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For Master of Computer Applications (MCA) course, number of colleges has grown drastically in terms of numbers and intake in past few years in India. An availability of qualified and motivated teachers and trainers is a common problem in most Indian MCA colleges. Additionally, a vast majority of the available teachers does not have any formal training in teaching (like B.Ed.), ultimately resulting...
Knowledge management systems, or KMS, have been widely adopted in businesses, and little research exists on the integration of these systems in the field of higher education. Knowledge management systems were developed to support and enhance the organizational processes in agreement with the strategy of the organization. Our objective is to shed light on the consequences of knowledge management systems...
Establishing an Open Access Policy (OAP) in an academic institution is unlike establishing other policies the institution might have developed. An OAP in an academic institution would require the active participation of all stakeholders; researcher/faculty, library, management (Administration) and even students. OAP development in Covenant University spanned a total of 13 months; covering, draft policy...
The path to success in engineering is through mathematics. In particular, students need to successfully complete an engineering calculus sequence of at least four courses to fulfill their requirements for an engineering degree. With the goal of increasing success in Engineering Calculus I, and consequently retaining engineering majors, the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University, through...
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?...
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...
Every year thousands of students apply for access to higher education in Portuguese universities. These students are allocated according to their application, secondary school grades and their preference to distinct establishment-course pairs. Despite official statistics provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), it is not always possible to have the relevant indicators...
This communication is framed within a broader research study referred to the basic concepts that students should know when considering first-time Database in Computing Degrees in Spanish universities. In this work, we have submitted our findings we obtained in pretrial community education experts work mainly working in the area of databases, so that we can conclude what the most important basic minimum...
Human needs of information increase periodically. These improvements lead to knowledge discovery which can be used to prediction. One of the organization that needs prediction to support their business processes is college or university. Universities need to predict their student achievement as support of their business objective. In fact, the software owned by universities have not been able to help...
The paper describes the planning, design and structure of a new module in Asset Management to be delivered from January 2015 at a major UK university. The module, termed a `Unit', is an option for final year MEng students as part of their Engineering Council's Accredited Higher Education Programme. The authors plan to follow up with a `lessons learned' paper in 2015.
The changing university environment have meant a substantial rise in the rate of commercialization of university-based technologies. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of technology transfer process as perceived by different stakeholders in the innovation lifecycle. Data is collected using semi-structured interviews with inventors, technology transfer personnel, patent attorneys, consultants...
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether university background significantly influences employers' views in selecting a new engineer in Malaysia industries. This paper briefly presents the employers' preference for university of engineering graduates. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 301 employers of Malaysian industries and the respondents were restricted to personnel at the higher...
This study describes the complexity and diversities in the process of teacher learning. It examines a harmonious and supporting group learning through the construction of teachers'community of practice. Education reform in the era of knowledge economy requires teachers to be education practitioners, researchers, and innovators. Teacher learning is not only of practical importance but also of theoretical...
Nowadays, mobile technologies offer vast possibilities to extend and enrich learning activities. The constant evolution and growing use of these technologies, makes them a powerful instrument to promote a more inclusive education world-wide. Higher Education Institutions must then take advantage of these technologies in order to improve their learning processes. In this context, this paper presents...
The paper presents an overview of student mobility trends for European programs. It is shown that mobility is a crucial component of curricula for engineering education. The study focus is on the features of international mobility between EU Universities and Russian Universities. The CS/BMSTU and FCT/UNL case study is envisaged.
In present project-oriented management is becoming more and more widely applicable in various spheres of activities. In spite such sustainable development, there are systems in which project-oriented management is used extremely rarely, in particular, russian state universities. The author classifies the goals and objectives of the introduction of project-oriented management at the University from...
The purpose of this study was to measure student response by compared Management Department and Accounting Department, against a system of learning in e-learning. The samples are taken by non-probability sampling method that is purposive. Three hundred students (respondents) from these two departments of a private university are participated in this study, with a standard error of 1%. Based on a set...
In recent years, e-learning is increasingly growing, and many organizations, like universities, are seeking to implement it successfully and taking advantages of its benefits. To this end, identifying factors affecting the success and failure of e-learning has become essential. On the other hand, human technical ability to generate and collect data has been increasing rapidly in recent decades, and...
Paper presents the contribution to the building of remote e-laboratories based on physical software ISES (Internet School Experimental System). The control system is an invariable finite-state machine (FSM) for which the control file and corresponding web page are built automatically for the particular experiment by plug and play approach using the screen questionnaire similar to the expert systems...
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