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With the global shift in economics the demand for the highly trained specialists is continuing to grow. Thus the next 50 years have the potential to become the golden age of higher education: more and more people are going to broaden their knowledge in different branches of their specialties and develop complex social skills in order to sustain cultural diversity and leadership. In the paper an overview...
The research aim on studying how business intelligence practices can be applied to the educational industry and support its decision making process. Practices of a business intelligence system can be found in various departments of an educational institution such as admissions, academics, and management. Having the ability to combine huge volumes of data and get insights for students throughout their...
Due to an increasing level of reliance on ICT and the proliferation of sophisticated cyberattacks, organisations are increasingly vulnerable to them. Cyberattacks take a variety of forms and have a broad spectrum of effects. Also, the growth of cyberattacks and the damage caused by them has highlighted the concern about the theme. Therefore, this study aims, through the use of a survey, to comprehend...
The purpose of this study is to explore students' perceived information security and privacy (IS&P) threats and to classify them in a way that helps in analyzing the problem, creating awareness measures and further improving students' IS&P education. Using a qualitative research approach, a group of forty two Master's degree IT students identified seventy five IS&P threats related to them...
Existing approaches to the use of computing resources is too wasteful for local date centers of educational institutions. Modern multimedia services require significant computing power, which are not always available. In this paper, we introduce an approach that allows more efficient use of limited resources by dynamically scheduling the distribution of data flows at several levels: between the physical...
This paper will focus on how ICT in the classroom could really work to provide the children the education they need in this 21st century. Learning for children with the use of ICT in the classroom can work if teachers have the ability and skills to integrate ICT in their classroom. This is where the headmasters play a crucial role, if the teachers are supported by the surrounding education system...
Equipping classrooms with inexpensive sensors can provide students and teachers with the opportunity to interact with the classroom in a smart way. In this paper an approach to acquiring contextual data from a classroom environment, using inexpensive sensors, is presented. We present our approach to formalising the usage data. Further we demonstrate how the data was used to model specific room usage...
Lack of a pan-European technical infrastructure that would enable EU citizens to easily use foreign services with their national electronic identities is one of the main obstacles of wider use of secure cross-border electronic transactions in EU. A promising approach in creating such an infrastructure is being provided by the EU STORK 2.0 project that brings together EU identity and service providers,...
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...
Todays increased interest in enterprise risk management is motivated by decision making in reaction to change and complex compliance requirements as well as the need to minimize business losses and improve business outcomes. It is therefore important to help business stakeholders become fully aware of applicable risks and their possible impact on other business constituents. This paper represents...
This paper describes and demonstrates the viciLogic platform as an effective pedagogical solution for online technology enhanced learning, assessment and prototyping of digital logic and computer architecture systems. viciLogic provides an opportunity to improve digital systems education globally and to develop the global digital logic design community, with a positive impact on future digital logic...
Privacy-preserving authentication solutions minimize the use of personal data of a user in an authentication process and can best be implemented with attribute-based credentials, in short: Privacy-ABCs. This technology allows not only for a reduction of personal data processed, but also conditional identification and the revocation of credentials. In order to fully benefit from their potential, implementation...
Since last decade, Information Technology has changed the human life to another dimension. It turned out because of the introduction of the concept of cloud computing. Basically Cloud computing is an internet based computing service. Cloud provides virtually everything as service and infrastructure provides resources as provision over the Internet and Storage cloud can give storage as a service. These...
In this paper, we will firstly pay attention to the holistically external business environment of the outdoor adventure clothing in the UK and present a full picture of its market based on the UK. By giving this full picture, we will also identify the economic and sociocultural factors as two main factors from the PESTEL tool. They both are believed to have the most significant impact for the market...
Plagiarism is a serious problem identified amongst research community. Plagiarism has been around for centuries, but with the use of Internet and easy access to material in electronic format has made it easier to plagiarize materials of others. On the other hand plagiarism detection is now as easy as plagiarizing a document. There are a number of anti-plagiarism software available either freely or...
With the development of digital technology, libraries are changing their roles from book providers to e-information providers. Manuscripts are primary source of historic information. Manuscripts are diminishing along with the time. Despite their best efforts, it is difficult to save manuscripts in physical form beyond a time frame. Digital preservation of manuscripts restores it from damage, larceny...
This paper reports a study of institutional archives at urban and metropolitan universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). Founded in 1990, the CUMU is an organization of North American institutions of higher education committed to the shared mission to use the power of their campuses in education, research and service to enhance the communities in...
The reach of information is now much easier and effective in the age of information technology. Electronic documents and resources have changed the entire paradigm of education and research. Students, teachers, professionals, academicians and researchers may get their information on their desktop/laptop/Smartphone through electronic platform. The availability of Information and Communication Technology...
Libraries support the parent institution's teaching, learning, and research programs irrespective of its nature being academic or corporate or Research and Development setup. Due to the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), there has been a paradigm shift in the library services and the roles of information professionals. Librarians' role has been changed from information provider...
This paper documents the research and development of a standard based curriculum for information literacy enhancement at elementary schools in the Northern region of Thailand. The exercise is part of a PhD study project that aims to determine both the learning standard and the indicators of information literacy in elementary schools in Thailand. Further, the project evaluates the attitude of the elementary...
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