We present findings from an evaluation study of the Dual-Teacher program, a computer- assisted instruction program, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to schools in poor and remote areas in China. The unique...

The research goal is set in devising a UIT (Usability interface Factors) model in designing user interface when there is a time pressure and investigating the todays software company’s tendency to shift towards shorter-time-to-market phenomena, while still carrying about high quality of User...

Motivated by incongruences between today's complex data, problems and requirements and available methodological frameworks, we propose data quilting as a means of combining and presenting the analysis of multiple types of data to create a single cohesive deliverable. We introduce data quilting...

Team rivalry has been mostly studied in competition settings, between competing individuals or teams, and has been linked to positive performance outcomes due to its impact on increasing motivation. However, rivalry is not limited to such contexts, it can also occur in collaborative settings,...

Research suggests that students are skeptical about the values of General Education courses. This revelation calls for different strategies to improve students' engagement in the classes, including the use of online learning platforms. This study documents students' experiences of the online...

Collaborative learning is an educational approach, which can be easily applied to a business setting. However, it is often unconsciously implemented in organizations in general, whereas, some of it aspects are not perceived at all as new contributions. In order to take advantage of all its...