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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...
The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of four departments in the College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Sultanate of Oman. The department admits around 25% to 30% of engineering students every semester. Specialization selection is based on students' discretion and academic acation selection is its inception, ECE accommodated the largest share of students...
This pilot study explores the use of serendipitous learning of mathematics in a group of Further Education students. Data was gathered from 28 students within a computer games design unit on a computer science course. The data was gathered using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings indicated that even at this early stage that student's view of mathematics had changed in a positive...
Information Systems Adoption is a multi-faceted and complex investigation area that can cross disciplinary boundaries, combine multiple research methods and consider different methodological approaches to analyse emerging IS Adoption phenomena. In order to generate valuable and reliable outcomes a research methodology has to be carefully determined. A persistent concern of the IS discipline is choosing...
These days more and more digital learning and teaching opportunities emerge into the world of higher education. In this upcoming project which is described in this paper, the teachers' needs, especially their teaching motivation will be regarded. This project is part of a bigger project, where several different faculties will work together. This combination of faculties is beneficial for topics like...
The limited adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has kicked off the launch of several projects to search for possible solutions. One of these projects is “Open Educational Ideas and Innovations” (OEI2). The goal of this project is to find alternatives for increasing the uptake of OER and facilitating the collaborative development of OER. To enhance the experience of the users of open education,...
Cloud computing can provide remote access to computing resources via the internet. It has the potential to transform economic activities considering its inherent pay-per usage model, flexibility and scalability features. This paper uses a socio-technical framework that maximizes selected development impact factors to analyze the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud applications in sub-Saharan...
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...
Examine the factors affecting economic growth in the United States, emphasizing the importance of education, technological innovation, and perceived competence for national competitiveness. However, to enhance the country's competitiveness, the innovations and technological improvements, and stressed that the entrepreneur is an important factor affecting national competitiveness. Thus, this study...
The paper builds on a regional economic development framework that was developed as an advisory guide to regional governments internationally; as part of a UN-Habitat funded project. The original framework was based on ten case studies that served as illustrations of the implementation of the introduced economic development mechanisms. This paper provides an in-depth investigation into the practical...
Enterprise computing services play a critical role in universities enabling faculty, students, and staff to complete meaningful work and further goals of the institution. These services require physical server computers with processors, disk space, and memory. Physical servers take up data center space and consume power; they are designed for performance with little detail paid to ecological design...
ICT (Information & Communication Technology) has been touted as having the potential to solve a number of educational issues faced in rural parts of developing countries, however little research has been done to assess the impact of ICT based education on teacher student relationship and interaction. An action research approach is used to explore the impact of introducing ICT as a new learning...
Support processes play an important role to facilitate researchers (users) to accomplish their research activities with the help of cyber-infrastructure(s). However, the current user-support practices in cyber-infrastructure are being followed without an accountability and ownership of tasks thus over-burdening user support staffs who are performing user support on a free-will basis. This research...
The purpose of special education for students with intellectual disability is not only to introduce and improve academic skills but mainly to enhance the quality of the children's life and promote their autonomy and self-determination. Games have been used in special education classrooms as tools of gratification and extrinsic motivation. Contemporary game theorists have gone further to suggest that...
Informatization is an effective way to promote the reform of higher education and improve the quality of it. This study was carried out in Guangdong Province by conducting survey on the current status towards construction and sharing of digital educational resources in colleges and universities. As the result, it showed that the construction of digital educational resources is comparatively large...
In order to analyze the influencing factors of near-miss initiative report in coal mine, a random questionnaire survey was designed based on nine factors that affect the miners un-initiative report near-miss that were identified by interviews and literature review. Then using AMOS 7.0 the influencing factors of near-miss initiative report in coal mine were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis...
Design and design thinking are crucial skills engineers need to develop. Alien-centered design is a teaching strategy that has been used in the First Year of Engineering at a Midwestern research university to facilitate students' awareness of and understanding of the user, contributing to their becoming human-centered designers. With this teaching strategy, the problem students are posed is to create...
Cooperative education programs (co-op), also referred to as Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), provide students with relevant professional experiences in industry. This industry-focused environment presents an opportunity for students to clarify academic and career objectives prior to finishing their studies. This first stage of a four-phase research project explores undergraduate engineering students'...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are disrupting traditional, higher education and redefining how learning takes place online. These open courses typically offer some form of recognition, such as a certificate of completion and/or digital badge, to recognize, validate, and in some cases even accredit learning. A general problem with MOOCs is the uncertainty regarding the use and goals of recognition,...
Engineers must be adept in finding, evaluating, and using information in order to create quality designs. Previous research has found first year engineering students frequently do not use sufficient sources to support their design decisions. To further understand what strategies engineering students use in seeking, evaluating, and using information, we interviewed 21 engineering students at a large...
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