The Web 2.0 philosophy has brought new ways of using the web as a content repository and a sharing platform. Non-computer skilled people can now publish their own text, images, videos and/or sounds and take part in communities created around topics they like. Our idea is thus to use this new...

Die Studie stellt verschiedene wissensrelevante Aspekte, wie Forschung und Entwicklung, Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarktchancen sowie regionale Unterschiede für Deutschland und im internationalen Kontext, dar. Dabei wird angesichts der sich weiter intensivierenden internationalen Arbeitsteilung...

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...