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The authors, including Murray, the President of Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania; write about innovation initiatives at the school, and their relevance to other organizations. They focus on what they call “Little Innovations,” described in their words as innovation born from necessity as an organization considers how to solve a central, pressing problem. They delineate five steps to little...
Distributed Software Development course is a joint project-based course involving three universities, from Croatia, Sweden and Italy, running each year since 2003. Distributed student teams work on all phases of a complex software engineering project, solving several challenges of working in a global environment, thus obtaining a valuable experience for their future careers. The course is very well...
Many universities have an interest in providing global humanitarian experiences to students but often do not have the finances or time available to accommodate such experiences. By collaborating with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities can provide undergraduate students majoring in technical and medical fields these experiences. These opportunities can offer a significant understanding...
Society evolution toward the information and knowledge-based economy made necessary a new and more specific definition of electrical engineering. The paper discusses about new approach of electrical energy systems as power systems microprocessor controlled. From this point of view computer use was integrated in electrical engineering. Some tendency in electrical engineering curricula reform are presented...
Cloud computing recently offers immense benefits. But higher education institutions (HEIs) are hesitating to adopt. As a result, they are not benefited more from such technology. This is because key adoption capabilities are not explored in detail in HEIs context. In addition to this, there is no comprehensive empirically validated adoption readiness assessment model which helps them to adopt Cloud...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by a decrease in social interaction, communication, creativity, imagination, and organization of daily activities of those who have this condition. People with ASD present difficulties in the comprehension of figurative language, such as idioms. Due to the lack of mobile applications that support people with ASD in the...
It has been recognized that current phishing filters in existence today are steadily lacking in effectiveness. Furthermore, users and organizations are lacking appropriate security policies and education, which has led to massive reports of data and privacy breaches in organizations. To address this issue, a phishing filter is proposed which will build upon and broaden the scope of existing techniques...
The process of globalization poses new challenges for the government in the field of education system regulation. The growing importance of the need for a qualitative assessment of the state of the educational process contributed to the development of one of the new scientific directions — the issue of quality management of higher education. Despite the fact that a lot of publications have appeared...
These article shows efficiency of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in academic performance of course “Physics I”, specifically in how learning arises across experience. For this, existing methodologies were adapted in PBL in order to generate six methodological proposals, developed during an academic semester. Impact of PBL was evident at end of semester. It was validated through non-parametric test from...
While assessing electric circuit homework assignments in an Electrical Engineering program at West Virginia University, it is sometimes difficult to follow students' logic and thinking process. When instructors grade homework assignments, they only see what is written down on paper. Most students neglect to write out their thoughts, which can cause difficulty in comprehending why they choose a particular...
This paper presents a case study of a university campus in Kiziba refugee camp in Rwanda. It evaluates different aspects of this university as a unique example of education in an extreme environment. The goal is to answer what accommodations, educational and technical, need to be made for a university to function in such extreme environments. In the process, field measurements were made evaluating...
Drawing inspiration from the psychological literature on social change [e.g., 1, 2], we classify approaches to development engineering into three categories based on the depth, sustainability, and scalability of the resultant change within a community. In this context, we define “first-order change” as charity or direct service, in which a donor meets the immediate needs of a beneficiary; we define...
Today, many Information System Success studies are performed however only a few studies which focused on the impact of a personal user to succeed of applying IS. The aim of this study is to investigate and to measure the effect of End User Computing Satisfaction into Individual of Impact Performance, with regard the successful implementation of Information system at higher education. Random sampling...
The article deals with the essence of the marketing platform of organization and functioning of the system-spatial complex «PSE» (production — science — education). The authors shows the role of marketing architecture in the organization of marketing activities to promote technologies and innovative culture created by clusters of «PSE» complex. Marketing architecture is considered as the way of commensurate...
This article analyzes the reasons for the referral of children of Kabardian and Karachay-Balkar aristocrats to the Dmitryevskiy semisquadron of comissioned cantonists.
This article is addicted to the analysis of the main components of informational environment in the universities. The authors provide the characteristics of the chief documents load at universities. It is proposed the informational and analytical systems to be used in order to manage the informational and documental environment at the University.
The purpose of this paper is to explore and define key characteristics, tendencies, needs and expectations that distinguish the generation of Millennials from the generation of Baby Boomers. The paper will present both theoretical and practical overview in order to create effective education program and training system in the organization which is appealing to the Millennial generation, a workforce...
The paper is devoted to quality assurance approaches in education and presents a comparative analysis of the Common Quality Assurance Framework (CQAF), the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), and the International Standards ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems — Requirements. The paper deals with the possibility to integrate them and discusses...
There are two main project management (PM) approaches: heavy-weight approaches like waterfall or V-model and light-weight approaches, mainly like agile. Recently, the mix and variation of both, so-called ‘hybrid’ approaches become more and more important, opening a new field of research questions. The article represents a brief overview of the state of art in the field of hybrid approaches, in order...
All organizations, both public and private should set goals or objectives at different organizational levels. So higher education institutions should not be the exception. A holistic evaluation approach can be useful for analyzing whether the pursued strategic or tactical objectives are achieved regarding different information needs at operational level. While teachers may aim at facilitating the...
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