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Initially restricted within schools, the violence among students began in the Internet through social networks, starting cyber bullying expression. This study aims to analyze the influence of worry and involvement of teachers in cyber bullying practices. For this, a survey was conducted among 112 elementary and high school teachers from public and private schools in the city of Blumenau, SC, Brazil...
This paper describes a qualitative study of user training practices in a medical computing lab. We define training in this circumstance as, “acquisition of information in order to successfully do scientific work”. The medical computing lab is a typical scientific computing environment with a significant overlap of computing and scientific application domain expertise. The study presents a picture...
21st century Learning is learning in a knowledge era. Change is necessary to foster new ways of learning to address 20th century shortcomings in learning that mostly catered to the traits of Gen-X. A transition is required to deal with the traits of Gen-Y. Global access to educational content at any time has diminished the functions of schools as information deliverers. To foster non-assessment based...
The learning process can now be described as targeted joint activities of the teacher and students in the educational environment. Education - a purposeful process of bilateral activities of the teacher and the student in the transfer and assimilation of knowledge. Development of Personal Learning Environment in virtual reality plays the key role.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has integrated crowdsourcing and gamification into its multi-issue online magazine called Inspire. This allows them to make recruiting and training believers and like-minded people to fight unbelievers — a virtual game that anyone can play worldwide. This paper provides customized crowdsourcing and gamification frameworks for Inspire. The framework can be used...
Several minority languages are on the verge of extinction in Nepal, especially when they don't have a generally accepted writing system and occur in an area where Nepali (the official language) is predominantly used. Lohorung is an example, which is spoken among the Lohroung Rai communities of Sankhuwasabha, a hilly district of eastern Nepal. Older generations of Lohorung are experts in Lohorung but...
Software development teams need highly valuable knowledge to carry out knowledge-intensive development activities. Agile teams are cross-functional teams that promote sharing of project-specific knowledge through frequent face-to-face interaction, effective communication and customer collaboration. Knowledge sharing is difficult for distributed Agile teams due to spatial, temporal, and cultural barriers,...
The aim of the paper is to address the question how social media can be successfully used for trust and reputation building in the learning function, in particular for eLearning at the workplace in organizations. The article consolidates the findings in a frame of reference with a two folded approach from a management perspective (using social media to organize learning) as well as from a learning...
This paper explores the development of eLearning technologies as a new tool to implement competency-based curricula in Tanzania medical universities, with a specific focus on Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). The paper provides the background of eLearning aspects and the early attempt of adopting eLearning in 2006 at MUHAS and its challenges leading to failure, next it presents...
With the widely application of modern communication and internet technology, informationalization persistently affects the whole situation of college's ideological and political education. In order to meet the demands of the information age, it is very important to improve self information literacy for the counselor, the mainstay of ideological and political education of college students. This essay...
The rapidly exploding aged 60 and over population is expected to comprise 22% of the general population by 2020 and is the same age group which has the greatest digital divide. The senior citizen population in New York is notably higher than the national average. The high tech world that surrounds the older adult population relies on smartphones to servers and being connected to the Internet. The...
Virtual learning community has become an important way for people to acquire knowledge in this Internet age. Usually, users post their questions online and wait others to review the post before any answers could be offered. Yet more than often, those who maintain domain knowledge concerning specific questions, which we will call expert, may not be able to notice these questions in time due to the...
Web automation programs offer a means for users to enhance the usability of the web. These programs can be published on a wiki or other repository, thereby making them available for use by other users. However, in addition to programs of broad usefulness to the community at large, these repositories also contain many programs that are unreliable or highly specialized to the needs of very small sub-...
Developing high quality education has been as a basic state policy, and teacher education is also been placed on the key and prior position to carry out in many countries. Conducting effective teacher education becomes a main way to improve the level of teachers' specialization and classroom teaching quality. The development of modern information technology perfects the construction of web-based teacher...
The purpose of the study is to investigate the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to empower rural women. A variety of ICTs are used by the rural women to develop their ICT skills. Participation in decision-making that affect their lives and the use of ICTs are crucial for the socio-economic empowerment of rural women. Mere availability and access to ICTs will not empower...
Rural living labs are an approach for enabling user driven ICT-based innovation initiatives geared towards economic and social development in rural areas. They also provide an environment for open innovation based on partnerships between all stakeholders. There are few deployments of Living Labs in South Africa and in Africa in general. The benefits of these deployments vary from place to place depending...
The correlation between information and communication technology (ICT), and economic growth is well-known and its use for development is already an established goal by UN in the developing countries. Its use in Pakistani villages where approximately 70% of the population presents many challenges such as lack of connectivity, education and electricity. The planners should not only provide high speed...
This work aims to launch a line of research dedicated to investigate the psychological aspects involved in teacher learning mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study aims to contribute to the analysis of the cognitive, emotional and motivational specific aspects of learning with ICT. The line of investigation starts up with a study on the development of creativity through...
We present N2Cloud, a novel Cloud-based neural network simulation system, which provides and exchanges neural network knowledge and simulation resources to and between arbitrary users on a world-wide basis following the Web 2.0 principle. N2Cloud enables the exchange of knowledge, as neural network objects and paradigms, by a virtual organization environment and delivers ample resources by exploiting...
Remote fruition of architectures can be enhanced by using virtual tours more effectively. This technology suffers from a lack of information about context and objects, our user-centered approach described in this paper attempt to make progress in this direction to deliver virtual tours as a powerful, active learning tool to enhance understanding of monuments and sites, especially those with limited...
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