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The new media became an extension of the traditional media, allowing to the public access information in a wide range of digital devices. In this sense, our qualitative study with empirical descriptive nature focuses on a literature review about Web Radio and its educative strand. This is an innovator and incipient issue on literature when investigating the potentialities of the radiophonic universe...
The ongoing communicational transformation brought on by digital technology and the increasing imbrication of reticular ecosystems amplify their effects and changes in social life, defining new relationship configurations. The practices and trends of incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into education, published in the past five years, points to a trend of simply transposing...
Worldwide computers are being used in schools for, amongst other things, developing the knowledge and skills required for citizens to be able to operate within the 21st Century Information Age. Realising the potential of technology in uplifting the lives of its citizens the South African government has proposed the National Broadband Plan (SA Connect). However, unfortunately this plan only addresses...
The biggest issue is painful when pregnant women are in normal spontaneous delivery, although prenatal education has taught pregnant women Lamaze breathing to relax. There may be a lack of exercise and low participation, so it is difficult to execute the breathing method. This proposal used smart devices to develop App for Lamaze breathing self-training application, in order to enhance the proficiency...
The development agenda is always evolving, for instance the initiation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) from the millennium development goals (MDGs). On the other hand, rapid technological advances presents both challenges and opportunities to the development agenda. Learning is ever-required in this continuously changing environment. In addition, the global nature of the environment today...
Edmodo is simply a controlled online networking application that can be used by teachers and students to communicate and remain connected. This paper explores the experiences from a group of students who were using Edmodo platform in their course work. It attempts to use the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition) framework of technology integration in education to access...
Users receive a multitude of digital-and physical-security advice every day. Indeed, if we implemented all the security advice we received, we would never leave our houses or use the Internet. Instead, users selectively choose some advice to accept and some (most) to reject, however, it is unclear whether they are effectively prioritizing what is most important or most useful. If we can understand...
The study determined the information needs and information-seeking patterns of rural women living in communities surrounding telecentres in Tanzania. The study used a questionnaire survey to collect data from users and non-users of Internet in three rural districts in Tanzania that have telecentres: Sengerema, Kongwa and Kilosa districts. The study findings showed that information needs of both users...
The article summarizes security aspects related to multimedia networks with special focus to user identification, authentication and authorization procedures and mechanisms. Main stress is taken into account to the secure and flexible access of end users to multimedia contents, implemented on the application layer of the ICT architecture platform. The novel network architectures supported innovative...
Pupils have always had access to different types of skills but nowadays, pupils are rapidly becoming powerful Internet users. If knowledge is also acquired outside the formal education system, most frequently on the Internet, then pupils will have access to a broad scale of educational locations, digital libraries, digital books, various educational portals, cyber cafes and similar places. In short,...
Digital competence is the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that should be acquired by all people in order to ensure critical and creative use of ICT and digital media for the purpose of achieving goals related to work, learning and/or leisure. In order to make learning and teaching effective, all teachers should become familiar with the following digital competence areas: information (e.g. identify,...
Digitalization is spreading across our current society and is a major source of the changes — incremental and also radical — encountered in daily life. It changes the content of jobs: some jobs are no longer needed, and new jobs are also needed. Digitalization in universities has several implications — in teaching, research, and in administration. The opportunities provided by digitalization are manifold...
Technological innovation has given rise to many internet portals including those that facilitate matrimony. Adoption of this technology has accelerated the growth of online matrimony portals in India. There are several sources of search for proposals and online matrimony is one such medium. The importance given to such portals has impacted the way matrimonial information is available in these portals...
The importance of developing critical information literacy skills in higher education is now well recognized. The ability to locate and evaluate needed information in a timely manner, now commonly done through the Internet, is increasingly viewed as one of the most important 21st century skills. Therefore, universities worldwide are developing curriculum which integrates information literacy development...
One of the key competences for Europe in the 21st Century is the technological competence understood as an instrument for development, aimed at encouraging society to use and like science. This competence can only be fully achieved by using practical experiments, which present use cases in a realistic, creative, and revolutionary way. This paper presents our work on the development of practical experiments...
Remote labs and online experimentation offer a rich opportunity to learners by allowing them to control real equipment at distance in order to conduct scientific investigations. Remote labs and online experimentation build on top of numerous emerging technologies for supporting remote experiments and promoting the immersion of the learner in online environments recreating the real experience. This...
Globalization, preparation of educational process and education of students for their future life are nowadays important topics. World Economic Forum makes since 2001 comparison of the countries all over the world in the Global Competitiveness Index. The article proposes to describe the situation in the field of technology level in the connection with higher education in the Czech Republic. We will...
Web Technology is the development of the mechanism that allows two or more computer devices to communicate over a network. To understand such a complex system there is a need of experiential learning. Authors adopted an "Experiential learning" for teaching the web technology course. Teaching with a hands-on session where the teacher explains the concepts with demonstration and students simultaneously...
It is common for medical oral English classroom to be teacher-centered instruction. But the weakest point of this method is that the students lose their autonomy in this learning environment and feel difficult to stimulate their interest in oral English learning. A new approach to oral English classroom is therefore required. Recently, a growing number of scholars home have focus their attention on...
With the assistance of science and technology, micro-course has got wide attention and recognition as a new teaching method. This paper introduces the features of Moodle platform and functions of micro-course, analyses the designing procedure of micro teaching mode, and discusses the construction of micro-course module based on Moodle platform in details. Finally, this paper demonstrates the research...
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