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Career guidance for high school graduates is important for their further personal and professional development. The accurate, complete, concise and understandable presentation for high school graduates of the educational and occupational offer made by higher education institutions is an important aspect in choosing a career. This paper presents the link between a proper communication and career counseling...
This paper focuses on the framework of non-deterministic mobile Computer Music Interfaces within the context of Human Computer Interaction. A very special subgroup of these interfaces, emerging from the subconscious, comprises the Brain Computer Interfaces that affirmatively expose direct manipulation techniques. Short and long memory experiments with musical exploitation can prove shortcomings in...
Communication is the lifeblood of project management, but the increasing geographical dispersion of project teams and stakeholders creates a challenge. Project managers need to exploit a range of tools and methods to communicate effectively with their team, clients and subcontractors. Social networking is ever more widespread, both in the workplace and our personal lives. This paper studies project...
In this study, a long term mobile learning program was conducted and a survey was developed to explore the effects of mobile learning on five 21st century core competences, that is, collaboration, communication, complex problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity, using a sample of 606 high school students from 10 high schools in Taiwan. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to show that...
Social media for university marketing has become the new fad. Students, teachers and administrative personnel of different campuses use these new tools to promote their university achievements and to introduce communication within or outside campus. However, are social media tools improving communication among students and staff? Can the use of Twitter and Facebook effectively promote university activities?...
In recent years there has been a big development of Information Technology and Communication (ICT). Given the paradigm of society, Information Society, constantly with changes and new challenges, which the schools of the 1st cycle of basic education can't stay apart. This study pretends to infer the interactions between the school and users, mediated by the microblogging system — the Twitter. This...
Online social networks (OSNs), until recently, were tagged as child's play until they caused massive revolutions with upheaval of whole nations. This clearly announced the coming in of a new era with the empowerment of the masses through technology. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many others have changed the way interaction occurs. The world's largest universities have created their pages on the main...
"Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology", abbreviated as Faith, is among the most important educational projects in Turkey, in which students and teachers can use their tablet PCs to obtain educational data (text, images, media, etc.) stored in cloud servers. However, given the large number of users along with vast amount of educational data to be accessed, traffic...
Microblogging is a popular form of social media that has quickly permeated both enterprise and open source communities. However, exactly how open source communities can leverage microblogging isn't yet well understood. The authors investigate how Drupal's open source community uses Twitter, a household name in microblogging. Their analysis of group and individual accounts of Drupal developers reveals...
With the advent of electronic interaction, dominance (or the assertion of control over others) has acquired new dimensions. This study investigates the dynamics and characteristics of dominance in virtual interaction by analyzing electronic chat transcripts of groups solving a hidden profile task. We investigate computer-mediated communication behavior patterns that demonstrate dominance and identify...
Significant efforts are being made both from academia and industries towards increasing employability skills among fresh engineering graduates in India. In this aspect innovative teaching and assessment methodologies play vital role in promoting higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and soft skills, thereby minimizing the gap between academia and industry. In this context, we have developed a rubric...
The objective of this work is to present the use of a Smart Phone operation as part of a larger project at the University of Deus to on Smart Grids (UDS mart GridTM), Spain, as the way of being able to make a reservation of an electric vehicle service under a short-term leasing/sharing/pooling case study. The ReadyToCharge@ is an intelligent system application protocol that has as a purpose to be...
This paper tries to suggest certain ways in which the two traditionally segregated fields — literary studies and communication skills — can somewhat be integrated. The text with which the paper deals is Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess,” a poem that lends itself to both literary studies and the study of communication skills. The object of the article is to bridge the gap between the two distinct...
With increased global interconnectivity, reliance on network services and Internet communication, real-time transport system security has become an issue, which cannot be ignored. Encryption is viewed as a salvation to protect the real-time transport system from intrusion and computer-virus attacks. A plenty of applications like real-time communications for the web, Voice over IP (VOIP) etc. These...
As people's water consumption become large and large in china, people begin to expect high requirements of water quality. However, some waterworks' monitoring system cannot automatically detect and process water quality parameters and system operation status. Therefore, staffs have to manual meter reading. The paper first discusses the design of the whole system, including the server side and the...
Preparing engineering students for global workplace is a growing need as engineering schools not only recognize the value of university experience, but also discover that many of their students do not demonstrate the right skills and mindsets for global success. Fresh graduates frequently lack knowledge of other cultures and languages and, most importantly, of how communication works. This paper reports...
This paper describes a conference in Saudi Arabia where it is customary for women to cover themselves, showing only face and hands, and to have separate conference rooms. An underlying theme is whether it is possible to have collaborative and a consequential exchange of ideas in a culture that operates differently from standard Western educational practice. The conference, held in Riyadh, was “The...
Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) plays an important role as the online platform for education in recent years. However, there's a lack of learning interest and effectiveness using the VLE due to the limitation of real time communication and information sharing among the users. In this paper, we propose to integrate Social Network Services (SNS) into VLE to address the limitations of the current...
“Making Academic Change Happen” (MACH) is a workshop designed and conducted by faculty of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The purpose of the three-day workshop is to provide faculty, staff, and administrators with change management tools that can assist them as they enact change on their own campuses. These changes may occur at many different sites, from the classes that they teach to the campus...
Identity awareness of research data has been introduced as a requirement for open research, transparency and reusability of research data in the context of eScience. This requirement includes the capability of linking research data to researchers, research projects and publications, and identifying the license for the data. This connectivity between research data and other elements in research ecosystems...
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