"This book establishes the net of nodes of excellence of the main components which impact the present and future Information Technology aimed at human interaction. The fields of interest of the current proceedings start from IT, the human interaction, and computing engineering"--

"This book addresses the strategic business practice and the role of end-users' issues within the digital economy. It emphasizes emergent and innovative aspects of design, development and implementation of digital economy initiatives, highlighting the relationship and interaction between humans...

"This book highlights smart learning practices as they are being implemented throughout the world. It also offers guidance to teachers and curriculum developers across the world who are exploring smart learning environments as to what to do, how to do it, and when to do it, both in terms of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the support that Lloyds Banking Group is offering to employees taking maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides details of an e‐learning course developed with UK executive‐coaching company...

Matz and Ebner consider the impending collision between teachers’ strong desire to use role-play and other simulation exercises, and the rise of online teaching, in which the students may never see each other. They outline a series of tools that might bring the central advantages of using...

This paper presents a reflection on the production of audiovisual course materials for long distance Administration/ Business courses. It introduces two theories related to the teaching-learning process that guide the production of audiovisual materials and check students' perception of their...

Today international collaboration and cooperation are being considered as one of the main trends of higher education development all over the world. Knowledge has become increasingly international. For example, the total number of foreign students worldwide was approximately 200,000 in the...

Globalization has put countries in competitive and collaborative mode. Underdeveloped nations are in catch-up phase, developing nations are in competitive phase and the advanced nations are in commanding phase with respect to certain technologies. Innovation — Technological, Business and...

Parents do not send their children to school to learn how to speak. How then do children learn to speak? The objective becomes obvious to children due to the frustration of being unable to communicate. Learning tasks allow for practice. Feedback is immediate and clear because adults love to help...