loox allows students to complete assignments, access course materials, and conduct research in places where there is no Internet access. While global Internet access has expanded rapidly in the last decade, there are still more than 3.5 billion people who lack access, including approximately 60 million people in the United States. E-loox seeks to bridge the gap for the millions of students who have internet in the classroom but lack a home connection.
The impact of cloud computing and web2.0 on e learning ecosystemMona Nasr
What we know is less important than our capacity
to continue to learn more until e-learning appeared. While elearning
technology has matured considerably since its
inception, there are still many problems that practitioners find
when come implementing e-learning. Also, knowledge society
of the 21st century requires a flexible learning environment
which is able to adapt according to learning and teaching
and communication technologies and services. So, many
advances in technologies are taking place throughout the
world to offer new opportunities in enhancing and making
learning environment more effective and efficient. This new
technologies enable students to personalize the environment in
which they learn, utilizing a range of tools to meet their
interests and needs. Therefore, universities are given great
attention to new technology through research and university
studies in achieving more and more advances to any country.
That's why Egypt as a developed country is seeking to
promote and develop its learning environment, specifically in
the field of research and university studies related with
applying new technology in e-learning field. So, research
community has believed that an e-learning ecosystem is the
next generation of e-learning but has faced challenges in
optimizing resource allocations, dealing with dynamic
demands on getting information and knowledge anywhere and
anytime, handling rapid storage growth requirements, cost
controlling and greater flexibility. So, flourish, growing,
scalable, available, up to date and strong infrastructure elearning
ecosystems in a productive and cost effective way will
be needed to face challenges and rapidly changing in learning
environment. This paper work focused on an e-learning
ecosystem (ELES) which supports new technologies is
introduced and implemented. An integration between cloud
computing and Web 2.0 technologies and services used to
support the development of e-learning ecosystems. Cloud
computing an adoptable technology for many of the
universities with its dynamic scalability and usage of
virtualized resources as a service through the Internet and
Web 2.0 brings new instruments help building dynamic elearning ecosystem on the web.
Graduate School Cyber Portfolio: The Innovative Menu For Sustainable Developmentacijjournal
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1. OpenCourseWare
Launches at MIT
Last fall, after more than two years of
preparation and much fanfare,
MIT launched the pilot of its
OpenCourseWare (OCW) project.
Through OCW, all materials for 32
MIT courses in 16 academic depart-
ments and the Sloan School of
Management have been made avail-
able online for free. For their part,
Sloan School faculty members pro-
vided course materials for three
courses, including “Introduc-
tion to Optimization,” “Logistical
and Transportation Planning
Methods,” and “Systems Optimiza -
tion: Models and Computation.”
The materials available online are
attracting users worldwide, as well as
MIT students who are using the
materials to supplement their own
notes or to make up for missed lec-
tures. Faculty participation in OCW
is voluntary, but MIT offiicials pre-
dict that participation will grow
steadily as the project continues.
Within the next ten years, the school
expects OCW to include the materi-
als for more than 2,000 undergradu-
ate and graduate courses.
The knowledge available through
MIT’s OCW is free, but course
credit is not. Those who take advan-
tage of the online materials will not
have an official claim to an MIT
education or degree.
Even so, MIT officials believe
that OCW promises to “serve as a
model for university dissemination
of knowledge in the Internet age,”
according to a school press release.
“We are fighting the commercializa-
tion of knowledge, in much the
same way that open-source people
are fighting the commercialization
of software,” university spokesper-
son Jon Paul Potts told News.com.
OCW is not meant to be a
means for distance learning,
which, by its nature, involves an
exchange of information among
students and faculty, stress the
program’s administrators. Rather,
OCW is meant to be a source of
supplemental educational sup-
port for MIT’s own students,
as well as an aid to faculty from
all institutions in developing
course content. In addition,
school officials believe the online
materials might be especially useful
to developing countries seeking to
expand their base of knowledge.
According to its Web site, MIT
estimates that development costs for
the project will initially range from
$7.5 million to $10 million each
year. The project will remain in its
pilot phase for at least another year.
“Although we have not yet fully
designed or decided on our long-
term technical architecture and sys-
tems, we’re committed to using
open systems and will share our
approach and experiences with those
who may want to launch similar
efforts,” says Anne H. Margulies,
OCW’s executive director.
Fox School Makes Access
to Tech a Priority
Temple University’s Fox School of Business
and Management in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, has taken two very
different approaches to technology
on its campus. The goal, says John
DeAngelo, the school’s associate
dean for information technology, is
to create an incredibly “tech-accessi-
ble” environment for Fox’s students
and faculty.
The “Digital Concierge” — Rather
than require students and faculty
to trek to a tech support office with
their computer issues, the school
decided to bring tech support
straight to them via a free-range
“digital concierge.” David Feeney,
director of digital education at the
Fox School, roams the business
school with a laptop and wireless
connection seeking students and
faculty in technological distress.
At the beginning of the semester,
Feeney sets his laptop up in the
school’s corridors where students
stop by to ask him questions about
using Blackboard, the school’s plat-
form for its online community.
“David helps them change or identi-
fy their user names and passwords.
He might help them enroll in cours-
es or delete them
from courses
where they’re
inappropriately
enrolled,” says
DeAngelo.
Faculty members
also can locate
him easily for
help with class-
room technology.
The concept
was developed in
2001 as a way to
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D A T A B I T
San Diego County, California,
recently installed a wireless
network that reaches from
San Diego to San Clemente
Island, a span of 72 miles,
including a distance over
water. The 2.4 gigahertz link
will be used to transmit seis-
mographic and global posi-
tioning data, among other
information.
2. streamline the school’s tech support
system and encourage full use of the
school’s technological offerings,
explains DeAngelo. “We thought
the idea of a tech support office
wasn’t satisfactory,” he points out.
“People are busy and may not take
the time to visit the office, which
can keep them from using features
or equipment they should be using.”
By making tech help accessible,
the digital concierge has created a
tech-savvy community, says
DeAngelo. “Students now
know what David knows,”
he says. “He encourages
them to share what they’ve
learned with others. It’s
become a very efficient vehi-
cle for teaching people how
to use the technology.”
BizTech Server Lab—Fox’s
BizTech Lab offers students
something they wouldn’t
get in a typical computer
lab, says Paul Weinberg,
professor of management informa-
tion systems. The lab gives students
full access to 16 server-client sta-
tions, similar to the server-client
infrastructures of large organiza-
tions. Built with $49,000 from a
Link-to-Learn grant and partial
subsidies from Microsoft and IBM,
the BizTech Lab allows students to
develop fully formed server applica-
tions. Because the lab is partitioned
from the school’s main servers, stu-
dents can experiment freely without
compromising any operations of the
school’s computer system.
Students use the BizTech Lab for
a variety of Web services and other
network-centered projects, explains
Weinberg. “Some students are work-
ing with situations in which one
server is running
JAVA and another is
running a .net lan-
guage,” he explains.
“In the lab, they can
try to get the two
languages to com-
municate using
standard protocols.”
Other students are
experimenting with
creating mobile
servers that are
accessible to some-
one using a Palm
Pilot or mobile
phone.
“We want our
students to be able
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D A T A B I T
There’s no rest for those
weary of full e-mail in-
boxes: IDC, a market
research firm headquartered
in Framingham, Massachu -
setts, predicts that the
number of e-mails sent per
day will reach 60 billion
by 2006, nearly double the
31 billion messages sent
now. The research indicates
that this increasing volume
will fuel demand for better
filtering technology to help
users cope with the e-mail
onslaught.
I INTEL GIVES GRANT
The University of Washington
Business School’s new Center for
Technology Entrepreneurship has
received an $118,000 equipment
grant from Intel Corporation of
Santa Clara, Calif. Through the
grant, Intel has donated Dell equip-
ment, including flat screen monitors,
laptops, and multimedia stations.
Founded last year, the center will
use the equipment to expand its new
venture creation laboratory where
students from a number of disci-
plines can access entrepreneurship-
related databases, work closely with
inventors, and obtain advice from a
number of experts-in-residence.
I NEW IT SCHOOL
Last fall, the Singapore Management
University added a fourth school in
technology to its current schools in
business, economics and social sci-
ences, and accountancy. Called the
School of Information Systems
Management (SISM), the school will
open its doors to its first cohort of
50 to 100 undergraduate students in
August 2003 and hopes to admit
550 students by 2006. The school’s
mission, say school
administrators, is to pro-
duce students who are
knowledgeable about
business and IT to meet
Singapore’s growing
need for tech-minded
business administrators.
I INFO IS A HIT
Since it was made available for Web
site registrants in September 2001,
the “.info” domain has already
logged its millionth Web site,
according to Computerworld.
Web addresses in the .com domain
have become so hard to obtain that
many companies are registering
their addresses with the .info domain
in tow. About 27 percent of those
names registered are now in use,
according to Afilias Ltd., the compa-
ny that maintains the .info registry.
That compares to 35 percent of reg-
istered .com names in active use.
For the record, the one-millionth
Web address to be registered under
the .info domain went to www.los-
angeles-real-estate-search.info.
NEWSBYTES
David Feeney offers technical assistance as the Fox School’s
“Digital Concierge.”
