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Wiki spaces are simply web pages that allow users to create, edit and share each other's work. This paper shares experiences from a group of students who were using the Wiki spaces in their course work. It attempts to use collaborative knowledge building theory to evaluate the existing Wiki spaces practices in order to inform stakeholders on the power of Wiki spaces in setting students on a knowledge...
Many young college and university lecturers working in remote rural areas or working in foreign countries away from home are deprived of the opportunity of pursuing post graduate university degrees because of a number of logistical problems such as distance from a university offering a PhD degree or restrictions in their temporary country of residence. These problems are compounded if there are connectivity...
A previous study, run by some of the authors in collaboration with practitioners, has emphasized the need to improve architectural languages in order to (i) make them simple and intuitive enough to communicate effectively with project stakeholders, and (ii) enable formality and rigour to allow analysis and other automated tasks. Although a multitude of languages have been created by researchers and...
The evolution of web has changed the way of interaction with the user. Web 2.0 encouraged more contribution from the user of varying level of mapping experience and is called Crowd Sourcing. Open Street Map is also the outcome of Crowd Sourcing. It is collecting huge data with help of general public, researchers have started analysing the data rather than collecting it. The aim of this study is to...
Treatments of applications of the exponential function in Calculus textbooks are often cursory in that they treat unchecked (Malthusian) exponential growth processes without examination of their implications and consequences. Through the use of problems posed to students, we illustrate the implications of such processes when applied to the growth of populations and to the growth in the rates of consumption...
Internet has evolved and grown tremendously during the last years. We're living the rise of the “self-made” Web Services. On the one hand, this conception reduces the limitations for the creation of new Web Services capable of operating on top of the large Internet technological foundation, while on the other it has some drawbacks such as: slow creation process, long time-to-market, deep knowledge...
Software as a Service (SaaS) is an important flavour of cloud computing to provide global Business solutions. Innovations in cloud computing are leading to a promising future for cloud collaboration, where worldwide scattered distributed cloud resources belonging to diverse organizations or individuals are collectively used in a compliant manner to provide services. We propose a novel idea to utilize...
Melody Touch is an interactive game for learning English from songs. It combines the education and entertainment applications with the goal to help users improve their language skills by learning from songs. Melody Touch is developed on a tablet running Android operating system. The game consists of three main parts: the purchasing system, the game module and the review mistake session which has the...
Data usage has grown immensely in today's data sound and information poor technology age. Automated data collection tools and processes have led to the massive size of data stored in data marts and data warehouses, but a considerable amount of this data goes unutilized for information discovery. Data analytics in such enormous data has become increasingly challenging due to the growing variety, velocity,...
Now a day's people can hardly conceive of life without internet. The World Wide Web (WWW) as the largest global information media through which user can share, read, and writes data through computers connected with internet. WWW has had much progress since its advent. This paper provides a brief idea of the evolution of the web from web1.0 to web3.0. Web1.0 was about connecting and getting information...
The new trend of learning the Holy Quran, using automated technologies has emerged into surge of developing IT (Information Technology) applications that could ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Quran. In this paper, we propose a unifying framework to facilitate the development of a wide variety of Quranic applications for retrieval of knowledge. Various forms of transliterations are imported...
The digital age has allowed us to work remotely but collaboratively, generate and move terabytes of data at levels that was never anticipated 25 years ago and it has allowed us to explore the details and complex workings of nearly every part of our physical world. But our ability to process all this information is out pacing our infrastructure and is requiring us to develop new analytical methods...
This study aims to determine the significance of E-learning systems from an implementer's veiwpoint. A comprehensive analysis of existing litererary works and consultations with the engineers of E-learning systems was done to identify the 8 commonly used of E-learning systems. These systems are :Interactive learning software, Interactive whiteboard, E-Podium, Video Conferencing tools, Learning Management...
In this paper we explore the feasibility of conducting software training in a peer learning context with the aid of student-produced screen casts. Three case studies were conducted to collect data. Wikispaces and Screencast-O-Matic were used during software training sessions to support peer learning in three Information Systems and Technologies (IST) courses. Screen casts were produced by students...
To satisfy the fast growing throughput requirement in certain hot spot areas, pico cells are suggested to be deployed within the Macro cell coverage, forming a heterogeneous network (HetNet). However, it is difficult to deploy new sites in dense populated urban cities for new deployment and new fiber for the corresponding backhaul requirement. To solve these problems, a new architecture is proposed...
The current EEG analysis➔publication workflow mostly documents qualitative descriptions of event-related EEG dynamics. This makes it difficult to look for comparable results in the literature since search options are limited to textual descriptions and/or similar-appearing results depicted in the paper figures. We demonstrate a method for quantitative comparison of source-resolved results (e.g., ERPs,...
In recent years Twitter became the social network for information sharing and spreading. By retweeting, users spreading information and build cascades of information pathways. In this paper we investigate the possibility predicting the future popularity of emerging retweet cascades immediately after the message appears or in the very early stage of retweeting it. We evaluate our algorithms on four...
This paper proposes an interactive visualization tool, Visitpedia, to detect and analyze social events based on Wikipedia visit history. It helps users discover real-world events behind the data and study how these events evolve over time. Different from previous work based on on-line news or similar text corpora, we choose Wikipedia visit counts as our data source since the visit count data better...
A critical weak point of Solid State Drives (SSDs) is the limited lifespan which stems from the characteristics of NAND flash memory. In this paper, we propose a new deduplication scheme called block-level content-aware chunking to extend the lifetime of SSDs. The proposed scheme divides the data within a fixed-size block into a set of variable-sized chunks based on its contents and avoids storing...
This paper presents the technology used and the way introduced at the multicultural school of Athens enabling Learning Through Engagement (LTE). We are describing our efforts to shift from traditional learning plans and programs to attention-grabbing learning by teaching and having our students develop thematic sites, wiki content, and animations in parallel to school's efforts to develop learning...
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