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Virtual Worlds (or virtual environments) are becoming more popular than ever before, transforming the global business environment. These new Virtual Environment Platforms offer employees opportunities towards powerful computing and data analysis. The current study presents the various practices of Virtual Worlds, examines available platforms, proposes best practices and implements a Virtual World...
Student internship programs are characterized by their non-traditional educational approach based on experiential learning, taking students out into the industry to gain experience in their field of study. This case study presents the new Task-Based Internship (TBI) course offered by the School of Business, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. The course is examined in terms of benefits and areas for improvement...
The scientific and technical challenges of this work were met by creating a software core of information technology for CSCL. This software has been adapted as a CSCL system at a private secondary school. This cost-effective technology is designed to be flexible, and it can easily adapt and be modified according to the requirements and specifications of other institutions. The Collaborative Learning...
This work investigates the extent to which Cypriot companies use the User-Generated-Content (UGC) created on their eBusiness platforms. Data are collected from local brands in order to apprehend the current situation of the local market regarding UGC. Our study reveals that Cypriot Brands prefer Social Media, as the means to create UGC, instead of having a regular .com or .com.cy website as an online...
This interdisciplinary study integrates technology, linguistics and language teaching theories and methods and highlights the effectiveness of technology-related blogs, created and maintained by students. For the purpose of this paper, various aspects of the Student Generated Content (SGC) postings quality as well as certain technical writing skills (e.g. relevance and exemplification) are examined...
Smartphones have become an indispensable part of everyday life. With all of their advanced functionality today, smartphone-users can experience everything from surfing the web to watching movies to social media and gaming, resulting in a radical shift in behavior patterns, lifestyle and status. The current study aims to examine the structural relationship, behavior and preferences among young Cypriots...
With the ubiquity and rapidly expanding functionality of mobile technologies, educational institutions have the potential to improve and facilitate learning. More and more educators are employing communication, collaboration and sharing tools and resources to make learning more accessible, equitable, personalized and flexible for students everywhere.
The current study examines the integration of robotics as a learning tool (mindtool) in the teaching and learning process and its effectiveness in achieving specific learning objectives. Study's sample was twenty-one, 2nd graders that attended eleven lessons, in October - November 2012. To achieve the above the educational robotics package Lego Mindstorms NXT was used. Case study methodology was employed...
Research suggests that almost half of engineering students switch to other majors or drop out mainly due to three key reasons: teaching and advising insufficiency; complexity of engineering curriculum; and a lack of ‘belonging’ within engineering [1]. The current study measures the compatibility between engineering undergraduate students' personality types and their major of study in order to estimate...
Technological, economic and social challenges are continuous, influencing higher education institutions to equip students with the necessary knowledge, skills and competences to work in such challenging context. Today, in engineering education a fragmented, content-overloaded engineering curriculum is not offering engineering students the career field that will bring together the technological problem-solving...
This paper addresses the phenomenon of interdisciplinary learning (IL) in the higher education context. The study aims to examine the employment of interdisciplinary educational practice through a cloud environment - Applications (Google Apps). More specifically, through IL the authors aim to eliminate the fragmentation and the learning of isolated skills for two distinct undergraduate courses (MGT-372...
Based on an earlier work, authors suggest that in higher education setting, improved learning experience for lecturers and students is possible through a meaningful collaboration, communication and authoring aiming the construction of knowledge by students [4]. The current work investigates the implementation of inquiry-based learning and the development of community of inquiry (CoI) through Google...
The concept of entrepreneurship and the idea of entrepreneurship education are not novel. Entrepreneurship education at the university level, is mostly taught in business schools. Entrepreneurial skills are for every student. This empirical study investigates the role of case-based learning (CBL) in relation to entrepreneurial skills development in MIS multidisciplinary undergraduate courses at the...
Managing Technological innovation is one of the most important aspects of business for management, business, management information systems (MIS), engineering and science students to learn. Academics and practitioners, who teach topics related to technology innovation to multidisciplinary classes, usually they do so deductively, that is the lecturer introduces the general principles and continues...
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