Although the government is allocating a lot of funds for ICT and doing the best possible to encourage the use of ICT in higher education, the penetration ICT in higher is still considerably low and limited to computer based learning. A range of pedagogies like web-conferencing, blended learning...

Good leadership is important for the creation of effective online communities that foster trust and a positive collaborative ethos in the shared spaces of online learning communities. Leadership is amongst the most 'researched' of social sciences subjects: thousands of leadership models,...

Die Frage nach der Wirksamkeit und der Wirtschaftlichkeit des Lernens und Lehrens mit digitalen Medien ist bisher nicht systematisch geklärt. Juliana Schlicht legt eine wegweisende Arbeit für die Analyse und monetäre Bewertung „intangibler“ Phänomene wie Einstellungen, berufliches...

This chapter compares faculty self-assessment of teaching with student opinion of instruction in an online environment, in order to determine the level of agreement between faculty self-assessment and student assessment, in areas of overall program strength and directions for individual and...

We estimate the relationship between students ̕educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between student achievement and the availability of computers...

New technologies are irreversibly\y transforming training processes into complex systems. They have a profound impact on the roles of teachers and trainers in the learning process and lead us to reconsider the skills and competences they require. The current report presents the results of the...

ln recent years the spread and dynamic of information and communications technologies (ICT) across Europe have been steadily increasing. Today the high importance of ICT for the EU economy and business, services, domestic and leisure activities is obvious. ICT developments have created an...

E-Learning bietet Unternehmen und Hochschulen neue Wege sowohl in der Aus- als auch in der Weiterbildung. Heute setzen bereits neun von zehn deutschen Hochschulen den Computer in unterschiedlichsten Formen für ihre Lehrveranstaltungen ein, und zwei Drittel von ihnen messen E-Learning eine...

Viele Betriebe nutzen heute elektronische Netze für das betriebliche Lernen. Die Entwicklung geht dahin, Lernen mit Wissensmanagement und betrieblicher Organisationsentwicklung zu verzahnen. Die verschiedenen Formen des E-Learning zielen auf betriebliche Leistungssteigerung, bieten aber...

This paper examines how the current relevance of social capital derived from a task-advice network affects an actor's exploratory learning environment. Building on Burt's (1992) structural holes hypothesis that a large, sparse task advice network enhances an actor's exploratory learning...