1. Here today and here tomorrow / Sue McKnight -- 2. It's all about social media, stupid! / Peter Godwin -- 3. Information literacy in the digital environment / Jacqui Weetman DaCosta -- 4. Professional education for a digital world / Sheila Corrall -- 5. The library chameleon : physical space /...

This paper examines faculty use of computers, group work, writing assignments and presentations in the undergraduate introductory finance course. The data was collected from a national survey sent out in the spring of 2000 and is an extension of the findings reported in Saunders [2001]. Most...

Service-Oriented Architectures are becoming a popular system paradigm to integrate and reuse heterogeneous software e-learning components. This paper discusses the possibility of employing Web Services in teaching process. At the beginning, the article describes the relevance of recent open...

Purpose As more courses move to online testing, it is important to understand how it can be used to enhance student learning. Adopting online testing strategies which have been documented to be effective (including increasing the frequency of testing, allowing the students to take the test...

The advent of online education has provided a new option of learning to a class of learners, who do not find the conventional modes of learning viable for their unique lifestyles and career. The expectations of such online learners are quite different compared to students in the conventional...

Singapore is experiencing a rapid growth of e-learning and it was estimated that e-learning market in 2005 was around US $106 million. Adequate infrastructure, rapid advancement of ICT sectors, globalization and changes in demographic profile, increasing demand for knowledge workers,...

The importance of faculty interaction with students in online discussions has been emphasized upon in numerous studies earlier. However, few studies highlighted the best practices and modus-operandi of professors while facilitating asynchronous online discussions for better student satisfaction....

Empirical research suggests that there is an impact of organizational characteristics on individual work-related learning processes. In this paper, we propose a model of relevant organizational factors. An assessment methodology based on a literature survey and activity theory is summarized....