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Cloud computing has emerged in recent years as a popular method of deploying information technology (IT) solutions within organisations. Cloud computing provides scalable, on-demand IT resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and utilised over the Internet. Cloud computing solutions can provide an excellent alternative for educational institutions where budget cuts have been incurred and cloud...
This paper describes the impact of emerging trends and technology in western higher education on academic libraries. These trends present several challenges, as well as opportunities for them. The paper discusses some useful approaches and strategies to overcome these challenges and exploit the opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about emerging trends and technologies among...
This paper investigates the use of learning management systems as tools constituting student’s personal learning environments in the degree of informatics applied to education in the National University of Chimborazo–Ecuador. The main result of this paper is that there is an increasing number of courses that rely on virtual classrooms, but learning occurs both in and out of these learning environments...
Many universities conduct student evaluations, with the goal of encouraging improvement in teaching. Evaluations are subjective assessments by students, and do not directly evaluate specific teaching methods or behaviors as being good or bad. Instructors therefore cannot necessarily easily relate evaluations to areas for teaching improvement. To address this issue, we proposed a teaching behavior...
Internationalization is a growing area in world-wide higher education. In order for local and international students to develop into responsible global citizens, they need to interact while they are on the university campus together. With the aim of facilitating local and international student interaction, a Facebook Page was set up by the international office at a university. The page was monitored...
Plagiarism and cheating are critical issues that jeopardize quality assurance in higher education. When it comes to e-learning and m-learning, fair use of information becomes even more crucial. This case study is an attempt to imprint academics' knowledge, beliefs and strategies regarding plagiarism and cheating. It was found that most of academics were well informed but they did not spend time in...
Online discussion in educational social networks can be considered an application of the social constructivism theory. In fact, social constructivism is applicable to all educational contents and activities, including social networking activities. In this paper we present a case study of using social networks for online discussions in a university level course and discuss the results of this case...
Mobile learning (m-learning) is an emerging area of distance education and there is a great interest in incorporating it in higher education, due to the mobile devices capabilities which are rapidly increasing and renders mobile devices more efficient and more attractive to students. On the other hand, the educational content plays a significant role in the process of delivering knowledge, especially...
Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Started in 2008 and gathering momentum over the past two years, now an online phenomenon, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) reunite different perspectives over a globalized online learning. The paper analyses the use of OER and MOOCs in different study cases in Romanian universities...
Game-based Learning (GBL) is an efficient approach to increase students' learning motivations. However, to develop a specially-designed educational game is time-consuming and limited to specific subject, which leads to high cost and low reusability problems. Integrating general purpose commercial games into educational context and subjects seems a potential approach but the pressing issue still is...
VALS (Virtual Alliances for Learning Society) European Project has the aim of establishing sustainable processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by the use of Open Source Software. To achieve this, VALS builds knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies...
We face the process of High Quality Accreditation in two ways: one involving large amount of information (big data), including issues as: self evaluation, high quality, statistics, indicators, surveys, field work (process engineering), during several periods of time. The other one is related to information contained about High Quality: which involved the development of an intelligent architecture...
Many higher education institutes and universities are involved in beyond borders decision making processes. These activities accelerated after Bologna process agreement. E-participation not only covers the general participation of citizens, but also enables higher education decision makers to communicate with each other and with all stakeholders within the university. During more than ten years the...
Eccles et al.'s ‘Expectancy-Value Model of Achievement Motivation’ (2000) states that ‘an individual's choice, persistence, and performance can be explained by their beliefs about how well they will do on the activity and the extent to which they value the activity’ [1]. This paper employs Eccles et al.'s theoretical framework to identify performance barriers and facilitators for Scottish college...
This paper presents a social network specializing in higher education teaching innovation, InEdUn (Innovación Educativa Universitaria, http://inedun.campusandaluzvirtual.es). InEdUn is the result of two inter-university teaching innovation projects (TIPs). InEdUn site allows faculty to spread and share achievements emerging from TIPs such as Open Educational Resources, OER; teaching and learning experiences...
The transfer pathway, particularly from two- to four-year colleges, is often seen as a vehicle to expand the science and engineering workforce by increasing college participation of underrepresented groups, such as black or African American students. In an earlier study, after controlling for credits earned, we found that black transfer students are more likely to persist in engineering than non-transfer...
In the last years the educational research advocates the use of new teaching and learning approaches, particularly in Higher Education. Simultaneously, the challenges of society requires that Higher Education institutions develop in their students other competences, beyond the academic knowledge. It seems to be consensual that the purpose of Higher Education courses is the development, among its students,...
The paper introduces long-term survey results relating to the ICT usage by secondary school graduates in the Czech Republic within the process of selecting a university and starting the university study. Data on applying for the university, collecting information about study programmes, results of entrance exams, access to the Internet, use of ICT in university education and others were collected...
The higher education should be oriented by social demand and it is essential to improve knowledge application ability. The application ability of students can be developed through a variety of ways. Making use of the project team work from design, developing projects to winning national award is a kind of attempt to cultivate application ability in practice. This paper first discussed some problems...
This research highlights the potential for implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in higher education institutions, recommends some best practices from Oracle solutions for universities, and discusses the situation of ERP in developing countries accompanied with a case study from a university in a developing country. The analysis indicates that ERP is beneficial for higher education...
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