Development of a Transnational Framework for E-Learning Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deryn Graham
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Political Economic

This case study looks at the creation of a Transnational Framework for e-Learning Technologies. It describes how the original study which aimed to “Develop a Framework for e-Learning” through a given exemplar in a United Kingdom institution, has gone through several iterations. From initially considering e-Tutoring/e-Moderating from a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) point of view, to the adoption of Blended Learning as a solution to problems revealed by the Framework. Proceeding to evaluate e-Learning in terms of PESTE (Political, Economic, Social, Technical and Environmental) factors, restated here in the form of STEP (Social, Technological, Economical and Political) factors, which led to the realization of major external issues for e-Learning. Most recently, the study evolved to revisit e-Learning from an HCI and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) perspective, by applying a Cooperative Work Framework. The resulting final incarnation, a Transnational Framework for e-Learning, is thus presented.

Meaningful Learning from Sustained Online Communication

2013 ◽  
pp. 208-216
Author(s):  
Salam Abdallah ◽  
Fayez Albadri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Discussion Boards ◽  
E Learning

This case study discusses a model of evaluating a group of adult students learning resulting from using an online social constructivist tool. The study is based on using a discussion board for sharing and co-constructing knowledge. Learning through social interactions and critical thinking is increasingly considered an essential teaching approach and especially for adult students. This approach promotes active learning and leads to better understanding of the subject matter. Online interaction evidently promotes critical thinking, problem solving, and knowledge construction. The literature provides a large set of approaches for evaluating discussion boards. However, their uses are not easily adoptable by faculty who are primarily interested in measuring the quality of online discussion. The authors contend that faculty should not adhere to a single measure but rather to be experiential and to develop their own models of evaluation of the students’ online learning experience. This case study discusses our own model for understanding the students’ learning experience and the authors’ approach to assess an individual’s level of engagement in critical thinking. The study contributes to the body of knowledge on adopting e-learning technologies at institutions in the Arab World for teaching adult students.

E-Government System Design and Port Authorities

2013 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Jim Prentzas ◽  
Gregory Derekenaris ◽  
Athanasios Tsakalidis
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Port Authority ◽  
Port Authorities ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Key Aspects

Port authorities constitute very active organizations that frequently interact with citizens as well as public and private organizations. The employees and administration of port authorities require effective e-government services in order to implement their tasks. The required services should provide effective information flow and collaboration to improve decision making, governance, and integration of all sectors. In this chapter, the authors briefly outline issues concerning the usefulness of intranets in organizations and corresponding services provided to organization employees. They briefly present key aspects of certain recent approaches concerning e-governance and intranets in ports. The authors also present a case study involving the e-government services implemented for Patras’s Port Authority in Greece. The specific port authority has a lot of workload because the corresponding port is the third largest in Greece and a main gate to countries abroad. The case study combined Internet-based technologies with e-learning technologies. E-learning services assist employees in acquainting themselves with newly introduced e-government services. Therefore, e-learning may contribute in the successful realization of e-government projects.

scholarly journals Cult and Crisis: A GIS Approach to the Sacred Landscape of Hellenistic Attica

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 383-395
Author(s):  
Constanze Graml ◽  
Manuel Hunziker ◽  
Katharina Vukadin
Keyword(s):  
Catchment Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

AbstractFrom a political point of view, 3rd century BCE Athens represents a shattered unity. Parts of the Athenian countryside and even the city itself were occupied by foreign troops. This loss of control affected the city’s political, economic, social, cultural, and religious life. Since Cleisthenic times, relations between political units and religious communities had become institutionalised through specific cults. Other cult places of relevance to the larger community and therefore with a catchment area that exceeded a deme, e.g. Eleusis, were also affected, as they lay within the occupied territories. This partial inaccessibility of the countryside risked the disruption of religious duties. The project “Cult and Crisis: The Sacred Landscape of Attica and its Correlation to Political Topography” aims to identify potentially affected cult places with no limitations regarding their possible catchment area by analysing their placement in relation to foreign military bases. Alterations in cult practice can plausibly be detected in changes ranging from cessation to the rerouting of ritual movement or the establishment of substitute cult places. As these “solutions” rarely feature in written sources, our GIS-based approach will focus on material remains from sanctuaries. Although an object’s use for ritual practice cannot be deduced with certainty, the distribution of finds certainly attests to human activity. This contribution presents a trial of this approach, taking the Sounion area as its case study.

scholarly journals Should we be Allowing Technology to Remove "Distance" from "Distance Education"?

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Geographical Separation ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Special Value ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Policies

Some researchers suggest that the rapid evolution of increasingly sophisticated e-learning technologies, in combination with synchronous delivery, have resulted in the death of distance education. This paper distinguishes traditional distance education from e-learning, on the basis of geographical separation of teachers and students, no online access requirements, and the historical rationale for distance education. These and other factors, including relative costs, point to longevity, rather than an early demise for this form of distance education. Education for sustainability (EFS) is used as a cautionary case study to illustrate the ways in which e-learning may not adequately serve the goals of EFS as well as traditional distance education. Caution is urged in the further development of e-learning policies to ensure that they distinguish traditional distance education on the basis of its ongoing, special value to learners.

scholarly journals Applying E-learning Technologies to Library Information Literacy Instruction

2010 ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Jamie Ward
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Instructional Content ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Instructional Interaction

Academic libraries have adopted and adapted the e-learning technologies for delivery of their Information Literacy programmes. This chapter describes some of the ways in which academic librarians have been very inventive in using emerging technologies to enhance their instructional content. By using a case study of DkIT the chapter details how information literacy and the e-learning technologies emerged together. E-learning platforms like the virtual learning environments (VLE) are the natural place for libraries to use as portals for their IL instruction. This chapter argues that using the VLE (with the inherent instructional interaction made possible by this technology), and adopting some amalgam of the newer teaching styles like problem-based learning and blended learning techniques completes the IL circle for librarians. Librarians now have the tools at their disposal to finally fulfil the promises we undertook when we embarked on our information literacy programmes.

scholarly journals As Novas Condições Sócio Técnicas para uma EaD 2.0

EAD em FOCO ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubem Damião Soares Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Computer Support Cooperative Work ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
E Learning ◽  
3C Model

Este artigo apresenta algumas das novas características sociais e tecnológicas contemporâneas que têm ampliado o poder da comunicação e se tornaram, ao mesmo tempo, ferramentas na produção de bens e serviços. Elas dão qualidade aos procedimentos administrativos, às atividades produtivas e ao trabalho das organizações empresariais, tratando, especialmente, dessa potencialização no Ensino a Distância. Argumentamos também que tais características sócio técnicas contemporâneas têm produzido condições de se conceber um novo paradigma sobre o comportamento e o uso de tecnologias nas atividades de ensino e aprendizagem em ambientes virtuais. Serão aqui apresentados os conceitos de trabalho cooperativo apoiado por computador (Computer Support Cooperative Work - CSCW), Groupware, Modelo Cooperativo 3C, Web 2.0 e EaD 2.0, além da importância e usos desses conceitos no EaD.Palavras-chave: Trabalho Colaborativo/Cooperativo Apoiado por Computador; EaD; Modelo Cooperativo 3C; Web 2.0; EaD 2.0.The New Social and Technical Conditions for EAD 2.0AbstractThis article presents some new social and technological features that have expanded the power of communication and at the same time became tools in the production of goods and services. They give quality to administrative procedures, to productive activities, to the work of business organizations, and especially is this enhancement in the E-Learning. We also argue that such contemporary sociotechnical features have produced new conditions of developing a new paradigm on the behavior and the use of technology in teaching and learning activities in virtual environments. Concepts will be presented about Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Groupware, 3C Model, its importance and uses in E-Learning, in addition to the concept of Web 2.0 and E-Learning 2.0.Keywords: Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW; E-Learning; 3C cooperative Model; Web 2.0; E-Learning 2.0.

scholarly journals The evolution of e-learning practices at the University of Tehran: A case study

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-37
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Enterprise Level ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
The University

e-Learning is a new educational paradigm in the age of information technology. These days, most universities worldwide consider e-learning as a strategic asset to make education accessible to everyone. The current paper evaluates the e-learning programs at the University of Tehran from an organizational point of view, and seeks to realize how it evolved over time and adapted to the changing environment. Using a qualitative method, this study draws a comprehensive picture of e-learning events and challenges in different phases, as well as their impacts in multiple aspects. The evolution also shows a gradual decentralization in the administration processes and the transformed e-learning programs from a standalone effort into teamwork at the enterprise level.

scholarly journals E-learning and m-learning as tools for enhancing teaching and learning in higher education: a case study of Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Oksana Marunevich ◽  
Valentina Kolmakova ◽  
Irina Odaruyk ◽  
Denis Shalkov
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
Vital Factor

In the world of online education, teachers are constantly looking for ways to interact with students both synchronously and asynchronously. The next decade is likely to witness a considerable rise in the development of more advanced e-learning and m-learning tools since they have become a vital factor for education due to the global shutdown of learning activities forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper is a preliminary attempt to analyze the use of e-learning and m-learning technologies by Russian universities. E-learning and m-learning mean sharing knowledge and skills by using web- or mobile-based technology, respectively. The most commonly employed learning tools are social networks, LMS, and video conferencing which due to their accessibility, immediacy, interactivity, and context-awareness benefit both teachers and students in a number of ways.

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