Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are investing heavily in computerized curriculums as a way to enhance education output, even though there is surprisingly little evidence that they actually improve student achievement. In...

The study investigates the attitude of faculty members towards the adoption of the e-learning among instructors in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. It also investigates instructors' preference for face-to-face, full online and blended approach. Sixty six faculty members whose...

Challenging and volatile economic environment forced enterprises to seek alternative ways to optimize the cost and time needed to train their employees in adoption of new skills and technologies. Effective training shortens the time new skills are applied in practice, which results in shorter...

In the current age of technology, which is supported by flexible (hand-held) devices like iPad, the use of learning platforms such as Moodle can support virtual learning through synchronisation with available technologies like effective (fibre-optic) network system. In addition to it being a...

Die Zunahme globaler und lokaler Krisen und Katastrophen erfordert, dass die Kenntnisse, Fähigkeiten und Ausrüstung in der persönlichen Notfallvorsorge in der Bevölkerung auf- und ausgebaut werden. Die persönliche Notfallvorsorge umfasst Wissen über die Vorbeugung von und die Vorbereitung...

The capability of organizations to accumulate and apply new knowledge is a key factor in order to achieve the new competitive standards. A continuous changing diversity, to which the need of adaptation to the changes of external environment is added, speeds up the rate of development and...

E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communication technologies, if although not in the most spectacular way, but have certainly had the deepest impact. All that first seemed to be just an extension of distance learning, and then of the...

With the increase of e-learning by universities and educational institutes in the world through more electronic platforms, come the questions to researchers, educators and designers of electronic platforms about feasibility and using this method of learning. Are we achieving the desired goals...

In der Vergangenheit wurden viele (interaktive) Lehrmaterialien auf proprietären Plattformen entwickelt. Mit den Web 2.0 Technologien bieten sich neue interaktive und technische Möglichkeiten der Darstellung dieser Lehrinhalte auf einer standardisierten Plattform an. Existierende und neue...

E-learning plays an important role in education as it supports online education via computer networks and provides educational services by utilising information technologies. We present a case study describing the development of an Arabic language elearning course in statistics. Discussed are...