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This paper investigates how different individual and institutional factors pertaining to ICT readiness influence teachers' adoption of game-based learning technologies. The data were gathered from Finnish primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school teachers (N=1668) with an online survey. The results indicate that openness towards ICT, ICT attitude and the ICT compatibility with teaching positively...
The implementation of Health Information Technology (HIT) can improve the provision of high-quality and efficient healthcare services, however, it has met with significant challenges in many cases. Despite the challenges occurring in many countries, prior research on HIT implementation success factors is, however, mainly from the USA. This research conducted a survey to IT managers in Nordic countries'...
This medical perspective abstract is about two ongoing projects regarding patient centered information technology designs in inpatient and outpatient settings. These novel technologies aim to improve patient/family engagement by empowering them via information technology. We also reported some of the initial results.
Good assessment helps in good learning. Good assessment should be valid and reliable. This paper proposes that a valid summative assessment instrument can be created through course design in formal higher education programs as per the Instructional System Design Model ADDIE, and the reliability of the same can be ensured by avoiding systematic and random errors in evaluation. The validity of a summative...
Students need to develop informed and realistic career aspirations to gain the most from their university studies towards their initial career development. However developing their aspirations, goals, and expectations is a complex process. In Information Technology (IT) no clear career development framework is evident in the literature. We present a pilot study which investigates the career aspirations...
This paper explores the use of analytical rubrics as a form of assessment and feedback in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education. Rubrics are a tool for assessment, however, they can also be used to provide a mapping of learning outcomes and graduate attributes within minimum standards to allow students to evidence their skills beyond the assignment criteria. This paper will discuss how rubrics...
This paper illustrates a rule induction approach to discover decision patterns by using Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) to unravel the intrinsic factors for learning successes and failures in a cooperative group-learning environment. It employs an innovative group quiz method in a university Management Information Systems (MIS) course which induces students into a unique learning process...
Discovering the hidden knowledge from large volume of educational data and applying it properly for decision making is essential for ensuring high quality education in any academic institution. This knowledge is extractable through data mining techniques. Association Rule Mining technique aims at discovering implicative tendencies that can provide valuable information for the decision maker. In this...
The demographics of the modern day student (shorter attention span, multimodal access to learning resources, growing reliance on technology) and highlighted concerns of the traditional teaching methods, such as a lecture, demonstrate a need for a more innovative teaching practice. The traditional lecture in higher education is often delivered in single-directional ‘transmission’ style with the information...
IT Implementation in higher education institutions has generated the repetition of a large number of problems and failures. The most problems is not the IT adoption failure but the IT implementation failure to gain targeted organizational member's use of IT innovations that they have adopted. Researchers have investigated to understand the reasons why the level of IT Implementation success has shown...
The conceptual paper adresses a question on how information and communication technology (ICT) is integratively managed as national strategic resources to be a key determinant to competitiveness. The sustainable competitive advantages are resulted in interrelated trends of technology, business, and industry regulated by government for meeting our national goals. When the external environment was and...
Under the background of diversified social function and rich information, college students can think more actively and independently. Therefore, the traditional teaching mode cannot meet the needs of cultivating their creative thinking and innovative ability. However, the development of the modern computer information technology provides college students with an information platform to communicate...
In today's society, our life has fully stepped into the computer information age, and various kinds of multimedia equipments have been closely linked with our life. With the continuous development of the information society, the computer information technology has an important influence in the education field. How to combine college teaching with information technology and realize the coordinated...
This study aimed to come up with an ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT MODEL BUILDING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT INTEGRATED IN TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, using a strengths-based focus approach. The objectives of this research study are as follows: 1) determine the challenges encountered by the managers, faculty, staff and students in terms of systems and procedures, communication,...
The evolution of technologies and tools generated by the technologies have always been present in education. Adapting these technologies and tools to use in the classroom has been, is and will be a constant concern of teachers. In this paper we present an overview of the evolution of technologies and tools and how they have been adapted for use in the classroom, likewise, we present an idea of what...
Customer relationship management (CRM) has become an important strategy for keeping organizations focused on the needs of customers, improve service levels and customer satisfaction and foster long-term relationships with customers, which may result in organizational profits and sustainability. Globally, small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) play a dominant role in the tourism industry, but...
Until few years ago professional certifications were something that is good, but not necessary to have during employment process. That could be seen from the published job advertisements for variety of IT and information security professionals. In such job ads, there was first required specific experience in the subject area where no confirmation of that experience in form of professional certification...
This article aims to describe a successful experiment involving Courses Interdisciplinarity, Agile Methods, and Agile Tests in a Problem-based Learning, applied at different courses of the graduate program of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology, to improve the process of teaching/learning and to reduce the resources involved.
Traditional engineering disciplines like electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering have focused on the design of artifacts. However most the modern day software engineering course with in the undergraduate-computing curriculum focuses on teaching software processes rather than design of software artifacts. This paper argues the need for introducing software product...
Latinas in the United States experience higher levels of cervical cancer (CC) incidence and mortality rates than the general population, and many lack access to healthcare or face communication, literacy, and knowledge barriers preventing proper CC screening. Interactive technological interventions, like embodied conversational agents (ECA)/virtual agents, are currently used in other populations,...
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