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The University of Illinois at Springfield and the Institute of Technology, Sligo Ireland are building a model of inter-institutional online class collaborations using the preview version of Google Wave. In test waves during the fall semester of 2009, the two universities joined students in a multi-week collaboration on the topic of Internet impact on energy sustainability perceptions in Europe and...
The paper considers how technology is currently affecting the Business School world, and seeks to draw out some of the implications and ramifications that Business School administrators and educationalists should bear in mind. The paper starts out by describing a particular approach to teaching pioneered by the Open University Business School, contrasting it with the more traditional approach generally...
For higher education to remain innovative and viable in the future, factors facilitating and inhibiting online education must be closely examined and addressed. Higher education's approaches to the phenomenon of online learning reveal much about its ability to be proactive in the face of significant societal change. Online learning is a dynamic process that includes the interaction of administrators,...
Information Communication Technologies (ICT) such as podcasting have opened new possibilities for academe. For an instructor it means more tools to use in their organization of instruction; for students, a greater motivation to learn free of the time and space restraints posed by the typical classroom's walls and strict schedule; and for an educational institution it means a potential marketing opportunity...
The author of the article describes his experience with the usage of a decision-making game via Internet in extramural teaching of logistics. The article discusses also the issues of teamwork with the use of Internet communication technologies, student involvement in this form of distance learning as well as the problem of evaluating students working in groups.
Together with the development of computerization and e-teaching, e-tests have become more popular. Their enthusiast assume that e-quizzes are the requirement of current times, while their opponents state that this type of assessment evaluates only the final score and discounts the track of reasoning of the person taking the test. The article presents author's stand on the most popular myths concerning...
In recent years there can be observed a constant development of the Internet industry, in which outsourcing is gaining significance. The enterprises in this branch are very diversified. On the one hand there exist many single owner-operator microenterprises on the market whereas on the other hand there are also huge international corporations. Both of the types need a support in different areas of...
The paper presents the authors' experiences in modeling University's Distance Education Center. The authors conducted analyses, which brought interesting observations in the form of conceptual, business and structural models of organizational entity. Those models may also be useful for other universities' academic employees responsible for similar activities.
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