Table of Contents for Volume 28 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2025
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
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Aim/Purpose
This study explores the motives behind the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies in business planning, where effective team communication is vital for collaboration.
Background
Effective communication and collaboration are crucial in business planning, making the selection of the right communication tools essential.
Methodology
By addressing this topic from ...
computer-mediated communication, business planning, motivation, use and gratification
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The modern technologies intend to solve significant problems and concerns related to service development, disease prediction, and resource optimization, the always shifting terrain of healthcare has seen notable changes. Covering security issues and technological innovations in the healthcare sector, this special series pays especially attention to machine learning, deep learning, and optimization ...
informing, security issues, medical domain, healthcare, Deep Genetic Algorithm, Improvised Fuzzy Logic Algorithm
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Aim/Purpose: The main goal of this work is a new framework that combines genetic algorithms with deep learning. The delivery of healthcare services will be optimized as the aim of this research.
Background: Optimizing the provision of healthcare services is essential to ensuring that patients get suitable and timely treatments and materials.
Methodology: This work presents a new framework for D ...
healthcare, service delivery, optimization, deep genetic algorithm, patient outcomes
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a predictive model using extensive patient records to forecast lung cancer outcomes. Lung cancer is a severe international fitness difficulty that still exists because the outcomes of sufferers differ significantly from each other. Predictive modeling has a massive promise to improve and better comprehend ailment outcomes. In this work, we use ensemble study ...
Support Vector Machines (SVM), predictive modeling, lung cancer, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), ensemble learning, Decision Trees (DT)
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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this work is to propose an RL framework in healthcare settings for adaptive healthcare decision-aid strategy.
Background: Adaptive decision guide systems are needed to assist doctors in making timely and accurate selections because healthcare environments are getting more complicated and variable. But, because of the enormous stakes and the need for interpretability and d ...
adaptive decision support systems, reinforcement learning, interpretability, healthcare, patient outcomes
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Aim/Purpose: To optimize healthcare resource allocation using residual convolutional neural networks.
Background: In the early stages, several traditional methods were adopted and implement-ed; however, the rise of AI and its technologies increased development in the healthcare sector and made it reach a better height in Industry 4.0.
In the early stages, several traditional methods were adopt ...
healthcare, resource allocation, deep learning, convolutional neural networks, optimization
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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this work is to introduce a novel technique for enhancing hospital network security using a Deep Autoencoder (DAE).
Background: The digitization of healthcare institutions increases the risk of cybercrime due to network security vulnerabilities.
Methodology: In this work, we model a novel technique called DeepHeal framework that uses a robust Deep Autoencoder (DAE) for im ...
network security, DAE, DHeal, healthcare
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Aim/Purpose: Traditional hyperparameter tuning methods’ inefficiency and low accuracy in diabetes prediction. Application and evaluation of Bayesian optimization aim to increase the accuracy of diabetes prediction models.
Background: Bayesian optimization (BO) has emerged as a powerful technique for hyperparameter tuning in machine learning models with its methodical approach for optimizing compl ...
machine learning, Bayesian, hyperparameter, diabetes prediction, healthcare applications
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Aim/Purpose: To develop a Deep Fuzzy Logic (DFL) model linking all hospital departments –inpatient, outpatient, and A&E. To maximize staff distribution and bed capacity using linear optimization techniques.
Background: Growing pressure on healthcare systems calls for efficient use of resources when extra money is not accessible. Rising demand and limited capacity in every field of medicine need c ...
deep fuzzy logic, healthcare modeling, discrete event simulation, linear optimization, hospital resource management
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Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Predicting Disease Outbreaks in Public Health Surveillance
Aim/Purpose: A new predictive model for disease outbreak prediction is to be developed using Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks (TGCNs).
Background: The emergence and spread of contagious diseases seriously threaten public health systems worldwide. Early diagnosis and disease outbreak prediction are necessary to implement quick solutions and reduce their impacts. Present methods often overlook ...
disease, public health, temporal graph convolutional networks, spatiotemporal dynamics, prediction
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Aim/Purpose: This work intends to give a method for the automatic superimposition of facial and cranium anatomical images coupled with integrating jaw movement. Using an automated alignment method will help to raise the accuracy and efficiency of the forensic face reconstruction procedure. Given their reliance on human participation, conventional approaches are prone to subjectivity and errors. Di ...
mandible articulation, differential genetic algorithm, forensic facial reconstruction, image overlay, automated alignment
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Aim/Purpose: The major goal of this work is to establish prediction patterns that can influence better diagnosis and treatment strategies using unidentified interactions between genes.
Background: Driven by the rapid advances in genomics, knowledge of the factors causing disease depends more on deciphering the deep linkages existent in the data of gene expression. Common approaches typically fail ...
healthcare, biclustering, gene expression, SVM, LSTM, predictive modeling
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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this work is to develop and validate a deep learning algorithm (DLA) that can precisely estimate the likelihood of CLABSIs by using data from electronic health records (EHRs). The objective is to create a tool to help medical professionals find patients more likely to acquire a CLABSI before the central line is inserted. Thus, this would make timely intervention and the app ...
CLABSI, deep learning, central line-associated bloodstream infections, electronic health records, risk prediction
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Aim/Purpose: This work attempts to investigate the application of Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)-based predictive analytics in the medical field. The scope comprises the development and application of LSTM models to forecast outcomes, including patient diagnosis, treatment responses, healthcare resource consumption, and other relevant variables.
Background: Predictive analytics has become popular ...
LSTM, encoder, decoder, predictive analytics
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Aim/Purpose: Neuromarketing transforms marketing by offering deeper insights into consumer behavior and emotions, enabling more effective but challenging marketing practices. Businesses must leverage these insights, adapt strategies, and explore innovative approaches to drive growth. Despite its rapid development, research in this field remains limited and calls for deeper exploration.
Background ...
bibliometric analysis, bibliographic coupling, Biblioshiny, disruption strategies, neuromarketing, VOSviewer
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Aim/Purpose: In this research work, we have developed a predictive model that focuses on utilizing knowledge from the related domains.
Background: A serious public health issue, especially in tropical and subtropical regions, is dengue fever, a viral infection passed by mosquitoes. Accurate early prediction of disease outcomes is essential for both efficient patient management and effective use o ...
dengue prediction, transfer learning, deep attention mechanisms, predictive analytics, healthcare informatics
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is building a deep learning framework for thyroid medical image analysis by using CNNs.
Background: Thyroid disease diagnosis depends critically on thyroid medical image analysis. Though their design and settings can be optimized, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have showed promise in automating this process. Powerful metaheuristic technique Particle ...
Medical Image Analysis, Thyroid, Particle Swarm Optimization, Convolutional Neural Networks, Prediction
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Aim/Purpose: In the field of primary and secondary healthcare, the widespread adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems has resulted in the availability of a vast quantity of clinical data that is simple to access. From where we were before, this is a significant advancement in our situation.
Background: Melanoma is a common skin cancer; nevertheless, despite the fact that it has a high ...
evolutionary model, ensemble model, feature selection, classification
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Aim/Purpose: This study examined the practices, experiences, and challenges of postgraduate Library and Information Science (LIS) students in Nigeria in managing electronic documents.
Background: Many universities have transitioned from the physical to a virtual environment for both lecture and supervision since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This transition has benefits and chall ...
COVID-19 pandemic, electronic information management, file naming practices, LIS postgraduate students, personal information management
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the dual impact of online reviews and display advertising on consumer purchase behavior, addressing a critical gap in understanding how these multi-source communications interact and concurrently persuade consumers. Specifically, it examines the psychological mechanisms of skepticism toward advertising and priming, exploring their combined influence on the ...
integrated marketing communication, persuasiveness, cross-media integration, psychological mechanisms, eye-tracking
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Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 24, 2025
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice, table of contents
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Table of Contents for JITE: Research, Volume 24, 2025
JITE, IT education, education research, table of contents
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Aim/Purpose: This paper addresses the lack of a standardized approach to information dashboard design and the absence of integrated Information Governance (IG) principles in this context.
Background: This study addresses the critical role of IG principles in ensuring dashboards are reliable, secure, and effective. By integrating IG principles into the work-in-progress Information Dashboard Design ...
information governance (IG), information dashboard design method (IDDO), design principles, foundational governance
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Aim/Purpose: In this study, we propose an AI technology-based learning model using ChatGPT and investigate its effect on students’ higher-order thinking (HOT) ability in an operating systems (OS) course.
Background: A critical requirement for IT and engineering students is supporting them in understanding advanced OS concepts and fostering their HOT. HOT involves analysis, evaluation, and creatio ...
operating systems, higher-order thinking tasks, ChatGPT, constructivism theory
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Aim/Purpose: This article investigates the process of identifying and correcting hallucinations in ChatGPT-4’s recall of student-written responses as well as its evaluation of these responses, and provision of feedback. Effective prompting is examined to enhance the pre-evaluation, evaluation, and post-evaluation stages.
Background: Advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT-4, have g ...
ChatGPT-4, education, recalling, LLM, evaluation
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to identify and analyze the current findings of empirical research on the use of ChatGPT in school and higher education.
Background: As AI reshapes education, the adoption of ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize teaching and learning in school and higher educational settings. Meanwhile, substantial ethical questions and practical challen ...
artificial intelligence, chatbot, ChatGPT, formal education, ethical issues, institutional framework, systematic literature review, PRISMA
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Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools on postgraduate students’ learning experiences. It examined how these students utilize GenAI tools, identified the perceived benefits of their use, and uncovered the challenges students face in their learning experiences with these tools.
Background: Recent advancements in GenAI, particula ...
generative AI, postgraduate students, learning experiences, ChatGPT, innovative learning activity, learning technologies
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Aim/Purpose: The need for this paper arises from the lack of comprehensive studies comparing the impact of cloud-based versus local database systems on student learning outcomes. Specifically, there is a need to understand how these different approaches affect usability and cognitive load in educational settings, which are critical factors for effective learning in database courses.
Background: T ...
cloud computing, database systems, cognitive load, usability, higher education
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Aim/Purpose: Flipped learning, in which students engage with instructional content before class and participate in active learning during class time, has emerged as an innovative teaching approach. While previous research has explored various aspects of flipped learning, its impact on student self-efficacy across different contexts remains understudied.
Background: This systematic review address ...
active learning, flipped learning, self-efficacy, self-regulation
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to implement and evaluate a personalized digital learning environment (PDLE) that delivers differentiated instruction for enhancing computational thinking competencies through robotics education.
Background: The background emphasizes the growing demand for computational thinking skills in the modern workforce and the need for flexible learning approaches that accommod ...
personalized digital learning environment, differentiated instruction, computational thinking, robotics education, mathematics education
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to review and categorize current trends in student engagement and performance prediction using machine learning techniques during online learning in higher education. The goal is to gain a better understanding of student engagement prediction research that is important for current educational planning and development. However, implementing machine learning ...
machine learning, prediction, student engagement, student performance, systematic literature review
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Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the key factors influencing the adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications among researchers, focusing on effort expectancy, satisfaction, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness, which shaped attitudes and drove AI adoption as a research assistant.
Background: AI tools have rapidly become game-changers in academic research, transfo ...
artificial intelligence, research assistance, AI adoption, effort expectancy, perceived ease of use, satisfaction, academic research, technology acceptance
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine the methods of training future teachers to use information and virtual tools to work with younger students with intellectual disabilities.
Background: The relevance of training future teachers to work with students with intellectual disabilities is quite high today. This is explained by the fact that the educational environment is developing ...
special educational needs, information and communication methods, computer, correctional and developmental work, virtual tools
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Aim/Purpose: Evaluate teachers’ perceptions, strategies, and challenges in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into K-12 education and identify patterns and trends in the data from the reviewed studies.
Background: This systematic review examines a decade of innovation to explore the transformative impact of AI on education (2014–2024). Adhering to PRISMA 2020 guidelines, the study uncovers ...
artificial intelligence (AI), elementary education, teaching, professional development and ethics, privacy
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Aim/Purpose: This study explores the effectiveness of a virtual reality (VR) application designed to teach Theory of Mind (ToM) skills to children aged 5-6, addressing the gap in research on the use of VR for typically developing children.
Background: ToM is a critical skill for social interaction and understanding others’ perspectives. Despite the potential of VR to simulate real-life scenarios ...
virtual reality, children, theory of mind
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Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between time of class and the academic performance of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students with ‘group engagement’ serving as the moderator. Notably, ‘group engagement’ is measured using a novel computer vision-based deep learning approach.
Background: Generally, the first year of MBA programs is a critical phase for students, mark ...
class timing, group engagement, academic performance, blended learning, collaborative learning, SOR Model, computer vision, artificial intelligence
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this initiative is to create a Smart Education Index (SEI) for higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The index will facilitate a comprehensive assessment of various components of smart education, such as learning, teaching, assessment approaches (pedagogy), digital and physical infrastructure (campus), learners, instructors, and governance.
Backgroun ...
smart education, composite indicators, higher education, evaluation, SDG4, sustainability
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Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the potential of ChatGPT-assisted retrieval practice to enhance students’ final exam performance. ChatGPT was utilized to generate questions and deliver timely feedback during retrieval practice, supporting learning in large class settings where providing personalized feedback is often challenging.
Background: Students often excel in continuous assessments yet fac ...
AI-assisted learning, retrieval practice, ChatGPT, formative assessment, final exams
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the integration of Design Thinking (DT) into a philosophy course and its impact on student learning and engagement. The problem addressed is the traditional approach to philosophical education, which often lacks practical relevance and fails to engage students in meaningful ways.
Background: This paper addresses the problem by introducing DT as ...
design thinking, philosophy education, narrative case study, educational innovation, student engagement, higher education
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a tessellation-based instructional program supported by digital technologies for enhancing geometric learning in primary school pupils.
Background: Digital education offers various benefits, including increased motivation and engagement, and has been shown to be effective in teaching geometry. Although tessellation activities have been s ...
digital teaching, tessellation, primary school, educational technology, quasi-experimental design
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Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates three key aspects of metaverse-based platforms in English language teaching: (1) their effectiveness in enhancing language learning outcomes, (2) their impact on digital literacy development in higher education, and (3) their accessibility and inclusivity implications for diverse student populations.
Background: Despite growing interest in digital language lea ...
metaverse, English language teaching, digital literacy, immersive learning environments, educational technology
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Aim/Purpose: This study examines the relationship between primary school teachers’ knowledge and their acceptance of digital game-based learning (DGBL) in mathematics teaching.
Background: The rapid integration of digital technology in education highlights the potential of DGBL in primary mathematics education. Despite its advantages, the acceptance among primary school teachers remains limited, ...
game-based learning, teachers’ adoption, behavioral intention, TPACK-G, TAM
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Aim/Purpose: This study examines the effects of the mobile-assisted task-based language teaching (M-TBLT) approach on EFL learners’ oral production. It evaluates three key second language acquisition measures: complexity (syntactic and lexical), accuracy (error-free clauses and correct verb forms), and fluency (unpruned and pruned speech rates). Additionally, it explores learners’ perceptions of t ...
mobile-assisted task-based language teaching, speaking, complexity, accuracy, fluency, perception
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel Computerized System for Learning, Correction, and Evaluation in Volleyball (S.C.I.C.E.V) in enhancing the technical performance of beginner volleyball players through immediate audio and visual feedback. The purpose is to determine whether real-time, detailed feedback improves the execution of the two-handed down pass technique ...
audio-feedback, visual-feedback, sensors, psychomotor, technical correction, volleyball
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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether the use of social media by college students is linked with diminished academic productivity, and if so, why?
Background: In prior research, social media use was inversely related to academic productivity. We replicated that effect and tested whether depletion sensitivity, delay discounting, and delay of gratification mediated the relatio ...
academic productivity, delay discounting, delay of gratification, depletion sensitivity, self-control, social media addiction
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Aim/Purpose: The study investigated how immersive learning environments could be used to encourage student engagement and reuse intentions by integrating desktop augmented reality (AR) into the classroom among primary school students.
Background: This paper addresses the potential applications of immersive technology for younger learners and understanding in Thai primary education by exploring t ...
augmented reality, immersive learning, primary education, reuse intention, user engagement
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Table of Contents for Volume 20, 2025, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
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Table of Contents for Volume 20, 2025, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
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Aim/Purpose: This study addresses the need to understand the wellbeing of doctoral students and the factors influencing their academic trajectory.
Background: Doctoral students’ wellbeing is crucial for their academic success and overall quality of life. This study explores the antecedent variables influencing doctoral students’ wellbeing, complementing the Integrative Model on well-being in doct ...
wellbeing, PhD students, supervisors, qualitative case study, academic stress
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Aim/Purpose: Chinese customers are now employing B2C E-Learning as a novel method to get an education. The issues of product homogenization, low user registration eagerness, and poor retention have become noticeable. The purpose of this research is to identify key elements that influence consumers’ intention to continue using E-Learning in China and to examine how user experience moderates the rel ...
E-Learning, eLearning, continuance usage intention, course trial, perceived cost, information quality, service quality, satisfaction, technology continuance theory
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Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the European Portuguese version of the Motivation for PhD Studies Scale (MPhD).
Background: The motivation of doctoral students has been identified as a factor influencing their enrolment in doctoral studies and its completion. Based on the Self-Determination Theory, the MPhD is a 15-item self-report measure tha ...
doctoral students, motivation for PhD studies scale, PhD studies, psychometric properties, self-determination theory
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Aim/Purpose: The primary goal of this research is to analyze the factors that influence the implementation of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
Background: Despite MCC’s benefits in lowering technology and administration costs, HEIs, particularly in developing countries such as Palestine, are skeptical and hesitant to use this technology. This research provides ...
mobile cloud computing, cloud computing, higher education, diffusion of innovation, technology-organization-environment
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Aim/Purpose: This study examines the role of psychological capital (PsyCap) as a moderating variable and burnout as a mediator in the relationship between toxic supervision on academic performance in doctoral programs.
Background: Academic supervision is important in supporting students’ success in completing the doctoral program. However, there is a dark side that needs to be more widely reveal ...
burnout, academic performance, higher education, PsyCap, stress-as-offense-to-self theory, toxic supervision
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Aim/Purpose: This research investigates factors influencing consumers’ decisions to use artificial intelligence cybersecurity technology in the United Arab Emirates.
Background: The cyber-security risks are getting more complex as technology develops, putting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) businesses and government agencies at risk of severe losses from cybercrime.
Methodology: A correlational s ...
artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity systems, PMT, intelligent systems, cyber threats, information security
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Aim/Purpose: This study investigates how PhD candidates experience autonomy (i.e., self-governance and the capacity to make meaningful, self-directed choices) in their doctoral trajectory. It examines their expectations regarding autonomy, the various forms of autonomy they encounter during their doctoral trajectory, and the dynamics that make autonomy challenging.
Background: PhD candidates, aki ...
PhD candidates, autonomy, freedom, supervisor, role perception, self-determination theory
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Aim/Purpose: Most research on aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) classifies sentiment polarity into two classes (positive and negative) or three classes (positive, negative, and neutral) and does not include conflict sentiment. This study investigates the four-class sentiment classification (positive, negative, neutral, and conflict) and proposes a BERT-based model for identifying conflicting ...
aspect-based sentiment analysis, four-class sentiment classification, conflict or conflicting sentiment, pre-trained language models, large language models
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Aim/Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between psychological capital, academic motivation, and academic performance in doctoral students and to develop a structural equation model that elucidates the interplay among these three variables, providing a comprehensive framework to better understand the factors influencing academic outcomes at the doctoral level.
Background: Current research on the ...
doctoral education, doctoral students, doctoral research, doctoral programs, doctoral dissertations, doctoral studies, PhD student, doctoral degree
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the demographic profile, support levels, and sentiments of Information Technology students regarding a proposed dedicated comfort room for LGBTQIA+ members. By assessing student attitudes and support, the study aims to inform initiatives that promote inclusivity and address the needs of LGBTQIA+ individuals within the college community.
Back ...
Dedicated Comfort Room, Gender-Inclusive Spaces, LGBTQIA+, SDG 5, Sentiment Analysis
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Aim/Purpose: This research aims to test the continued use of an AI platform through an extended Expectation Confirmation Model (ECM).
Background: The paper addresses the issues of user trust and satisfaction in the context of an AI platform in education by employing the ECM to analyze how system quality, information quality, and user satisfaction influence continued use intentions among responden ...
AI platform, satisfaction, trust, continued use intention, Expectation Confirmation Model (ECM)
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Aim/Purpose: This study investigates how external stimuli and organizational culture influence the development of a management control system (MCS) to foster radical innovation and improve organizational performance. Specifically, it quantifies the effects of constraining and enabling levers on interaction and Knowledge sharing while examining how radical innovation mitigates technological turbule ...
external stimuli, organizational culture, enabling levers, constraining levers, knowledge sharing, radical innovation, technological turbulence, performance organization
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Aim/Purpose: The study aims to develop a multilingual healthcare assistance chatbot that provides real-time, accurate answers to a query related to health matters in multiple languages. Conversion of written responses into spoken words lets users have the medical information necessary for them without interrupting communication between patients and health services. The purpose of this system is to ...
multilingual healthcare chatbot, text-to-speech technology, natural language processing, health literacy, language barriers, patient engagement, fine-tuning, pre-trained model, healthcare information
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Aim/Purpose: Previous studies have primarily focused on comparing predictive models without considering the impact of data preprocessing on model performance. Therefore, this study sets two main objectives. The first objective is to investigate the effect of resampling methods for handling imbalanced data on model effectiveness. The second objective is to compare and evaluate machine learning meth ...
churn prediction, machine learning, imbalanced data, classification models, oversampling, undersampling, hybrid method, banking industry
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Aim/Purpose: Traditional research methodology education faces challenges in developing student self-efficacy and integrating modern technology, necessitating innovative instructional approaches for graduate students.
Background: This study introduces the BEST model (begin with learner analysis, establish clear learning objectives, select engaging learning activities, and tailor instruction using ...
instructional design, TPACK integration, research methodology, graduate education, self-efficacy
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Aim/Purpose: This study employs the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to investigate how six metainformational cues – number of updates, founder’s experience, media usage, number of investors, project text length, and psychological capital language – influence crowd-funding success.
Background: Metainformational cues are essential information for demonstrating a crowdfunding project and play a c ...
crowdfunding, metainformational cues, ELM
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to address the knowledge conflict issues encountered in multi-agent collaboration, particularly when agents based on large language models (LLMs) provide inconsistent answers or recommendations due to varied knowledge sources or errors caused by hallucinations.
Background: The paper tackles the limitations of intelligent agents that cannot dynamically detect or resolv ...
intelligent agent, large language model, knowledge conflict, ChatGPT
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Aim/Purpose: This study analyzed the factors influencing electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) intention and purchase intention among Shopee users toward stores with Star Seller status, including the mediating roles of cognitive and affective appraisal. It integrated Customer Value Theory, Social Learning Theory, and Perceived Value Theory to examine how perceived benefits influence user behavior. The ...
perceived value, customer value theory, purchase intention, e-WOM intention, seller education, PLS-SEM, Shopee, Star Seller
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Aim/Purpose: The study aimed to develop an automated, real-time monitoring system using YOLOv8 to detect the use of safety helmets in factories, thereby improving workplace safety and compliance.
Background: Industrial safety, particularly in factories, is critical for preventing workplace accidents. The detection of safety helmets is an essential component of factory safety protocols; however, m ...
safety helmet detection, object detection, area monitoring, computer vision
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Today, automation, digitization, and integration of AI are becoming increasingly pervasive in the work environment, and as AI applications become integral to the rapid evolution of digital workplaces, a critical audit concern revolves around how professionals respond to this new milieu; in this realm, the adoption of AI in professional practice may require a cultural shift given that auditors tend ...
Disruptive Technology, culture in audit, audit Automation, artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, digitization, and the tone at top.
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In essence, an accounting firm is a company that helps its clients make sure their financial transactions are accurate and legal. The particularity of South Africa (SA) with the audit profession resides in the expectation that, in addition to the auditor’s duty to express an opinion on a client’s financial statements, the external auditor is also expected to highlight ‘reportable irregularities’ t ...
Corporate culture, accounting scandals in South Africa (SA), tax avoidance/evasion, bribery, corruption, money laundering.
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Table of Contents for Volume 27 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2024
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
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Aim/Purpose: The truism is that leadership fosters or restricts innovation behaviours in organisations, but the extent to which it does depends on the leadership style in practice. This study focuses on one of the contemporary leadership styles, knowledge-oriented leadership [KOL], which has received scant attention in research. In doing so, the contextual factors of psychological safety [PS] and ...
employee voice, knowledge-oriented leadership, knowledge sharing, innovation, psychological safety
258 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This review paper aims to unveil some underlying machine-learning classification algorithms used for political election predictions and how stack ensembles have been explored. Additionally, it examines the types of datasets available to researchers and presents the results they have achieved.
Background: Predicting the outcomes of presidential elections has always been a significant ...
politics, elections, prediction, machine learning, classification, ensemble algorithm
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Aim/Purpose: This study offers an important contribution to the literature on couple social comparisons by showing how different aspects of comparisons are related to relationship quality.
Background: Making social comparisons is a daily tendency of human beings that does not only occur on an individual level but also in the context of romantic relationships. This phenomenon is widespread among c ...
couple social comparison propensity, explicit couple social comparisons, implicit couple social comparisons, couple relationship quality, commitment, relationship satisfaction
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Aim/Purpose: In this paper we propose a framework identifying many of the unintended consequences of information technology and posit that the increased complexity brought about by IT is a proximate cause for these negative effects.
Background: Builds upon the three-world model that has been evolving within the informing science transdiscipline.
Methodology: We separate complexity into three ca ...
complexity, task complexity, information technology, homophily, punctuated equilibrium, systemic risks, information overload, fitness, rugged landscape, unintended consequences
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Aim/Purpose: The aim of the present study is to investigate how pre-game superstition and anxiety can drive the consumption and purchase of sports products and objects by triathletes.
Methodology: We tested our hypotheses via a cross-sectional study on a sample of N=124 triathletes.
Contribution: The originality of our work stands in the provision of empirical evidence on the role of superstitio ...
superstition, anxiety, sports performance, consumer behavior, dual-system theory
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Aim/Purpose: The paper discusses various factors contributing to disagreements, such as differing experiences, perspectives, and historical narratives, leading to disagreements within families and societies. It explores how beliefs, values, and biases feed into disagreements, with confirmation bias affecting decision-making and the media. Cultural values also play a role, showcasing conflicts betw ...
informing, values, disinformation, soft power, fake images
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore students’ digital entrepreneurial intention (DEI) in Kuwait. Specifically, the aim is twofold: (i) to identify and examine the factors influencing and predicting students’ DEI, and (ii) to validate a model of DEI.
Background: The advent of modern digital technologies has provided entrepreneurs with many opportunities to establish and expand their firms thro ...
digital entrepreneurship, intention, self-perceived confidence, creativity, Kuwait
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Aim/Purpose: The rise of virtual communication technologies and hybrid work contexts has brought significant changes to leadership dynamics, highlighting the need for effective management of teams operating in both face-to-face and virtual settings, known as hybrid teams.
Background: This systematic review examines leadership models utilized in face-to-face and virtual teams, factors contributing ...
leadership, face-to-face teams, virtual teams, hybrid teams, systematic review
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Aim/Purpose: To provide a systematic approach to defining task complexity using a three worlds model previously introduced in informing science research.
Background: The task complexity construct presents researchers with a quandary. While it appears useful on the surface, repeated attempts to define it rigorously have failed to gain traction in the broader research community. The level of incons ...
task complexity, rugged landscape, objective complexity, familiarity, discretion
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Aim/Purpose: This paper applies informing science principles to analyze the evolution of United States (U.S.) healthcare delivery, exploring how policy shifts, technological advancements, and changing practices have transformed informing processes within this complex system. By examining healthcare delivery through a transdisciplinary lens, we aim to enhance the understanding of intricate informin ...
healthcare delivery, informing science, transdisciplinary systems, health healthcare information flow, healthcare policy, technological innovation
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Aim/Purpose: With a focus on promoting sustainable career paths, this article investigates the intricate relationship between age diversity management and techno-complexity, emphasizing the pivotal role of a supportive work environment.
Background: In the modern workplace, the dynamics of age diversity emerge as a crucial element influencing the well-being and productivity of employees, particula ...
age diversity management, techno-complexity, supportive work environment, sustainable career
44 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine Gen Z students located in a representative region of the United States when it comes to technology use, news and information gathering behaviors, civic engagement, and social concerns and whether differences exist based on institutional type. The purpose is to report this information so that academics can better understand the behaviors, priorities, ...
Generation Z, Gen Z, civic engagement and college students, minority learners, HBCU, information gathering of college students, information literacy, learning preferences, issues important to Gen Z, social activism, Black Lives Matter, pandemic learners, online activism
86 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to explore the experience of cultural mediators in working with operators of reception and mental health care systems for forced migrants. Specifically, the study seeks to address strengths and weaknesses and areas for improvement in the service network.
Background: Cultural mediation in Italy has developed as a response to the increasing cultural diversity wi ...
cultural mediators, forced migrants, Italian reception system, mental health services, inter-organizational networks
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite the widespread presence of fake news on the internet, many individuals continue to share information without verifying its accuracy. In response, this study examined two types of news-sharing behaviors, Unverified News Sharing and Authenticating News Before Sharing, and their influence on the spread of fake news on social media. Fake news awareness was also incorporated into t ...
social media, fake news awareness, verified news, authenticating news
104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a specialized instructional approach that combines empathic listening and culturally nuanced communication skills to enhance students’ preparedness for real-life cross-cultural interactions. By incorporating both psychological and specific sociocultural components within the 4C/ID model framework, this study aims to addr ...
teaching, communicative approach, communicative competence, social context
98 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 23, 2024
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice, table of contents
117 downloads
Table of Contents for JITE: Research, Volume 23, 2024
JITE, IT education, education research, table of contents
210 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This mixed-methods study aims to examine factors influencing academicians’ intentions to continue using AI-based chatbots by integrating the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model and social network characteristics.
Background: AI-powered chatbots are gaining popularity across industries, including academia. However, empirical research on academicians’ adoption behavior is limited. This stu ...
artificial intelligence, chatbots, network, homophily, TTF
582 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper addresses the effectiveness of flipped learning and teaching as a didactic innovation in math instruction. We are interested in comparing traditional and flipped learning and teaching in terms of acquired knowledge and retention and students’ perceptions of flipped learning and teaching.
Background: Traditional lessons, in which frontal instruction prevails, cannot suffici ...
didactic innovation, flipped learning and teaching, mathematics, knowledge retention, students’ perceptions, primary school students
612 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This exploratory qualitative case study examines the perceptions of high-school learners of English regarding a pedagogical intervention involving progressive reduction of captions (full, sentence-level, keyword captions, and no-captions) in enhancing language learning.
Background: Recognizing the limitations of caption usage in fostering independent listening comprehension in non-ca ...
caption reliance, pedagogical innovation, listening comprehension, language learning, Chile
129 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the perceptions of programming instructors among the Information Technology faculty members at AL al-Bayt University regarding the effectiveness of ChatGPT in supporting the programming instructional process. This study also aims to explore their experiences concerning the potential benefits and adverse impacts of such technology on students and instruct ...
computer programming, programming instructors, ChatGPT, programming instruction
1063 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The digital ecosystem has contributed to the acceleration of digital and mobile educational tools across institutions worldwide. The research displays educators’ perspectives on web applications on mobile devices that can be used to engage and challenge students while impacting their learning.
Background: Explored are elements of technology in education and challenges and successes r ...
mobile instructional technology, mobile devices, higher education, apps in education, mobile learning
200 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research aims to uncover the key research themes and trends of Social Media-Enhanced Blended Learning (SMBL) research. It will extract valuable insights from scholarly publications using bibliometric analysis.
Background: Although previous scholarly works and bibliometric review papers have examined integrating social media into blended learning and its impact on teaching and lea ...
bibliometrics, social media, blended learning, COVID-19, flipped classroom
284 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To conduct a needs assessment and subsequently create micro-storytelling media aimed at enhancing the Digital Intelligence Quotient (DQ) skills of young individuals.
Background: In today's digital society, DQ has emerged as a vital skill that elevates individuals in all aspects of life, from daily living to education. To empower Thai youth, this study seeks to innovate DQ content by ...
Digital Intelligence Quotient (DQ), Digital Micro Storytelling, Needs Assessment, Youth
117 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores the Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception (KAP) towards ChatGPT among university students and faculty. It also examines the faculty’s readiness to cope with the challenges and leverage the opportunities presented by AI-powered conversational models.
Background: Launched on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT took the world by storm with its capability to generate high-quali ...
ChatGPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformer, knowledge, perception, attitude, academic integrity, student ethics, AI-driven conversational model, technology adoption
799 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores the subject structure, social networks, research trends, and issues in the domain that have the potential to derive an overview of the development of virtual reality-based learning media in vocational education.
Background: Notwithstanding the increasingly growing interest in the application of virtual reality in vocational learning, the existing research literat ...
virtual reality, bibliometric, vocational education
351 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study explores the key determinants that influence the intention of public higher education institutions in Malaysia to utilize mobile learning. Furthermore, this study investigates the correlation between these attributes and the components that affect the sustainability viability of mobile learning.
Background: The proliferation of mobile devices and the impact of COVID ...
sustainability, mobile learning, intention, instructor readiness, student readiness, learning autonomy
192 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This review’s main objective was to examine the existing literature on the use of 3D printers in primary education, covering students aged six to twelve across general, special, and inclusive educational environments.
Background: A review of the literature indicated a significant oversight – prior reviews insufficiently distinguish the application of 3D printing in primary education ...
3D printers, additive manufacturing, educational technology, primary education, scoping review
143 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the enabling technologies and applications of computer-assisted career guidance (CACG) tools in the career planning activities of students.
Background: The choice of a career is an extremely significant lifetime decision for any individual. Students often struggle with their career choices mainly due to the lack of awareness in career planning and devel ...
computer-assisted career guidance, career planning, career counseling, career guidance, education, systematic literature review
346 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to test whether the perception of self-regulated learning during text reading in online teacher education is improved by using a digital tool for the use of metacognitive strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-assessment.
Background: The use of self-regulated learning is important in reading skills, and for students to develop self-regulated learning, t ...
self-regulated learning, metacognition, reading, teacher education, digital tool
163 downloads
Researching Influences of Learner Experience on AR/VR Adoption - The Case of Vietnamese Universities
Aim/Purpose: The study aims to analyze the elements/factors that impact students’ augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) adoption through their behavior in Vietnamese higher education. In particular, the research demonstrates the influences of and relationships between multiple goals, learner experience, and barriers to adopting AR/VR.
Background: The widespread adoption of digital transformat ...
education, AR/VR technology, multiple goals, AR/VR adoption, learner experience, barriers
243 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite playing a critical role in shaping the future, 70% of undergraduate engineers report low levels of motivation. Student disengagement and a lack of ownership of their learning are significant challenges in higher education, specifically engineering students in the computer science department. This study investigates the various causes of these problems among first-year undergra ...
disengagement, ownership of learning, engineering education, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, instructional practices
162 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study evaluated the e-learning experience of Saudi K-12 teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, it explored their perceptions of e-learning. It also investigated the teaching approaches and strategies, tools for facilitating e-learning, assessment tools, and social media used by teachers for communicating with students in e-learning during the pandemic. Furtherm ...
e-learning; Saudi K-12 teachers; COVID-19 pandemic
114 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper is part of a multi-case study that aims to test whether generative AI makes an effective coding assistant. Particularly, this work evaluates the ability of two AI chatbots (ChatGPT and Bing Chat) to generate concise computer code, considers ethical issues related to generative AI, and offers suggestions for how to improve the technology.
Background: Since the release of Ch ...
artificial intelligence, Bing Chat, ChatGPT, code modifications, concise code, ethics, programming assistants
244 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to identify primary school teachers’ perceptions of leveraging social media-based microlearning to improve students’ English-speaking abilities.
Background: The value of social media as an effective educational tool for English language learning has been recognized by educators in higher education in China. However, there is a lack of investigation into primary scho ...
Chinese primary school, teachers’ perceptions, social media-based microlearning, English-speaking abilities
300 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study seeks to utilize Augmented Reality (AR) in creating virtual laboratories for engineering education, focusing on enhancing teaching methodologies to facilitate student understanding of intricate and theoretical engineering principles while also assessing engineering students’ acceptance of such laboratories.
Background: AR, a part of next-generation technology, has enhanced ...
augmented reality, engineering studies, next-generation technology, virtual laboratory
143 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research explores the design and development of a gamified Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aligned with the Self-Directed Learning (SDL) approach. The focus is addressing challenges to foster autonomous learning within the MOOC context.
Background: MOOCs have emerged as a prominent platform for global education; however, they face ongoing challenges, particularly in their capa ...
MOOC, gamification, autonomous learning, self-directed learning
574 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study presents some activities that integrate computational thinking (CT) into mathematics lessons utilizing GeoGebra to promote constructionist learning.
Background: CT activities in the Indonesian curriculum are dominated by worked examples with less plugged-mode activities that might hinder students from acquiring CT skills. Therefore, we developed mathematics and CT (math+C ...
computational thinking, mathematics, constructionist, GeoGebra
121 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is to evaluate the available literature on Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs). It aims to investigate the impacts, guiding principles, and problems of CVEs, giving light to their revolutionary potential in a variety of sectors, such as education, healthcare, and gaming.
Background: CVEs have received a lot of interest in recent years because of the ...
collaborative virtual environments, collaboration, virtual reality, remote work, education
146 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The teaching of appropriate problem-solving techniques to novice learners in undergraduate software development education is often poorly defined when compared to the delivery of programming techniques. Given the global need for qualified designers of information technology, the purpose of this research is to produce a foundational template for an educational software development meth ...
computing education research, educational software development methodology, computational thinking, CS1 education
64 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore factors influencing engineering students’ acceptance of the Google Classroom platform in communication skills courses to ensure more active engagement and better performance.
Background: In response to the underutilization and hesitancy in adopting educational technologies, this study investigates the factors influencing engineering students’ acceptance of ...
TAM, Google Classroom, communication skills, academic success
183 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the potential value of critical thinking in computer science education and discusses strategies for its integration across the curriculum.
Background: As technology rapidly evolves and becomes increasingly integrated into society, there is a growing need for computer science graduates who can think critically about the ethical, societal, and technical implications ...
computer science education, critical thinking, curriculum development, higher education, professional skills
75 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges posed by disinformation in an educational context. The paper aims to review existing information assessment techniques, highlight their limitations, and propose a conceptual design for a multimodal, explainable information assessment system for higher education. The ultimate goal is to provide a roadmap for researchers that meets ...
information assessment, artificial intelligence, higher education
228 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article explores the critical need for adaptable educational models in times of crisis, focusing on strategies to overcome infrastructural and digital inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: By examining a case study of an offline digital library project implemented in South Sudan, this paper seeks to examine the impact of an offline digital educational s ...
digital literacy, information literacy, COVID-19, digital inequality, education in emergencies, capacity building, ICT4D, libraries
71 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to address the gap in comprehensive, real-world applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in education, particularly in higher education settings. Despite the evident potential of GenAI in transforming educational practices, there is a lack of consolidated knowledge about its practical effectiveness and real-world impact.
Background: This study addres ...
generative AI, education, systematic literature review, teaching materials, skill development, academic performance
703 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aims of this study are to assess the current information literacy skills of students undertaking Capstone projects, identify the gaps in students’ ability to find and evaluate literature material, and prove the need for developing scaffolded online instructional materials to support students’ research activities in Capstone projects.
Background: Students today are digital native ...
information literacy, search strategy, Boolean operators, capstone
53 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to examine the mobile learning (m-learning) intentions of students pursuing design courses at graduate and undergraduate levels in higher education institutions in a developing country like India. This study integrated the Technology Readiness Index (TRI 2.0) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to examine students’ intentions.
Backgro ...
m-learning, design students, UTAUT, technology readiness index, structural equation modeling, TRUTAUT model
116 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the integration of emerging technology (ET) integration in the information systems (IS) curriculum.
Background: Modernizing the IS curriculum is consistently needed to meet the demands of the workplace. The IS2020 curriculum model recommends adding emerging technology learning into the IS curriculum. It presents recommendations for IS progr ...
3D printing, emerging technology, IS curriculum, integration
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to empirically investigate and answer the following research questions: Do students’ self-control and smartphone e-learning readiness influence smartphone-cyberloafing, and does gender play a role in this relationship?
Background: Research indicates that many students’ learning time is wasted due to cyberloafing, which involves non-course-related activities on thei ...
smartphone e-learning, cyberloafing, smartphone-cyberloafing, students’ self-control, e-learning readiness, gender differences
139 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated the effect of using Flipgrid, an application through which teachers gather learners in virtual classrooms to allow interaction through video and audio sharing, on Jordanian EFL seventh-grade students’ speaking performance (along with the features of fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary).
Background: Speaking is a fundamental skill in language acqu ...
EFL, Flipgrid, fluency, grammar, Jordan, pronunciation, speaking, vocabulary
46 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this systematic literature review is to evaluate the application of UTAUT and UTAUT2 frameworks in K-12 education.
Background: This study included an analysis of peer-reviewed empirical studies that use the UTAUT and UTAUT2 frameworks to understand the factors that influence technology adoption among K-12 educators. New constructs were identified, and core determinate ...
education, UTAUT, UTAUT2, technology adoption, K-12, educators
180 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper highlights an innovative and impactful online operating system algorithms e-learning tool in engineering education.
Background: Common teaching methodologies make it difficult to teach complex algorithms of operating systems. This paper presents a solution to this problem by providing simulations of different complex algorithms to enable students to visualize and perform ...
simulation, process scheduling, disk scheduling, banker’s algorithm, resource allocation
1043 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study identifies gamification element preferences based on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) characteristics. It measures the influence of preferences on learning motivation through a pre-experimental design of one group pre-test post-test.
Background: Incorporating information technology in education has led to the introduction of e-learning, potentially enhancing the learning ...
gamification, MBTI, gamified personalization, academic motivation scale, e-learning
253 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of digital competences, technology acceptance, and individual factors (gender and educational level) on academic achievement in Physical Education and Sports Science (PESS).
Background: Prior research has established a positive correlation between digital competences and performance, but the mediating role of technology acceptance remains uncl ...
academic performance, digital competence, physical education, sports science, technology acceptance
272 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a theoretical framework for enhancing students’ higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) by integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) with gamification elements.
Background: There is a growing demand to develop students’ innovative thinking abilities through MOOCs, focusing on higher-order thinking skills (HOTS), which are essential for 21st-century chall ...
higher-order thinking, MOOCs, gamification, student engagement, online collaborative learning
172 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main goal of this study is to investigate the factors affecting students’ satisfaction and continuous usage of ChatGPT in an educational context, using the Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM) as the theoretical framework. Specifically, this investigation focuses on identifying how user expectations, perceived usefulness, and satisfaction influence the continuous usage of ChatGPT ...
ChatGPT, Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM), student satisfaction, continuous usage, CFA, SEM
319 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the influence of an augmented reality mobile application on improving secondary students’ visualization and comprehension of geometric concepts.
Background: The study involved developing an AR app named Geometria to enhance geometry education.
Methodology: In a specialized boarding school in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, 82 tenth-graders were randomly split int ...
stereometry, education system, geometry, visualisation, augmented reality, digital technologies
138 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to introduce an innovative approach to improving learning outcomes for hearing-impaired learners (HL) within inclusive education settings. By integrating design thinking principles into Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) specifically designed for HL, this research seeks to address their unique educational needs. The study examines the components of a design thinking m ...
MOOC, design thinking, digital media, hearing-impaired learners
75 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study explores the use of AI-powered ChatGPT as a feedback tool for automated writing evaluation in a higher education context.
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly applied in the field of education, offering new opportunities with its evolving capabilities. One area where AI tools have promising potential is the field of second/foreign language (L2) w ...
artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, feedback, second language writing, higher education
636 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the factors that influence higher education students’ adoption of ChatGPT by incorporating constructs from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Self-Determination Theory (SDT) with trust, social influence, and personal innovativeness.
Background: Even though the use of ChatGPT has become more popular among university students, there is no clea ...
ChatGPT, higher education, TAM, motivational drivers
188 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to analyze the cognitive load experienced by secondary school students in Biology within m-learning environments and its impact on learning performance.
Background: Cognitive load has become a critical issue that schools need to address to ensure students can excel in their learning without being overwhelmed. While principles for reducing cognitive load have been exte ...
m-learning, mobile learning, cognitive load, mobile applications
217 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the trends in robot storytelling, its conceptual models, and educational implications.
Background: Digital storytelling is the use of digital media elements such as text, images, audio, and video to create and tell a story. A form of digital storytelling using a social robot to do the story presentation is called robot-assisted digital storytelling or simply robot ...
robot-assisted storytelling, robot-based storytelling, robot storytelling, robot storytelling conceptual model, scoping review
69 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this systematic literature review is to explore the use of gamification in reading instruction between 2020 and 2024, focusing on the main theories and models, implementation strategies in various educational settings, measurable effects on student engagement and comprehension, and future directions for research.
Background: Reading instruction faces persistent challen ...
gamification, gamified learning, reading instruction, reading comprehension, reading engagement
160 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined the experiences of international students writing a typed e-assessment at the on-campus computer lab on the ExamOnline system.
Background: After a computer-based typed summative examination was introduced for one of the MSc degree’s modules in a UK university, it was critical to ascertain its inclusivity. The context is that departments in universities select crit ...
international students, computer-based assessment, e-assessment, inclusive as-sessment, ExamOnline
36 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current study explored how Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) influences teachers’ delivery of subject content.
Background: The potential value of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) devices is lost if teachers do not integrate them into their instructional practices. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge is one of the components of Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowl ...
rural areas, secondary schools, teachers, technological pedagogical knowledge
47 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 21, 2024
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology
50 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges are a popular form of cybersecurity education where students solve hands-on tasks in a game-like setting. These exercises provide learning experiences with various specific technologies and subjects, as well as a broader understanding of cybersecurity topics. Competitions reinforce and teach problem-solving skills that are applicable in various techn ...
cybersecurity, Capture-the-Flag, information search process, gamification
84 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The aim of this study is to recognize the factors that contributed to the development of IT in the healthcare industry.
Background.
The healthcare Information Technology (IT) solutions market has experienced remarkable growth, with the healthcare sector emerging as a $303 billion industry. However, despite its substantial size, the healthcare industry has faced criticism for its ...
eHealth, healthcare information systems, healthcare industry
188 downloads
Aim/Purpose:
To investigate the impact of the evolution of Information Technology on global workforce skills and explore emerging approaches that address the IT talent shortage faced by diverse companies in finding skilled IT workers.
Background:
This paper explores diverse approaches to bridge the skilled IT workers shortage gap, especially in the context of the widening gap following the i ...
information technology, workforce skills, thematic analysis, BERTopic, globalized workforce, lifelong learning, COVID-19 impact
93 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
This study captures and describes the discrepancies in the performance matrices of comparable Chinese and American scholars as recorded by Scopus.
Background.
The contributions of Chinese scholars to the global knowledge enterprise are increasing, whereas indexing bibliometric databases (e.g., Scopus) are not optimally designed to track their names and record their work precisely ...
ethnic scholars, bibliometric data, research performance, Chinese vs. American scholars
26 downloads
Aim/Purpose .
The quantitative comparative ex post facto research study covered in this paper aims to fill gaps in the literature by focusing on whether gender influences perceptions of leadership; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); and job satisfaction among federal employees within the Department of Justice using empirical data. The study also explores whether there are rel ...
employee motivation, FEVS, job satisfaction, public service employee satisfaction, DEI, DEIA, leadership, federal government, public service motivation, gender and job satisfaction, leadership and job satisfaction
52 downloads
Aim/Purpose .
The present study aimed to understand in depth the experience of identity formation of beginning teachers (BTs), members of Gen Y, in their first year at elementary school, teaching students of Gen Alpha, from the perspective of BTs and their teacher mentors (TMs).
Background.
The purpose of the study was to compare the aspects described by BTs and their mentor teachers of the ...
information and communication technology (ICT), smartphones, internship, beginning teacher, teacher-mentor, identity, interactions, mental well-being, the Gen Alpha, Gen Y, teacher retention, teacher attrition
27 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
This study addresses the research question: “What are the developmental phases of Information Technology in the industry?” Existing research has explored the impact of Information Technology (IT) on specific industries. However, it is essential to understand the evolution of IT within industries, its influence on the workforce, and technological advancements. Addressing this knowledg ...
information technology, evolution of information technology, industry and information technology, phases of information technology
192 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
In this study, we examined, from the perspective of the participants, aspects of information and communications technology (ICT) and resilience, comparing first-generation students in higher education with students whose parents had higher education.
Methodology.
We examined self-image, motivation, happiness, and the use of ICT. This was a quantitative study. Respondents answered ...
higher education, social gaps, multiculturalism, first-generation students, generation Z, generation Y
55 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 19, 2024, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
278 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 19, 2024, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
190 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the drivers of user satisfaction in e-government services and its influence on continued use intention and citizen trust in government. It employs the integration of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Information System Success Model (ISSM).
Background: Electronic government, transforming citizen-state interactions, has gained momentum worldwide, in ...
e-government, user satisfaction, continuance intention, citizen trust, India
1028 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored the experiences of a group of historically underrepresented graduate students at a research-intensive university to understand their perceived supports and barriers to academic persistence and success and how these related to their background, socioeconomic status, language, and cultural differences.
Background: Attending graduate school can provide learning in s ...
sense of belonging, mentor support, financial support, peer support, imposter phenomenon, graduate student success
342 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined the use of Social Media Applications (SMAs) for accessing health-related information within a heterogeneous population in Jordan. The objective of this study was therefore threefold: (i) to investigate the usage of SMAs, including WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook, for accessing health-related information; (ii) to examine potential varia ...
social media, health information, seeking, Internet, Jordan
290 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to compare the experiences of students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) with those of White students in the same Educational Leadership doctoral program that claimed to be unapologetic in its commitment to producing racially conscious leaders.
Background: This study critically assesses the doctoral program’s claims as measured by BIPOC a ...
educational leadership, Ed.D. programs, BIPOC students, White students, racial equity leadership, transformative learning
316 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the media portrayal of Ph.D. programs in the Czech Republic. Specifically, it explores how doctoral study programs, their students, and the Ph.D. degree are represented across various topics and social actors over an 18-month period.
Background: The societal perception of Ph.D. studies, especially at the postgraduate level, is significantl ...
doctoral degree, content analysis, media representation
197 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the adoption and continued use of m-learning in Iraqi universities amidst an unstable environment by extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) and Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM) models. The primary goal is to address the specific challenges and opportunities in Iraq’s higher education institutions (HEIs) due to geopolitical i ...
mobile learning (m-learning), higher education institutions (HEIs), unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 (UTAUT2), expectation confirmation model (ECM)
295 downloads
Aim/Purpose: With respect to doctoral students, the present study examined the association between dropout intentions and contextual, dispositional, and affective variables. The aim was to provide a deeper understanding of the factors that promote successful completion of doctoral studies in the humanities and social sciences in France.
Background: Key variables relevant to doctoral life that c ...
doctoral students, dropout intention, personality, well-being, context
233 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research aims to investigate the factors that influence the continuous use of mobile banking applications to complete banking monetary transactions.
Background: Despite a significant increase in the use of mobile banking applications, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new evidence indicates that the use rate of mobile banking applications for operating banking monetary t ...
mobile banking applications, continuous use, process virtualization theory, post-adoption
256 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Little is known about procrastination in PhD students, as most research focuses on undergraduate students. While there have been several efforts to identify different types of academic procrastinators in undergraduates, no study has attempted to identify different procrastination types in PhD students. Additionally, most of the studies that found different procrastination types in und ...
procrastination, PhD students, latent profile analysis
357 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to evaluate models from meta-learning techniques, such as Riemannian Model Agnostic Meta-Learning (RMAML), Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML), and Reptile meta-learning, to obtain high-quality metadata. The goal is to utilize this metadata to increase accuracy and efficiency in identifying chili varieties in smart agriculture.
Background: The identification of chi ...
chili variety identification, meta-learning, 2-3 way classification, 5-10 shot classification
233 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored changes in writing self-efficacy and writing apprehension among online doctoral students throughout their first dissertation writing course. By examining the facilitators and obstacles to online doctoral student writing success, we concluded that receiving specific, concrete, and iterative feedback is instrumental for the growth of doctoral students’ confidence dur ...
writing self-efficacy, writing apprehension, writing anxiety, dissertation writing, graduate writing
290 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is to summarize the challenges of Agile Requirements Engineering (Agile RE) in the public sector in republican and constitutional monarchy nations. Additionally, it offers recommendations to address these challenges.
Background: Failure of IT projects in the public sector results in financial losses for the state and loss of public trust, often attributed ...
Agile requirements engineering, public sector, Agile challenges, systematic literature review
293 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The aim is to conduct a comparative analysis and summarize findings on the difference between the key sections of quantitative doctoral dissertations versus qualitative doctoral dissertations. A summary of the findings will be presented in a tabulated format with bullet points to help clarify the differences between the two approaches.
Background.
Doctoral students often face ch ...
doctoral dissertations, qualitative vs quantitative dissertations, comparative analysis, qualitative vs quantitative research
281 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to analyze the factors that influence user addiction to AR face filters in social network applications and their impact on the online social anxiety of users in Indonesia.
Background: To date, social media users have started to use augmented reality (AR) face filters. However, AR face filters have the potential to create positive and negative effects for social media ...
augmented reality, face filter, Instagram, social media, Indonesia
227 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of satisfaction with study progress during a period when COVID-19 restrictions were in place and after their removal.
Background: The pandemic instigated a period of rapid technological change in global higher education. Relatively little research has examined the combined effect of technological use and the pandemic on academi ...
study progress, technology, health, time management, COVID-19
185 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to identify the characteristics of YouTube video reviews that consumers utilize to evaluate review helpfulness and explores how they process such information. This study aims to investigate the effect of argument quality, review popularity, number of likes, and source credibility on consumers’ perception of YouTube’s video review helpfulness.
Background: Video reviews ...
review helpfulness, online reviews, video reviews, YouTube, elaboration likelihood model
222 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research is aimed at understanding the role of curiosity in obtaining a PhD degree. The differences in the expression of curiosity between PhD and unsuccessful doctoral candidates are studied.
Background: Differences in the expression of curiosity predict differences in behavior and achievement of results. The role of curiosity in research activities and progress has been recogn ...
curiosity, research potential, PhD, unsuccessful doctoral candidates, doctoral studies, Kazakhstan
180 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to investigate and understand the intentions of management undergraduate students in Hangzhou, China, regarding the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in their education. It addresses the need to explore the factors influencing AI adoption in the educational context and contribute to the ongoing discourse on technology integration in higher education ...
AI integration in education, Chinese university education, student perspectives, diffusion theory, PLS-SEM analysis
331 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite an increase in the numbers of K-12 educators pursuing doctoral degrees, it is unclear if the field of education has been significantly impacted by the research resulting from their doctoral dissertations. Accordingly, the quality of doctoral programs and dissertations and rate of publication after defense, warrants examination.
Background: There have long been discussions reg ...
dissertation quality, research methods, qualitative research, quantitative research
155 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the success of deep learning in building user profiles for personalized information access.
Background: To better express document content and information during the matching phase of the information retrieval (IR) process, deep learning architectures could potentially offer a feasible and optimal alternative to user profile building for personalized infor ...
personalized IR, user profile, deep learning, recurrent neural networks, artificial neural networks, convolutional neural networks
194 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Given the limited research on assessing research literacy among postgraduate students in the education field, this study aims to explore the association between research literacy scores and learning experiences. These experiences include reading intensity, participation in formal research-related courses, and engagement in presenting and publishing articles.
Background: Postgraduate ...
research literacy, postgraduate students, formal research courses, immersion in research, reading intensity
130 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research investigated the determinant factors influencing the adoption intentions of Chatsicum, a Knowledge-Based Chatbot (KBC) aimed at enhancing the species literacy of biodiversity students.
Background: This research was conducted to bridge the gap between technology, education, and biodiversity conservation. Innovative solutions are needed to empower individuals with knowled ...
task-technology fit, diffusion of innovation, knowledge-based system, chatbot, trust, biodiversity, species literacy
221 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this case study research, we aimed to understand the development of effective doctoral supervision practices in Educational Research by examining supervisors’ experiences as doctoral students and how they learned their evolving supervision and mentoring roles as professors.
Background: Doctoral supervision is shaped by institutional systems, program structures, research cultures, ...
doctoral supervision, effective mentorship, educational research, supervisor development
272 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the user acceptability of blockchain technology in the healthcare sector, with a specific focus on healthcare professionals in Jordan.
Background: The study seeks to identify the factors that affect healthcare professionals’ use and acceptance of blockchain technology in Jordan.
Methodology: The study’s research framework integrates factors from the Technolo ...
blockchain technology, healthcare, acceptance, TAM, UTAUT
245 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates how personal resources act as moderators and mediators in the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. The study introduced intrinsic motivation as a personal resource and explored the mediating and moderating role relating to job demands, job strain, and psychological well-being in a doctoral education setting.
Background: Future scholars and professionals are sha ...
psychological well-being, personal resources, intrinsic motivation, job demands-resources, job strain
169 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on two targeting strategies of out-store Location-Based Mobile Advertising (LBMA): the geo-fencing strategy (i.e., targeting customers who are near the focal store) and the geo-conquesting strategy (i.e., targeting those who are near competitors’ stores to visit the focal store). To the authors’ knowledge, no previous studies have compared the perceived intrusivenes ...
mobile marketing, location-based mobile marketing, location-based mobile advertising, geo-fencing, geo-conquesting, perceived intrusiveness, attitudes, purchase intention
228 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article addresses the lack of research on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) PhD students’ experiences in collaborative learning processes. It aims to fill this gap by using collaborative autoethnography to analyze the experiences of four BIPOC doctoral students who participated as co-researchers in a year-long collaborative program evaluation self-study of their academic ...
collaborative learning, BIPOC doctoral students, collaborative program evaluation
88 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper intends to answer the question regarding the extent to which political postings with value differences/similarities will influence the level of implicit knowledge sharing (KS) among work colleagues in organizations. More specifically, the study assesses contributors’ responses to a workmate’s publicity about politics on social media platforms (SMP) and their eagerness to im ...
political communication, private organization, social media, tacit knowledge sharing, PLSSEM
156 downloads
Navigating Systemic Racism: A Critical Race Analysis of Doctoral Students’ Career Choices in the USA
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to explore the nuanced career choices of doctoral students in the USA through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT), addressing the underrepresentation and systemic challenges faced by students of color in their postdoctoral career paths.
Background: Despite increasing diversity in doctoral programs, racial and ethnic disparities persist in career outcomes. This pape ...
career choices, doctoral students, Critical Race Theory, systemic racism, intersectionality
105 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the influence of e-government public services on public trust at the local government level, addressing the pressing need to understand the factors shaping citizen perceptions and trust in government institutions.
Background: With the proliferation of e-government initiatives worldwide, governments are increasingly turning to digital solutions to enhanc ...
e-government, public trust, service quality, information quality, citizen perceptions, local government, Indonesia
270 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study presents an alternative use of the activity theory methodology as a tool and lens for synthesizing and evaluating qualitative data in scholarly articles. This research offers particular value for methodology experts and researchers by introducing a novel analytical framework that links theoretical frameworks with practical literature review techniques, providing a structure ...
methods in literature review, qualitative coding, evidence of rigor, analytical synthesis, activity theory
76 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to develop a smart agricultural knowledge management framework to empower emergent farmers and extension officers (advisors to farmers) in developing countries as part of a smart farming lab (SFL). The framework utilizes knowledge objects (KOs) to capture information and knowledge of different forms, including indigenous knowledge. It builds upon a foundation of est ...
smart farming lab, emergent farmers, extension officers, agricultural knowledge management, AKM process model, knowledge objects, social media integration
159 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This qualitative, exploratory case study aimed to explore the challenges that doctoral graduates experienced during their online programs and the strategies they used to overcome these challenges and obtain their degrees at universities in the United States.
Background: About half of the students enrolled in online doctoral programs in the United States will drop out. Doctoral studen ...
academic thriving, doctoral attrition, doctoral completion, doctoral persistence, doctoral retention, doctoral success, online doctoral programs, resilience, thriving
102 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a solution for personalized tourism recommendations that addresses information overload, data sparsity, and the cold-start problem. It focuses on enabling tourists to choose the most suitable tourism-related facilities, such as restaurants and hotels, that match their individual needs and preferences.
Background: The tourism industry is experiencing a signi ...
tourism recommendation, multi-criteria analysis, implicit trust network, data sparsity, cold start, new user
213 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored teachers’ data-driven decision-making processes during routine and emergency remote teaching, as experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: Decision-making is essential in teaching, with informed decisions promoting student learning and teachers’ professional development most effectively. However, obstacles to the use of data have been identified in man ...
data-driven decision-making, emergency remote teaching (ERT), qualitative research, COVID-19
136 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Accurate detection of vacant parking spaces is crucial for autonomous parking. Deep learning, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), holds promise for addressing the challenges of diverse parking lot appearances and complex visual environments. Our GNN-based approach leverages the spatial layout of detected marking points in around-view images to learn robust feature representatio ...
parking slot detection, bird’s-eye images, graph neural networks, attention mechanism, autonomous vehicles, deep learning, real-time processing
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between Electronic Word-of-Mouth (EWOM), Information Adoption, and the stock investment of Vietnamese investors.
Background: Misinformation spreads online, and a lack of strong information analysis skills can lead Vietnamese investors to make poor stock choices. By understanding how online conversations and information processing influence inv ...
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (EWOM), information adoption, investment decisions, social media groups, stock investors
248 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This conceptual review analyzes the designs of global health virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) programming reported in the empirical literature and proposes a new typology of their functioning. The purpose of this review is to provide clarity on VCoP learning stages of (co)evolution and insight into VCoP (re)development efforts to best meet member, organization, and network need ...
global health, virtual community of practice, continuous learning, complexity
144 downloads
Aim/Purpose: While existing literature has extensively explored factors influencing the success of big data projects and proposed big data maturity models, no study has harnessed machine learning to predict project success and identify the critical features contributing significantly to that success. The purpose of this paper is to offer fresh insights into the realm of big data projects by levera ...
big data projects, success prediction, key factors, maturity model, machine learning
134 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The rise of modern artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, machine learning (ML), has provided new opportunities and directions for knowledge management (KM). A central question for the future of KM is whether it will be dominated by an automation strategy that replaces knowledge work or whether it will support a knowledge-enablement strategy that enhances knowledge work and upli ...
knowledge management, knowledge work, artificial intelligence, automation, knowledge enablement, tacit knowledge, abductive reasoning
186 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, we developed a recommendation system model designed to support decision-makers in identifying consumers eligible for pay-later options via consensus-based decision-making. This approach was chosen due to the high and complex risks involved, such as delayed payments, challenges in reaching consumers, and issues of bad credit.
Background: The “pay-later” option, which al ...
pay-later, system recommendation, multi-stage analysis, ROAD, CNN, RNN, LSTM
159 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a theoretical model based on the SOR (Stimulus – Organism – Response) framework and GETAMEL, which cover environmental, personal, and learning quality aspects to identify factors influencing students’ acceptance of the use of LMS in high schools, especially after COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: After the COVID-19 pandemic, many high schools reopened for in-p ...
SEM, Learning Management System (LMS), high school, GETAMEL, SOR
147 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to design a website-based group decision support system (DSS) user interface to support an integrated and sustainable waste management plan in Jagatera. The main focus of this research is to design a group DSS to help Jagatera prioritize several waste alternatives to be managed so that Jagatera can make the right decisions to serve the community.
Background: The In ...
group decision support system, analytical hierarchy process, soft system methodology, waste recycling company, user interface design DSS
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the intention to invest in online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms among the bottom 40% (B40) Malaysian households by income.
Background: The B40 group citizens earn less than USD 1,096.00 (i.e., RM 4,850.00) in monthly household income, thereby possessing relatively small capital investments suitable for online P2P lending.
Methodology: Drawing on the t ...
behavioural intention, B40 group, Malaysia, online P2P, Fintech, investment, financial inclusion
150 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The last decade has witnessed a tremendous progression in mobile penetration across the world and, most importantly, in developing countries like India. This research aims to investigate and analyze the factors influencing the adoption of mobile payments (M-payments) in the Indian rural population. This, in turn, would bring about positive changes in the lives of people in these count ...
UTAUT, rural India, facilitating conditions, social influences, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, M-payments awareness, behavioral intentions, usage behavior
278 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated factors influencing the intention to engage in green innovation among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector, using an integrated approach from the pro-environmental planned behavior (PEPB) and technology organization environment (TOE) models.
Background: Green innovation is a long-term strategy aimed at addressing environmental challenges i ...
behavioral intention, green innovation, PEPB, TOE, SMEs, tourism
120 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research utilized a learn-to-rank algorithm to provide medical recommendations to prescribers. The algorithm has been utilized in other domains, such as information retrieval and recommender systems.
Background: Ranking the possible medical treatments according to diagnoses of the medical cases is very beneficial for doctors, especially during the coding process.
Methodology: ...
learn to rank, medicine ranking, decision making
86 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study presents a novel deep learning-based framework designed to enhance spontaneous micro-expression recognition by effectively increasing the amount and variety of data and balancing the class distribution to improve recognition accuracy.
Background: Micro-expression recognition using deep learning requires large amounts of data. Micro-expression datasets are relatively small, ...
micro-expression, spatio-temporal, data augmentation, class balancing, 3DCNN, vision, deep learning
97 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore the use of mobile health applications (mHealth apps) by lay users in Kuwait. Specifically, it seeks to: (i) identify and highlight the impact of factors that contribute to their use of mHealth apps and (ii) validate a model of these users’ usage of mHealth apps.
Background: The advancement of information technologies has paved the way for efficiency and eff ...
lay users, health information, mHealth, Kuwait, mobile health applications
123 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the factors that affect the repurchase intentions of Generation Z consumers in India’s online shopping industry, focusing on combining the Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM) and Extended Technology Acceptance Model (E-TAM). The aim is to understand the intricate behaviors that shape technology adoption and sustained usage, which are essential for retaining cu ...
repurchase intention, e-satisfaction, ease of use, security, privacy concerns, internet self-efficacy, Generation Z, e-commerce
167 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes how to use a multilayer perceptron to improve concept drift recovery in streaming environments.
Background: Classifying instances in a data stream environment with concept drift is a challenging topic. The base learner must be adapted online to the current data. Several data mining algorithms have been adapted/used to this type of environment. In this study, two ...
data streams, concept drift, multilayer perceptron, online learning
72 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The problem addressed by this research is the struggle of Botswana’s livestock sector to implement effective animal traceability systems due to limited interoperability, inadequate data integration, reliance on open grazing systems, and systemic challenges like high mortality, theft, and disease outbreaks. These challenges collectively undermine animal traceability system competitiven ...
ontology-based knowledge management, data interoperability, livestock traceability systems, trade compliance, systems integration, data quality enhancement
93 downloads
Enhanced Detection of Hate Speech in Dravidian Languages in Social Media Using Ensemble Transformers
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to propose an efficient implementation of identifying and detecting offensive and hate comments on social media platforms for Dravidian languages.
Background: There has been a notable increase in hate comments on social media platforms in recent years. Hate language and hate speech are expressions of conflicts that arise between different groups, both within and acros ...
BERT, NLP, F1-Score, Dravidian languages, Code-mix, Hate comment, Muril, mBERT
92 downloads
Long-term organizational success, particularly in business service industries such as information technology (IT) and software development, has been shown to be linked to ethical behavior by company employees. A project manager (PM) is the “face of the project” for internal and external customers and ideally is an organizational leader in ethical decision-making. This case illustrates what happe ...
Ethical decision-making, Ethical dilemma, Healthcare, Leadership, Project management (PM), Project Management Institute (PMI®), Protected health information (PHI), Social learning theory (SLT), Whistleblower
22 downloads
Kathi Dempsey, CFO and co-founder of KCooper Brands, Inc., grapples with escalating operational challenges stemming from disjointed software systems hindering the company's growth in the packaging and substrate industries. Recognizing the urgent need for a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, Kathi faces the complex task of selecting between Anaplan and Acumatica to modernize t ...
EPR Solution
12 downloads
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) such as Orange Blossom Family Health (OBFH) provide healthcare to the under-insured or non-insured and rely on federal grants and donations. They often need to balance the need to invest in innovation or new technologies vs. maintaining their ability to provide low cost healthcare to their community. When faced with the need for a major system upgrade to ...
Healthcare, FQHC, Electronic Medical Record System, Medical Records, Digital Solutions, EMR, EHR
18 downloads
This case study focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence in medical coding procedures.
AI, Medical coding, TGH, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Hospital, Health Care
23 downloads
Bonti Burgess, Owner of Bright Day Home Healthcare, had a strategic decision to make. Should Bright Day forge ahead with technological improvements to modernize its operations for long-term revenue growth? Or should the IT infrastructure and CRM system disruptions be put on the back burner under the possibility of a company sale?
Home Healthcare Industry, Home Health Technology, Tech Innovation, Long-Term Care Business, Healthcare Software, CNA, Private Duty Home Health
9 downloads
Change has been posited as important today by some of the top journals such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Muma Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review, but what exactly does the change mean to you? For example, the COVID-19 change is certainly tantamount to many people’s minds. That change is so broad, readers view it as changing everything from the price of fo ...
Organizational Change, The Soft Side of Change, The Hard Side of Change, Team Building, Top Management Support, Employee Buy-In, Alignment.
22 downloads
Artificial intelligence is one of the most fascinating developments that the business world is facing. In the right hands, it could be positive while in the wrong hands, it could be devastating. In the 1990s, it was tech-savvy people that were in demand, today it is computer espionage people in demand as the world becomes even more complex with the use of artificial intelligence. If you want to su ...
Artificial intelligence (AI), Leadership, Organizational pyramid hierarchy, Learning, Trust, Multidisciplinary teamwork, Adaptive Leadership, Organizational Change, Organizational strategy.
23 downloads
Small businesses are the backbones of both developed and developing economies of the world and play a vital role as drivers of growth and development. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, small businesses have an 80%, 70%, 50%, and 30% survival rate across one, two, five, and ten years in business. About 25% of new businesses cross the 15th year. This trend has remained the same for dec ...
Small technology, business failures, predominant causes, proactive prevention strategies, business growth, sustainability
5 downloads
Mr. Jeffrey Johnson is Executive Vice President of PNC Bank, N.A., one of the largest banks in the country. He has successfully managed and led organizations in the banking industry but also in consulting and auditing. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Harvard Business School and earned his doctorate in business from the University of South Florida. He has been, and remains, an ac ...
Authentic leadership, crucibles, Jeffrey Johnson, phenomenology, narrative research, sensemaking, True North
11 downloads
Dr. John Couris is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tampa General Hospital (TGH). Since becoming the CEO of TGH, John has established himself as an influential and successful leader of the large non-profit hospital. A two-person research team from the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida focused on the lived experiences of John and the degree to which these experiences h ...
Jewish influence, principle-centered, transformative, entrepreneur spirit, academic healthcare, business improvement, lifelong learner, driven, forward thinker, John Couris
11 downloads
Innovation is widely considered an important element of organizational success and vital for the long-term survival of the enterprise. For organizations to innovate, however, their employees must ideate: they must first offer creative ways of doing things or solutions to problems that their employers may then implement. However, regardless of whether ideas are implemented, how to encourage creativ ...
context variables, employee creativity, leadership, relevance, research synthesis, rigor, systematic literature review, training, transformational leadership
40 downloads
Luis R. Visot is an American educational administrator and former Army commander who served as a Major General and Chief of Staff of the United States Army Reserve. During a three-interview series Visot reflects on his life, his most significant leadership roles, and the meaning he attaches to each. The interviews and subsequent analysis reveal how Visot’s values, especially those imbued by his ...
Thematic narrative research, value-expressive behavior theory, phenomenological, qualitative research, coding, leadership, lived experience, interview, and reflection.
9 downloads
This study presents an in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurial journey of an individual, Scott Fink, within the auto sales industry, through a series of interviews. With data collected and analyzed through the grounded-theory approach to industry interviews, explores the multifaceted nature of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the critical roles of relationships, financial freedom, opportunism, persi ...
Entrepreneurship, philanthropy, automotive sales
24 downloads
On November 2, 1978, the Detroit Free Press ran two big headlines. The first, "Chrysler in the Valley of Loss," and the second, "Lee Iacocca joins Chrysler." A savior was born. Haphazardly looking was the CEO John J. Riccardo's office. Iacocca immediately understood why Chrysler was on the brink of failure---no order. Besides the fact that Riccardo needed discipline, the CEO's assistant spent most ...
Leadership, Leadership Development, Human Relations, Social Capital, Quality, Marketing Strategy.
86 downloads
In the context of this study, citizen developers are defined as individuals outside formal Information Technology (IT) departments who create applications using low-code/no-code platforms. The citizen developer role becomes pivotal as organizations navigate the intricate pathways to address increasing business demands for creating applications as part of their digital transformation journey. The d ...
citizen developers, effectiveness factors, low-code, no-code, development platforms, digital transformation, productivity model, effectiveness model
58 downloads
With Mostafa and Luca in senior management consulting roles in the UK and Australia and Michael as Andreas School of Business senior faculty professor, we found several gaps in the literature, especially when it comes to artificial intelligence and leadership: there needs to not only be better leadership but also an authentic leadership approach. AI and thrive effectively as they operate and compe ...
Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Corporate Culture, Trust, Learning.
98 downloads
Culture is a term that we take for granted in today's business world. We show up and worry about customers, finances, expenses, marketing, stocks, bonds, and investments and culture is kicked to the side. We are in the age of digital disruption and uncertainty and if we do not embrace culture, our business will be in chaos. Customers prefer smart homes, smart workplaces, smart friends, and most im ...
Organizational Culture, Design Thinking, Design Thinking Culture, Business Success, Organizational Innovation.
92 downloads
The purpose of this rapid evidence assessment is to investigate the determinants of effective negotiation in cross-cultural settings. For methodology, a systematic review of empirical evidence based on a thematic synthesis was performed following an evidence-based management approach. The findings reveal that the interplay of cultural intelligence and cultural values significantly influences the d ...
cross-cultural negotiations, cultural intelligence, cultural values, negotiation styles
21 downloads
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
13 downloads
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This study captures and describes the discrepancies in the performance matrices of comparable Chinese and American scholars as recorded by Scopus.
Background.
The contributions of Chinese scholars to the global knowledge enterprise are increasing, whereas indexing bibliometric databases (e.g., Scopus) are not optimally designed to track their names and record their work precisely ...
ethnic scholars, bibliometric data, research performance, Chinese vs. American scholars
14 downloads
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This exploratory study seeks to surface a richer understanding regarding the direct experience of software developers (SDs) working in sprints as part of the adoption of agile methodology principles.
Background.
The software development industry is increasingly adopting agile development methods. In the agile methodology, the delivery cycle is broken down into sprints, also known ...
software development, agile, sprint, software project management, adaptive software development
36 downloads
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This paper addresses the challenge of emotional analysis in Hebrew texts, specifically focusing on enhancing machine learning techniques with psychological feature lexicons to improve classification accuracy in identifying depression.
Background.
Emotional analysis in Hebrew texts presents unique challenges due to the language's intricate morphology and rich derivation system. Th ...
emotional analysis, Hebrew texts, machine learning, psychological feature lexicons, depression detection
19 downloads
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Given the widely acknowledged significance of intellectual capital (IC) for organizational success, managing knowledge assets remains a multifaceted challenge. This study investigates the role of human and social factors in intellectual capital management (ICM) within businesses.
Background.
A company’s IC is the collective embodiment of knowledge resources that provide a strategi ...
intellectual capital management, knowledge management, change management, corporate culture, processes, performance improvement, employee engagement
24 downloads
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The present study aimed to understand in depth the experience of identity formation of beginning teachers (BTs), members of Gen Y in their first year at elementary school, and teaching students of Gen Alpha from the perspective of BTs and their teacher mentors (TMs).
Background.
The purpose of the study was to compare the aspects described by BTs and their mentor teachers of the ...
information and communication technology (ICT); smartphones; internship, beginning teacher, teacher-mentor, identity, interactions, mental wellbeing, the Gen Alpha, Gen Y, teacher retention, teacher attrition
18 downloads
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The study aims to elucidate the intricate relationship between Organizational Learning (OL) and Knowledge Management (KM), two pivotal organizational capabilities whose interplay remains enigmatic. This study ventures into the depths of this relationship, seeking to demystify the interplay between the structured, strategic management of knowledge and the more fluid, organic process ...
organizational learning, knowledge management, human capital management, collaborative culture, knowledge dynamics, technological integration
18 downloads
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The paper addresses the two important dynamic features of business intelligence (BI) – maturity and agility – and the interrelation between the two, projected into support for BI agility.
Background.
An analysis of published research sources, together with interviews with BI professionals, resulted in defining important traits of BI environment that support its ability to change ...
business intelligence maturity, business intelligence agility, organizational culture
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper we propose a framework identifying many of the unintended consequences of information technology and posit that the increased complexity brought about by IT is a proximate cause for these negative effects.
Background: Builds upon the three-world model that has been evolving within the informing science transdiscipline.
Methodology: We separate complexity into three ca ...
complexity, task complexity, information technology, homophily, punctuated equilibrium, systemic risks, information overload, fitness, rugged landscape, unintended consequences
10 downloads
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The aim of this study is to recognize the factors that contributed to the development of IT in the healthcare industry.
Background.
The healthcare Information Technology (IT) solutions market has experienced remarkable growth, with the healthcare sector emerging as a $303 billion industry. However, despite its substantial size, the healthcare industry has faced criticism for its ...
eHealth, healthcare information systems, healthcare industry
29 downloads
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To investigate the impact of the evolution of Information Technology on global workforce skills and explore emerging approaches that address the IT talent shortage faced by diverse companies in finding skilled IT workers.
Background:
This paper explores diverse approaches to bridge the skilled IT workers shortage gap, especially in the context of the widening gap following the i ...
information technology, workforce skills, thematic analysis, BERTopic, globalized workforce, lifelong learning, COVID-19 impact
13 downloads
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This study addresses the research question: “What are the developmental phases of Information Technology in the industry?” Existing research has explored the impact of Information Technology (IT) on specific industries. However, it is essential to understand the evolution of IT within industries, its influence on the workforce, and technological advancements. Addressing this knowledg ...
information technology, evolution of information technology, industry and information technology, phases of information technology
19 downloads
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Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges are a popular form of cybersecurity education where students solve hands-on tasks in a game-like setting. These exercises provide learning experiences with various specific technologies and subjects, as well as a broader understanding of cybersecurity topics. Competitions reinforce and teach problem-solving skills that are applicable in various techn ...
cybersecurity, Capture-the-Flag, information search process, gamification
11 downloads
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The aim is to conduct a comparative analysis and summarize findings on the difference between the key sections of quantitative doctoral dissertations versus qualitative doctoral dissertations. A summary of the findings will be presented in a tabulated format with bullet points to help clarify the differences between the two approaches.
Background.
Doctoral students often face ch ...
doctoral dissertations, qualitative vs quantitative dissertations, comparative analysis, qualitative vs quantitative research
10 downloads
The paper discusses various factors contributing to disagreements, such as differing experiences, perspectives, and historical narratives, leading to disagreements within families and societies. It explores how beliefs, values, and biases feed into disagreements, with confirmation bias affecting decision-making and the media. Cultural values also play a role, showcasing conflicts between meritocra ...
informing, values, disinformation, soft power, fake images
10 downloads
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The quantitative comparative ex post facto research study covered in this paper aims to fill gaps in the literature by focusing on whether gender influences perceptions of leadership; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); and job satisfaction among federal employees within the Department of Justice using empirical data. The study also explores whether there are rel ...
employee motivation, FEVS, job satisfaction, public service employee satisfaction, DEI, DEIA, leadership, federal government, public service motivation, gender and job satisfaction, leadership and job satisfaction
60 downloads
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In this study, we examined, from the perspective of the participants, aspects of information and communications technology (ICT) and resilience, comparing first-generation students in higher education with students whose parents had higher education.
Methodology.
We examined self-image, motivation, happiness, and the use of ICT. This was a quantitative study. Respondents answered ...
higher education, social gaps, multiculturalism, first-generation students, generation Z, generation Y
17 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 26 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2023
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
227 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This is an introductory paper for the developing special series on applied psychology and informing science. It takes into account the spirit of informing science to launch the first of three articles in the series on applied psychology. The paper concludes by raising questions for future investigations.
informing science, applied psychology, transdisciplinary
140 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aims to examine the mediating role of job motivation and affective and normative commitment on the relationship between perceived organizational support (POS) and job turnover intention.
Background: POS refers to employees’ beliefs and perceptions concerning the extent to which the organization values their contributions, cares about their well-being, and fulfils their soci ...
perceived organizational support, turnover intention, job motivation, affective commitment, normative commitment
374 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of pre-listening activities on Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ comprehension of spoken texts.
Background: This study aims to contribute to the current research and to increase our understanding about the effectiveness of pre-listening activities. Specifically, this study seeks to clarify some of the research in this area that seems t ...
Arabic-speaking EFL learners, content previewing, L2 listening, pre-listening activities, vocabulary preteaching
166 downloads
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workers’ Skills: Upskilling and Reskilling in Organisations
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on professional skills in organizations and explores strategies to address the resulting challenges.
Background: The rapid integration of AI across various sectors is automating tasks and reducing cognitive workload, leading to increased productivity but also raising concerns about job displacement. Succes ...
artificial intelligence, organisational learning, transversal skills, upskilling, re-skilling
3741 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The amount of information published has increased dramatically due to the information explosion. The issue of managing information as it expands at this rate lies in the development of information extraction technology that can turn unstructured data into organized data that is understandable and controllable by computers
Background: The primary goal of named entity recognition (NER) ...
named entity recognition, memory-based learning algorithms, semantic web problems, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), precision, recall, F-Score measures
266 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Parasocial relationships are today established on social media between influencers and their followers. While marketing effects are well-researched, little is known about the meaning of such relationships and the psychological mechanisms behind them. This study, therefore, explores the questions: “How do followers on Instagram interpret explicit fiction cues from influencers?” and “Wh ...
parasocial relationships, social media, intimate relationships, bonding, social media advertisement, rationalization, human mind, bias, social media communication
598 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To explore the incidence of addiction potential within the Iranian public working population, describing how many Iranian public employees fall within the diagnostic categories of low, moderate, and high addiction potential. Also, to investigate the predicting role of occupational variables such as perceived stress, job security, and job satisfaction on addiction potential and belongi ...
substance addiction, addiction potential, public employees, stress, job security, job satisfaction, occupational health, Iranian employees
96 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study is to explore social workers’ representations of hate speech (HS), the effects it has on the community, and socio-educational actions aimed at combating it.
Background: Hate speech is any form of communication that promotes discrimination, hostility, or violence towards individuals or groups based on their identity. Although its spread is facilitated ...
hate speech, online hating, community, social workers, activism, social media, educational strategies
125 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Embitterment comprises a stress-related response to unjust life experiences. Studies have found that it can have a toll on employees’ well-being. However, research on this matter is still in its infancy.
Background: Within the scope of the present study, Ι sought to investigate how embitterment relates to burnout – the prolonged consequence of stress. This study further explored whet ...
posttraumatic embitterment disorder, embitterment, burnout, psychological contract
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study builds upon existing research by investigating the elements contributing to or buffering the onset of burnout symptoms. We examine the relationship between empowering leadership and burnout, considering the concurrent mediation effects of interpersonal workplace conflict, work-home conflict, and support from coworkers.
Background: Burnout is a phenomenon that has been wide ...
burnout, empowering leadership, coworker support, interpersonal conflicts at work, work-home conflict, structural equation modeling, artificial neural network
131 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the present paper is to present a Noise Decision (ND) scale. First, it reports the development and validation of the instrument aimed at examining organizational factors that have an influence on decision-making and the level of noise. Second, it validates this rating scale by testing its discriminant and convergent validity with other measures to assess decision-making qua ...
noise, decision-making, validation, heuristics & biases
64 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this article, the subjective perspectives of young people in Ghana on the use of digital media are elaborated. The aim is to make the positions of young people visible in the often adult-dominated discourse on digital media and to overcome adult-centered considerations in academic and public debates. In addition, the focus on young people from the Global South is intended to help m ...
digital media use, global south, young people’s perspectives, generational hierarchy academic success
68 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the role of psychological ownership for safety in boosting employee performance and the impact of Perceived Organizational Support for Safety (POSS) on workers’ well-being, considering the psychological aspects associated with workplace safety and exploring the mediating effect of employees’ commitment.
Background: It is widely recognized that prom ...
safety climate, psychological ownership for safety, organizational support for safety, affective commitment, job performance, well-being
70 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The focus on human well-being has attracted the attention of consumers, organizations, and marketers to understand the various facets of Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling (FOPNL). This study examines the overall research trends in the FPONL domain and identifies the new research areas.
Background: FOPNL is becoming increasingly popular and its influence has been widely examined. Diff ...
bibliometric analysis, network analysis, thematic analysis, front of pack nutrition labelling (FOPNL), keyword analysis, nutri score
56 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study aims to frame the relationship between job and personal resources (namely, organizational identification and emotional intelligence), burnout, and musculoskeletal disorders (i.e., back pain, upper limb pain, lower limb discomfort), into the theoretical framework provided by the JD-R health model.
Background: Empirical research indicates a connection between burnout ...
musculoskeletal disorders, burnout, emotional intelligence, organizational identification, JD-R model, salutogenic process
51 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 22, 2023
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice, table of contents
235 downloads
Table of Contents for JITE: Research, Volume 22, 2023
JITE, IT education, education research, table of contents
263 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is threefold: (i) investigate how a group of subjects see the relationship between the integration of content, pedagogical and technological knowledge of their chemistry teaching in light of the teaching practices developed during the pandemic; (ii) present a framework for the integration of digital technologies in chemical education; and (iii) integrate em ...
chemical education, ICT, Brazil, teachers, TPACK, model
602 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research explores the influence of organizational-level and individual-level creativity and innovation and the technology acceptance model toward the higher education creative environment that consists of research creativity and teaching creativity.
Background: Creativity and innovation are essential pillars for higher education institutions (HEIs). The two terms are interconnec ...
organizational factors, individual factors, technology factors, creativity, innovation, technology acceptance, Saudi Arabian higher educational institutions
252 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine faculty perceptions of virtual field placement of preservice teachers at a university in the United Arab Emirates and to explore the factors that promote or hinder the success of this experience. Vygotsky’s concept of scaffolding was used as the theoretical framework of this study and to explain the faculty’s engagement with the field placement ...
preservice teachers, virtual field experience, technology integration, collaborative learning, teacher preparation program
301 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to analyze (1) the effect of organizational support on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), (2) the effect of organizational support and TPACK on teacher performance, (3) the effect of organizational support and TPACK on technostress, and (4) the effect of technostress on teacher performance.
Background: The disruption of Information Technology (IT) in ...
online learning, COVID-19, physical distancing, teacher education
412 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has fostered the creation of co-located learning communities; however, there is limited research on the types of interactions unfolding in these spaces.
Background: This study explores Peer 2 Peer University’s Learning Circles, a project that allows individuals to take MOOCs together at the library. I investigated the patterns that ...
massive open online course (MOOC), e-learning, face-to-face, technological appropriation, agency, digital literacy, Peer 2 Peer University
146 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes a technologies education model for introducing Simulation Learning and Extended Reality (XR) solution creation skills and knowledge to students at the tertiary education level, which is broadly applicable to higher education-based contexts of teaching and learning.
Background: This work is made possible via the model’s focus on advancing knowledge and understandi ...
augmented reality, virtual reality, user experience study, extended realities, interactive media, human-computer interaction, simulation learning, serious games, digital media, higher education, virtual learning, education technologies, inclusive design, ethical design, digital technologies, design and technologies, digital literacy, technologies education, transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM), humanities and social sciences (HASS)
206 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Drawing on transactional distance theory (TDT) and collaborative learning, this research proposes a research model to examine the role of collaborative learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the potential antecedents that influence students’ academic achievements, autonomy, and satisfaction with online learning platforms.
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemi ...
adult learning, collaborative learning, distance education, media in education, transactional distance learning theory, collaborative learning theory
277 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore the value of utilizing non-immersive virtual reality (VR) to create virtual learning environments (VLEs) to support and prepare optometry students in their transition into preclinical and clinical teaching spaces.
Background: Digital education is widely integrated into university curricula with the use of online simulators, immersive VR, and other digital ...
optometric education, non-immersive VR, digital learning, student stress, student confidence
146 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the continuance use intention of gamified m-learning applications by Higher Education Institution (HEI) learners in Malaysia.
Background: Mobile learning (m-learning) has been a popular choice among learners in HEIs due to its convenient ‘on-the-go’ concept. On the other hand, embedding gamification elements in m-lea ...
gamified m-learning, gamification, expected confirmation model, extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, continuance use intention
522 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study focused on learner sentiments and experiences after using the Moodle assessment module and trained a machine learning classifier for future sentiment predictions.
Background: Learner assessment is one of the standard methods instructors use to measure students’ performance and ascertain successful teaching objectives. In pedagogical design, assessment planning is vital in l ...
sentiment analysis, machine learning, random forest algorithm, online learning, Moodle
165 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article seeks answers to the following: (1) What describes a ‘sense of belonging’, inclusiveness, and well-being for students? (2) Which aspects of blended learning, synchronous and asynchronous, promote students’ ‘sense of belonging’? and (3) What are the state-of-the-art best practices for creating inclusive curriculum design for blended learning?
Background: For university st ...
sense of belonging, blended learning, community of inquiry, higher education, universal design for learning
429 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the use of the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) platform by undergraduates of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, during the COVID-19 pandemic using the constructs of the UTAUT2 model. Five constructs of the UTAUT2 model were adopted to investigate the use of the ERT platform by undergraduates of the university.
Background: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak disrup ...
COVID-19 pandemic, emergency remote teaching platforms, UTAUT2 model, undergraduates, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
68 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose is to study the experience of using virtual team building as a means of forming educational and research teams in the context of the development of online education and its effect among students and teachers of higher educational institutions.
Background: Methods ensuring effective engagement of students in learning are critical to the success of online education. Th ...
collaborative learning, smart environment, virtual team building, virtual reality, online education
270 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examined how the developed mobile courseware can be used as instructional material to improve senior high school statistics and probability learning, particularly during distance learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also aims to assess the gamified mobile courseware’s engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information quality using the Mobile App Rating Sc ...
game-based learning, gamification, mobile courseware, statistics and probability
303 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study attempts to apply gamification to support the training of small business owners in business web development from a work-based learning perspective.
Background: Web design describes the process of creating a website and embodies many different aspects, such as webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. However, there are many obstacles that small business owner ...
work-based learning, small business, gamification, training and education
253 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aims to supplement existing knowledge of information systems by presenting empirical data on the factors influencing the intentions of doctoral students to learn through online platforms.
Background: E-learning platforms have become popular among students and professionals over the past decade. However, the intentions of the doctoral students are not yet known. They are an ...
e-learning, doctoral students, technology acceptance model, technology readiness index, structural equation modeling, online intentions, TRAM model
114 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main aims of this research are to explore the moderating effects of gender on the relationships of such factors and the intention to use mobile learning, to examine the factors that influence m-learning acceptance in the universities and higher education institutions (HEI) in Iraq, and to investigate the influence of the intention to use on the actual use of mobile learning in (HE ...
Iraq, M-learning acceptance, gender moderator, HEI
268 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To explore the effectiveness of utilizing the design thinking approach in developing digital self-directed learning environment to enhance digital literacy skills in Thai higher education.
Background: To foster digital literacy skills in higher education, Thai students require more than access to technology. Emphasizing digital self-directed learning and incorporating Design Thinkin ...
design thinking, digital self-directed learning, digital media, digital literacy
202 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to present a learning model of discrete mathematics elements, elucidate the content of teaching, and validate the effectiveness of this learning in a digital education context.
Background: Teaching discrete mathematics in the realm of digital education poses challenges, particularly in crafting the optimal model, content, tools, and methods tailored for aspiring comp ...
digital education, discrete math, informatics, integration, professional competence
77 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide an overview and analysis of the emerging research landscape surrounding the integration of ChatGPT into education. The main problem appears to be that this is a new, rapidly developing research area for which there is no comprehensive synthesis of the current literature. The aim of the article is to fill this gap by conducting a timely bibliom ...
artificial intelligence, bibliometric, ChatGPT, education
346 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This study aims to explore undergraduate IS students’ employability skills development while performing their final capstone project during their academic studies.
Background
The importance of soft skills in the Information Systems industry is not an arguable fact and has been broadly discussed both in the industry and the academic literature. The ability of professionals to col ...
Employability skills, Capstone projects, Soft skills, Motivation, Information Systems studies, Students reflections
206 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the extant research on data science education (DSE) to identify the existing gaps, opportunities, and challenges, and make recommendations for current and future DSE.
Background: There has been an increase in the number of data science programs especially because of the increased appreciation of data as a multidisciplinary strategic resource. This has res ...
data science applications in education, pedagogy, teaching/learning strategies, transdisciplinary projects, data science education
217 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between contract cheating and online education in China, which has become a major concern due to the extensive promotion of online education worldwide amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: Contract cheating, also known as academic ghostwriting, refers to the act of students outsourcing academic assignments to third parties, wh ...
contract cheating, online education, textual analysis, organizational approach, field observation
112 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The Internet of Things (IoT) application modules have covered diverse sectors, and the educational domain is no exception. In this survey, we discuss the specific application benefits of IoT in education and further examine implementation challenges in Ghanaian tertiary institutions.
Background: This survey examines pertinent applications for IoT benefits in education and offers pres ...
Internet of Things, smart campus, intelligent objects, smart school, tertiary institutions
247 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article proposes a framework based on a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design in the learning analytics domain to enhance the models used to support the success of the learning process and the learner. The framework consists of three main phases: (1) quantitative data analysis; (2) qualitative data analysis; and (3) integration and discussion of results. Furthermore, we ill ...
learning analytics, mixed methods, computer programming, correlation analysis, content analysis
202 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current research examined the use of digital games in the fully online learning context imposed by lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we sought to understand the contribution that digital games made to teacher educators and how they used digital games in their remotely delivered courses.
Background: Teacher educators experienced in using digital games ...
higher education, digital games, pre-service teacher education, COVID-19, active learning
175 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Our study is focused on prototyping, development, testing, and deployment of a new knowledge primitive for the humanoid robot assistant NAO, in order to enhance student visual learning by establishing a human-robot interaction.
Background: This new primitive, utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN), enables real-time recognition of handwritten digits captured by the NAO robot, ...
educational robotics, students with special needs, human-robot interaction, NAO robot, recognition of handwritten digits, convolutional neural network, visual learning
154 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aimed to investigate the effect of using the gamified flipped classroom instructional method on the students’ overall achievement compared to the traditional non-gamified, non-gamified flipped classroom, and traditional gamified instructional methods.
Background: Flipped classroom is helpful to address limited class time, implement different pedagogies, and help students b ...
gamification, flipped classroom, academic performance, database management, gamified quizzes, flow theory
208 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite the growing interest in reflection, there is an issue regarding how to fortify the linkages between a learning experience and the reflection activity that follows it, as experience on its own is not the key to learning. In addition, studies have also shown that students are not able to transfer the newly acquired knowledge through experience into a new situation. Besides that, ...
reflection, educational blogging, learning performance
140 downloads
Aim/Purpose: A proposal for a pedagogical model that integrates digital technologies in teaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in K-12 Education.
Background: The research is developed within project InTecEdu (Integration of Technology in Education), developed by the research group since 2008, and focusing on social inclusion for highly socially vulnerable K-12 students.
Methodology: The r ...
SDGs, digital information and communication technologies, pedagogical model, K-12 education
120 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to develop a model for using social media content to promote 3D thinking of sustainability among students in integrated Mathematics, Language, Arts, and Technology (MLAT) classrooms.
Background: Social media is one of the most relevant platforms among students of the 21st century to the extent that connecting it to classroom learning becomes interesting to the learne ...
education for sustainable development, social media, social media content, sustainability, inter/transdisciplinary teaching approach
108 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In undergraduate training, helping students improve argumentative text comprehension (CoT) by identifying the elements of an argumentative text and critical thinking (CT) by reconstructing the meaning of the text and constructing their own reflections is relevant. Argumentative skills are essential on both the personal and professional levels.
Background: In recent decades, concern h ...
argument maps, comprehension text, critical thinking, argumentative skills, laboratory activity
130 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main objective of this study is to explore the relationships among social media experience processes, peer influence, and fear of missing out (FoMO), as well as their impact on adolescent students’ choice of participation in academic activities.
Background: The increasing digitization of the world has consolidated social media as a dominant means of communication in the modern er ...
adolescents, social media, peer influence, fear of missing out, academic activity
684 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research project aims to create a gamified instructional material tailored for Grade 8 students that includes a partially deaf student attending mainstream Science classes. The developed gamified mobile application underwent expert review and was used as an intervention tool to enhance academic performance in Physics among these students.
Background: In the Philippines, there is ...
academic performance, gamification, inclusivity, mobile application development, physics
333 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study addresses telephone learning channels during the coronavirus period in the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel. The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of the online and recorded telephone channels and the way they were perceived by the student’s parents and educators.
Background: The ultra-orthodox society’s lack of use of online means has created many distan ...
distance learning, Covid-19, enclave communities, telelearning, ultra-Orthodox
45 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 20, 2023
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology
53 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
This paper aims to answer the research question, “What are the development phases of the academic discipline of information technology in the United States?” This is important to understand the reason for the growing talent gap in the information technology (IT) industry by reviewing the evolution of information technology across time, how the discipline was formed, evolved, and gai ...
information technology, discipline of information technology, systematic liter-ature review
247 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The goal of this publication is to explore methods for advancing student success in technology related disciplines via improved program classification and selection within higher education.
Background.
Increased demand for information technology (IT) professionals has been cited as a challenge in many fields including cybersecurity and software development. Many highlight the ch ...
information technology, systemic literature review, STEM, discipline, classification
120 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The study aimed to examine the remote and face-to-face experience of pedagogical training in kindergarten after the third COVID-19 closure in Israel.
Background.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 changed the training system, and preservice teachers were required to have their practical experience in the kindergartens both remotely and face-to-face. They had to adapt t ...
remote pedagogical training, face-to-face pedagogical training, preservice kindergarten teachers, kindergartens, COVID-19
31 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
Business schools need to design, develop and deliver courses that are relevant to business problem-solving. Current pedagogies do not often provide the insight – or experience – necessary to close the gap between theory and practice.
Background.
The paper describes an initiative to design, develop and deliver courses in business-technology problem-solving that thoroughly immerse ...
experiential learning, immersive learning, cases, relevance, business
37 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The problem statement in the proposed study focuses on that, despite the growing recognition that teenagers need to undergo security awareness training, little is known about the impacts security training experts believe implementing a mandatory gamified security awareness training curriculum in public middle schools will have on the long-term security behavior of students in Texas. ...
cybersecurity, security awareness training, gamification, security habits, middle school security training
74 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The aim of this study is to propose a teaching approach based on AI-based chatbot agents and to determine whether the use of this approach increases the students’ motivation.
Background.
Today, chatbots are an integral part of students’ lives where they are used in various contexts. Therefore, we are interested in incorporating these tools into our teaching process in order to pr ...
AI, chatbots, digital tools, student motivation
288 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
This study examined the self-perception of adolescents and young people aged 17-21 – how they perceived their personal characteristics, self-image, vitality, belonging to a local and global (glocal) society, happiness index and activity, media usage habits in general and smartphones in particular – in other words, it sought to produce a sketch of their character.
Background.
Diff ...
information and communication technology (ICT), smartphones, teenagers, young adults, generation Z, cluster analysis
419 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
Higher education institutions face difficulties and challenges when it comes to distance learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine self-efficacy indicators and student satisfaction during online English classes.
Background.
E-learning has been very relevant since the Covid-19 era and is still relevant today. It is possible for students to study regardless of their locati ...
information and communication technology (ICT), 21ct century abilities, social emotional learning, distance learning, digital environment, e-learning
75 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
The most crucial aspects of teaching a foreign language to more advanced learners are building an awareness of discourse modes, how to regulate discourse, and the pragmatic properties of discourse components. However, in different languages, the connections and structure of discourse are ensured by different linguistic means which makes matters complicated for the learner.
Backgr ...
translation, corpus, multi-word expression, discourse, discourse marker
47 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
This study seeks to determine the impact of a card game intervention in improving the English verbal communication of nursing students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Background.
Many international students studying in Australia experience setbacks in their university studies due to English language difficulties. This paper outlines how an educational card ...
card game, nursing, English language learning, ESL, Verbal communication skills
62 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 18, 2023, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
447 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 18, 2023, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
275 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Graduate students face immense pressures and challenges as part of the graduate school experience, with few avenues to express their frustrations. While the crisis of graduate student mental health is well-documented quantitatively, and the stresses of graduate school are explored on the institutional level, there are few qualitative studies of these issues.
Background: This study ai ...
graduate students, internet memes, online communities
711 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to examine the ten factors from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) theories in order to analyze behavioral intentions to use the Indonesian online capital market investment platforms and the effect of behavioral intentions on actual usage.
Background: The potential gro ...
behavioral intention to use, actual usage, financial technology, online investment platform, capital market
698 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined the perceptions of doctoral supervisors and candidates around how expectations for doctoral supervision are clarified, and the strategies used.
Background: Clarifying expectations is recommended in supervisor and candidate handbooks, supervisor training and recognition programme. Formal strategies have been adopted as a blanket approach by some departments, facult ...
research supervision, higher education, relationships, expectations, pedagogy, andragogy
416 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Social commerce is an emergent topic widely used for product and service sourcing. It helps companies to have frequent interaction with their customers and strive to achieve a competitive advantage. Yet there is only little empirical evidence focusing on social commerce and its adoption in SMEs to date. This study investigates the key factors affecting social commerce adoption in SMEs ...
perceived usefulness; security concerns; organizational readiness; consumer pressure; top management support; trading partner pressure; social commerce
478 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Alignment of academic curricula and employer needs is widely discussed yet implementation lags. Research on EdD curricula has universality for other academic programs and may catalyze pedagogical innovation to promote employability in other disciplines.
Background: This study contributes evidence-based data to strengthen career relevance of academic programs, align curriculum content ...
graduate employability, career competence, curriculum, employer
557 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The use of digital technology, such as an electronic records management system (ERMS), has prompted widespread changes across organizations. The organization needs to support its operations with an automation system to improve production performance. This study investigates ERMS’s potentiality to enhance organizational performance in the oil and gas industry.
Background: Oil and gas ...
big data, big data management, ERMS potentiality, oil and gas, digital transformation, electronic records
471 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To provide a research proposal writing framework to help doctoral students argue and motivate their efforts at furthering the existing knowledge available to understand some phenomenon or theory.
Background: I discuss how the cognitive process theory of writing and the science writing heuristic can lead to a set of rhetorical moves and question prompts that students can use to develo ...
research proposal, pedagogy, problem, heuristic, cognitive, writing, scaffolding, doctoral
413 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Previous research has generally concentrated on identifying the variables that most significantly influence customer churn or has used customer segmentation to identify a subset of potential consumers, excluding its effects on forecast accuracy. Consequently, there are two primary research goals in this work. The initial goal was to examine the impact of customer segmentation on the a ...
churn prediction, machine learning, banking industry, classification models, SMOTE
1483 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Recent research highlights the growing decline in doctoral students’ mental health and wellbeing, caused not only by the pressures, stress, and isolation of doctoral studies but also by existential issues around personal development and future prospects. Consequently, we argue that there is an urgent need to reassess the supervisory process to support doctoral students in addressing t ...
coaching, PhD, research supervision, doctoral students, Normalisation Process Theory
413 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Using the Agile Adoption Framework (AAF), this study aims to examine the agile potential of software development companies in Nepal based on their agile maturity level. In addition, this study also examines the impact of various basic agile practices in determining the maturity level of the agile processes being implemented in the software industry of Nepal.
Background: Even if most ...
agile practice, agile maturity, software companies, agile adoption framework
339 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this essay is to critically reflect on the emerging trend for PhDs by Prospective Publication (PbPP) in Australian Business Schools and to explore its appropriateness for fledgling academics.
Background: The PbPP is a relatively new and increasingly popular alternative to traditional PhD by monograph (PbM). It is the idea that a doctorate can be completed by writing a ser ...
PhD by Publication, PhD by Prospective Publication, PhD by Monograph, doctorate, PhD, doctoral education, doctoral supervision, co-authorship
341 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to increase our understanding of how the stages of the customer purchase journey, privacy trade-offs, and information sensitivity of different business service sectors affect consumers’ privacy concerns.
Background: The study investigated young consumers’ willingness to provide consent to use their personal data at different phases of the customer journey. This study ...
data privacy, information sensitivity, privacy concern, trade-offs, customer journey
120 downloads
Aim/Purpose
The purpose of this study is to introduce an instrument that contains a set of exercises intended to help doctoral students align the key sections of their dissertation document. The exercises are developed after providing cognitive analysis of the factors that make aligning these key sections challenging to many, and after discussing pedagogical tools that can be used to address thes ...
Doctoral dissertation alignment, aligning sections of doctoral dissertation, doctoral dissertation challenges
440 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop and evaluate a comprehensive model that predicts students’ engagement with and intent to continue using mobile-Learning Management Systems (m-LMS).
Background: m-LMS are increasingly popular tools for delivering course content in higher education. Understanding the factors that affect student engagement and continuance intention can help educationa ...
engagement, continuance intention, m-LMS, TAM, TTF, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, interactivity, compatibility, enjoyment, social influence
204 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore doctoral students’ perceived resilience and the coping strategies they choose to employ to overcome challenging circumstances during their studies.
Background: Doctoral students often experience barriers which may include personal, professional, academic, and institutional-related challenges. The students’ ability to recover from any burdensome situations ...
doctoral students, resilience, psychological capital, adversity, well-being, coping strategies, interviews, grounded theory
457 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research study aimed to explore ecommerce fraud practitioners’ experiences and develop a grounded theory framework to help define an ecommerce fraud incident response process, roles and responsibilities, systems, stakeholders, and types of incidents.
Background: With a surge in global ecommerce, online transactions have become increasingly fraudulent, complex, and borderless. T ...
cyber incident response, ecommerce fraud, fraud prevention, grounded theory
154 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research reported here aims to demonstrate a method by which novel applications of qualitative data in quantitative research can resolve ceiling effect tensions for educational and psychological research.
Background: Self-report surveys and scales are essential to graduate education and social science research. Ceiling effects reflect the clustering of responses at the highest re ...
doctoral students, attrition, persistence, stress, longitudinal survey, SMS sur-vey, ceiling effects, qualitative
284 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Given the increasingly important role of knowledge and human resources for firms in developing and emerging countries to pursue innovation, this paper aims to study and explore the potential intermediating roles of knowledge donation and collection in linking high-involvement human resource management (HRM) practice and innovation capability. The paper also explores possible moderator ...
high-involvement HRM, knowledge sharing, knowledge donating, knowledge collecting, radical innovation, incremental innovation
121 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, the research proposes and experiments with a new model of collecting, storing, and analyzing big data on customer feedback in the tourism industry. The research focused on the Vietnam market.
Background: Big Data describes large databases that have been “silently” built by businesses, which include product information, customer information, customer feedback, etc. This ...
data lake for big data, data collection, data storage, customer feedback, topic modeling, tourism
217 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Scholars and practitioners agree that feedback is critical to doctoral students’ academic writing development, yet effective feedback processes are complex. The purpose of this case study was to examine the role of dialogue in a Writing Feedback Group (WFG) in facilitating the development of the scholarly writing of English as an Additional Language (EAL) doctoral students. The resear ...
doctoral writing, writing groups, feedback
232 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to empirically quantify the financial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on companies listed on Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The paper also aims to identify the most important predictors of financial distress pre- and mid-pandemic.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge toll, not only on human lives but also on many businesses. This provided the impetus ...
financial distress prediction, COVID-19, ANN, MDA, Jordan
137 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Our study explores the factors contributing to the Imposter Phenomenon among doctoral students in the United States.
Background: Many studies show that Imposter Phenomenon impacts women doctoral students and students from minority groups, especially if they are enrolled in Predominantly White Institutions. Our study focuses explicitly on contributing factors to the Imposter Phenomeno ...
imposter syndrome, imposter phenomenon, doctoral students, qualitative study, higher education
362 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that impact the behavioral intention to use social media (SM) for knowledge sharing (KS) in the disaster relief (DR) context.
Background: With the continuing growth of SM for KS in the DR environment, disaster relief organizations across the globe have started to realize its importance in streamlining their processes in ...
social media, knowledge sharing, determinants, behavioral intention to use, disaster relief, developing country
124 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between dual network embedding, dual entrepreneurial bricolage, and knowledge-creation performance.
Background: The importance of new ventures for innovation and economic growth has been fully endorsed. Establishing incubation organizations to help new startups overcome constraints and dilemmas has become the consensus of various countries. I ...
makerspace, network embedding, dual entrepreneurship bricolage, startups, knowledge-creation performance
53 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study identifies the scale types and measurement units used in the measurement of enterprise architecture (EA) and analyzes the admissibility of the mathematical operations used.
Background: The majority of measurement solutions proposed in the EA literature are based on researchers’ opinions and many with limited empirical validation and weak metrological properties. This means ...
Enterprise Architecture (EA), metrology, software metrics, scale types, admissible mathematical operations
151 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
COVID-19 was an unprecedented disruptive event that accelerated the shift to remote work and encouraged widespread adoption of digital tools in organizations. This empirical study was conducted from an organizational-strategic perspective, with the aim of examining how the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak affected employees’ use of organizational information systems (IS) as reflected in fr ...
COVID-19, new normal, information systems, information technology, remote work, digital transformation, workplace environment
83 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Most people use their phones for work and communication. Businesses today require sustainable mobile phones to limit the environmental impact of mobile phones. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a green product uses less energy. Green smartphones need low radiation emission, are made from recyclable materials, and are designed to last longer than typical smartphon ...
green awareness, environmental concern, altruism, green smartphones, purchase intention
85 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The major challenges for firms to initiate corporate social responsibility (CSR) arise from resource constraints, complexity, and uncertainty. Consuming considerable financial and human resources is the main difficulty for smaller firms or those operating in less profitable industries, and the lack of immediate outputs from CSR initiatives poses a challenge for firms in prioritizing a ...
corporate social responsibility, blockchain technology, business performance, fixed-effects model, Taiwan Stock Exchange
104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Based on the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model, the current study investigated social commerce functions as an innovative retailing technological support by selecting the three most appropriate features for the Chinese online shopping environment with respective value co-creation intentions.
Background: Social commerce is the customers’ online shopping touchpoint in the latest r ...
new retail, social commerce features, consumer value co-creation, stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model
85 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to devise a personalized solution for online healthcare platforms that can alleviate problems arising from information overload and data sparsity by providing personalized healthcare services to patients. The primary focus of this paper is to develop an effective medicine recommendation approach for recommending suitable medications to patients based on their specific ...
medicine recommendation, semantic filtering, multi-criteria filtering, sparsity, new item
112 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The UAE and other Middle Eastern countries suffer from various cybersecurity vulnerabilities that are widespread and go undetected. Still, many UAE government organizations rely on human-centric approaches to combat the growing cybersecurity threats. These approaches are ineffective due to the rapid increase in the amount of data in cyberspace, hence necessitating the employment of in ...
AI, cybersecurity systems, UAE, protection motivation theory (PMT), intelligent systems, cyber threats, information security
263 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the success of ERP post-implementation and the factors that affect the overall success of the ERP system by integrating the Task Technology Fit (TTF) model into the Information System Success Model (ISSM).
Background: Not all ERP implementations provide the expected benefits, as post-implementation challenges can include inflexible ERP systems and ongoing ...
evaluation, enterprise resource planning, information system success model, task technology fit, organizational impact
428 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of knowledge-based Human Resources Management (HRM) practices on inbound and outbound open innovation in Jordanian small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Background: SMEs in Jordan lack tangible resources. This insufficiency can be remedied by using knowledge as a resource. According to the Knowledge-Based View (KBV) theory, whic ...
knowledge-based HRM practices, open innovation, inbound open innovation, outbound open innovation
101 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Blockchain technology (BCT) has emerged as a potential catalyst for transforming government institutions and services, yet the adoption of blockchain in governments faces various challenges, for which previous studies have yet to provide practical solutions.
Background: This study aims to identify and analyse barriers, potential solutions, and their relations in implementing BC for ...
blockchain, distributed ledger, blockchain technology, government, challenge, problem, solution, systematic literature review, SLR, PRISMA, tollgate, TOE
188 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study analyzes health professionals’ information security behavior (ISB) as health information system (HIS) users concerning associated information security controls and risks established in a public hospital. This work measures ISB using a complete measuring scale and explains the relevant influential factors from the perspectives of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and Genera ...
information security behavior, hospital, health information system, protection motivation, deterrence
97 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study utilized a comprehensive framework to investigate the adoption of Business Analytics (BA) and its effects on performance in commercial banks in Jordan. The framework integrated the Technological-Organizational-Environmental (TOE) model, the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory, and the Resource-Based View (RBV).
Background: The recent trend of utilizing data for business ...
business analytics, technology adoption, banking, toe framework, data quality, diffusion of innovation, organizational readiness, business performance
447 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of review consistency between textual content and rating on review helpfulness. A measure of review consistency is introduced to determine the degree to which the review sentiment of textual content conforms with the review rating score. A theoretical model grounded in signaling theory is adopted to explore how different vari ...
review helpfulness, review consistency, regression analysis, sentiment analysis, signaling theory
153 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to create customer segmentation who use Online Travel Agent (OTA) mobile applications in Indonesia throughout their hotel booking journey.
Background: In the context of mobile hotel booking applications, research analyzing the customer experience at each customer journey stage is scarce. However, literature increasingly acknowledges the significance of this stage in c ...
customer journey, customer segmentation, mobile hotel booking application, online travel agent, smartphone
103 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this research paper is to suggest a comprehensive model that incorporates the technology acceptance model with the task-technology fit model, information quality, security, trust, and managerial support to investigate the intended usage of big data analytics (BDA) in banks and insurance companies.
Background: The emergence of the concept of “big data,” prompted by the wide ...
Big Data Analytics, TAM model, behavioral intention to use, Task Technology Fit, information quality, finance, banks, insurance companies, security, trust, managerial support
107 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we present an RFM model-based telecom customer churn system for better predicting and analyzing customer churn.
Background: In the highly competitive telecom industry, customer churn is an important research topic in customer relationship management (CRM) for telecom companies that want to improve customer retention. Many researchers focus on a telecom customer churn a ...
CRM, churn prediction, feature construction, RFM, K-means, XGBoost, SHAP method
152 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a comprehensive conceptual framework that incorporates personal characteristics, social context, and technological features as significant factors that influence the intention of small-city users in China to use mobile health.
Background: Mobile health has become an integral part of China’s health management system innovation, the transformation of the heal ...
mobile health, small cities, PMT, UTAUT, personal characteristics
83 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To predict the change-proneness of software from the continuous evolution using machine learning methods. To identify when software changes become statistically significant and how metrics change.
Background: Software evolution is the most time-consuming activity after a software release. Understanding evolution patterns aids in understanding post-release software activities. Many me ...
software evolution, software metrics, change-proneness, machine learning
61 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Acquisitions play a pivotal role in the growth strategy of a firm. Extensive resources and time are dedicated by a firm toward the identification of prospective acquisition candidates. The Indian manufacturing sector is currently experiencing significant growth, organically and inorganically, through acquisitions. The principal aim of this study is to explore models that can predict a ...
Indian manufacturing industry acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions modeling, predictive modeling, machine learning, artificial neural networks
56 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The understanding of disease spread dynamics in the context of air travel is crucial for effective disease detection and epidemic intelligence. The Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered-Hospitalized-Critical-Deaths (SEIR-HCD) model proposed in this research work is identified as a valuable tool for capturing the complex dynamics of disease transmission, healthcare demands, and mort ...
epidemiology, SIS-SIR model, SEIR-HCD models, disease dynamics, air traffic networks, disease transmission
37 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper illustrates the potential of health recommender systems (HRS) to support and enhance maternal care. The study aims to explore the recent implementations of maternal HRS and to discover the challenges of the implementations.
Background: The sustainable development goals (SDG) aim to reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. However, progress ...
health recommender system, maternal care, antenatal care, systematic literature review
92 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the key determinants hindering Knowledge Transfer (KT) practices for Information Technology Project Managers (ITPMs)
Background: The failure rate of IT projects remains unacceptably high worldwide, and KT between project managers and team members has been recognized as a significant issue affecting project success. Therefore, this study tries ...
knowledge transfer, knowledge transfer determinants, project manager, information technology project
69 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aims to explore the attributes of self-phubbing and partner-phubbing, as well as their impact on marital relationship satisfaction and the quality of communication. Furthermore, it aims to comprehend how these characteristics could impact an individual’s total level of life satisfaction.
Background: The study aims to establish a clear association between specific mobile pho ...
phubbing, cellphone conflicts, communication quality, relationship satisfaction, and life satisfaction
93 downloads
Jackson Breaks is a young, up and coming executive, sometimes referred to as a “YUPPY.” He is happy and content working for an Investment Bank in Manhattan, New York, USA. COVID-19 was basically coming to an end with variants and some people still being challenged by the epidemic. With COVID-19 subsiding, Jack got a phone call that would change may be an opportunity of a lifetime. It was not until ...
Decision Making, Leadership Traits, Charismatic Leader, Personal Career Strategy, Transactional Leadership, Personal Action Plan
19 downloads
This case study focuses on the transitional challenges of a family-owned business, including generational transfer of ownership, succession planning, bridge leadership during a crisis, and possible external acquisition of the business. The focus is on a family-owned plumbing company and its struggles to survive a generational transition and competition within the U. S. residential services indust ...
bridge leadership; Family-owned business; generational transfer of ownership; leadership; succession planning; SWOT analysis
88 downloads
Bill Lumbergh, the Sr. Director of Product Strategy for Initech, peered through the window in his office after finishing a design review meeting for the latest release of the company’s flagship software TPS SOLUTION. During this meeting, major product issues were revealed which could put the reputation of Initech at risk and, potentially, harm patients receiving radiation therapy. Bill and his sof ...
Software Development, Business Issues
14 downloads
The house shook when lightning cracked nearby. John Kroeker’s power flickered, but his mind stayed at ease. His electronics had remained on and functional. Kroeker led the Surge Division at Schneider Electric (SE), so was confident his house was protected from electrical surges like that thunderous lightning strike. While surges may be random and infrequent, they could cause harsh electrical envir ...
Power Grid, Smart Home Technology, Surge Protector
23 downloads
Only two years after Klare market launch in April 2020, immersed in mandatory lockdowns due to the quarantines imposed at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nicolas Pavez needed to make relevant decisions regarding the future of the business, with mixed-feelings regarding the recent decision of both his co-founders about leaving the firm to pursue new career challenges. With the premise ...
Marketing strategy, New product development, Value proposition, Digital, Insurance
38 downloads
A case study of market segmentation in a to grow profits at Cask, a digital communications technology corporation. The case breaks down the tough decision to further segment the company's customer markets and the potential effects on the sales team.
Market segmentation, sales, digital communications, technology
9 downloads
This case study explores the pros and cons of remote work versus non-remote work. The shift towards remote work has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and many companies are considering whether to continue offering remote work options in the post-pandemic world. The case study examines the advantages and disadvantages of remote work, including increased flexibility, reduced commute times, ...
Remote work, Work from home, In Person Work
34 downloads
Cell therapy process development is an important area of focus for the biotherapeutics industry, as it involves the development of complex and novel therapies that have the potential to treat a range of diseases. There are several key issues that the industry faces in the process of developing cell therapies that include scalability, process reproducibility, labor intensive process, regulatory com ...
Process development, cell therapy, technology, manufacturing, FDA, cancer, Immuno-Oncology
15 downloads
Ben Hom sat at his desk at McKibbon Hospitality’s Tampa corporate office. He waited for his meeting with the Regional Vice President of Operations (RVPO), who oversaw the Tampa market to discuss the 2023 budget for his 10 hotels. The RVPO feared that staffing shortages and labor costs would wreck his budgets again, as they had in 2022. Hom knew that labor costs were the second most significant var ...
Hospitality, Great Resignation, Covid 19, Management, Labor
19 downloads
Entrepreneurs’ options for raising capital in the 21st Century have changed dramatically. Of the new options for individuals and businesses to raise funds, none has received more attention in the last decade than Crowdfunding. Crowdfunding, having emerged from crowdsourcing, allows fundraisers to collect funds from funders, usually via the internet, and most often through an intermediary, the crow ...
Systematic Literature Review, Crowdfunding, Success, Performance, Reward, Reward-Based, Campaign, Funder, Fundraiser, Backer, Crowdfunder
22 downloads
Crowdfunding research has primarily been composed of attempts to identify crowdfunding performance and success factors. A research gap exists concerning funder motivations and behaviors as well as the dynamics that occur with pledge changes during crowdfunding campaigns. Therefore, understanding funder motivations and pledging behaviors during reward-based crowdfunding campaigns was the focus of t ...
Entrepreneurship, Crowdfunding, Motivation, Qualitative, Grounded Theory, Cancel, Decrease
20 downloads
The crucial role in developing transformational leadership skills for the future is at the heart of business acumen today and while our model worked in this environment, we encourage additional experimentation using the magic spark model. In our experiment, we found a new way of leadership succession planning which is crucial for business success. Without selection and progression of leadership, t ...
The Magic Spark Model, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Succession Planning, Human Resources Development, Organizational Learning, Systems Management Theory, The Future of Work
50 downloads
Japanese leadership style has encompassed worldwide success and criticism. For example, Toyota is an example of a leading and successful Japanese company in industry. With its new and creative ideas, this company was able to rebuild the marginalized image of Japanese cars in the international business scene and take a large share of the car market in the world. Our interviews with 34 Japanese lead ...
Strategy, Social Capital, New Competencies, Leadership Development, Systems Approach.
26 downloads
As the world recovers from the COVID-19 crisis, the world economy is still in flux. Many jobs disappeared from the scene as many organizations adjust their workforce. Attracting the best skills and best talent has also been a challenge for many organizations. Traditional recruitment methods are outdated, and our recommendation is to move to use a competency and knowledge-based recruitment process. ...
The Post-Pandemic Crisis, Knowledge-based, Skills, Competency, Recruitment, Innovation.
21 downloads
The leadership literature often emphasizes innovation coupled with disruption as a source of competitive advantage based on the assumption that, without it, organizations constrain social progress in organizations. We identify a new model that comprehensively considers not only disruptive innovation but also the social impact of future decision-making. We create a comprehensive framework which we ...
Social Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, The Impact Model, DEI, Innovation, HRM
28 downloads
Work values shifted in the face of profits versus layoffs during the Covid 19 pandemic. Employees working from home were intellectually stunted without learning opportunities to stay engaged and flailing to find inspiration. Business as usual now needed the new leader to emerge in a virtual environment.
With revenue goals to meet, and increased pressure to perform with newly approved FDA medicat ...
Post Covid 19 leadership, Attraction selection attrition (ASA), Leader Member Exchange (LMX), Transformational leadership, Intrinsic motivation values, Autonomy, Ethical value
35 downloads
In their efforts to remain competitive, organizations are routinely faced with the challenge of adapting to changeable environments and ensuring employees possess the necessary skills to compete. However, businesses often must contend with forces, whether internally or externally generated, that tend to discourage or undermine innovation, leaving practitioners to question how their organizations m ...
Social exchange theory, agency theory, law of diminishing marginal utility, Deprivation-Satiation Proposition, economic exchange theory, innovative work behavior, training and development, transformational leadership
113 downloads
Maturity models are a simple but powerful tool applied across an ample range of business disciplines. Originally emerging out of quality management and software engineering, these conceptual models help assess the quality of certain processes or strategies; and identify opportunities and actions needed to move to the next stage in maturity (Wendler, 2012). However, there is a lack of such a useful ...
Marketing strategy, Process Maturity, Competitive Maturity, Marketing Capabilities, Maturity Model, CMM, CMMI, BPMM, Self-Assessment, Value Proposition.
49 downloads
Supply chains of large-scale, technologically complex products rely on a vast network of suppliers. While supply chain efficiency has improved with the expansion of globalization, supply chain resiliency appears to have worsened. Some would argue, in light of the effects of a global pandemic and war in Eastern Europe, that supply chains are increasingly fragile. Since 2000 academic research has ...
Supply chain risk management, multi-factor modeling, factor analysis, Department of Defense, DoD, resilience, fragility, corporate failure prediction, risk factors
23 downloads
The problem addressed by this research is that some businesses are not motivated to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) into their plans. As a result, progress toward global sustainability has been impeded. The purpose of this study was to identity those strategies that motivate businesses to embrace ESG. Among the barriers impeding ESG is the lack of agreement whether it can co ...
Environment, social, governance, ESG, sustainability, motivation, stakeholder(s)
88 downloads
While promising, online biometric studies with crowdsourced participants have vagaries that can limit success. This paper shares researcher experience with biometric online data collection and a study that compared the differences of online and lab-based eye tracking (ET) and facial expression (FE) data.
Students and the public were separated into two groups to place orders from a well-known r ...
Affective Computing, Emotional AI, Biometrics, Online Data Collection, Crowdsourcing, Eye Tracking, Facial Expression Analysis
54 downloads
This study outlines the use of a phenomenological interviewing process, as defined by Irving Seidman (Seidman, 2019), to explore the traits that contribute to shaping an individual as an innovator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The study involved interviewing Dr. Andy Hafer, Founder of Dynamic Communities Inc. DCE Productions Inc., Synapse, and other startup companies. The resulting data was a ...
Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, Innovator, Learning, Servant leader, Faith, Family impact, Community leadership, Attachment theory, Generativity theory, Entrepreneur mindset theory, Self-leadership
71 downloads
Japanese companies, led by bureaucratic management have not stifled innovation. In fact, the rigidity of leadership functions has led to the management by objectives (MBO) style of leadership decision-making. MBO, while criticized for rigidly, works. Look at Chrysler under the leadership of Lee Iacocca, who led the way in the automotive industry during challenging times. Japanese companies have re ...
Japanese Companies, Leadership Model, Organizational Design, Organizational Innovation, Japan.
28 downloads
There is growing interest in the global marketplace on innovation. For example, Tesla dominates Electric Vehicle (EV) sales but is losing market share to more affordable EVs from competitors, including Ford and Hyundai. A recent Forbes article captures the innovative momentum today, “With the rapid pace of technology, innovation is making SpaceX moon voyages and other grandiose concepts that seem ...
Innovation Strategy, Knowledge Management Processes, Continuous Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, Long-Term Approach, Deign Thinking, Incentive Systems.
60 downloads
To view the videos of the presentations click on CONFERENCE SESSIONS.
https://www.informingscience.org/Conferences/InSITE2023/Sessions
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
60 downloads
Aim/Purpose.
Higher education institutions face difficulties and challenges when it comes to distance learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine self-efficacy indicators and student satisfaction during online English classes.
Background.
E-learning has been very relevant since the Covid-19 era and is still relevant today. It is possible for students to study regardless of their locati ...
information and communication technology (ICT), 21ct century abilities, social emotional learning, distance learning, digital environment, e-learning
16 downloads
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This study aims to examine the roles of key traits of m-university services and their users in promoting two crucial post-adoption outcomes of these services; namely, continuance usage intention and perceived value.
Background.
M-university (i.e., a university providing services via mobile technologies) has gained a great interest in the higher education sector as a driver of new ...
m-university, faculty-oriented m-university services, m-university service trait, user trait, continuance usage intention, perceived value
11 downloads
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This paper examines the Bulgarian educational policy in the field of information technology and cybersecurity in particular.
Background.
The massive penetration of technology into daily life and the economy is transforming the possibilities for work, learning, communication, access to information, and spending free time. The result is a global electronic environment that provide ...
training programs, educational policy, information technology, cybersecurity
43 downloads
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The study aimed to examine the remote and face-to-face experience of pedagogical training in kindergarten after the third COVID-19 closure in Israel.
Background.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 changed the training system, and preservice teachers were required to have their practical experience in the kindergartens both remotely and face-to-face. They had to adapt t ...
remote pedagogical training, face-to-face pedagogical training, preservice kindergarten teachers, kindergartens, COVID-19
10 downloads
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This study examined the self-perception of adolescents and young people aged 17-21 – how they perceived their personal characteristics, self-image, vitality, belonging to a local and global (glocal) society, happiness index and activity, media usage habits in general and smartphones in particular – in other words, it sought to produce a sketch of their character.
Background.
Diff ...
information and communication technology (ICT), smartphones, teenagers, young adults, generation Z, cluster analysis
189 downloads
Hybrid learning first appeared in the late 1990s as a new way of teaching for distance learning that used computers and the internet to improve students' learning and encourage teachers to change their teaching techniques, resulting in a shift in learning from a teacher-centered model to a more student-centered model.
This study contributed to theory, practice, empirical and policy. Theoretically ...
The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Hybrid Learning (HL), Community College of Qatar (CCQ), MOH IN Qatar, COVID-19, Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM)
19 downloads
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This study aims to explore undergraduate IS students’ employability skills development while performing their final capstone project during their academic studies.
Background.
The importance of soft skills in the Information Systems industry is not an arguable fact and has been broadly discussed both in the industry and the academic literature. The ability of professionals to col ...
employability skills, capstone projects, soft skills, motivation, information systems studies, student reflections
17 downloads
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COVID-19 was an unprecedented disruptive event that accelerated the shift to remote work and encouraged widespread adoption of digital tools in organizations. This empirical study was conducted from an organizational-strategic perspective, with the aim of examining how the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak affected employees’ use of organizational information systems (IS) as reflected in fr ...
COVID-19, new normal, information systems, information technology, remote work, digital transformation, workplace environment
44 downloads
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Examination of student’s preferences regarding educational modalities after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background.
It is necessary to investigate whether the mode of course delivery (online or traditional) offered by educational institutions aligns with the preferences of students, or if students are limited to enrolling in courses based solely on the available course modalities.
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online learning, higher education, post pandemic
17 downloads
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The aim of this study is to propose a teaching approach based on AI-based chatbot agents and to determine whether the use of this approach increases the students’ motivation.
Background.
Today, chatbots are an integral part of students’ lives where they are used in various contexts. Therefore, we are interested in incorporating these tools into our teaching process in order to pr ...
AI, chatbots, digital tools, student motivation
94 downloads
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The purpose of the research was to examine the function and application of delimitations—what the researcher includes and excludes in a study—in the dissertation process. The aim was to map the delimitations process to improve research, rigor and relevance of findings, and doctoral completion rates using a formalized and standardized approach applied flexibly.
Background
All res ...
delimitations, dissertation, education research, thematic analysis, doctoral education
29 downloads
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Early identification of students at risk of not achieving course learning objectives enables instructors to intervene earlier to help students succeed. One of the first student course engagement activities is registration. This study aims to determine if registration timing correlates with student success in an online STEM course.
Background.
Student success is based on achieving ...
higher education, academic achievement, student retention, course registration behavior, learning interventions, at-risk students, linear regression
33 downloads
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The purpose of this study is to introduce an instrument that contains a set of exercises intended to help doctoral students align the key sections of their dissertation document. The exercises are developed after providing cognitive analysis of the factors that make aligning these key sections challenging to many, and after discussing pedagogical tools that can be used to address the ...
doctoral dissertation alignment, aligning sections of a doctoral dissertation, doctoral dissertation challenges
34 downloads
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Business schools need to design, develop and deliver courses that are relevant to business problem-solving. Current pedagogies do not often provide the insight – or experience – necessary to close the gap between theory and practice.
Background.
The paper describes an initiative to design, develop and deliver courses in business-technology problem-solving that thoroughly immers ...
experiential learning, immersive learning, cases, relevance, business
15 downloads
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This is a literature review that defines agile supply chain management (ASCM), discusses several competing theories (particularly ones with some empirical evidence), their research limitations (e.g., cultural and industry homogeneity), and future directions for research that would add to the field’s body of knowledge.
Background.
Agile supply chain management (ASCM) is a relative ...
adaptability, agile supply chain management (ASCM), agility, alignment, leagile, lean, supply chain
78 downloads
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The most crucial aspects of teaching a foreign language to more advanced learners are building an awareness of discourse modes, how to regulate discourse, and the pragmatic properties of discourse components. However, in different languages, the connections and structure of discourse are ensured by different linguistic means which makes matters complicated for the learner.
Backgro ...
translation, corpus, multi-word expression, discourse, discourse marker
12 downloads
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This paper aims to answer the research question, “What are the development phases of the academic discipline of information technology in the United States?” This is important to understand the reason for the growing talent gap in the information technology (IT) industry by reviewing the evolution of information technology across time, how the discipline was formed, evolved, and gai ...
information technology, discipline of information technology, systematic literature review
20 downloads
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This study designed and evaluated the impact of using a blended course and Web 2.0 tools into the “Design Fundamentals and Elements” course of a fine arts bachelor’s program at a Saudi Arabian university. The study also examined how students used Web 2.0 tools to improve their learning in the design of a blended (hybrid) course following the Quality Matters TM Higher Education Rubric ...
blended course, Web 2.0, fine art
12 downloads
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Patients’ length of stay in emergency departments (ED) is a widespread problem that poses great hardship on patients and health providers alike. This paper’s purpose is to reduce length of stay (LOS) for patients presenting to the ED with headaches.
Background.
The increasing number of patients admitted to emergency departments challenges administrators to find ways to reduce the ...
electronic medical records, emergency department, length of stay, patient flow
14 downloads
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The study intends to develop a theoretical framework that inter-relates the theories of social constructivism and connectivism with the philosophy of ubuntu to online homeschooling post the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, a diagrammatical theoretical framework is presented to indicate how these theories and philosophy are intertwined.
Background.
The spread of coronaviruses caug ...
homeschooling, online, connectivism, ubuntu, social constructivism
59 downloads
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This study seeks to understand the various ways information systems (IS) students experience introductory programming to inform IS educators on effective pedagogical approaches to teaching programming.
Background Many students who choose to major in information systems (IS), enter university with little or no experience of learning programming. Few studies have dealt with students’ ...
information systems, introductory programming, outcome space, phenomenography
19 downloads
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The goal of this publication is to explore methods for advancing student success in technology related disciplines via improved program classification and selection within higher education.
Background.
Increased demand for information technology (IT) professionals has been cited as a challenge in many fields including cybersecurity and software development. Many highlight the cha ...
information technology, systemic literature review, STEM, discipline, classification
17 downloads
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This study aims to document the results of Student Ownership of Learning through the development of a software application to support dementia patients. The research strives to create an agile career-like experience connected to software development courses to overall improve the learning outcome for students.
Background.
Most online classes are limited to lectures, homework, and ...
student ownership of learning, dementia, software development, software engineering, programming, Scrum, professional experiences, learning outcomes
13 downloads
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The problem statement in the proposed study focuses on that, despite the growing recognition that teenagers need to undergo security awareness training, little is known about the impacts security training experts believe implementing a mandatory gamified security awareness training curriculum in public middle schools will have on the long-term security behavior of students in Texas. ...
cybersecurity, security awareness training, gamification, security habits, middle school security training
20 downloads
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Courses that include development of complex software projects aim to provide career-like experiences prior to a software development-focused capstone. This research shares an international collaborative project (COIL) whereby a remote instructor and their students are the clients for an undergraduate project-focused coding course.
Background.
This work builds on previous multi-ye ...
experiential learning, COIL, Agile, Scrum, software development, programming, student ownership of learning, active learning, iterative development, design-based research, computer science, information technology, software engineering, software development
11 downloads
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This phenomenological qualitative study explores the views of Unisa students and tutors on the Africanisation of tutor support in Open Distance Learning by taking the African worldview of students into account.
Background.
Tutor support is a widely used phenomenon in different spheres of education including institutions of higher learning to promote equity of access and fair cha ...
tutor support, open distance learning, Africanisation, transformation, students
10 downloads
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This paper explores how best to implement Agile style courses into university curriculum. It is a starting point for teachers who are unsure how to structure their classes in an Agile way.
Background.
This paper explores the researcher’s experiences with Agile in the classroom, outside the classroom and in a professional setting. Recommendations are made on how to best introduce ...
Agile development, Scrum, software development, information technology, software engineering, classroom teaching
22 downloads
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This study seeks to determine the impact of a card game intervention in improving the English verbal communication of nursing students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Background.
Many international students studying in Australia experience setbacks in their university studies due to English language difficulties. This paper out-lines how an educational car ...
card game, nursing, English language learning, ESL, Verbal communication skills
14 downloads
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The aim of this paper is to present a systematic review of studies conducted on mobile-assisted task-based learning between 2013 to 2022. The primary objectives of the review are to elicit educational and learning contexts, research areas and foci, research trends, methodologies, data collection techniques, mobile technology used, learning outcomes, and issues in mobile-assisted task ...
mobile-assisted learning, mobile-assisted task-based learning, preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, systematic review, task-based learning
20 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 25 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2022
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
166 downloads
Covid-19: Systems Transdisciplinary Generalization, Technical and Technological Ideas, and Solutions
Aim/Purpose: The Covid-19 pandemic has created many adverse effects. It overloads the healthcare system, causes deaths, and angers some at anti-covid restrictions. This study examines the feasibility of using technical and technological ideas to overcome these effects. The solution is based on new knowledge about the virus, its nature, formation, and activation in the environment.
Background: The ...
Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, systems trans-disciplinary approach
247 downloads
Aim/Purpose: A literature review is often criticized for the absence of coherent construction, synthesis of topics, and well-reasoned analysis. A framework is needed for novice researchers to organize and present information obtained from the literature review.
Background: Information and communication technologies advancement have yielded overwhelming information. The massive availability of inf ...
LATCH, Five Hat Rack, information organization, LACTiC
270 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Cyberbullying (CB) is an ongoing phenomenon that affects youth in negative ways. Using online news articles to provide information to schools can help with the development of comprehensive cyberbullying prevention campaigns, and in restoring faith in news reporting. The inclusion of online news also allows for increased awareness of cybersafety issues for youth.
Background: CB is an ...
cyberbullying, educational leadership, text analytics
205 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The integration of knowledge through the transdisciplinary method with the three concepts civilization, ideology, and geopolitics (CIG) enables the analysis of international relations in a new perspective and the informing strategists of countries, organizations, analysts, clients, etc. These three concepts express the transdisciplinarity that offers a new theoretical explanation and ...
civilization, ideology, geopolitics, security zones, Cold War
127 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This paper aims to illustrate, through an exploratory ideographic case study, how a Complex Thinking framework can inform the design of scientific events and the facilitation of scientific Inter and Transdisciplinary groups towards positive emergent outcomes, both at the level of the functioning of the group and the collective complexity of their thinking. Moreover, it aims to show h ...
complex thinking, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, facilitation, emergent group processes
113 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aimed to explore the impact of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burn-out among the general population during the pandemic.
Background: The paper has attempted to explore compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burn-out among the population at large, especially during the pandemic. This area has not been explored as yet.
Methodology: A simple rando ...
compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, burn-out, general population, pandemic (COVID-19)
146 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the impact of the transformational, servant, and paternalistic leadership styles on employee performance at the middle and senior levels.
Background: Transdisciplinary research promotes the integration and development of various sciences. It provides more choices for leaders to adopt ways and practical activities to promote enterprise development. Complexity lead ...
leadership, transformational, servant, paternalistic, employee performance, trickle-down effect
177 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Developing Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) to transform conventional Knowledge Management Systems (KM/KMS) scenarios promises significant benefits for individuals, institutions, as well as emerging knowledge economies.
Background: The academic entrepreneurship project presented is aiming for such a KMS-DPE configuration. Having consolidated this author’s own and external re-sear ...
digital platform ecosystem, knowledge management system, digital academic entrepreneurship, design science research, informing science, start-up
125 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Explores the interrelationships between uncertainty, motivation, and IT readiness when predicting IOS adoption among small businesses.
Background: Small business IOS adoption is proportionally low in most countries worldwide.
Methodology: Uses a sample of small businesses and PLS structural-equations path modelling approach.
Contribution: Uncertainty is an underexplored construct ...
uncertainty perspective, IOS, SME, small business, technology adoption, IT-enabled supply chains, electronic commerce
46 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Nigeria’s university education goes through incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). This strike has led to shared emotion on micro-blogging sites like Twitter. This study analyzed selected historical tweets from the “ASUU” to understand citizens’ opinions.
Background: The researchers conducted sentiment analysis and topic modelling to understand Twitter ...
social media, ASUU, strike, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, Twitter
166 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 21, 2022
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice, table of contents
141 downloads
Table of Contents for JITE: Research, Volume 21, 2022
JITE, IT education, education research, table of contents
193 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of computer-assisted gamification on the learning motivation of computer programming students.
Background: The teaching-learning of computer programming involves challenges that imply using learning environments in which the student is actively involved. Gamification is an innovative approach that allows the creation of environmen ...
gamification, computer programming, computer-assisted gamified environments, learning motivation
1155 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The complexity of today’s organizational databases highlights the importance of hard technical skills as well as soft skills including teamwork, communication, and problem-solving. Therefore, when teaching students about databases it follows that using a team approach would be useful.
Background: Team-based learning (TBL) has been developed and tested as an instructional strategy th ...
team-based learning, collaborative learning, database technology, database management, information technology education
432 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study designed and evaluated the impact of using a blended course and Web 2.0 tools into the “Design Fundamentals and Elements” course of a fine arts bachelor’s program at a Saudi Arabian university. The study also examined how students used Web 2.0 tools to improve their learning in the design of a blended (hybrid) course following the Quality Matters TM Higher Education Rubric ...
blended course, Web 2.0, fine art
327 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to describe layering of career-like experiences over existing curriculum to improve perceived educational value.
Background: Feedback from students and regional businesses showed a clear need to increase student’s exposure to career-like software development projects. The initial goal was to develop an instructor-optional project that could be used in a single mi ...
Agile, Scrum, software development, programming, Student Ownership of Learning, active learning, iterative development, information technology, software engineering
171 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examines the teachers’ perceptions towards a set of socio-emotional characteristics of distance education (DE) in primary and secondary schools during the Covid-19 pandemic. The examined characteristics include perceived joy, stress, effort/fatigue, isolation, inclusiveness, and collaboration/interaction.
Background: The transition to emergency distance education had a larg ...
emergency distance education, socio-emotional characteristics of distance education, teachers’ emotions towards distance teaching, teachers’ attitude towards distance education
318 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a machine learning approach for analyzing Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs). The aim of this study is to find a model that can check whether a CLO is well written or not.
Background: The use of machine learning algorithms has been, since many years, a prominent solution to predict learner performance in Outcome Based Education. However, the CLOs definition is still ...
course learning outcomes, paraphrasing, machine learning, classification, out-come based education
393 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose a curriculum development model for the integration of technology, organization, and environment (TOE) framework into enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems education. The study investigated the relationships between the three factors of the TOE framework and student learning outcomes from their ERP systems study.
Background: As the demand f ...
ERP systems education, technology factor, organization factor, environ-ment factor, student learning outcomes
231 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of the study was to examine the perceptions of senior academic staff who also serve as policymakers in Israeli colleges of education, regarding the integration of technology in teacher education, and the shift to online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. There is little research on this issue and consequently, the aim of the present study is to fill this lacuna.
Backgrou ...
Covid-19 pandemic, senior academic staff; the new institutional theory, online learning, colleges of education
132 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper proposes a new approach to developing a deep learning-based prototyping wearable model which can assist blind and visually disabled people to recognize their environments and navigate through them. As a result, visually impaired people will be able to manage day-to-day activities and navigate through the world around them more easily.
Background: In recent decades, the dev ...
visually impaired, handheld assistive technology, assistive technology, wearable devices, blind, navigation, object detection
389 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Digital health is increasingly being utilized in clinical practice given its ease of accessibility, but it lacks emphasis from universities and accreditation bodies. This study attempted to better understand the digital capabilities of optometry students.
Background: With technological advancements transforming the Australian workforce and healthcare, there is a growing demand for di ...
optometric education, digital literacies, digital health, digital skills and competencies
325 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine whether ESL teaching videos as a form of asynchronous online knowledge sharing can act as an aid to ESL learners internalizing knowledge in language acquisition. In this context, internalizing knowledge carries the meaning of being able to remember language, and purposefully and accurately use it context, including appropriacy of language, ...
knowledge management, English as a second language, asynchronous online instructional videos, internalizing language
125 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study, drawing on and extending research on the adoption of information technologies (IT), develops a research model to investigate: (1) the key relative factors that affect the adoption of e-learning versus using IT in traditional classrooms; and (2) students’ relative attitudes and relative intentions to use e-learning systems.
Background: Since the advent of the COVID-19 pand ...
e-learning, relative attitudes, relative intention to use, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), IT adoption, antecedents
370 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To encourage students’ engagement in peer assessments and provide students with better-quality feedback, this paper describes a technique for author-reviewer matching in peer assessment systems – a Balanced Allocation algorithm.
Background: Peer assessment concerns evaluating the work of colleagues and providing feedback on their work. This process is widely applied as a learning met ...
peer assessment, peer review, matching peers, adaptive peer assessment
79 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to adopt more systematically the collaborative learning dimension in the technical translation teaching at Master Degree level. In order to do so, a computer-supported skills lab approach is targeted. This approach is aimed at enhancing traditional courses on Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) so that student competences and soft skills are enhanced.
Backgro ...
collaborative online learning, team-based learning, computer-assisted translation, higher education, skills lab, simulation-based education
217 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper focuses on designing and implementing the rubric for objective JAVA programming assessments. An unsupervised learning approach was used to group learners based on their performance in the results obtained from the rubric, reflecting their learning ability.
Background: Students' learning outcomes have been evaluated subjectively using a rubric for years. Subjective assessme ...
rubric, JAVA programming, objective assessments, subjective assessments, rubric based evaluation
156 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This identifies the factors that influence the application of mobile learning in order to improve the student learning process at universities in Indonesia based on the student’s perspective regarding factors that affect mobile learning, which is still rarely done in the Indonesian context.
Background: The pandemic has had an impact on education in Indonesia so teaching and learning ...
mobile learning, Indonesian higher education, student perspectives, Indonesia
514 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article aimed to explore student perceptions and experiences of migrating to a fully online mode during COVID-19.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic changed the mode of delivery from face-to-face or blended learning to fully distance learning. The introduction of the Disaster Management Act (2020) in South Africa forced all institutions of learning to close their doors and move t ...
student teachers, distance learning; online learning survey design, exploratory factor analysis
198 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of the study was to investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the educational process also affected the views, attitudes, and intentions of educators regarding the use of computers and their applications both for professional and personal purposes.
Background: A model was developed and tested that included the factors present in the Technology Acceptance M ...
computers, educators, lockdown, pandemic, Technology Acceptance Model
164 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to investigate the factors that influence online students’ continued usage intention toward e-learning systems by presenting an extended model that is based on the Delone and McLean (2003) IS success model (D&M ISS model).
Background: The use of e-learning systems in this era has become a vital element of delivering higher education. Learning via e-learning systems h ...
success factors, e-learning, Moodle, information quality, continuous usage, self-direct learning, IS success model
444 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the impact of the relationship between social/emotional, cognitive, and behavioral engagements on developing preservice teachers’ digital competencies. The social/emotional engagement can be illustrated with actions associated with learning, such as excitement, interest, and motivation. Cognitive engagement is the active process of learning and is the most esse ...
social/emotional engagement, cognitive engagement, behavioral engagement, digital competency
315 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the factors that have significant influences on students’ adoption of e-learning systems and to what extent these factors affect them.
Background: E-learning has become an essential tool and makes it an inevitable option for education in the future. E-learning has received considerable attention in recent times as a global spread of the COVID-1 ...
education, e-learning, private university, technology acceptance, C-TAM-TPB
493 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study carried out a systematic review of the literature on artificial intelligence (AI) in English language teaching (ELT). The objective was to delineate the current research progress in the field and to further understand the challenges.
Background: The study analyzed articles published between 2015 and 2021.
Methodology: The qualitative research method was employed. Five ste ...
artificial intelligence, AI challenges, English language teaching, systematic literature review, analysis of AI-based articles
2073 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research was to examine the potential outcomes of applying the outdoor transdisciplinary language instruction paradigm to primary school students’ cognitive and emotional improvement with smart boards as an assessment tool.
Background: Traditional approaches to teaching English in primary schools do not give particular consideration to outdoor transdisciplinary le ...
smart board, place-based pedagogy, transdisciplinary language instruction, learning performance, positive emotions
193 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this study was twofold: first, to examine how learners’ behavioral engagement types affect their final grades in an online programming course; and second, to explore which factors most strongly affect student performance in an online programming course and their connection to the types of cognitive engagement.
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic situation, informatio ...
behavioral engagement, cognitive engagement, programming education, distance learning, PLS-SEM
254 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored the use of e-portfolios in fostering student engagement with their lecturers, content, and other students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: Although e-portfolios are still a relatively new trend in developing countries, they are becoming an alternative teaching and learning tool in distance education and online environments. Research has placed e-portfoli ...
E-portfolios, learning objects, online leaning, ODeL, student engagement, student support
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To gain insight into the opinions and reviews of Malaysian university students regarding e-learning systems, thereby improving the quality and services of these systems and resolving any problems, concerns, and issues that may exist within the institution.
Background: This exploratory study examines the students’ perceptions of e-learning in Malaysia based on Sentiment Analysis (SA) ...
e-learning systems, sentiment analysis, machine learning, university student
210 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study was designed to examine the extent to which high school teachers intend to continue using the tablet PC in their teaching within the context of the Tablet Project initiative in Kuwait. It explores what drives their adoption intention.
Background: Blended learning offers teachers the potential to adopt IT to augment their instructions and refocus their content, target group ...
Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK), information technology (IT), education, teaching efficacy (TE), behavioral intention (BI), Kuwait
193 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study attempts to provide a thorough review on online English Language Teaching (ELT) research in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of presenting best practices of online ELT classes for the future blended or hybrid learning scenario. To operationalize the “best practices” of online learning, the Community of Inquiry framework was used as the guiding perspectiv ...
community of inquiry, COVID-19, ELT, Indonesia, PRISMA, systematic review
287 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Social media platforms have been increasingly incorporated into teaching and learning. However, studies using mixed methods to explore WhatsApp’s potential to broaden online teaching and learning remain limited.
Background: This study reports the experiences and perspectives of undergraduate students in terms of their WhatsApp usage patterns and preferences during COVID-19 using a s ...
WhatsApp, COVID-19, online teaching and learning, university, South Africa
105 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present a systematic review of studies conducted on mobile-assisted task-based learning between 2013 and 2022. The primary objectives of the review are to elicit educational and learning contexts, research areas and foci, research trends, methodologies, data collection techniques, mobile technology used, learning outcomes, and issues in mobile-assisted task ...
mobile-assisted learning, mobile-assisted task-based learning, preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, systematic review, task-based learning
160 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The exorbitant cost of traditional textbooks, which particularly impact low-income, underrepresented minority groups, can be a barrier to student success in higher education that contributes to educational inequities. The aim of this multi-methodology study, conducted at a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution that serves primarily first-generation and lower-income learners, is to ...
e-book, e-book subscription, HBCU, minority education, first-generation learners, Cengage Unlimited, MindTap, student learning success, e-learning, affordable course content, learning materials
96 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines how senior academic staff from a large sample of teacher education colleges regard the integration of digital games into teacher instruction. These colleges serve general or religious populations, and we examine what, in practice, their policy and vision were in this regard in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: The sudden adoption of online teaching ...
senior academic staff, COVID-19, digital games, pedagogy, teacher education colleges
80 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The key objective of this research is to examine whether fix-and-play educational games improve students' performance in learning programming languages. We also quantified the flow experiences of the students and analyzed how the flow contributes to their academic performances.
Background: Traditionally, learning the first computer programming language is considered challenging, In ...
CS1, novice programming, game-based learning; gamification, serious games, educational games for learning programming
172 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this writing was not to promote any particular assessment tool. We aimed to critically explore the numerous assessment techniques that are accessible to app stakeholders with an emphasis on their strengths, shortcomings, and trustworthiness. We underline the importance of a relatively good and research-based tool that can readily assess the existing Learning Apps (LAs).
B ...
learning apps, educational mobile app, evaluation, assessment, framework, content, pedagogy, technology
166 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 19, 2022
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Digital literacy is critical to participation in a contemporary knowledge-based society and is requisite to both academic success and career development. Institutions of higher education have been slow to define, assess, and amplify digital literacy in parallel with advances in the enhancement of reading, writing, and arithmetic literacy. Perhaps as a consequence of the pandemic, awar ...
digital literacy, digital competency, critical digital literacy, digitally centered
166 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Designing augmented reality (AR) experiences for education, health or entertainment involves multidisciplinary teams making design decisions across several areas. The goal of this paper is to present a classification schema that describes the design choices when constructing an AR interactive experience.
Background: Existing extended reality schema often focuses on single dimensi ...
augmented reality, interactive experiences, design rationale, classification schema
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Two popular methods for encouraging active learning are Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Field Trips (VFTs). This exploratory case study examines college students’ perceptions of a prototype AR and VFT app as an active learning strategy.
Background: AR allows students to learn as they physically explore a destination, while VFTs give students the opportunity to visit exciting des ...
Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Field Trip (VFT), active learning, Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D), Science Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM)
45 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The low proportion of women currently working in the field of business information systems presents an opportunity to attract more women to this field. For example, in Germany, the proportion of women studying business information systems is currently 21%, compared to 48% in business administration (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2020). Which characteristics make the professional field of b ...
job satisfaction, career goals, work climate, gender, fairness
52 downloads
Aim / Purpose
This study examined the perception of the role of tutors in online training of preservice teachers during the COVID period, from the perspective of pre-service teachers and their tutors.
Background
Because of the COVID pandemic, learning in schools was conducted online, therefore preservice teachers’ practicum also took place online, as did the tutoring process.
Methodology
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clinical training, field experiences, preservice teacher, online teaching practices, COVID-19, practical experience, e-readiness, digital learning literacies, 21st century
36 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This paper focuses on systematizing and rethinking the conformity of modern transdisciplinarity with its prime cause and initial ideas.
Background
The difficulties of implementing transdisciplinarity into science and education are connected with the fact that its generally accepted definition, identification characteristics, and methodological features are still missing. In order ...
transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems approach, systems transdisciplinary approach, higher education
86 downloads
Aim/Purpose; Fostering student engagement is one of the great challenges of teaching, especially in online learning environments. An educators’ assumptions and beliefs about what student engagement is and how it manifests will shape the strategies they design to engage students in learning. However, there is no agreement on the definition of concept of student engagement and it re-mains a vague co ...
online learning, student engagement, teaching IT, higher education, human-ism, affective domain, student-teacher connection, classroom inquiry, reflexive teaching practice
75 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of gaps in students’ knowledge at the time they enter a comprehensive Information Systems cap-stone course. This problem of knowledge gaps was exacerbated by the forced remote learning and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to find a technique that would identify and fill those gaps. Ideally, the method would also r ...
knowledge gaps, pandemic, Teach Back, capstone, soft skills, interpersonal skills, curriculum, engagement, tutorials
36 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 17, 2022, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
555 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 17, 2022, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
131 downloads
Aim/Purpose: It is increasingly recognized that doctoral education programs should better support doctoral students. In particular, it has been noted that students experience significant isolation during their PhD, which negatively affects their educational experiences and their personal wellbeing. Doctoral writing groups are collaborative learning communities that have in recent years received in ...
doctoral education, writing groups, pastoral care, belonging, academic identity, autoethnography, collaborative autoethnography
790 downloads
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After its investigation, the Research Ethics, Integrity, and Governance team at RMIT University found that the primary author of this paper breached the Australian Code and/or RMIT Policy and requested that the article be retracted.
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Thi ...
ethical leadership, transformational leadership, employee creativity, private higher education institutions, Malaysia, organizational citizenship behavior
307 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Latina doctoral students’ educational experiences are often mediated by their social class status, race, and gender. Latinas have sustained an increasing presence in doctoral programs at various colleges and universities across the United States; yet, they are continually underrepresented in doctoral programs at predominantly White institutions. The author identifies evidence-supporte ...
Latinas, doctoral education, persistence, social class, Latcrit, Multiracial Feminist Theory, equity, economic disadvantage
513 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the availability and pricing of perishable farm produce before and during the lockdown restrictions imposed due to Covid-19. This paper also proposes machine learning and deep learning models to help the farmers decide on an appropriate market to sell their farm produce and get a fair price for their product.
Background: Developing countries like India hav ...
Machine Learning, Classification, Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Network, Deep Neural Network, Covid-19, Agriculture
203 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores an intervention approach (in the form of workshops) focusing on doctoral progress, to address the problems of low emotional well-being experienced by many doctoral candidates.
Background: Doctoral education suffers from two severe overlapping problems: high dropout rates and widespread low emotional well-being (e.g., depression or anxiety symptoms). Yet, there are ...
doctoral education, emotional well-being, doctoral attrition, progress, design-based research, preventive intervention
618 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the value of metaphors as part of a reflexive practice in the context of the evolving frame of reference journey of PhD students in a consulting psychology programme.
Background: This study reports on the journey of how the personal frames of reference of PhD students in consulting psychology had evolved at a large open-distance and e-learning uni ...
consulting psychology, hermeneutics, metaphors, potential space, reflexivity
448 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine the influences of KM-centred strategies on innovation capability among Malaysian R&D firms. It also deepens understanding of the pathways and conditions to improve the innovation capability by assessing the mediating role of both KM practices, i.e., knowledge exploration practices, and knowledge exploitation practices.
Background: Knowledge is the ...
KM-centred strategies, knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, innovation
192 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, we aim to investigate the impact of an important characteristic of textual reviews – the diversity of the review content on review helpfulness.
Background: Consumer-generated reviews are an essential format of online Word-of-Month that help customers reduce uncertainty and information asymmetry. However, not all reviews are equally helpful as reflected by the varying n ...
review helpfulness, text diversity, latent dirichlet allocation, online consumer reviews
165 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use narrative inquiry to discover and understand how Chinese students leverage their strengths and multiple identities in socializing to American higher education and their profession. Chinese students engage with American academic culture while embracing their multiple identities. I will explore the cultural strengths they use to socialize and develop ...
doctoral socialization, Chinese international doctoral students, cross-cultural socialization, narrative inquiry, multiple identities, strength-based perspective
702 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to analyze how artisans in Ghana are incorporating mobile commerce into their everyday business and how perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norms, age, gender, expertise, and educational level affected the adoption and usage of m-commerce.
Background: This study integrates well-established theoretical models to create a new conceptual model that e ...
mobile commerce, attitude, artisans, behavioral intention, adoption, actual use
130 downloads
The (National) Doctoral Dissertations Assessment in China: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Aim/Purpose: Our study explores the perspectives of international doctoral graduates on (national) dissertation assessment in China.
Background: In the absence of national standards or in the presence of impractical ones for assessing doctoral dissertations, these factors have inevitably led to what Granovsky et al. (1992, p. 375) called “up to standard rejected” and “below standard accept ...
China, doctoral dissertation, doctoral graduates, experiences, external review, national assessment
522 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the factors driving individuals’ behavioral intention to use cryptocurrency in Saudi Arabia using the extended TRA model.
Background: Despite the great potential of cryptocurrencies and the exponential growth of cryptocurrency use throughout the world, scholarly research on this topic remained scarce. Whereas prior studies are mostly done in deve ...
cryptocurrency, TRA model, behavioral intention to use cryptocurrency, Saudi Arabia
237 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the research was to examine the function and application of delimitations—what the researcher includes and excludes in a study—in the dissertation process. The aim was to map the delimitations process to improve research, rigor and relevance of findings, and doctoral completion rates using a formalized and standardized approach applied flexibly.
Background: All researc ...
delimitations, dissertation, education research, thematic analysis, doctoral education
1238 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Systematic literature reviews seek to locate all studies that contain material of relevance to a research question and to synthesize the relevant outcomes of those studies. The primary aim of this paper was to synthesize both research and practice reports on micro-credentials (MCRs).
Background: There has been an increase in reports and research on the plausibility of MCRs to support ...
micro-credentials, digital badges, online learning, credentials, education 4.0, COVID-19
178 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown required doctoral writers to demonstrate resiliency to continue their culminating projects. This study examines the socioecological factors that fostered that resiliency.
Background: Resiliency is a key factor in determining whether doctoral writers continue with their culminating projects. Thus far, studies on doctoral student experience ...
doctoral writing, resilience, COVID-19 pandemic, writing ecology/ies
476 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore the challenges faced by international doctoral students in Chinese universities and find out what international doctoral students perceive to be effective supervision.
Background: As higher education internationalization is proliferating, there is a need for adjustment in every educational system. Despite the rise in the internationalization of higher educ ...
international doctoral supervision, improving research supervision, internationalization of higher education research supervisors, research challenges, international education
436 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper identified and explored the factors influencing Bitcoin adoption and use in South Africa.
Background: Since its introduction in 2008, the value and popularity of Bitcoin has risen exponentially. Captivating the eyes of the world, from regulators to economists, Bitcoin promises to revolutionize the digital currency space. Despite being over 10 years old, the concept of cryp ...
Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, South Africa
156 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Doctoral students’ experiences in PhD programs could be a journey of identity evolution. Existing research on doctoral students’ identities has typically been conducted by faculties. As the main character in the identity evolution process, it is critical to understand doctoral students’ interpretation of their own identities and identity development in PhD programs. The purpose of thi ...
doctoral students, identity, identity development, self-study, first-person perspective
541 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study examines the effect of perceived organisational and co-worker support on the adjustment of repatriates and its impact on their intention to transfer knowledge in multinational companies (MNCs). It also examines the relationship between perceived organisational support, co-worker support, and knowledge transfer through the mediating role of repatriate adjustment.
Bac ...
repatriates, repatriate adjustment, co-worker support, organisational support, repatriate knowledge transfer, structural equation modelling
115 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present qualitative study examined the perceptions of Iranian Ph.D. candidates toward the responsibilities and activities that supervisors should take during the dissertation writing.
Background: Writing the dissertation is the main concern for Ph.D. candidates. In the view of doctorate students, supervisors are the main contributors to establishing a well-prepared dissertation.
...
Ph.D. program, Ph.D. candidate, supervisor, supervision, mentorship
430 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to analyze the effect of human resource management on humanitarian operations performance, using humanitarian organizations in Malaysia as a case.
Background: Humanitarian organizations need to develop and continue effective on-the-job human resource management, such as training and development and managing employee performance to enhance the performance of their h ...
PLS-SEM, humanitarian operations performance, human resource management, humanitarian organizations
120 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores how professional doctorate candidates responded to the restrictions and changed context of COVID-19. Using connectivism as a theoretical framework, it explores the ways in which their patterns of study were recalibrated in light of the restrictions caused by the pandemic. Specifically, this study aims to: explore the experience of the professional doctorate student ...
professional doctorate, ICTs, digital, COVID-19, higher education
389 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore the impact of environmental drivers and trust on consumers’ adoption of Fintech services in the Jordanian context. It had also evaluated the mediating role of trust on the relation between environmental drivers and consumers adoption of Fintech services.
Background: The reviewed studies on Fintech adoption demonstrated a lack of focus on the role of extern ...
environmental drivers, Fintech, adoption, Jordan, COVID-19
275 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examines the perspectives of convenors, examiners, supervisors, and candidates to gather their views on the presence of the supervisor in oral examinations (doctoral viva) and to reassess the role of the mainly silent supervisor in the doctoral viva.
Background: Supervisors are central to candidates’ doctoral journey, and their roles have been well documented. However, supe ...
doctoral viva, higher education, assessment, supervisors’ voice, PhD
417 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores how online writing groups facilitate the academic identity development of doctoral scholars.
Background: Academic institutions around the world, and especially in developing societies, are demanding increasing amounts of research and publications from their doctoral scholars. The current study used an online writing group to facilitate writing skills development, ...
academic identity, doctoral scholars, communities of practice, online writing group, narrative inquiry
690 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Mobile commerce adoption is low in developing countries; hence, public servants may not consider mobile commerce and mobile payments. Understanding the factors that influence mobile commerce and mobile payments in their context will aid in promoting those services.
Background: The study investigates the factors that influence public servants’ mobile commerce and mobile payments in Gh ...
mobile commerce, Ghanaian public servants, trust, behavioural intention, adoption
91 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a quantitative investigation of the organizational factors predicting the attrition of doctoral students’ experience of meaning and how meaningful experience and meaningless work affect doctoral students’ mental health and achievements.
Background: Today’s academic environment subsumes neoliberal principles of individualism, instrumentality, and competition. Such ...
doctoral students, meaningless work, mental health in academia
478 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to examine the roles of key traits of m-university services and their users in promoting two crucial post-adoption outcomes of these services; namely, continuance usage intention and perceived value.
Background: M-university (i.e., a university providing services via mobile technologies) has gained a great interest in the higher education sector as a driver of new bus ...
m-university, faculty-oriented m-university services, m-university service trait, user trait, continuance usage intention, perceived value
64 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores the development of academic identity among a group of Asian international doctoral students at a U.S. research university in various settings, including interacting with students and faculty members and reflecting on their personal journeys.
Background: In 2020-2021, 132, 000 international doctoral students enrolled in U.S. universities – an increase of 71% since ...
academic identity, acculturative stress, cultural inclusion, international doctoral students
416 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study identifies the elements that influence intentions to purchase from the most popular Arabic online classifieds platform, OpenSooq.com.
Background: Online purchasing has become popular among consumers in the past two decades, with perceived risk and trust playing key roles in consumers’ intention to purchase online.
Methodology: A questionnaire survey was conducted of Inter ...
online purchasing, trust, transaction security, perceived risk, privacy concern
102 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the main conceptualizations of learning space from doctoral students’ perspectives. The aim was to develop a participatory approach to make students’ multiple voices heard.
Background: Doctoral experience is viewed as being influenced by social practices of the scholarly communities; learning space in this context is a collective ...
learning spaces, doctoral education, design-based research (DBR), participatory design
368 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Although the significance of data provenance has been recognized in a variety of sectors, there is currently no standardized technique or approach for gathering data provenance. The present automated technique mostly employs workflow-based strategies. Unfortunately, the majority of current information systems do not embrace the strategy, particularly biodiversity information systems i ...
temporal data provenance, biodiversity, ontology, rule-based reasoning
91 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop instructional rubrics that help in writing and evaluating doctoral dissertation research problem statements.
Background: This is a follow up study. In the first paper (Ali & Pandya, 2021), we introduced a model for writing a research problems statement that takes the students through four phases to complete their writing. In this paper, we i ...
research problem statement, doctoral research problem, doctoral dissertations
443 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to explore factors that affect how healthcare clients in rural areas use infomediaries in maternal mHealth interventions. The study focuses on maternal healthcare clients who do not own mobile phones but use the mHealth intervention.
Background: Maternal mHealth interventions in poor-resource settings are bedevilled by inequalities in mobile phone ownership. ...
infomediaries, mHealth, maternal mHealth interventions, volunteers
46 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceived efforts, rewards, motives, and coping strategies of a sample of PhD students in Germany based on tested stress models, the Effort-Reward-Imbalance Model and the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping.
Background: Pursuing a PhD can be challenging and stressful. Students face conflicts, isolation, and competition as well as diffi ...
coping strategies, effort-reward-imbalance, motives, PhD students
557 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the impact of decision-making, crisis management, and decision-making on sustainability through the mediation of open innovation in the energy sector.
Background: Public companies study high-performance practices, requiring overcoming basic obstacles such as financial crises that prevent the adoption and development of sustainability programs.
Methodology: Due to ...
crisis management, innovation, decision-making environment, sustainable performance
68 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Identify the prerequisites, the corequisites, and the iteration processes in organizing and writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations.
Background: Writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations presents unique challenges. Students waste a lot of time identifying material to write, and the experience is generally that of frustration and time de ...
literature review, dissertation literature review, phases of literature review, snowballing in literature review
520 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Currently, the world faces unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, particularly concerning individuals’ health and livelihood and organizations and industrial performance. Indeed, the pandemic has caused rapid intensifying socio-economic effects. For instance, organizations are shifting from traditional working patterns toward telecommuting. By adopting remote working, organizations ...
telecommuting, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), employee’s self-efficacy, behavioral intentions, banking
330 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To understand the experiences of full-time university professors at a Mexican university who are pursuing a doctoral degree, this study seeks to describe the experiences of doctoral students who are also university professors. The study focuses on the intentions, experiences, and prospects regarding the decision to study for a doctorate as a university professor.
Background: This re ...
doctoral studies, institutional conditions, Mexican context, student experiences, university professors
400 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined the relationship between critical success factors (CSFs), perceived benefits, and usage intention of Mobile Knowledge Management Systems (MKMS) via an integrated Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Information Systems Success Model (ISSM).
Background: This study investigates the CSFs (i.e., Strategic Leadership, Employee Training, System Quality, and Information ...
Technology Acceptance Model, Information Systems Success Model, mobile knowledge management systems, strategic leadership, employee training, system quality, information quality, perceived benefits, perceived user-friendly, usage intention
76 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of the study was to find out the influence of information literacy and research self-efficacy on the research productivity of doctoral students in universities in Ogun State, Nigeria.
Background: The prosperity of any nation is inextricably tied to its research productivity in both quality and quantity. Hence, doctoral education, among others, is meant to sustain res ...
information literacy, information processing, self-efficacy, research self-efficacy, research productivity, doctoral studies
402 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the critical predictors affecting project desertion in Blockchain projects.
Background: Blockchain is one of the innovations that disrupt a broad range of industries and has attracted the interest of software developers. However, despite being an open-source software (OSS) project, the maintenance of the project ultimately relies on small core de ...
blockchain project, open source software, project desertion, expert review
77 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of expectancy-value beliefs on Algerian doctoral students’ academic burnout. Descriptive-inferential research was adopted to measure the potential association and predictive relationship between the variables of the study.
Background: It is commonly known that candidates undertaking a doctoral course experience significant ...
academic burnout, expectancy-value, doctoral students
367 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main goal of this systematic literature review was to look for studies that provide information relevant to business intelligence’s (BI) framework development and implementation in the tourism sector. This paper tries to classify the tourism sectors where BI is implemented, group various BI functionalities, and identify common problems encountered by previous research.
Background ...
business intelligence, framework, functionalities, literature review, tourism
263 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to understand and assess the self-care perceptions and habits of US domestic versus international graduate students in doctoral programs at an R1 university in Texas.
Background: The number of domestic and international students entering doctoral programs in US universities continues to increase each year. However, completion rates within the Ph.D. program remain low ...
self-care, domestic doctoral students, international doctoral students
397 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) of Business Intelligence (BI) and provide a framework to classify CSF into layers or perspectives using an enterprise architecture approach, then rank CSF within each perspective and evaluate the importance of each perspective at different BI maturity levels as well.
Background: Although the implementation of the BI ...
business intelligence, critical success factor, maturity model, enterprise architecture
174 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on the connection between IT-producing firms’ digital service capabilities and the digital service performance of IT-consuming firms, especially online shop operators.
Background: The acquisition and integration of knowledge regarding digital service capabilities and performance can increase the level at which employees assimilate information, organize with IT-cons ...
product capabilities, service capabilities, relationship capabilities, digital service, performance
35 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated a model of mobile esports acceptance among urban citizens based on an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).
Background: Currently, esports are increasingly popular and in demand by the public. Supported by the widespread development of mobile devices, it has become an interactive market trend to play games in a new model, mobile esports.
Methodology: Th ...
esports, technology acceptance model, mobile
68 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the impact of transitioning from in-person classrooms to remote online business education and provides analysis of key factors impacting course and instructor ratings as well as strategies for higher education institutions to provide engaging instruction.
Background: “Zoom”ing into teaching and moving out of traditional classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic has ...
online teaching, student evaluations, teaching and learning
47 downloads
In August 2018, the Plant Manager of a TASUS manufacturing facility in rural Florence, Alabama, confronts a human resource management challenge: How to recruit and retain employees with needed skills, given low unemployment both locally and nationwide as well as increased competition from manufacturers who recently moved into Northwest Alabama?
The TASUS plant managers are proud of its family- ...
Human resources, war for talent, hiring
11 downloads
Singapore has won many accolades as a Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) destination for 17 years in the Asia Pacific, with the industry having a projected market value of USD5,214.0 by end 2027, with a CAGR of 8.4% (PRNewswire, 2020).
Eyeing this huge growth potential, Greg founded TAB Group Pte Ltd in 2019, serving the corporate and private events market. Greg wanted to ...
Events planning, experience economy, Covid-19, vision, survival
13 downloads
Christine Busby stood in her office and stared at a blank whiteboard. She asked herself, “Where do I start?" with a marker in hand. Christine had a front-row seat in changing how the skilled nursing facility (SNF) industry does business. There were several complicated factors, multiple rules and regulations to navigate, little money, and no time to execute this colossal change. To add to the stres ...
Healthcare, Nursing, Lobbying, Legislation, Vaccines, Costs
37 downloads
The Department of Children and Families has reviewed a Technology solution that should meet most of their needs for improved client service and asset management. The protagonist, Brad Frearson, is carefully reviewing his plan and the outcomes of each for the SunCoast region.
DCF, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
18 downloads
This article analyzes a situation encountered by eParts Services, a web portal provider, when looking to expand into the European market. It focuses on the challenges involved in meeting GDPR regulation and proposes a variety of approaches on how they could meet regulatory needs.
eParts Services privacy GDPR globalization
12 downloads
Connected Communities: Was there worth in smart home technology in an apartment community?
Should Mosaic Development add smart home technology in their multi-family developments?
This was the question that Marc Mariano, development partner at Mosaic Development, pondered as he struggled to decide if he should install smart home technology in his latest multi-family project.
Mariano understood ...
Smart technology, multi-family, real estate development
16 downloads
Randy Koubek, Allbridge's CFO, had an AR problem. He couldn’t help but wonder if the AR situation was the main problem, or if it was symptomatic of a deeper issue. Was it primarily an internal problem, where the existing AR department could benefit from more focused training? Did Allbridge need to implement new technology and/or processes to improve current debt collection practices? Were there un ...
Allbridge, Accounts Receivable, Tesoro, Hospitality, Audio Visual
11 downloads
Dynamic Communities was a company that forms and administers Software User Groups. Each group had a thriving membership which shared knowledge and information among each constituent in the community. Active participation by employees of member companies led to stronger competency in the software and eventually higher return on software investment for their employer. Programs and features of mem ...
Strategy, Pricing, Product features, Product Mix, Training, Software, User Group, Microsoft
27 downloads
The University of South Florida Federal Credit Union deploys a strategic planning process which includes a separate “governance only” planning session prior to a joint leadership and governance planning session. This case study presents the material used for the 2021 annual volunteer only planning session. Using the discussion case method, the volunteers decide which strategic directives should b ...
strategic planning, leadership, board governance
21 downloads
The organizational capability of a firm to create, integrate and maintain cyber versions of complex physical systems known as Digital Twins is a key enabler for joining the 4th Industrial Revolution. This article highlights the business case for firms in the petrochemical process industry to manage digital twins as valuable business assets based on academic and business literature, webcast and liv ...
Digital Twin, 3D Model, Oil & Gas, Process Industry, Industry 4.0, Engineering Data, Complex Facility, Information Asset Lifecycle
160 downloads
During the design phase of major capital projects, information content about complex process facilities is created and used to model how the facility will operate once completed. In the Oil and Gas (O&G) sector, this digital design data is referenced to plan material orders, stage testing, and track commissioning of the facility components. It can also inform decisions related to construction, ins ...
3D Model, Digital Twins, Information Management, Industry 4.0, Visualization, Value, Lifecycle, Maintenance, Oil & Gas, Process
101 downloads
An industry standards organization sponsors a project to design a standard and document a means to assess the practical and economic benefits of 3D model maintenance throughout the complex process facility lifecycle. This article chronicles the elaborated action design research (eADR) approach used to evaluate the design and implementation stages of this project, reflecting on this ongoing effort ...
eADR, Design Science Research, 3D model, Digital Twin Maturity Model, Industry 4.0, Operations Information Lifecycle Management, Standards, Action Design Research, total cost of ownership
116 downloads
Internships have been a long-standing opportunity for students to gain work experience before graduation. Increasingly, savvy companies have come to realize that as a result of experiential educational experiences like internships, vocationally oriented student organizations, and university programming many students are ready to contribute in a meaningful way to the firm at graduation and in many ...
Internship, Sales, Marketing, Education, Mixed Methods, Recruiting
23 downloads
How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted entrepreneurship in America is a critical question. Despite the pandemic, entrepreneurs have been, and still are, looking to finance their ongoing, established businesses, as well as finance new ventures. Reward-based crowdfunding has filled an important gap in alternative finance since the 2008 financial crisis, and many are wondering if it can do the same f ...
Entrepreneurship, Crowdfunding, Alternative Finance, Pandemic, COVID-19, Finance, Startup, Financial crisis
31 downloads
A literature review shows conclusive information that suicide within the construction industry is high compared to society, with documented common themes for suicide and suicidal ideation.
A subset of the common themes tied to the industry includes stigma associated with discussing mental health and suicide, both prescribed and self-medicating for injuries, and seasonal employment that leads t ...
Suicide, construction, mental health, executives, risk factors, employment
52 downloads
This study examined a cross-section of operating nonprofits to understand what governance policies they utilize and compare these policies and practices to those recommended in the literature. The study was based on interviews of 18 board members of nonprofits in the Tampa Bay area.
Governance, Nonprofit, Board of Directors, Policies and Practices
42 downloads
Management scholars have identified three dimensions for organizational culture that stand out as we recover from the pandemic. One is the dimension of trust, which is expressed by mutual trust and respect for the common good. The second is the dimension of learning that focuses on exploration and innovation. The third, is collaboration, which is an example of actively supporting employees. These ...
Corporate Culture, The Post-Pandemic world, Trust, Collaboration, Learning, Change Leadership, The Future of Work
46 downloads
This narrative profile of Moez Limayem, Dean of the Muma College of Business, was developed using the thematic narrative research method, which included three exploratory interviews. The initial interview on which this narrative is based focused on the formative experiences that shaped Dean Limayem's life and career up to the present day. The objective was to derive the meaning of Dean Limayem's l ...
Innovation, Servant Leadership, Technology, Relationships, Student Success, Dean Limayem, Muma, USF
102 downloads
Table of Contents: Proceedings of the 2022 InSITE Conference
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
88 downloads
Aim/Purpose
In this paper we propose an ecosystem for translational learning that combines core learning principles with a multilevel construct that embraces the tenets of translational research, namely, teaming, translating, and implementing. The goal of the paper is to argue that knowledge of learning sciences is essential at the individual, team, and organizational levels in the translational ...
ecosystem, pedagogy, team science, implementation, translation, learning science
25 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This paper focuses on systematizing and rethinking the conformity of modern transdisciplinarity with its prime cause and initial ideas.
Background
The difficulties of implementing transdisciplinarity into science and education are connected with the fact that its generally accepted definition, identification characteristics, and methodological features are still missing. In or-der ...
transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems approach, systems transdisciplinary approach, higher education
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to illustrate, through an exploratory ideographic case study, how a Complex Thinking framework can inform the design of scientific events and the facilitation of scientific Inter and Transdisciplinary groups towards positive emergent outcomes, both at the level of the functioning of the group and the collective complexity of their thinking. Moreover, it aims to show ho ...
complex thinking, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, facilitation, emergent group processes
12 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Developing Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) to transform conventional Knowledge Management Systems (KM/KMS) scenarios promises significant benefits for individuals, institutions, as well as emerging knowledge economies.
Background: The academic entrepreneurship project presented is aiming for such a KMS-DPE configuration. Having consolidated this author’s own and external re-sear ...
digital platform ecosystem, knowledge management system, digital academic entrepreneurship, design science research, informing science, start-up
24 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to uncover the perceived quality factors of computer-mediated communication in business planning in which communication among teammates is crucial for collaboration.
Background: Computer-mediated communication has made communicating with team-mates easier and more affordable than ever. What motivates people to use a particular CMC technology during business planni ...
computer-mediated communication, business planning, instant messaging, information product quality, information quality.
11 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This paper investigates the association between publishing during doctoral candidature and completion time. The effects of discipline and of gaining additional support through a doctoral cohort program are also explored.
Background
Candidates recognize the value of building a publication track record to improve their career prospects yet are cognizant of the time it takes to publi ...
cohort program, completion, doctorate, research productivity, time-to-degree
17 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Develop instructional rubrics that help in writing and evaluating the doctoral dissertation research problem statement.
Background: This is a follow-up study. In the first paper, we introduced a model for writing a research problem statement that takes the students through four phases to complete their writing. In this paper, we introduce an instructional rubric to be used for hel ...
research problem statement, doctoral research problem, doctoral dissertations
60 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This paper identifies and examines cross-cutting experiences from the perspective of two doctoral students, whose research was affected by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be challenging for higher education scholars in terms of proceeding with their research and how the pandemic sets the scene for changes in higher education’s f ...
doctoral studies, higher education, COVID-19, collaborative autoethnography, reflection
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim is to explore the benefits and challenges of industrial PhD education through the perspectives of industrial PhD students who are acting in the intersection of academia and work-life by applying a work-integrated learning (WIL) approach to highlight issues that academy and industry need to consider.
Background: Industrial PhD education is a vital part of collaboration betwe ...
industrial PhD student, industrial PhD education, work-integrated learning, WIL, PhD program, university-society collaboration
39 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Identify the prerequisites, the corequisites, and the iteration processes in organizing and writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations.
Background: Writing the literature review chapter of doctoral dissertations presents unique challenges. Students waste a lot of time identifying material to write, and the experience is generally that of frustration and time de ...
literature review, dissertation literature review, phases of literature review, snowballing in literature review
73 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Designing augmented reality (AR) experiences for education, health or entertainment involves multidisciplinary teams making design decisions across several areas. The goal of this paper is to present a classification schema that describes the design choices when constructing an AR interactive experience.
Background: Existing extended reality schema often focuses on single dimensi ...
augmented reality, interactive experiences, design rationale, classification schema
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Two popular methods for encouraging active learning are Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Field Trips (VFTs). This exploratory case study examines college students’ perceptions of a prototype AR and VFT app as an active learning strategy.
Background: AR allows students to learn as they physically explore a destination, while VFTs give students the opportunity to visit exciting des ...
Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Field Trip (VFT), active learning, Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D), Science Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM)
8 downloads
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of five factors on the user acceptance of Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds (3DVWs) in higher education. Another objective of the study was to investigate the effects of the use of 3DVWs on five variables relevant to positive outcomes for higher education students.
Background:
Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds (3DVW) are of consid ...
three-dimensional virtual world, user acceptance, Second Life, higher education, eLearning
28 downloads
Aim/Purpose
This study collects empirical evidence to investigate the extent to which high school teachers adopted the tablet computer in their instruction within the context of the Tablet Project in Kuwait and explores what drove their adoption behavior.
Background
The role of information technology in education is prominent and takes different forms depending on the purpose of information ...
information technology (IT), education, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), teaching efficacy (TE), perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), Kuwait
35 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of the research was to study the relationship of seven independent factors: administrative support, course content, course design, instructor characteristics, learner characteristics, social support, and technical support on quality of e-learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the study analyzes the moderating effect(s) of gender and level of ...
e-learning, quality, students’ perspective, higher education, COVID-19 pandemic
22 downloads
Aim/Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of gaps in students’ knowledge at the time they enter a comprehensive Information Systems capstone course. This problem of knowledge gaps was exacerbated by the forced remote learning and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to find a technique that would identify and fill those gaps. Ideally, the method would also re ...
knowledge gaps, pandemic, Teach Back, capstone, soft skills, interpersonal skills, curriculum, engagement, tutorials
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined the distance teaching practices that early childhood pre-service teachers chose for working with kindergarten students during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Background: The spread of the coronavirus resulted in a state of emergency, lockdowns, isolations, and social distancing in Israel. As a result of the lockdown, kindergartens were closed, and learning continued dist ...
distance teaching practices, COVID-19, practical experience, e-readiness, kindergartens, field experiences, preservice teachers
37 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore why students do not choose to study In-formation Systems.
Background Demand for information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) employees and managers has been increased, with the widespread use of information technologies. IT skills shortage is a concern for industries and higher education institutions. The findings of this study can help ...
information systems, career, undergraduate students, Norway
22 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study of affordances in educational technology focuses on how the self-perceptions of teachers influence the creation of educational opportunities and how these are received by learners.
Background: It is important to explore the affordances offered by teachers, when using educational technology, from the perspective of their students. Within this topic, the interface of the e ...
educational technology affordances, teaching possibilities, possibilities for learning interactions, e-learning, self-directed learning
10 downloads
Aim / Purpose
This study examined the perception of the role of tutors in online training of preservice teachers during the COVID period, from the perspective of pre-service teachers and their tutors.
Background
Because of the COVID pandemic, learning in schools was conducted online, therefore preservice teachers’ practicum also took place online, as did the tutoring process.
Methodology
...
clinical training, field experiences, preservice teacher, online teaching practices, COVID-19, practical experience, e-readiness, digital learning literacies, 21st century
16 downloads
Aim/Purpose: When Data Science students use a Cloud environment such as AWS or Azure, they are not able to have direct hands-on experience with the under-lying hardware components. When students create virtual machines in the Cloud, they specify memory size, CPUs, disk space, etc. However, they cannot reach out and touch the underlying hardware directly since it resides in the Cloud.
Background ...
Raspberry Pi 4b, distributed processing, MongoDB Sharding, Linux Ub-untu
31 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Digital literacy is critical to participation in a contemporary knowledge-based society and is requisite to both academic success and career development. Institutions of higher education have been slow to define, assess, and amplify digital literacy in parallel with advances in the enhancement of reading, writing, and arithmetic literacy. Perhaps as a consequence of the pandemic, awar ...
digital literacy, digital competency, critical digital literacy, digitally centered
34 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study reports the outcome of Student Ownership of Learning (SOL) through developing a shopping application. This research aims to describe embedding agile career-like experiences into software development courses in order to improve perceived educational value.
Background: Many classes consist of lectures, homework, and tests; however, most students do not remember what they l ...
Student Ownership of Learning, Scrum, Flutter, agile, iterative development, career-like experiences
33 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The problem statement in the proposed study focuses on what strategies enterprise information systems specialists need to integrate novel algorithms into an imaging application that had not yet been identified. The aim is to demonstrate that a cross-convolutional neural network can be implemented within the home laboratory – an exploration of a virtual connection for re-search. An ana ...
artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence in medicine, butterfly recognition, CIBR, computer vision, content-based image retrieval systems and Java, convolutional neural network, cross-convolutional neural network, deep learning, digital imaging, future image prediction, image recognition, ImageJ, ImageJ2, recurrent neural network, video motion
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The low proportion of women currently working in the field of business information systems presents an opportunity to attract more women to this field. For example, in Germany, the proportion of women studying business information systems is currently 21%, compared to 48% in business administration (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2020). Which characteristics make the professional field of b ...
job satisfaction, career goals, work climate, gender, fairness
10 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explain how ERP systems provide value to companies in Lesotho, a developing country.
Background: The percentage of organizations with Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) has been increasing in both developed and developing nations. Despite the popularity of ERPs, the literature has shown that ERP failure is a major challenge facing organiz ...
ERP value, TOE, ERP success factors
137 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper reports a case study of organizational transition from a non-competitive selection method to a novel bidding method for the selection of consultants in the Architectural and Engineering (A/E) industry.
Background: Public procurement agencies are increasingly relying on external consultants for the design of construction projects. Consultant selection can be based on eith ...
A/E services, consultant selection, public procurement, design management, team building
13 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between a converged wireless-sensor/cellular network architecture and cybersecurity, in terms of transmission delay, to deliver remote grassfire alerts to firefighters in Southeast (SE) Colorado.
Background: Agriculture, rural communities, a thriving cattle industry, and a kaleidoscope of flora and fauna characterize ...
wireless sensor network (WSN), wildfire, alert, converged network, simulation
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores the dissemination of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in Canada in order to create a model for verifying conspiracy theories.
Background: The study combines empirical and conceptual research.
Methodology: Three Canadian cases of conspiracy theories dissemination were developed via observation and content analysis, and an exploration of ontology, epistemology, and ...
conspiracy theory, COVID-19, misinforming
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines faculty feelings of isolation when teaching in a distance education environment.
Background: Faculty who teach in an exclusively online environment often feel isolated, which may lead to decreased cognitive ability, depression, and increased mortality rates. In addition to personal detriments, these issues could negatively impact teaching performance.
Methodo ...
isolation, distance education, communities of practice
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Fostering student engagement is one of the great challenges of teaching, especially in online learning environments. An educators’ assumptions and beliefs about what student engagement is and how it manifests will shape the strategies they design to engage students in learning. However, there is no agreement on the definition of concept of student engagement and it re-mains a vague co ...
online learning, student engagement, teaching IT, higher education, human-ism, affective domain, student-teacher connection, classroom inquiry, reflexive teaching practice
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 20-hour blended learning visual literacy course applied to in-service teachers. For this purpose, we designed the course to train the educators and the instrument to measure the level of visual literacy of participants before and after the intervention. Then, we found the differences.
Background
Visual literacy is essential ...
visual literacy, teacher training, blended learning, in-service teachers
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose : The goal of this study was to examine which of the types of teacher-student interactions found in previous studies by Kang (2009) and Kang and Im (2013) during distance learning in routine situations, were also found in times of emergency, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether these interactions differed between students with regard to the extent and nature of each t ...
emergency remote teaching (ERT), teacher-student interaction, self-regulated learning (SRL)
202 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to describe layering of career-like experiences over existing curriculum to improve perceived educational value.
Background: Feedback from students and regional businesses showed a clear need to in-crease student’s exposure to career-like software development projects. The initial goal was to develop an instructor-optional project that could be used in a single ...
Agile, Scrum, software development, programming, Student Ownership of Learning, active learning, iterative development, information technology, software engineering
16 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 24 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2021
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
362 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The article is designed to contradict the existing opinion that “transdisciplinarity is a marginal direction of contemporary science.”
Background: The difficulties of implementing transdisciplinarity into science and education are connected with the fact that its generally accepted definition, identification characteristics, and methodological features are still missing. In order to ...
transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems approach, systems transdisciplinary approach, higher education
212 downloads
Aim/Purpose. This paper, although conceived earlier than the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, addresses the problem of informing agility as part of organizational agility that has become a rather important issue for business survival.
Background. While the general issues of business informing, and business intelligence (BI) in particular, have been widely researched, the dynamics of informing, t ...
organizational agility, business intelligence agility
166 downloads
The purpose of this paper is to provide a model to help explain why ideas about reality differ. Misinformation is an important topic that in the past several years has gained prominence. The author developed a model of informing.
created realities, misinformation, disinformation, fake news, beliefs, informing
99 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Labeling a journal as “predatory” can do great damage to the journal and the individuals that have contributed to it. This paper considers whether the predatory classification has outlived its usefulness and what might replace it.
Background: With the advent of open access publishing, the term “predatory” has increasingly been used to identify academic journals, conferences, and pu ...
predatory journals, peer review, replication, complexity, scientific research
125 downloads
Aim/Purpose: There is ample evidence that team processes matter more than the characteristics of individual team members; unfortunately, very few empirical studies have examined communication process variables closely or tied them to team outcomes.
Background: The University of Miami Laboratory for Integrated Knowledge (U-LINK) is a pilot funding mechanism that was developed and implemented based ...
communication, science of team science, team processes, shared leadership, shared communication, team outcomes
298 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to uncover the perceived quality factors of computer-mediated communication in business planning in which communication among teammates is crucial for collaboration.
Background: Computer-mediated communication has made communicating with teammates easier and more affordable than ever. What motivates people to use a particular CMC technology during business planning ...
computer-mediated communication, business planning, instant messaging, information product quality, information quality
105 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article takes ‘tourism decision-making behavior’ as an entry point, and deeply analyzes the factors influencing the travel decision-making of Chinese ‘American Travel’ tourists and their degree of influence, so as to provide a reference for the development of Chinese outbound tourism.
Background: With the development of China’s economy and the improvement in people’s level, the ...
tourism decision; influencing factors; structural equation
130 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper we propose an ecosystem for translational learning that combines core learning principles with a multilevel construct that embraces the tenets of translational research, namely, teaming, translating, and implementing. The goal of the paper is to argue that knowledge of learning sciences is essential at the individual, team, and organizational levels in the translational ...
ecosystem, pedagogy, team science, implementation, translation, learning sci-ence
65 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 20, 2021
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice, table of contents
143 downloads
Table of Contents for JITE: Research, Volume 20, 2021
JITE, IT education, education research, table of contents
310 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Business analytics is a cross-functional field that is important to implement for a college and has emerged as a critically important core component of the business curriculum. It is a difficult task due to scheduling concerns and limits to faculty and student resources. This paper describes the process of creating a central video repository to serve as a platform for just in time tea ...
information systems, data analytics, expanding analytical instruction needs, videos, curriculum implementation, scaffolding, reusable learning objects, just-in-time-teaching, business curriculum, zone of proximal development
319 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aimed to measure the effectiveness of using thinking maps through the Edmodo network to develop achievement and mathematical connections skills among middle school students.
Background: One of the most important and major problems in education is reduced levels of academic achievement among students generally and in mathematics specifically. This is having a negative im ...
thinking maps, Edmodo network, academic achievement, mathematical connections skills
668 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the influence of university student multitasking on their learning success, defined as students’ learning satisfaction and performance.
Background: Most research on student multitasking finds student multitasking problematic. However, this research is generally from 2010. Yet, today’s students are known to be digital natives and they have a different, more pos ...
Multitasking, undergraduate students, learning success, learning performance, learning satisfaction, quasi-experiment
348 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Due to the rapid development of digital technology, create knowledge to support the development of education for lifelong learning.
Background: There is a lack of normative and prescriptive support that can guide the development of education concerning lifelong learning.
Methodology: Design science research, interviews, grounded theory and root-cause analysis.
Contribution: Contri ...
lifelong learning, design principles, development of study programs, academy-industry collaboration
550 downloads
Aim/Purpose: During the education of future engineers and experts in the field of computer science and information communication technology, the achievement of learning outcomes related to different levels of cognitive ability and knowledge dimensions can be a challenge.
Background: Teachers need to design an appropriate set of activities for students and combine theory-based knowledge acquisiti ...
assessment, collaborative learning, course design, digital tools, process modeling
220 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop and evaluate a debiasing-based approach to assessing the learning materials in problem-based learning (PBL) environments.
Background: Research in cognitive debiasing suggests nine debiasing strategies improve decision-making. Given the large number of decisions made in semester-long, problem-based learning projects, multiple tools and techniq ...
cognitive biases, problem-based learning, e-commerce, debiasing, PDSA, continuous improvement
152 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study serves a constructive purpose on the effective use of social media as a technical tool in formal learning at higher education. It outlines practical suggestions for institutions to leverage the participatory design method and refine social media pedagogies.
Background: Social media gains widespread usage from the majority of university students worldwide. Educators examine ...
social media, higher education, pedagogy design, participatory-design approach
312 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to understand the various ways information systems (IS) students experience introductory programming to inform IS educators on effective pedagogical approaches to teaching programming.
Background: Many students who choose to major in information systems (IS), enter university with little or no experience of learning programming. Few studies have dealt with students’ ...
information systems, introductory programming, outcome space, phenomenography
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Quality in higher education assumes the challenge of developing in all citizens of the 21st century the cognitive, motivational, and socio-cultural dimensions that provide them with communication competences including the use of information and communication technologies, for the dissemination of sustainable scientific knowledge in different languages. Hence this paper evaluates a did ...
metacognitive writing, argumentative writing self-efficacy, structure of the argumentative essay, L1, L2, web-based writing instruction
368 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to reveal the effect of the previous Internet-based education (IBE) experiences of the students’ readiness, attitude, and self-control / self-management variables towards the e-learning process, and also to determine their opinions.
Background: The institutions have made efforts to ensure the continuity of education through their learning management systems and the n ...
e-learning experience, readiness, attitude, self-control / self-management, mixed-method
487 downloads
Determining the Factors that Affect the Use of Virtual Classrooms: A Modification of the UTAUT Model
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the factors that may influence the use of virtual classrooms.
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected and interrupted several aspects of our lives, including education. Most educational institutes and universities have changed their teaching mode from being face-to-face or fixable learning to ‘emergency remote education’. As a ...
unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, UTAUT, structural equation modelling, virtual classrooms, emergency remote education, online learning, distance education
556 downloads
Aim/Purpose: One of the main objectives of higher education institutions is to provide a high-quality education to their students and reduce dropout rates. This can be achieved by predicting students’ academic achievement early using Educational Data Mining (EDM). This study aims to predict students’ final grades and identify honorary students at an early stage.
Background: EDM research has emerg ...
Educational Data Mining (EDM), prediction of academic achievement, higher education
482 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article presents a comprehensive rubric for evaluating educational virtual reality experiences for mobile devices. The aim of this article is to systematically analyze research to address the quality of virtual reality experiences on mobile applications in order to extend the work of Lee and Cherner (2015) and their instructional application rubric.
Background: Ratings in propri ...
virtual reality, VR, eduVR, educational apps, mobile learning, mobile apps, rubric
334 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore whether instructors and educators should segment portions of instructional video that can be loaded and executed independently of other portions, and how long the segment portion of instructional video should be to effectively influence students’ learning, perception, and interaction.
Background: Instructional videos are widely used in higher education for ...
instructional video, video segmenting, video length, multitasking; mixed methods
316 downloads
Active Learning in the Context of the Teaching/Learning of Computer Programming: A Systematic Review
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review that sought to identify the studies that relate the different pedagogical techniques by which active learning is developed in the context of the teaching/learning of computer programming, with the objective to characterize the approaches, the pedagogical techniques used, the application, the contributions, and difficult ...
computer programming, active learning, teaching/learning, teaching methodologies, systematic review
419 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to present a brand-new approach for student performance prediction using the Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Map (LFCM) approach.
Background: Predicting student academic performance has long been an important research topic in many academic disciplines. Different mathematical models have been employed to predict student performance. Although the available sets of common ...
e-learning, Learning Analytics (LA), Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Map (LFCM), Learning Management System (LMS), Student Engagement, Student Performance
255 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study sought to understand the views of both teachers and students on the usage of humanoid robots as teaching assistants in a specifically Arab context.
Background: Social robots have in recent times penetrated the educational space. Although prevalent in Asia and some Western regions, the uptake, perception and acceptance of educational robots in the Arab or Emirati region is ...
humanoid robots, focus groups, Emirati school, teaching, assistants, Arab culture
338 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to examine the challenges faculty members face with online teaching practices in public universities in Karachi, Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty members’ pedagogical experiences were examined by following the approach of the technology acceptance model (TAM) framework presented by Davis in 1986 and 1989.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has significan ...
higher education, online teaching, pedagogical practices, online teaching challenges, technology acceptance model (TAM)
1771 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To investigate the application of game elements to a non-gaming context (gamification), specifically on an early childhood teacher-training course.
Background: This research proposes a teaching strategy that combines gamification elements via e-quizzing tools with the main principles of a scavenger hunt (SH). The purpose of this blend is to provide learners with an exciting learnin ...
gamification, scavenger hunt, Quizizz, perception, engagement, motivation
319 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This case study examines students’ affective responses to and relationships with two-dimensional (2D) and 360° videos that were experienced with or without low-cost virtual reality (VR) headsets.
Background: The prior research on low-cost VR technology is scant. Schools and universities are not financially able to purchase tens or hundreds of expensive inbuilt VR headsets. Therefore, ...
360° video, VR technologies, higher education, affective user experience
235 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have adopted online education as an alternative to face-to-face courses. This has increased awareness of the importance of analyzing learning data left by students to improve and evaluate the learning process. This article presents a new tool, named TaBAT, created to work with different LMSs in the form of dashboards accessi ...
information visualization, learning analytics, learning analytical dashboard, self-regulated learning, higher education, e-learning, learners’ success
255 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purposes of this research are to analyze online learning management activities conducted by the principals of junior high schools in Indonesia in facing COVID-19 as well as to discuss their perspective and expectations towards online learning activities when facing COVID-19 and after COVID-19 has passed.
Background: Due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian ...
online learning, management, COVID-19 pandemic, principals
439 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper focuses on understanding undergraduate computing student-learning behaviour through reviewing their online activity in a university online learning management system (LMS), along with their grade outcome, across three subjects. A specific focus is on the activity of students who failed the computing subjects.
Background: Between 2008 and 2020 there has been a multiplicativ ...
learning analytics, higher education, retention, computing, information tech-nology, learning management system
210 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current literature discusses the use and benefits of learner-generated videos (LGVs). However, it rarely addresses any correlation between the types of subjects that are best suited for using these videos or what techniques should accompany the use of LGVs.
Background: This systematic review synthesizes current literature to identify patterns and implications that develop from th ...
activity theory, learner-generated content, learner-generated video, social constructivism
203 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed at exploring students’ online-learning exposures involving their readiness and motivation to learn English using synchronous video conferences, as well as investigating the possible relationship between the readiness and motivation. To fulfill these objectives, three research questions were formed: (1) What is students’ readiness to learn English using synchronous vid ...
students’ readiness, motivation, online learning, synchronous video conferences, Community of Inquiry framework, Indonesia
420 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to address the research questions on: (1) what factors can significantly influence student learning in remote classes during the COVID-19 pandemic? and (2) what are the gender differences, if any, in this context? To do this, the authors developed a research model from the switching costs (defined as the time and effort students have been put to change from on ...
COVID-19, remote learning, switching costs, information quality, system quality, support service quality
145 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine which of the types of teacher-student interactions found in previous studies by Kang (2009) and Kang and Im (2013) during distance learning in routine situations, were also found in times of emergency, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether these interactions differed between students with regard to the extent and nature of each ty ...
emergency remote teaching (ERT), teacher-student interaction, self-regulated learning (SRL)
402 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated the integration of Google Docs in facilitating undergraduate students’ interactional collaboration in an online translation course. The study also explored the engagement patterns that emerge when students use Google Docs and evaluated their experience of using this platform in collaborative translation.
Background: Integration of technology in specialized Eng ...
Google Docs, collaborative translation, engagement, specialized translation
211 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study collects empirical evidence to investigate the extent to which high school teachers adopted the tablet computer in their instruction within the context of the Tablet Project in Kuwait and explores what drove their adoption behavior.
Background: The role of information technology in education is prominent and takes different forms depending on the purpose of information tec ...
information technology (IT), education, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), teaching efficacy (TE), perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived use-fulness (PU), Kuwait
123 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 19, 2022
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology
78 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research study explores the challenges, successes, and supports de-sired in implementing virtual learning following a survey of faculty for their experiences and interests. Faculty in higher education need quick, practical tools and strategies to enhance teaching and learning in a virtual classroom.
Background The sudden and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic had created an urgency to tr ...
virtual teaching and learning, flexibility, mindsets
98 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The authors provide different technology applications useful in online instruction in addition to providing effective strategies for use in a virtual environment.
Background: Last year, educators were forced to move their instruction online almost overnight. Many were not prepared to teach effectively in a virtual environment.
Contribution: This paper serves as a resource to ed ...
online instruction, technology applications, strategies
72 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Board of Directors seek to use their big data as a competitive advantage. Still, scholars note the complexities of corporate governance in practice related to information security risk management (ISRM) effectiveness.
Background: While the interest in ISRM and its relationship to organizational success has grown, the scholarly literature is unclear about the effects of Chief Techno ...
big data, CTO leadership styles, information security risk management effectiveness, and digital transformation
89 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks the disease activity using data collected from medical practice's on a weekly basis. Collection of data by CDC from medical practices on a weekly basis leads to a lag time of approximately 2 weeks before any viable action can be planned. The 2-week delay problem was addressed in the study by creating mac ...
CDC, correlation, flu trends, machine learning, regression analysis
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To build the skills of innovation, we must first establish a framework for the belief system that surrounds effective innovation practice. In building any belief system, sometimes outdated beliefs need to be replaced with better, more carefully researched ideas. One such belief, discovered in our research and elsewhere, is that creativity is innate and that great ideas arise through ...
creativity, ideation, innovation, mindset, professional development, problem solving, training
67 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the role of service-learning in Information Systems (IS) education.
Background: While the use of modern technologies presents many operational benefits, such as the lowering of the costs, it may also aggravate social-economic is-sues. IS professionals should account for these issues as well as exhibit the skills demanded by modern-day employers. ...
information systems, service-learning, education, reflection, critical thinking, social awareness, teamwork, community
82 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic demanded an immediate and massive adaptation of higher education to distance learning. Teachers had to transform from face-to-face to distance teaching, with insufficient pedagogical and technological knowledge and resources. This study aims to capture higher education faculty experiences in the very early stages of the crisis-prompted transition into synchronous ...
Distance learning, Online learning, COVID-19, e-learning, Faculty, Higher education
99 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined learning during the COVID-19 crisis, as perceived by preservice teachers at the time of their academic studies and their student teaching experience.
Background: The COVID-19 crisis is unexpected. On one hand, it disrupted learning in all learning frameworks, on the other, it may create a change in learning characteristics even after the end of the crisis. This ...
distance learning, digital environment, social emotional learning – SEL, digital literacy, e-readiness, m-learning, teacher presence, social presence, Zoom fatigue, COVID-19
219 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This brief paper will provide preliminary insight into an institutions effort to help students understand the application of the scientific method as it applies to the business discipline through the creation of a dedicated, required course added to the curriculum of a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution. In or-der to determine whether the under-consideration course satisfies de ...
first generation college students, transdisciplinary education, scientific method in the business discipline, scientific reasoning in management education, scientific literacy, management education, business education, rubric, student learning outcomes, assessment of student learning, HBCU
49 downloads
Online Teaching With M-Learning Tools in the Midst of Covid-19: A Reflection Through Action Research
Aim/Purpose: In the midst of COVID-19, classes are transitioned online. Instructors and students scramble for ways to adapt to this change. This paper shares an experience of one instructor in how he has gone through the adaptation.
Background: This section provides a contextual background of online teaching. The instructor made use of M-learning to support his online teaching and adopted th ...
COVID-19 transition, online teaching, UTAUT, web app, participant-observer, action research
59 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 16, 2021, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
136 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 16, 2021, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
626 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper compares doctoral student and supervisor expectations of their respective roles and responsibilities in doctoral research supervision relationships in Malaysia. It identifies the areas, and the extent to which expectations align or differ.
Background: Incongruence of expectations between doctoral students and their supervisor has been cited as a major contributor to slow c ...
doctoral, supervision, expectations, model, Malaysia
764 downloads
Aim/Purpose: 5G and IoT are two path-breaking technologies, and they are like wall and climbers, where IoT as a climber is growing tremendously, taking the support of 5G as a wall. The main challenge that emerges here is to secure the ecosystem created by the collaboration of 5G and IoT, which consists of a network, users, endpoints, devices, and data. Other than underlying and hereditary security ...
IoT, 5G, network slicing, 5G security, IoT security, IoT ecosystem, intrusion detection system
373 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to detail the experiential learning processes of an 11-week doctoral-level intermediate mixed methods research (MMR) course in which student-researchers conceptualized and implemented an MMR study to apply theoretical and methodological learning in a practical manner. Our aim is to emphasize the value of an applied MMR course for improved student learning ...
mixed methods research, applied research, experiential learning, career satisfac-tion, doctoral education
730 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The first goal is to develop a decision support system for pricing and production amounts for a firm facing high levels of product returns. The second goal is to improve the management of the product returns process.
Background: This study was conducted at a food importer and manufacturer in Israel facing a very high rate of product returns, much of which is eventually discarded. The ...
supply chain, pricing model, Israel, food industry, product returns, decision support system, ergonomics
203 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article reports on quantitative analysis of students’ perceptions on dimensions of augmented face-to-face support. It is built upon the findings from a larger research project that was undertaken to evaluate postgraduate support offered to Ethiopian doctoral students.
Background: Student support is critical for the delivery of any quality Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system ...
postgraduate supervision, face-to-face tutorials, open and distance learning
605 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The need to explore leaders’ role as a mediating factor between knowledge sharing and firms’ competitiveness was the focus of this paper. Further, gaps related to knowledge sharing influence on firms’ competitiveness from an emerging economy perspective was a major driver of this study.
Background: The relevance of knowledge sharing is today crucial for firms that seek to harness int ...
leaders’ behaviour, knowledge sharing, competitiveness, Nigeria manufacturing firms
228 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Adapting to the doctoral environment can be a difficult transition. This article emphasizes the importance of academic socialization as a means of integrating into the doctoral culture and persisting during the initial transition to doctoral study.
Background: To address the problem of doctoral attrition, I share a personal narrative of problems and persistence during the first year ...
doctoral adaptation, doctoral socialization, transitions, persistence, attrition, autoethnography
654 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this work, the authors propose an augmented model for human-centered Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) product design and evaluation, which is supported by previous theoretical work.
Background: Although the goal of implementing UC&C in an organization is to promote and mediate group dynamics, increasing overall productivity and collaboration; it does not seem to provi ...
human-computer interaction, organizational communication and collaboration, human-centred design, interpersonal communication, empirical study
96 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer a systematic review of empirical literature examining doctoral students’ identity development as scholars in the education sciences. We frame our analysis through a constructivist sociocultural perspective to organize our findings and discuss implications for multiple actors and components that constitute the system of doctoral education, with doc ...
identity development, identity as scholar, doctoral students, education sciences, cultural-historical activity theory, systematic review
927 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper’s objective is to examine the challenges of using the mobile phone to mine location data for effective contact tracing of symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, and asymptomatic individuals and the implications of this technology for public health governance.
Background: The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across South Africa, requiring thousand ...
COVID-19, contact tracing, public governance, South Africa
121 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop a research model derived from relevant literature to guide empirical efforts.
Background: Companies struggle to innovate, which is essential for improving their performance, surviving in competition, and growing. A number of studies have discussed company innovation capability, stating that innovation capability is influenced by several variables s ...
knowledge management, cooperation, innovation capability
302 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Vision 2030 (Saudi Arabia’s national development plan) expects women (50% of all university students) to contribute to a viable economy and ambitious nation, meaning data about their quality of academic life (QAL) during their university experience are timely and significant. They are key players in the nation’s future.
Background: This inaugural, exploratory study addresses this und ...
Saudi Arabia, quality of academic life, quality of college life, female graduate students
588 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aimed to examine the impact of learning orientation on organizational performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) via the mediating role of total quality management (TQM) practices and the moderating role of innovation culture.
Background: SMEs’ organizational performance in developing countries, particularly in Kuwait, remains below expectation due to increasing co ...
small and medium enterprises, learning orientation, total quality management practices, innovation culture, organizational performance, resource-based view, Kuwait
206 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This particular study aims to contribute to the recent scholarly inquiry of doctoral student identity work within collegiate, attendee-driven writing networks. The study closely explores the implementation and impact of supportive measures in academia for novice researchers in the form of writing events. This paper draws on two case studies of doctoral students reflecting on the impac ...
academic writing, collegiate writing groups, social network, research training, professional identity
608 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This qualitative study investigated the educational experiences of Black male doctoral students that contributed to prolonged “All But Dissertation” (ABD) status.
Background: Explorations of the enrollment and persistent patterns among Black/African American students has shed light on the disparate rates of graduate school completion. While previous scholarship has focused on Black ...
All But Dissertation, doctoral candidates, African American Male
625 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the variables which affect the intention to use Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled smart wearables (e.g., smartwatches, rings, wristbands) payments.
Background: Despite the enormous potential of wearable payments, studies investigating the adoption of this technology are scarce.
Methodology: This study extends the Technology Acceptance Model ...
gender, mobile payment, near field communication, smart wearables, wearable payment, Kuwait
205 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study aimed at (1) identifying the naturally occurring patterns of motivation among doctoral students and (2) assessing their impact on the doctoral completion process.
Background: Grounded in the self-determination theory, the paper investigated needs satisfaction and the doctoral completion process.
Methodology: Two complementary methods were used. First, k-mean cluste ...
PhD student, motivation, retention, quantitative research, person-centered approach, supervisor
796 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study set out to understand the challenges doctoral students experience at different systemic levels of doctoral education through the perspective of ethical principles.
Background: Doctoral students experience various challenges on their journey to the degree, and as high dropout rates indicate, these challenges become critical for many students. Several individual and structura ...
doctoral students’ experiences, ethical principles, ethical challenges, doctoral education, systemic perspective
733 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to propose and empirically validate a model and investigates the factors influencing acceptance and use of Software as a Services cloud computing services (SaaS) from individuals’ perspectives utilizing an integrative model of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with modifications to suit the objective of the study.
Background: Even ...
common method bias, PLS-SEM, SaaS cloud computing, subjective norms, technology acceptance, TPB and TAM integrated model
302 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Multiple barriers exist within doctoral education in the United States that can undermine the success of students, particularly for students with marginalized identities. While mentorship can provide an important form of support, it must be done in an intentional way that is mindful of issues of equity and power.
Background: By applying a power-conscious framework to current practice ...
mentorship, doctoral students, power conscious, doctoral education, United States
687 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Doctoral students who are parents are increasingly more common, particularly in female-dominated disciplines, such as education. This study aims to examine the experiences of parents pursuing an education doctorate
Background: This study examines the experiences of doctoral students who are parents and their perceptions of support in order to determine how programs and faculty can be ...
doctoral studies, Ed. D, parents, motherhood, academia
658 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research investigates the influence of soft skills on graduates’ employability in the technology industry, using the technology industry sector in Malaysia as a case.
Background: Organizations are looking for appropriate mechanisms to hire qualified employees with strong soft skills and hard skills. This requires that job candidates possess a set of qualifications and skills whi ...
soft skills, human development, unemployment, industry, employability, human resource
695 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper reflects on participation in an International Doctoral Research Seminar, held in Beijing, China, to consider what it means to locate difference and make meaning in a globalized world in relation to teaching and learning.
Background: The impetus for our inquiry stems from our shared experience at the seminar, which brought together 12 graduate students and six faculty membe ...
meaning-making, difference, globalization, praxis, stories, ethics
516 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study attempts to analyse the influences of knowledge management capacity on company performance and supply chain practices. It also examines whether supply chain practices significantly and positively impact company performance.
Background: Knowledge management capacity is an essential tactical resource that enables the integration and coordination among supply chain stakeholder ...
knowledge management capacity, company performance, supply chain practices, China, halal food industry
126 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To date, few studies have investigated the impact of global health crises on the academic writing of doctoral candidates. This paper seeks to start a conversation about the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral candidates’ academic writing output and strategies.
Background: This paper employs and analyses data elicited from surveys and interviews involving doctoral cand ...
COVID-19, academic writing, writing output, writing strategies
656 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to propose a new information security controls framework for blockchain technology, which is currently absent from the National and International Information Security Standards.
Background: Blockchain technology is a secure and relatively new technology of distributed digital ledgers, which is based on inter-linked blocks of transactions, providing great bene ...
blockchain technology, standards, security controls, information security, security governance
182 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study was conducted to examine the rate of delay, explanatory causes, and coping strategies of PhD candidates at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia’s premier university, over the last ten years.
Background: Delayed graduation is a common theme in doctoral education around the world. It continues to draw the concern of governments, universities, and the candidates themselves, calli ...
PhD studies, doctoral education, PhD study delay, delayed graduation, Addis Ababa university
679 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The primary purpose of this study is to provide a cost-effective and artificial intelligence enabled security solution for IoT enabled healthcare ecosystem. It helps to implement, improve, and add new attributes to healthcare services. The paper aims to develop a method based on an artificial neural network technique to predict suspicious devices based on bandwidth usage.
Background: ...
IoT, Network Slicing, Software Defined Network (SDN), IoT Ecosystem, IoT Security, Healthcare, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
292 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present clear definitions of the population structures essential to research, to provide examples of how these structures are described within research, and to propose a basic structure that novice researchers may use to ensure a clearly and completely defined population of interest and sample from which they will collect data.
Background: Novice re ...
population of interest, target population, sampling frame, sample, unit of analysis, unit of observation
2957 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper analyses the textual features of contract cheating websites that offer thesis writing services for doctoral students and considers implications for practice.
Background: Contract cheating is an increasing challenge for higher education institutions, governments and societies worldwide. However, relatively little is known about the prevalence of online thesis writing servic ...
contract cheating, academic integrity, doctoral students
558 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence the continuance intention of use of innovative systems by non-academic employees of a private university and associated academic institutions in Bangladesh.
Background: The targeted academic institutions have introduced many new online services aimed at improving students’ access to information and services, inclu ...
continuance intention, technostress, business intelligence, Bangladesh
163 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to contribute to knowledge about the ways in which incorporating a Community of Practice into doctoral seminar teaching and course management could be a practical and sustainable path to professional development for doctoral faculty aspiring to become stewards of the practice of teaching.
Background: This report documents a reflective self-study conducte ...
community of practice, stewards of practice, team teaching, doctoral seminar, reflective self-study, systematic reflection
582 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This narrative inquiry study uses a strength-based approach to study the cross-cultural socialization journey of Chinese international doctoral students at a U.S. Land Grant university. Historically, we thought of socialization as an institutional or group-defined process, but “journey” taps into a rich narrative tradition about individuals, how they relate to others, and the identiti ...
Chinese international doctoral students, socialization, cultural capital, strength-based perspective, narrative inquiry
959 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims at investigating the factors that influence students’ continuous intention to use Moodle, as an exemplar of learning management systems (LMSs), in the post-adoption phase.
Background: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have invested heavily in learning management systems (LMSs), such as Moodle and BlackBoard, as these systems enhance students’ learning and improve t ...
continuance use, expectation confirmation model (ECM), Kuwait, learning management systems (LMS), Moodle
151 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Although the high rates of stress and psychological distress in graduate students has been well-documented, Canadian samples are underrepresented in the extant literature. The present study explores prevalence rates of burnout and psychological distress in a sample of psychology master’s and doctoral students at a university in a large urban Canadian city, as well as factors relating ...
graduate students, mental health, burnout, job demands-resources model, well-being
691 downloads
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After its investigation, the Research Ethics, Integrity, and Governance team at RMIT University found that the primary author of this paper breached the Australian Code and/or RMIT Policy and requested that the article be retracted.
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knowledge management, firm innovativeness, innovative culture, MNEs, Malaysia
99 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of our study was to gain a better understanding of the socialization factors that contribute to the aspirations of doctoral students of Color to pursue teaching careers.
Background: Internationally, there has been a renewed call to diversify the professoriate. While the literature often examines early pathway issues and hiring bias, one efficient solution is to continu ...
graduate education, doctoral socialization, race, sense of belonging, teaching
505 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the impact of innovation management and learning orientation as the mechanisms playing the role of an intermediate relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and organisational performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kuwait.
Background: SMEs are currently among the principal economic instruments in most industrialised and developing ...
small and medium enterprises, entrepreneurial leadership, innovation management, learning orientation, organisational performance, Resource-Based View, Kuwait
365 downloads
A Four Stage Framework for the Development of a Research Problem Statement in Doctoral Dissertations
Aim/Purpose: Provide methodology suggesting steps to doctoral mentors to work with students in constructing their research problem statement in their dissertation.
Background: Writing a doctoral dissertation is a long journey, and it typically starts with writing the research problem statement. Students face challenges in articulating the research problem statement. Clearly articulating the resea ...
research problem statement, research dissertation, problem statement
1766 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined an educational leadership doctoral preparation program to better understand how students’ self-efficacy evolves from the lens of a scholarly practitioner researcher as they progress through specified checkpoints to degree completion. The aim was to identify what factors contributed to building scholarly practitioner researcher skills and what factors hindered the d ...
self-efficacy, educational leadership, leadership preparation, problem of prac-tice, scholarly practitioner researchers
534 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper reports a case study of organizational transition from a non-competitive selection method to a novel bidding method for the selection of consultants in the Architectural and Engineering (A/E) industry.
Background: Public procurement agencies are increasingly relying on external consultants for the design of construction projects. Consultant selection can be based on either ...
A/E services, consultant selection, public procurement, design management, team building
41 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism of the front/back-office structure affecting new service development (NSD) performance and examine the role of knowledge transfer in the relationship between front/back-office structure and NSD.
Background: The separation of front and back-office has become the prevailing trend of the organizational transformation of modern s ...
new service development, NSD, front and back-office, social capital, knowledge transfer
75 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article explores the content of PhD student tweets. It has three main aims: (a) to examine what is discussed regarding the PhD process, (b) to evaluate whether tweets express primarily positive or negative sentiments, and (c) to uncover the key themes discussed in both positive and negative tweets.
Background: Recent surveys of PhD students have raised concerns about their well ...
PhD, Twitter, sentiment analysis, mental health, #phdlife, #phdchat
611 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to document the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for doctoral students who were proposing, conducting, or writing up their doctoral thesis, dissertation, or other culminating project.
Background: For doctoral students, the process of designing, implementing, and writing a culminating project is a key part of the learning experience. These projects typica ...
doctoral education, COVID-19 pandemic, doctoral writing
1040 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Grounded Theory (GT) has grown and developed into several strands making its application all the more problematic, argumentative and remaining potentially as a research methodology to avoid when it comes to doctoral research, early-career research. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to revisit GT as a general approach and present an evolved and more considered step-by-step guide to co ...
grounded theory, doctoral students, early career researchers, methodology
649 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This descriptive study examines indicators of well-being and sources of emotional connection for social work doctoral students at American institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, including symptoms of depression, anxiety, work-related burnout, emotional connection to others, and changes in child care among parent respondents. This study also explores if particular groups of doctora ...
doctoral students, COVID-19, well-being, emotional connection, burnout
519 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study focused on advancing understanding of individual variations in doctoral students’ interest in their doctoral studies and how they related to experiences of burnout and drop-out intentions in Denmark and Finland.
Background: Ph.D. students’ experiences of interest, burnout, and dropout intentions among Finnish and Danish Ph.D. students have not been researched before. Resea ...
doctoral education, Ph.D. students, interest profiles, burnout, drop-out intentions, cross-cultural comparison
541 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The overarching purpose of this paper was to examine how a collaborative working group of doctoral students from different institutions evolved into a community of practice and developmental network. Specifically, the aim of this study was to examine this group’s progression from working group to support group, a process that occurred through academic support, social support, professi ...
doctoral students, collaborative autoethnography, social support, communities of practice, developmental networks, higher education
478 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper identifies and examines cross-cutting experiences from the perspective of two doctoral students, whose research was affected by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be challenging for higher education scholars in terms of proceeding with their research and how the pandemic sets the scene for changes in higher education’s futur ...
doctoral studies, higher education, COVID-19, collaborative autoethnography, reflection
488 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study seeks to establish the potential role that policy and disciplinary contexts of doctoral education play in supervisors’ subjective understandings of PhD supervision. It also intends to show how research into the different ways in which supervision may be understood can help supervisors become more effective in their practice and additionally help institutions design more effe ...
doctoral supervision, intentions, qualitatively different ways of understanding supervision, personal conceptions of supervision
538 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the association between publishing during doctoral candidature and completion time. The effects of discipline and of gaining additional support through a doctoral cohort program are also explored.
Background: Candidates recognize the value of building a publication track record to improve their career prospects yet are cognizant of the time it takes to publish ...
cohort program, completion, doctorate, research productivity, time-to-degree
515 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this article is to make a case of the role of validation in doctoral education. The purpose is to detail findings from three studies which explore PhD students’ experiences and perceptions of belonging in one UK university-ty, in order to hypothesise how validation and self-validation could make a difference in doctoral education, and what practices might support this.
Bac ...
validation, self-validation, doctoral identity work, belonging, PhD students, graduate teaching assistants
598 downloads
Aim/Purpose: There is a significant amount of research on supervision, assessment, and socio-economic benefits in South Africa. However, there have been relatively few attempts to analyse the research proposal phase, which remains a critical part of doctoral education in South African.
Background: As part of the broader transformation agenda in South Africa, universities are under pressure to pro ...
doctoral education, research proposal phase, doctoral students, supervisors, quality
521 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore reasons that engineering education researchers experience impostor phenomenon.
Background: Experiencing impostor phenomenon includes a psychological discomfort experienced by some high-achieving individuals who, by the very virtue of being successful, mistakenly believe that they are fraudulent and faking their success. Impostor phenomenon ha ...
engineering education, engineering education research, STEM education, higher education, impostor phenomenon, impostor syndrome
552 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To utilize Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984, 1986) concepts of capitals, habitus, and field to explore and critically analyze doctoral students’ learning experiences with a new doctoral curriculum introduced by a Ghanaian university.
Background: Global competition and labor market reforms have ignited the need for higher education institutions to reimagine their doctoral programs, develop and ...
Bourdieu’s concepts, doctoral studies, doctoral curriculum, Ghanaian university, doctoral students’ learning experiences
436 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The directors of Tech Latinas were happy with what they had created and the impact their company had made in Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala. Now that they had seen their vision come to fruition in ways that were astounding to them. They wanted to take the next steps in growing their business so Tech Latinas mission could spread beyond its current bounds. Before working out the logistics, ...
IT, Women, Latin America
86 downloads
Dr. Valeria Garcia, AVP for the Office of Decision Support (ODS), at the University of South Florida (USF), a member of the Academic Affairs leadership team and has been involved in academic and student success continuation planning. Dr. Garcia was on track with scheduled planning for the 2020-21 Academic Year as her team of analysts prepare analyses, dashboards, and other analytical materials for ...
COVID-19, Data Governance, Academia, Data Analysis and Reporting, Student Success
22 downloads
The national university of Belize was forced to close its door on March 20, 2020, due to the deadly pandemic, COVID-19. Its president, Professor Clement Sankat was faced with the challenging decision of how to meet the goals of the university via an electronic means. He worked several years as an administrator at the University of the West Indies and at the time of the pandemic three years at th ...
COVID-19, Belize, Higher Education, University
73 downloads
Hotel A served the boutique hotel segment. Rather than focusing on market segments in Singapore’s hotel chain scale system, the management decided to offer guests an affordable luxury experience via excellent personalized service while capitalizing on the rich and authentic cultural heritage that the hotel offered in terms of history and design. Although Hotel A had won the Best Hotel Service awar ...
Authentic hospitality, boutique hotel, affordable luxury, service quality, brand equity, covid
61 downloads
In early January of 2020, the world became aware of a new coronavirus, now named COVID-19, rapidly spreading throughout Wuhan China. As the events of this deadly virus in China played out on the evening news, conversations started about the impending Chinese New Year. As a tradition, China shuts down all nonessential work for several weeks to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which gives families in ...
COVID-19, Pandemic, Fire Rescue, Global Event
12 downloads
Brad McIntire, President of Conserv Building Services, sat in his office, wondering if it was time to retire. Once again, Technology, his nemesis, had derailed his organization and brought it to a standstill. Brad was thinking, "I think these I.T. guys are literally going to be the death of me."
The issue faced by Brad and Conserv Building Services started with a bug in the mobile device manageme ...
MDM, IT,Disaster Recovery, Industry, Technology,Testing,Business Continuity, Construction
27 downloads
“As a Smart City district evolves, and its success as a business location of choice grows, we need to ensure that mobility challenges are addressed for all communities. Smart technologies are a major factor.” – Ronan Herron
Ronan Herron had recently been appointed the Smart Dublin Coordinator with responsibility for Smart Sandyford and was travelling to its launch on the modern Luas light rail sy ...
Smart Dublin, Management, Smart Cities, Mobility, Smart Sandyford, District, Ireland
37 downloads
In today's competitive market, companies must rely on technology to scale the business and operate efficiently
Ticketing System, GCI, Global Convergence, Alert, CTS
96 downloads
MAVNS, a successful construction company, has been staying ahead of the innovation curve as it relates to construction technology and site development over the past few decades. However, stagnation in the evolution of its employee time keeping processes has created a snowball effect of other issues that are ultimately costing profitability and significant competitive advantage. Determining a way o ...
process improvement, technology, efficiency, software integration, profitability
30 downloads
COVID-19 changed so much for higher education. Traditional classrooms were vacant. They remained vacant for months. St. Petersburg College was just one of many institutions that grappled with swift and critical decisions to go online and what the environment would be for coming back. With nearly 47,000 students and 2,800 faculty and staff to consider, it was no small feat to accomplish. Budget con ...
COVID-19, employment, college, resource dependency, higher education, budget
62 downloads
Richard Ang, a Singaporean general manager at Hotel J, aimed to be a strong leader during COVID-19 disruption. Richard sat in his office deep in thought as earlier in the day, he had attended a board meeting with his management team to discuss strategies, he wanted to ensure safety of in-house guests and employees whilst effectively managing cost to sustain the hotel business during the crisis. Le ...
COVID-19, Hotel Business, Luxury Hotel, Stay-Home Notice, Staycation, Singapore
185 downloads
Can a mission, driven by passion, become the healthy option for starting a dynamic business?
Jeremy Hall was a successful businessperson who owns real estate, insurance, and holistic coaching companies. He relocated from Boston to Tampa Bay in 2010. Life was busy, fast-paced, and Jeremy was not feeling well for several years. Unfortunately, in 2013, at the age of 45, Jeremy’s entire life came t ...
Green Life, USF EMBA 202, Restaurant, Vegan
18 downloads
Due to COVID-19 pandemic a college with eight different campus locations moved its face to face courses online. The college decided to list all courses under one main campus since the regional locations did not matter now. There was a course materials issue since the professors from each of the campuses use their own materials. Now that courses are provided collegewide (as one campus), the student ...
COVID-19, Course Materials, Online Teaching, Academic Freedom, Communication
22 downloads
Patty O’Leary is the Executive Director of the Children’s Cancer Center (CCC). The CCC was founded on the philosophy that when a child is diagnosed with cancer, the entire family is really diagnosed. Patty and team dedicate their service to these families through 24 support programs focused on their emotional, financial, and educational needs.
Much of the success of the organization has been dr ...
COVID 19, Non-Profit, Cancer, Charity, Fundraising
52 downloads
As the year 2020 rolled in, COVID-19 headlined all the news forums. COVID-19 (Coronavirus) was a virus that crippled the world by either infecting or killing millions of people, and the United States (US) did not go unscathed. With an alarmingly high rate of infection, the US government was asking non-essential companies to temporarily close their doors and cease services. Americans were told by n ...
COVID-19, Coronavirus, SOC Reports, Wage Reduction, Business Operations, Business Decision, Human Capital
19 downloads
Meals on Wheels of Tampa (MOWT), a 501(C)3 tax-exempt organization founded in 1975, delivers hot meals to people in need in the community, mostly the elderly and the homebound that live alone. The meals are prepared, packaged and delivered by the organization on a daily basis, approximately 870 meals per day. Beneficiaries of the program truly depend on it, not only because of their inability to p ...
Covid-19, Elderly, Logistics, Volunteers, Service, Charitable, Non-profit, Food insecurity
29 downloads
Josie Rocco hung up the phone and wiped away the tears streaming down her face as she contemplated what her next move would be. This was the third call she'd received that day where all she could say was, “I am so sorry to hear that.” Words that felt empty with no real solutions or answers attached to them. Josie was the Chief Operations Officer for the University Area Community Development Corpor ...
COVID 19, workforce, employment, nonprofit, social services, social justice, inequity, communities of color
32 downloads
Jamie Cudden, the Smart City Programme Manager for Dublin City Council (DCC), had just participated in the most recent review of the sensor-enabled smart gully project in Dublin city. Tasked with exploring how technology can help address city challenges to create a ‘smarter’ Dublin, Jamie wondered why more smart sensor applications were not being identified and deployed by DCC departments. He knew ...
internet of things, academy of the near future, Dublin City Council, Local Authorities,
25 downloads
With the sun losing its glare and now appearing as a beautiful orange orb just above the distant horizon where the sky meets the sea, Barry O’Connor thought to himself, “This is as close to paradise as you can get.” Yet, the vast empty sea of white sand surrounding him told a very different story. It was July 17, 2020, and this beautiful area should have been overrun with college students and youn ...
COVID-19, coronavirus, restaurants, bars, tourism, hospitality
14 downloads
City assets have the potential to play a pivotal role in the deployment of future connectivity such as 5G. How should Dublin City respond to this or should it get involved at all?
5G, Telecoms, Smart City, Smart Cities, Dublin, Ireland, Smart Dublin, Smart Docklands, City Assets, Procurement, Testbeds
22 downloads
Smart Bins have appeared in cities all around the world to help manage public waste collection more effectively. How are local governments reacting to this piece of technology? Do they serve solely as optimised/glorified waste receptacles, or contribute more than that? Moreover, is there a case to further scale up its use across the city?
Smart Bins, Smart City, Waste, Waste Management, Sensors, Internet of Things, Telecoms, Dublin, Dublin City Council, Local Authority, Ireland
24 downloads
Georgia Lobbyist, Jet Toney, didn't know what to do. There were 11 days left in the 2020 Georgia legislative session and the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Speaker of the House had decided, due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, to suspend the session to a time indeterminate. This had never happened, not even in wartime. Jet's oldest client, the Georgia Independent Colleges Association had a bud ...
Georgia, legislature, lobbying, budget, legislation, COVID-19
15 downloads
This qualitative study provided insights into the top 17 blockchain use cases identified by Financial Services leaders in 2018 and how much progress (or lack of progress) has been made in 2020. This research provided insights for Financial Services managers and practitioners to use to develop strategies and to prioritize/deprioritize specific blockchain use cases.
Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Financial Services, Use Cases
31 downloads
The research described in this paper affirmed the strong, positive, direct relationships between Psychological Capital and Engagement and Transformational Leadership and Engagement. Additionally, it showed that Transformational Leadership could positively moderate the Psychological Capital and Employee Engagement relationship.
Psychological Capital, Employee Engagement, Transformational Leadership, Trust, Transactional Leadership, Passive-Avoidant Leadership, Positive Psychology
37 downloads
Every year, medical billing errors cost the United States government billions in public funds wrongfully or erroneously paid out. While recent reports indicate modest decline in hospital billing errors, the rate of physician evaluation and management billing errors show no signs of improvement. Opinions vary on the causes of these billing errors and consequently on the appropriate countermeasures. ...
Evaluation and management, coding accuracy, documentation, billing errors, fraud, medical billing, medical necessity, up-coding, health information technology.
38 downloads
Cybersecurity breaches have been at the forefront of most news outlets, recently. People’s Digital Identity has been at the epicenter of cybersecurity breaches. Defining the composition of digital identity is the first step at risk identification and the first step towards risk mitigation. Cybersecurity risk management tools are lacking in user-centricity. Organizations like the National Institute ...
Cybersecurity, Digital Identity, Privacy, Information Security Management, Online Interactions, Online Threats, Adapted Thematic Analysis.
29 downloads
Using the eADR research method we address a problem of practice in the U.S. staffing industry which is the need for more innovative sales lead generation solutions. Working with a leading U.S staffing firm, we designed and implemented a solution that allows the partner firm to discover new leads.
innovation, sales, machine learning, eADR
25 downloads
Achieving institutional relevance, distinctiveness, and affordability among present and future stakeholders determines sustainable viability for small, private, nonprofit higher education institutions. Actionable findings are discussed and a conceptual framework for decision-making is presented.
decision-making, organizational adaptation, organizational culture, stakeholders, strategic management
18 downloads
Despite the high cost and high frequency of failure in expatriate assignments, the potential value and opportunity gained by sending employees overseas is driving the number of business expatriates skyward. One way organizations can significantly mitigate risk is by assessing and selecting candidates for intercultural competence. Intercultural competence has affective, cognitive, and conative as ...
Intercultural Competence, Cultural Intelligence, Intercultural Adaptability, International Assignments, Business Expatriates, Meta-review, Assessment, Instrument, Selection
33 downloads
U.S. participation in stabilization efforts create conditions for locally legitimate authorities to manage conflict and prevent violence. Stability functions conducted by the U.S. government include security, foreign humanitarian assistance, economic stabilization and infrastructure, the rule of law, and governance. This research seeks to improve the understanding of the relationship between perce ...
Stabilization, Economic Development, Counterinsurgency, Economic Perceptions
7 downloads
The past 19 years of war have impacted the U.S. Army in countless ways. One is arguably on its most precious capability—its officer leaders. As the Army rose to war-related challenges, it did so at leader-development costs. Little time, focus, and a battle environment left developing others and oneself low on the list of priorities. Less officer nurturing in the past will have an amplified and har ...
Adult learning, Self-determination, Self-determination Theory, Self-development, U.S. Army, Leadership, Leadership-development, War
25 downloads
Using the best available evidence from multiple sources can lead to more effective management practice. However, management practitioners often make decisions based on limited evidence, mostly from personal experience and judgment. Values, beliefs, and practices may conflict with a manager’s ability to use research evidence in practice.
This systematic review suggests that an integration of th ...
beliefs, diffusion of innovations, evidence-based management, planned behavior, management practitioners, organizational behavior, organizational culture, practices, systematic review, values
37 downloads
This essay examines what is necessary for business school professors to encourage deeper learning in their students. Business faculty (and academia in general) are improving student involvement by using pedagogies of engagement (e.g., problem-based learning, team-based learning, POGIL) or integrating techniques that improve engagement (e.g., flipped classes, reflective writing). Adoption of thes ...
Learning, Pedagogy, Teaching, Formative assessment, Summative assessment, Deeper learning
31 downloads
A worldwide shortage of developers has made low- and no-code platforms important and necessary. This paper investigates the use of these platforms in organizations, along with the role of workforce automation tools. A survey was conducted to find out how prevalent low- and no-code platforms and workforce automation tools are within companies. These platforms are used by citizen developers, employe ...
Low-code, no-code, citizen developer, digital transformation
329 downloads
This is a Rapid Evidence Assessment focused on the identification of leadership styles and traits that enable industry partners to optimize their support on collaborative research projects. While there is considerable research on collaboration, there is a gap related to the leadership contributions that industry partners bring to team science projects. Literature searches returned 192 titles and a ...
collaboration, empowerment, hierarchical leadership, innovation, servant leadership, systems theory, systematic review
63 downloads
Microbusinesses demonstrated resilience through creative ways to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic closures. Seven critical success factors of internal and external influence are found from this research question review.
When COVID-19’s shutdown rolled out, many microbusinesses were forced to close since they were not considered essential services and activities. These microbusinesses had t ...
Microbusinesses, Critical Success Factors, Closure Prevention, Pandemic, Management Skills
48 downloads
In today’s work environment, factors that support the transfer or learning from the training room to the job are sometimes absent. Leaders hold the key to ensuring the commonly missed factors are present, securing the value of the training program and successful attainment of business goals.
Learning Application, Work Atmosphere, Climate, Trainee
15 downloads
The complexity of today’s operational environment where military organizations are conducting campaigns has grown exponentially. To address this expanding complexity, the Defense Department introduced ‘design’ into its problem-solving doctrine. This study seeks to understand the challenges with design by examining two areas: 1) the common challenges facing senior planners responsible for solving ...
Complexity, problem solving, planning, strategy, reasoning, sense-making
32 downloads
The research question explores the importance of corporate brand’s impact on sales / revenue per share
generation. This is important because it allows communications executives to understand the impact
of their work and justify budget allocations and expenditures.
Branding, Quantitative, CHAID, Branding Value, Branding Output
33 downloads
List of Presentations at the 2021 InSITE Conference
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
65 downloads
Aim/Purpose: A design science tool to improve code maintainability for PHP programs.
Background: This paper addresses this issue by providing an enhancement to an existing tool that specifically addresses and improves program maintainability for PHP programs.
Methodology: This paper uses design science research which involves creating or modifying one or more artifacts. In this case, the art ...
software quality, software development, PHP, programming, quality assurance, maintainability, metrics, design science, refactoring
52 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To build the skills of innovation, we must first establish a framework for the belief system that surrounds effective innovation practice. In building any belief system, sometimes outdated beliefs need to be replaced with better, more carefully researched ideas. One such belief, discovered in our research and elsewhere, is that creativity is innate and that great ideas arise through ...
creativity, ideation, innovation, mindset, professional development, problem solving, training
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This brief paper will provide preliminary insight into an institutions effort to help students understand the application of the scientific method as it applies to the business discipline through the creation of a dedicated, required course added to the curriculum of a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution. In or-der to determine whether the under-consideration course satisfies de ...
first generation college students, transdisciplinary education, scientific method in the business discipline, scientific reasoning in management education, scientific literacy, management education, business education, rubric, student learning outcomes, assessment of student learning, HBCU
10 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research study explores the challenges, successes, and supports de-sired in implementing virtual learning following a survey of faculty for their experiences and interests. Faculty in higher education need quick, practical tools and strategies to enhance teaching and learning in a virtual classroom.
Background: The sudden and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic had created an urgency to ...
virtual teaching and learning, flexibility, mindsets
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The authors provide different technology applications useful in online instruction in addition to providing effective strategies for use in a virtual environment.
Background: Last year, educators were forced to move their instruction online almost overnight. Many were not prepared to teach effectively in a virtual environment.
Contribution: This paper serves as a resource to ed ...
online instruction, technology applications, strategies
17 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Board of Directors seek to use their big data as a competitive advantage. Still, scholars note the complexities of corporate governance in practice related to information security risk management (ISRM) effectiveness.
Background: While the interest in ISRM and its relationship to organizational success has grown, the scholarly literature is unclear about the effects of Chief Techno ...
big data, CTO leadership styles, information security risk management effectiveness, digital transformation
47 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks the disease activity using data collected from medical practices on a weekly basis. Collection of data by CDC from medical practices on a weekly basis leads to a lag time of approximately 2 weeks before any viable action can be planned. The 2-week delay problem was addressed in the study by creating mach ...
CDC, correlation, flu trends, machine learning, regression analysis
47 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper, although conceived earlier than the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, addresses the problem of informing agility as part of organizational agility that has become a rather important issue for business survival.
Background: While the general issues of business informing, and business intelligence (BI) in particular, have been widely researched, the dynamics of informing, t ...
organizational agility, business intelligence agility
11 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In spite of the insights in paving solid grounds and avenues for meaningful studies, the predicament of the literature in lacking fruitful understanding of the critical success factors and models of Big Data remain elusive and unexplored. A systematic literature review of research topics, perspectives, and substantial findings of Big Data is needed, so an overarching framework of Big ...
grounded theory, Big Data, IS research, literature review, success theory
26 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic demanded an immediate and massive adaptation of higher education to distance learning. Teachers had to transform from face-to-face to distance teaching, with insufficient pedagogical and technological knowledge and resources. This study aims to capture higher education faculty experiences in the very early stages of the crisis-prompted transition into synchronous ...
distance learning, online learning, COVID-19, e-learning, faculty, higher education
36 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper provides the results of the preliminary analysis of the findings of an ongoing study that seeks to examine the social media use, cultural and political awareness, civic engagement, issue prioritization, and social activism of Gen Z students enrolled at four different institutional types located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The aim of this study is to loo ...
generation z, civic engagement and college students, minority learners, HBCU, information gathering of college students, learning preferences of gen z learners, issues important to gen z, social activism and college students, Black Lives Matter and college students
475 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined learning during the COVID-19 crisis, as perceived by preservice teachers at the time of their academic studies and their student teaching experience.
Background: The COVID-19 crisis is unexpected. On one hand, it disrupted learning in all learning frameworks, on the other, it may create a change in learning characteristics even after the end of the crisis. This ...
distance learning, digital environment, social emotional learning – SEL, digital literacy, e-readiness, m-learning, teacher presence, social presence, Zoom fatigue, COVID-19
36 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Provide methodology suggesting steps to doctoral mentors to work with students in constructing their research problem statement in their dissertation.
Background: Doctoral students face difficulties writing their dissertation and they begin by writing the research problem statement.
Methodology: This paper uses a framework widely used to describe student adjustment to graduate s ...
research problem statement, research dissertation, problem statement
79 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the role of service-learning in Information Systems (IS) education.
Background: While the use of modern technologies presents many operational benefits, such as the lowering of the costs, it may also aggravate social-economic is-sues. IS professionals should account for these issues as well as exhibit the skills demanded by modern-day employers. ...
information systems, service-learning, education, reflection, critical thinking, social awareness, teamwork, community
8 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the flipped learning approach in a computer principles course at Alasmarya Islamic University, Libya.
Background: The reason for this consideration was to evaluate the viability of conventional lecture-based educational programmes versus the active learning of computer concepts in flipped classrooms for college economics students at ...
flipped classroom, flipped learning, effectiveness of flipping learning, flipped model, Libyan higher education
82 downloads
The purpose of this paper is to provide a model to help explain why ideas about reality differ. Misinformation is an important topic that in the past several years has gained prominence. The author developed a model of informing.
NOTE: This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 24, 31-49. Click DOWNLOAD PDF ...
created realities, misinformation, disinformation, fake news, beliefs, informing
9 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study builds upon theory to develop and test a parsimonious model of service quality importance, the Higher Education Service Quality Importance (HESQI) Model, for use in standardized, frequent surveys of student satisfaction in higher education service delivery.
Background: Educational institutions operating in the higher education marketplace are facing increased competition ...
service quality, student satisfaction, consumer satisfaction, Structural Equation Model, SEM, PLS-SEM
37 downloads
Online Teaching With M-Learning Tools in the Midst of Covid-19: A Reflection Through Action Research
Aim/Purpose: In the midst of COVID-19, classes are transitioned online. Instructors and students scramble for ways to adapt to this change. This paper shares an experience of one instructor in how he has gone through the adaptation.
Background: This section provides a contextual background of online teaching. The instructor made use of M-learning to support his online teaching and adopted the U ...
COVID-19 transition, online teaching, UTAUT, web app, participant-observer, action research
16 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Labeling a journal as “predatory” can do great damage to the journal and the individuals that have contributed to it. This paper considers whether the predatory classification has outlived its usefulness and what might replace it.
Background: With the advent of open access publishing, the term “predatory” has increasingly been used to identify academic journals, conferences, and pu ...
predatory journals, peer review, replication, complexity, scientific research
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research paper reports on the evaluation of a mental health self-management program provided to immigrant nurses working at various rural South Australian aged care services.
Background: The residential aged care staffing crisis is severe in rural areas. To improve immigrant nurses’ employment experiences, a mental health self-management program was developed and conducted in ...
nursing, female immigrants, aged care, mental health, management, mixed method
28 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study’s objective is to demonstrate the wisdom of the crowds phenomenon in construction project tenders and relate it to cost overruns in these projects.
Background: The wisdom of the crowd’s phenomenon is an age-old idea that argues that collective opinion is better than any single (even expert) opinion. The first data-based evidence for it is from the beginning of the twenti ...
construction projects, tenders, minimum bid, winner’s curse, wisdom of the crowds
13 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined students’ attitudes to characteristics of learning in Zoom, attitudes to the quality of teaching in Zoom and ways of learning, about a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis.
Background COVID-19 crisis caused exposure to online learning on the largest scale known in human history, and that together with the challenges of the transition to online learning, ...
information and communication technology (ICT); distance learning; digital environment; Zoom; Zoom fatigue; COVID-19
76 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 23 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2020.
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
166 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To discuss the Design Science Research approach by comparing some of its canons with observed practices in projects in which it is applied, in order to understand and structure it better.
Background: Recent criticisms of the application of the Design Science Research (DSR) approach have pointed out the need to make it more approachable and less confusing to overcome deficiencies such ...
design science, evaluation process, artifact type, entry point, artifact
234 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research problem of this study refers to the manner in which old and new mass media represented the significant social development surrounding two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX airplane.
Methodology: The study follows a qualitative case study methodology based on a sample of newspaper articles, TV programming, specialized technical publications, Twitter posts, and Facebook conten ...
informing distortion, fake news, fact, truth, Boeing 737 MAX, mainstream media, social media, explanatory journalism, media relations, informing power
473 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Use of the term “rigor” is ubiquitous in the research community. But do we actually know what it means, and how it applies to transdisciplinary research?
Background: Too often, rigor is presumed to mean following an established research protocol scrupulously. Unfortunately, that frequently leads to research with little or no impact.
Methodology: We identify a sample of 62 artic ...
rigor, relevance, resonance, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, research
268 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Although a literature review is the fundamental base for any research, it is often considered tedious and conducted with a lack of methodology and rigor. The paper presents a method for systematically searching and screening literature using modern search technologies. The method focuses on minimizing the amount of manual screening by employing the references among papers.
Background ...
literature review, systematic literature review, review guide, research review, education research, information systems literature
291 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper introduces new concepts including cognitive mapping, cognitive message processing, and message resonance.
Background: This paper draws upon philosophy, psychology, physiology, communications, and introspection to develop the theory of cognitive mapping.
Methodology: Theory development
Contribution: The theory offers new ways to conceptualize the informing process.
Findin ...
cognitive mapping, cognitive message processing, informing science, message resonance, constructed reality
118 downloads
Aim/Purpose: There is a need to find a way to utilize narrative storytelling in film to make students more aware of the impacts of global problems and how they are perceived.
Background: Two films from the year 2015 from two very different places in the world explore the encroachment and secondary effects of urban civilization upon indigenous cultures.
Methodology: An interpretive, qualitative, ...
indigenous, communication, reflection, education, film, urban development
104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: As traditional Knowledge Management (KM) struggles to support the personal needs of knowledge workers in a new era of accelerating information abundance, we examine the shortcomings and put forward alternative scenarios and architectures for developing a novel Personal KM System (PKMS).
Background: While prior publications focused on the complementing features compared to conventiona ...
knowledge management, personal knowledge management, design science research, social digital curation, informing system, digital platform ecosystem, generativity, entropy
53 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim is to explore the informing flows framework as interactions within a PhD education practicing a work-integrated learning approach in order to reveal both the perspectives of industrial PhD students and of industry.
Background: An under-researched field of university-industry collaboration is explored revealing both the perspectives of industrial PhD students and of industry. ...
university-industry collaboration, industrial PhD education, work-integrated learning, third-cycle education, informing flows framework
132 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an informing system, designed using informing science principles, for the express purpose of informing researchers who study problems related to informing. This paper describes the ISI as an applied instance of an informing system and analyzes the channels, informers, and clients of the ISI.
Background: This paper begins with a brief overview ...
Informing Science Institute, open access, information systems, transdiscipline, informing systems
54 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 19, 2020
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice, table of contents
134 downloads
Table of Contents for JITE: Research, Volume 19, 2020
JITE, IT education, education research, table of contents
287 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Within higher education, graduating students who are able to solve ill-structured, complex, open-ended, and collaborative, workplace problems is recognized as paramount. Because of this, there is a need to assess this skill across the curriculum.
Background: This paper addresses this issue by assessing problem-solving across a computing curriculum using an assessment instrument sho ...
workplace problems, computing education, asynchronous discussion
479 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to understand student’s opinions and perceptions about e-assessment when the assessment process was changed from the traditional computer assisted method to a multiple-choice Moodle based method.
Background: In order to implement continuous assessment to a large number of students, several shifts are necessary, which implies as many different tests as the num ...
multiple-choice question, learning management system, Moodle quiz, e-assessment, summative assessment
483 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to propose and test a model in which perceived barriers to technology integration are handled within a broad framework. It can be argued that the proposed model will have the dynamics to examine the studies performed on technology integration in a generic way and to have an important place in explaining the technology barriers at individual and school level un ...
external barriers, internal barriers, teacher, technology integration
579 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Students tend to learn best when an array of learning styles is used by instructors. The purpose of this paper is to add, to introduce, and to apply the concepts of kinesthetic learning and learning structures to university and STEM education.
Background: The study applies the concept of kinesthetic learning and a learning structure called Think-Pair-Share to an experiential exercise ...
kinesthetic learning, learning structure, drawing, Moore’s Law, STEM
288 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationship between motivation and students’ perspectives, learning performance, and use of online course materials in flipped classrooms.
Background: The flipped classroom model is an innovative instruction method that has limited research to date exploring its impact on motivation. It remains unknown if the same motivation patterns exist in flipped c ...
motivation, learning outcome, flipped classroom, undergraduate course
566 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we present our experience in design and delivery of a graduate Information Systems Management (ISM) course in an online MBA program. Also presented are a detailed examination of the design and delivery of the online course, survey results of students’ perceptions and backgrounds, course evaluation results, best practices and lessons learned, and potential changes and fu ...
course design and delivery, information systems management course, MBA program, online education
192 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents findings on a curricular intervention aimed at integrating computer programming with reading and writing in early elementary school. The purpose of this research was to explore the relation between students’ varying literacy levels and their level of success in mastering an introductory programming language.
Methodology: This curricular intervention study was impl ...
emerging programming, pedagogy, curricula, early childhood, computer science education, literacy
358 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Multi-threaded software design is considered to be difficult, especially to novice programmers. In this study, we explored how students cope with a task that its solution requires a multi-threaded architecture to achieve optimal runtime.
Background: An efficient exploit of multicore processors architecture requires computer programs that use parallel programming techniques. However ...
multi-threading, parallel programing, novice programmers, thread-synchronization
113 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on the learners’ success toward learning management systems in higher education in Morocco and also proposes a theoretical model to better understand the determinants of learners’ satisfaction, self-regulation and continuance intention to use these systems. For this purpose, variables which may have a positive or negative influence in our model are examined.
Backgr ...
continuance usage, e-learning, learner satisfaction, self-regulation, learning man-agement systems, learners’ success, causal model
463 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study reports the outcome of how a first pilot semester introductory programming course was designed to provide tangible evidence in support of the concept of Student Ownership of Learning (SOL) and how the outcomes of this programming course facilitate effective student learning.
Background: Many instructors want to create or redesign their courses to strengthen the relationsh ...
SOL, student engagement, student achievement, introductory program-ming, redesigning, computer science
250 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an Adaptive Learning Technology (ALT), as compared to traditional teaching methods, in an undergraduate management information course. The effectiveness is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Competencies
Background: Previous studies have investigated factors involved with ALT. From one study, students enjoyed how to us ...
adaptive learning technology, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Competencies, learning tools, LearnSmart®, SmartBook®, student grade outcomes
662 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 20-hour blended learning visual literacy course applied to in-service teachers. For this purpose, we designed the course to train the educators and the instrument to measure the level of visual literacy of participants before and after the intervention. Then, we found the differences.
Background: Visual literacy is essential ...
visual literacy, teacher training, blended learning, in-service teachers
453 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current study was conducted to investigate the students’ perceived satisfaction with the use of a semantic-based online laboratory, which provides students with a search mechanism for laboratory resources, such as instruments and devices.
Background: The increasing popularity of using online teaching labs, as an important element of experiential learning in STEM education, is bec ...
online labs, student’s satisfaction, cognitive load, usability
208 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient methodology that can assist the evaluators in assessing a variable number of individuals that are working in groups and guarantee that the assessment is dependent on the group members’ performance and contribution to the work developed.
Background: Collaborative work has been gaining more popularity in academic settings. However, g ...
WebAVALIA, software tools, evaluation tools, self and peer assessment, higher education
143 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presented the framework for the integration of digital technologies in education, implemented in InTecEdu Program, developed by Remote Experimentation Laboratory (RExLab), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.
Background: The main objective of the model presented is to arouse interest in science and technology among adolescents. Therefore, it sought to devel ...
framework, integration, technology, teaching and learning, teacher im-provement, open educational resources, virtual and remote labs
955 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a study about changes in computer science and software engineering students’ perceptions of their soft skills during their progress through the Computer Science Soft Skills course.
Background: Soft skills are often associated with a person’s social, emotional and cognitive capabilities. Soft skills are increasingly sought out and are well recognized by employers ...
computer science education, software engineering education, soft skills, indi-vidual soft skills, team-related soft skills
281 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Although many computer science measures have been proposed, visualizing individual students’ capabilities is difficult, as those measures often rely on specific tools and methods or are not graded. To solve these problems, we propose a rubric for measuring and visualizing the effects of learning computer programming for elementary school students enrolled in computer science education ...
computer science education, programming education, rubric
180 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate posts that deviate from the norm by receiving many more comments than likes in a teacher thematic Facebook (FB) group.
Background: Social media sites are currently becoming standard tools for professional practices. Swedish teachers use thematic FB groups as a platform for professional learning.
Methodology: Data from a large teacher FB group ...
social media, Facebook, teachers, Goffman, identity work, computational analysis, thematic analysis
248 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current study has been carried out to reveal students’ readiness to utilize MOOCs at higher learning institutions in Jordan.
Background: Higher education institutions around the globe are shifting rapidly to reach learners worldwide by providing open education. In accordance with this universal effort, Jordan is committed to offering open access education that allows learners to ...
MOOCs, distance learning, MOOCs adoption, online learning, technological competency, self-regulate learning, MOOCs adoption
371 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and test several improvements for incorporating the Business Product Owner (BPO) role in student software projects using Scrum.
Background: As the popularity of Scrum has grown, its roles and ceremonies have been utilized in student software projects, yet one of the more challenging roles to implement in the academic context is the role of BP ...
agile software development, Scrum, business product owner, IS education
175 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to evaluate and analyze the e variables which influence the quality of e-learning services at the university-level based on the perspectives of students (stakeholders). It seeks to identify factors of e-learning quality and satisfaction and to examine the relationship between the dimensions of e-learning quality, satisfaction, and behavioral intention as perceived b ...
e-learning, e-learning quality, service quality, ServQual model, Indonesian higher education, student perspectives
545 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to explore students’ encounters with digital tools and how they account for their experiences of using digital tools within formal education.
Background: While computers have a long history in educational settings, research indicates that digital tools function both as affordances and constraints, and that the role of digital tools in schools continues to be d ...
digital tools, nexus analysis, secondary school, digitalization, Sweden
426 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Our research aims to explore which design elements and aspects of online learning environments are relevant for teachers when introduced to educational innovations such as flipped learning and, thereby, to enable facilitating the dissemination of these innovations.
Background: Integrating educational innovations from academic discourses or professional teacher development into teache ...
scaling-up innovations, professional teacher development, blended learning, mathematics teaching, online learning environments, flipped approaches
386 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the gaps between industry and academia perceptions of information technology fields, such as computer science, software engineering, and computer engineering, and it identifies areas of asymmetry between curricula and industry expectations. The study mainly focuses on the skills required of IT professionals (graduated students) and on how higher education insti ...
asymmetry in software education, higher education and industry gaps, in-formation technology education
290 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This work aims to introduce and evaluate an instructional strategy that aids end-users with developing their software products during intensive project-based events.
Background: End-users produce software in the labor market, and one of the challenges for End-User Software Engineering (EUSE) is the need to create functional software products without a formal education in software de ...
intensive project-based events, bootcamp, end-user software engineering, EUSE, instructional strategy, assessment framework
181 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed at recognizing and analyzing the trends of ICT use (hardware, software, and digital educational resources) by higher education professors in the Antioquia region (Colombia), and characterizing this population according to their context.
Background: The inexorable growth of ICT and the convergence of networks have produced great changes in human culture, and particul ...
hardware, software, digital educational resources, higher education institutions, ICT
554 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examined whether spherical videos are an effective tool in teaching primary school students subjects related to the endangered species. It also examined their feelings/attitudes towards this tool.
Background: Young students have trouble understanding concepts related to environmental education and, specifically, concepts related to the endangered species. Spherical videos ...
endangered species, environmental education, primary school, spherical videos
367 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose is a bibliographic review that seeks to offer a clearer vision of the impact of technological tools on the implementation of the flipped classroom model.
Background: This document reviews the flipped classroom and secondary education literature to analyze what technological tools are used to implement this model in secondary education settings and their impact on students ...
flipped classroom, high school, technology platforms
281 downloads
Aim/Purpose: One of the most critical challenges to the student learning experience in online classes would be providing interactions between students and instructors as effective as in face-to-face learning. This study introduces perceived instructor presence as a way to promote such interactions and investigates its effects on student learning experience in online learning.
Background: Drawing ...
instructor presence, online learning, interactivity, engagement, satisfaction, Microsoft Teams
1738 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, we aim to understand factors that can influence technology-supported learning, specifically in the blended environment. To do that, a research model is developed by incorporating factors from three perspectives, including self-related factors, technology and systems factors, and the instructional design factor.
Background: Technology-supported learning has changed the ...
technology-supported learning, blended environment, self-related factors, technology and systems factors, instructional design factor, satisfaction, intention
295 downloads
Aim/Purpose: We aimed to investigate the circumstances under which Kahoot! (a Game-based Student Response System (GSRS)) increases junior and senior Information Science university students’ learning and knowledge retention beyond that of traditional teaching methods. We also explored whether the positive learning impacts of Kahoot! vary as a function of student subject knowledge (i.e., junior vs s ...
game-based student response systems, Kahoot!, classroom dynamics, engage-ment, motivation, junior and senior information science students
632 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Teachers usually educate students’ cyberethics using debate, case-based discussion, and role-playing instructional methods in a face-to-face setting. With the presence of teacher and peers, students may not be willing to share their true attitudes, and it may affect the effectiveness of the teaching methods. To tackle the challenge, the author applied a teaching method with a core com ...
cyberethics, moral education, self-presentation, self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-assessment
193 downloads
Aim/Purpose: ICT integration into classroom pedagogical practices is considered an essential aspect of learning processes in developed countries but there are issues in developing countries regarding funding, infrastructure, access, and teacher skills and professional learning. This article presents some aspects of the findings of a study in one remote region within a developing country after the ...
education, computers, teachers, remote schools, online learning, Papua, In-donesia, school leaders
488 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) simulation (ERPsim) games have been used in Information Systems courses to teach students ERP systems and business processes. This study investigates whether the use of ERPsim games can be extended to other management disciplines. More specifically, this study reports on using the ERPsim games innovatively in a new context, in an undergraduate manage ...
curriculum innovation, ERPsim, gamification, management decision mak-ing, simulation
181 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to explore the effects of students’ interactions with video lectures on the levels of collaboration and completeness of their group note-taking.
Background: There has been an increase in the amount of online learning over the last 20 years. With video lectures becoming an increasingly utilized instructional modality, it is essential to consider students’ interactions ...
collaboration, group work, note-taking, video lectures, interaction
173 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the educational gap between males and females caused by gender segregation in Saudi educational institutions and the role of Mobile Learning Technology (MLT) in bridging this gap through the emphasis on teaching practices, learning resources, and opportunities, as well as participation in campus life.
Background: There is a gender gap over the access to educat ...
mobile learning, gender gap, Saudi Arabia, higher education
133 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the present study is to explore the online participation of nine English as foreign language (EFL) Arab learners in group writing discussions through a Facebook group over the study period of three months and how the EFL learners view the role of the Facebook-facilitated peer review activities in promoting their online participation.
Background: Research has addressed the ...
online participation, group writing discussions, Facebook group, sense of community
323 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the present study is to prioritize the inhibiting and motivating factors underlying the adoption of AI based teaching and learning solutions by teachers in the higher education sector of India.
Background: AI based teaching and learning solutions are amongst the most important educational innovations. The intervention of AI in instructional methods can result in person ...
artificial intelligence (AI), adoption, higher education, teachers, analytic hierar-chy process (AHP)
615 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic quickly and suddenly affected many, if not all, parts of the world. From an educational perspective, educators and students managed the social restrictions by transitioning to teaching and learning completely online. As educators and students are two important stakeholders in education, the Special Series contains four articles that focus on these two perspecti ...
COVID-19 and education, online teaching, online learning, teaching during pandemic
201 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of the research was to study the relationship of seven independent factors: administrative support, course content, course design, instructor characteristics, learner characteristics, social support, and technical support on quality of e-learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the study analyzes the moderating effect(s) of gender and level of ...
e-learning, quality, students’ perspective, higher education, COVID-19 pandemic
4551 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the perceptions of faculty members at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, towards preparedness of institutions of higher education (IHE) for assessment in virtual learning environments (VLEs) during the COVID-19 lockdown. In addition, the study explores evidence of bona fide challenges that impede the implementation of assessment in VLE for bo ...
assessment in VLEs, COVID-19, e-assessment, lockdown, online assessment
604 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article aims at the critical present: to serve a constructive purpose in the current COVID-19 crisis by presenting practice driven pedagogical strategies for online learning and teaching. It acknowledges the multitude of challenges faced by educators through the delivery of online instructional strategies for schools.
Background: The development of information technology enables ...
COVID-19, coronavirus, blended synchronous, case study, homeschooling
574 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore language teachers’ online engagement during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Four questions guided the inquiry in this study: 1) To what extent did teachers engage in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic? 2) What challenges did teachers encounter while engaging in online learning during the Covid-19 crisis? 3) How has the suspension ...
online learning engagement, urban vs remote regions, language teaching, secondary school teachers, Indonesia
3273 downloads
Aim/Purpose: As e-Learning becomes increasingly pervasive, students’ engagement in online settings emerges as a central challenge, as it is often more demanding to ensure in this context. The core importance of engagement for e-Learning, places a focus on various instruments and strategies that can be deployed to foster its enhancement.
Background: Gamification is often depicted as a significan ...
gamification, engagement, e-learning
526 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of five factors on the user acceptance of Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds (3DVWs) in higher education. Another objective of the study was to investigate the effects of the application of 3DVWs on five variables relevant to positive outcomes for higher education students.
Background: Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds (3DVW) are of co ...
three-dimensional virtual world, user acceptance, Second Life
236 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study proposes a theoretical framework that amalgamates Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) variables with usability metrics to investigate the impact on students’ intention and use of the Learning Management System (LMS) in Saudi higher education.
Background: There is a dearth of academic research on Saudi higher education to examine the effects of usabil ...
UTAUT, technology acceptance, usability, e-learning systems, LMS, PLS-SEM, developing country
285 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study of affordances in educational technology focuses on how the self-perceptions of teachers influence the creation of educational opportunities and how these are received by learners.
Background: It is important to explore the affordances offered by teachers, when using educational technology, from the perspective of their students. Within this topic, the interface of the edu ...
educational technology affordances, teaching possibilities, possibilities for learn-ing interactions, e-learning, self-directed learning
187 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main objective of this study is to explore students’ beliefs with regard to social media use (SMU) in higher education and the consequences of such use on the perception of their academic performance. Additionally, the study aims to determine the major influential factors with regard to SMU in student learning settings as a means of enhancing their performance. To achieve these ob ...
social media, enjoyment, TAM, higher education, usefulness, collaborative learning, student performance
2107 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is to explore the effectiveness of using virtual experiments on students’ level of achievement and on their practical skills as well as their views on applying the virtual experiments in a general physics lab.
Background: There is a continuous debate in the literature on the effect of using virtual experiments/ lab on students’ physics learning and whether ...
virtual lab, blended learning, lab performance, achievement in physics
1098 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 17, 2020
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology
102 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the learning that happens in assuming a supervisee’s role during the postgraduate study.
Background: The facilitators and barriers students encountered while pursuing postgraduate studies, strategies to achieve success in postgraduate studies, and how to decrease attrition rates of students, have been sufficiently explored in literature. How ...
postgraduate study, supervisee, autoethnographic reflection, supervisory relationship, transformation
79 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The need for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to maximize the use of their intellectual property and strategic resources for research and teaching has become ever more evident in recent years. Furthermore, little attention is paid in developing an enabling system that will facilitate knowledge transfer in the Research-Teaching Nexus (RTN). Hence, this study assesses the current st ...
knowledge management, knowledge management system, research-teaching nexus, social computing, tacit knowledge
107 downloads
Table of Contents of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning
Table of Contents, IJELL, e-skills, lifelong learning
134 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Using Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning (DL) techniques, which mimic the action of the brain, to improve a student’s grammar learning process. Finding the subject of a sentence using DL, and learning, by way of this computer field, to analyze human learning processes and mistakes. In addition, showing Artificial Intelligence learning processes, with and without a general over ...
deep-learning, text-mining, Hebrew, subject-tagger
300 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to introduce a digital thinking skills (DTS) theoretical model (DTSM) that could support and enhance digital instruction best practices in schools.
Methodology: We have taken a mixed-methods approach. Our respondents represent diverse cultural, linguistic, pedagogical, and social heritages.
Contribution: The study provides a theoretical model de ...
digital pedagogy, thinking skills, digital innovation, information and communi-cation technology, digital policy, school improvement
255 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to discover usage differences in task performance by students of different cultures, by examining procrastination patterns from a national cultural perspective and exploring the effect of multicultural virtual teamwork on students’ individual procrastination.
Background: This study aims to examine higher-education entrepreneurial learning in the context o ...
procrastination, virtual teams, multicultural teams, individual procrastination
156 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to uncover how Social Network Sites (SNSs) active users who are eager to be knowledgeable about a specific domain develop a professional identity, what practices they use, and how do SNSs afford professional identity development.
Background: Some researchers have shown that SNSs play a central role in personal development, but there is a lack of studies tracing the a ...
professional identity development, SNSs affordances, digital information organization
132 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore levels of Technological Access (ownership, access to, and usage of computer devices as well as access to Internet services) and levels of Technological Efficacy (technology related skills) as they pertain to underserved (UNS) and underrepresented (UNR) students.
Background: There exists a positive correlation between technology related access, technology re ...
underserved, underrepresented, technological access, technological efficacy, COVID-19, pandemic
345 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the factors contributing to student IT self-leadership in online education using an exploratory study. Specifically, our goal was to understand whether the instructors’ transformational IT leadership and the students’ personal innovativeness with IT contributed to student IT self-leadership.
Background: The study was conducted in an online course. While today ...
transformational IT leadership, IT self-leadership, personal innovativeness with IT, constructivism
104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article aimed to design and evaluate a pedagogical technique for altering students’ classroom digital multitasking behaviors. The technique we designed and evaluated is called course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). With this technique, the students wrote a research article based on a multitasking experiment that the instructor conducted with the students. The stud ...
digital multitasking, research-based learning, experiential learning, content analy-sis, behavioral change
49 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 15, 2020, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
975 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 15, 2020, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
630 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Based on the social exchange theory, this study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions between organizational socialization and knowledge sharing.
Background: With the advent of the era of the knowledge economy, knowledge has been replacing traditional resources such as capital, labor, and land to become the critical resources of enterprises. The competiti ...
organizational socialization, job embeddedness, trust, knowledge sharing
1115 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how one graduate program shaped doctoral students’ scholarly identities as interdisciplinary scientists.
Background: Scholarly identity refers to the ways individuals see themselves as legitimate, contributing members of their academic community. However, much of the research on scholarly identity focuses on students and faculty within tradi ...
graduate education, scholarly identity, interdisciplinary research
729 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates social media use and its effect on knowledge sharing. Based on the review of related literature, we hypothesised that social media use has a significant effect on outward and inward knowledge sharing.
Background: While the notion of social media use in work organisations has been progressively developed, empirical studies linking social media to the context of ...
social media, knowledge sharing, outward knowledge sharing, inward knowledge sharing, public organisation
1225 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to reveal the assessment tools and a theory preferred to mentor doctoral students with integrity and trustworthiness. The connection between mentors’ feelings of trustworthiness and protégé success were explored.
Background: This study examines the concept presented in 1983, 1985, and 1996 by Kram of mentor relations (MR) theory, which illustrates th ...
doctoral mentoring, mentor trustworthiness, mentor integrity, transformation to independent scholar, protégé development
663 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a study of Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP) evaluation methods that aims to identify their current status and impact on knowledge sharing. The purposes of the study are as follows: (i) to identify trends and research gaps in VCoP evaluation methods; and, (ii) to assist researchers to position new research activities in this domain.
Background: VCoP have beco ...
systematic mapping, virtual community of practice, evaluation
1034 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Kenya plans to be a middle-income country by the year 2030. To achieve this development target, the country has rapidly expanded its university sub-sector in order to produce the requisite skilled professionals. This has put a strain on the available PhD holders thus heightening the pressure on universities to produce more PhD graduates to meet the required larger pool of highly quali ...
PhD students’ success, background characteristics, program characteristic, mode of study
731 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the kind of community value companies should provide when strengthening the relationship between customers and brands through the establishment of an online brand community, and how this kind of community value promotes customers’ sense of community engagement and willingness to spread brand reputation. The paper also discusses how an enterprise’s brand symbolism a ...
WOM, online brand community, brand symbolism, customer engagement
1301 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the professional development needs of educators with a Master’s degree and seeking or having a doctoral degree in education.
Background: Understanding the professional development needs of educators is important for meeting these needs. The literature focuses on post-bachelor education but does not address professional development and doctoral degree needs.
M ...
professional development, doctorate success, doctorate barriers, doctorate pro-gram, education doctorate, doctorate
724 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored the experiences of women doctoral students and their perceptions of the impact of this experience on their academic careers.
Background: While more women than men graduate from doctoral programs in all non-STEM fields, women are more likely to take non-tenure positions or positions at less prestigious programs such as community colleges or teaching focused institu ...
parenting, doctoral education, motherhood, supports, academia
697 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The clustering techniques are normally considered to determine the significant and meaningful subclasses purposed in datasets. It is an unsupervised type of Machine Learning (ML) where the objective is to form groups from objects based on their similarity and used to determine the implicit relationships between the different features of the data. Cluster Analysis is considered a signi ...
clustering, density-based, large data sets, parameter, IDCUP, arbitrary shapes
1104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the behavior of financial firm employees with regard to information security procedures instituted within their organization. Furthermore, the effect of information security awareness and its importance within a firm is explored.
Background: The study focuses on employees’ attitude toward compliance with information security policies (ISP), combined with various n ...
information security behavior, information security awareness, information security management, information security policy, employee compliance finan-cial corporation
958 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory qualitative case study was to understand dissertation chair agency, chair preparation, and academic supports provided by experienced Educational Leadership Ed.D. dissertation chairs in the United States.
Background: Previous research has identified attrition rates of 50-60 percent in education doctoral programs. This research helps identify the facu ...
doctoral dissertations, dissertation chair, doctoral attrition, doctoral reten-tion, graduation rate, educational leadership programs, educational leader-ship faculty development
597 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Based on business-IT alignment, this study addresses the understudied practice of DevOps.
Background: Although organizations continue to implement DevOps practices, few studies explore connections with prior theory. This study contributes to this need by developing the DevOps strategic IT alignment model.
Methodology: The sample included 57 firms from the current Forbes Global 2000 ...
DevOps, strategic IT alignment, contingency theory, continuous integration, knowledge sharing, continuous deployment, software theory
965 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This qualitative study examined the racist and sexist experiences of doctoral women of color in the academy.
Background: Doctoral women of color (e.g., Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Latina Americans, and Native Americans) continue to experience racism and sexism in academic spaces. While few studies have explored the experiences of doctoral students of color ...
women of color, doctoral students, racist incidents, sexist incidents, oppression, marginalization, resistance, achievement, empowerment
837 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Drawing on theories of organizational learning, this study analyzes the mechanism of Internet integration capability affecting knowledge generation by 399 Chinese enterprises. This paper will further explore whether there is a moderating role of learning orientation in the mechanism of Internet integration capability affecting enterprise knowledge generation.
Background: The Internet ...
internet integration capability, organizational learning, knowledge genera-tion, learning orientation
911 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This US-based study explored various facets of impostor phenomenon experienced during PhD training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Specifically, the purpose of this research was to identify certain experiences that trigger this phenomenon.
Background: Competent high-achievers who do not believe in their efforts leading to accomplishments sometimes experi ...
impostor phenomenon, impostor syndrome, doctoral training, STEM training, graduate school, mindset
1814 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Business Intelligence (BI) implementation projects by studying the existing BI project implementation methodologies and to compare these methodologies based on the identified CSFs.
Background: The implementation of BI project has become one of the most important technological and organizational innovations ...
business intelligence, business intelligence project implementation, business intelligence implementation methodologies, Fuzzy Delphi method, critical success factors (CSF)
1328 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between doctoral students’ candidacy examination scores and estimated time to degree completion, measured by dissertation progression.
Background: Time to degree completion in doctoral programs continues to be an issue and reasons for high attrition rates for doctoral students are broad and include varied core com ...
doctoral program, comprehensive examination, candidacy examination, degree completion, Doctor of Education, EdD
619 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the experiences of African American students in a doctor of education program at a comprehensive university in Southern California.
Background: Qualitative case study methodology and critical race theory is used to highlight asset rather than deficit narratives of the participants, illuminating another aspect of commonly understood experiences for underrepresented ...
African Americans, critical race theory, doctoral education
634 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of marketing knowledge management (MKM) on bank performance via the mediating role of the Fintech innovation in Jordanian commercial banks.
Background: An extensive number of studies found a significant relationship between Marketing knowledge management and bank performance (e.g., Akroush & Al-Mohammad, 2010; Hou & Chien 2010; Rezaee & Jafari, ...
marketing knowledge management, Fintech innovation, bank performance
1148 downloads
Aim/Purpose: While scientists play a crucial role within modern knowledge societies, the attractiveness of scientific careers in Germany is moderate due to career uncertainty and the limited perspectives of long-term retention in academia. This study identifies (intra-individual) changes in the career intentions of early career researchers. Furthermore, supporting factors for the stability of rese ...
research career intention, early career researchers, stability of research career intentions, scientific career, impostor phenomenon
605 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article proposes a methodology for selecting the initial sets for clustering categorical data. The main idea is to combine all the different values of every single criterion or attribute, to form the first proposal of the so-called multiclusters, obtaining in this way the maximum number of clusters for the whole dataset. The multiclusters thus obtained, are themselves clustered i ...
clustering, categorical data, K-Modes
936 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges Saudi doctoral students studying in UK universities face with their supervisors, shed light on their experiences, and examine the extent to which these experiences impact their ability to complete their thesis. Furthermore, the aim is to examine the aspects of supervision the students found to be effective during their studies.
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doctoral students, supervisors, UK universities, experiences and challenges
629 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study describes a conceptual model, based on the principles of concept algebra that can provide intelligent academic advice using adaptive, knowledge-based feedback. The proposed model advises students based on their traits and academic history. The system aims to deliver adaptive advice to students using historical data from previous and current students. This data-driven approa ...
e-advising, academic advising, academic model, student model, cognitive knowledge-based model, course selection, adaptive algorithm
958 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper introduces the Feedback Expectation Tool (FET) as an easy-to-use and flexible pedagogical tool to encourage dialogue on feedback between supervisors and candidates. The main aim of this pedagogical innovation is to allow negotiation to understand expectations and establish boundaries through transparent practices.
Background: Feedback is a key element of learning and devel ...
dialogue, doctoral supervision, expectations, feedback, Feedback Expecta-tion Tool (FET)
984 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper found some factors which influence research supervisees’ selection of their research supervisors.
Background: Research on supervisor-supervisee relationship is mostly conducted when research students have already initiated their studies. Research on how a supervisor is selected before the research begins is researched less. How do supervisees select their supervisors? Wh ...
research supervision, supervisee-supervisor relationship, postgraduate re-search, SEM, AMOS
573 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Limited research exists on the perceived value that a doctoral degree has on higher education administrators’ goals; therefore, this collective case study had two purposes. The first was to assess qualitatively the perceptions of four doctorate-holding higher education administrators to explore the potential value associated with their degrees, and the second was to determine whether ...
doctoral degree, perception of value, human capital theory, qualitative re-search methods, higher education administration, professional goals
648 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This mixed-methods research study examined impostor phenomenon during postdoctoral training in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through the following research question: “What are the manifestations of the impostor phenomenon experienced during postdoctoral training in STEM?”
Background: The impostor phenomenon occurs when competent, high-achieving students and ...
impostor phenomenon, impostor syndrome, higher education, post-doctoral training, socialization, STEM, STEM postdocs, transition
866 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Many researchers have investigated factors related to why doctoral candidates do or do not persist in a doctoral program, yet, literature was not found where researchers investigated the relationship between self-directed learning and currently enrolled EdD candidates. The authors sought to understand EdD candidates’ self-direction in learning at the onset of their EdD program. The fi ...
doctoral candidate, education, self-directed learning
568 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the efficacy of simulated interactive virtual conversations (chatbots) for mentoring underrepresented minority doctoral engineering students who are considering pursuing a career in the professoriate or in industry.
Background: Chatbots were developed under the National Science Foundation INCLUDES Design and Developments Launch Pilot award (17 ...
chatbot, supplemental mentoring, engineering, underrepresented minority doctoral students
604 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Most programs are designed with full-time doctoral students’ characteristics and needs in mind; few programs consider the unique needs of part-time doctoral students, including time restrictions, experiences during the program, identity development, and different professional aspirations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential differences between part-time and full-ti ...
situated learning, mentoring, technology, part-time doctoral student, program design
579 downloads
Aim/Purpose: One approach to helping doctoral students deal with the many challenges they face is the provision of a structured mentoring programme to complement the more traditional doctoral curriculum and supervisor relationship. This paper reports a mentoring programme containing such activities as individual consultations and peer-mentoring workshops, introduced at one of the non-public univer ...
doctoral education, doctoral students, mentoring programme, peer-mentoring, psychosocial support
616 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined experiences related to the impostor phenomenon among Black doctoral and postdoctoral scholars in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Background: Research on the impostor phenomenon is usually focused on undergraduates, especially for Blacks, with sparse research on Black doctoral and postdoctoral scholars. This phenomenon was originally inves ...
impostor phenomenon, impostor syndrome, Black, STEM, doctoral train-ing, postdoctoral training, higher education, STEM PhD, STEM postdoc-toral scholar
660 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In response to widespread efforts to increase the size and diversity of the biomedical-research workforce in the U.S., a large-scale qualitative study was conducted to examine current and former students’ training experiences in MD (Doctor of Medicine), PhD (Doctor of Philosophy), and MD-PhD dual-degree programs. In this paper, we aimed to describe the experiences of a subset of study ...
MD-PhD program, doctoral training challenges, biomedical-research work-force, attrition, medical education
625 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine tough-love mentoring theory (TLM) as a potential way to address the problem of low graduation rates among doctoral students.
Background: In order to address this purpose, the researcher presents the following: a) a validation study for assessment tools pertaining to TLM and b) a validation study of TLM theory and its two sub-theories: mentor ...
doctoral mentoring, tough-love mentoring theory, mentor integrity and trustworthiness theory, mentors’ high standards theory
606 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive picture of doctoral students’ dissertation journeys using Finland as a case country. More specifically, the article examines (1) the students’ backgrounds, (2) their study motives and experiences, and (3) whether or not these elements are related.
Background: Despite the massification of higher education (HE), there is a shortage o ...
doctoral students, doctoral education, doctoral capital, cluster analysis, content analysis
658 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on how a short-term international study abroad program to England impacted doctoral students’ cultural competencies.
Background: The case study captures the experiences of six school leadership doctoral students who traveled abroad to East London, England. The overarching goal of this experience was to improve their self-efficacy for culturally competent school lea ...
leadership preparation, school leaders, cultural competency, culture, intercultural, study abroad, educational leadership
589 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to provide important learning insights for doctoral students, researchers and practitioners who wish to research on sensitive topics with research participants from a significantly different culture from their own.
Background: Embarking on doctoral research in different cultural contexts presents challenges for doctoral students, especially when researching a sensitiv ...
PhD student, doctoral research, cross-cultural research, sensitive research, autoethnography
644 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article investigates thirteen students’ lived experiences on an online PhD programme, aiming to develop a better understanding of the nature of doing a PhD online.
Background: A large number of adult students with full-time professional roles and other social responsibilities have returned to universities to pursue their doctoral degree in order to advance their personal and pro ...
online doctoral education, PhD programme, part-time doctoral student, co-hort community, supervision, scholarly identity, phenomenology
709 downloads
Aim/Purpose: International PhD students suffer a lot of stress. However, many studies about international students focus on identifying the stressors these students experience rather than the stress-coping strategies, and those that explore international students’ coping behaviour often report maladjustments.
Background: This study intended to fill the research gap by examining the strategies tha ...
Chinese PhD students, stress coping, secondary control, qualitative interviews, psychological adjustments
592 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This qualitative study was conducted to illuminate the under-researched aspect of doctoral students’ career decision-making by examining their internal cognitive processes based on the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory. Specifically, this study compared doctoral students’ career decision-making from two career groups, those pursuing the professoriate versus those pursuing ...
doctoral student career decision-making, professoriate career, careers beyond the professoriate, qualitative research, Cognitive Information Processing theory, graduate student career development
615 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper contributes to the scholarly literature on intersectionality and social injustice (invisibility, hypervisibility) in higher education and serves as a model for enacting doctoral education where research, theory, and practice converge.
Background: Invisibility and hypervisibility have long been documented as social injustices, but very little literature has documented how d ...
doctoral education, duoethnography, invisibility, hypervisibility, intersectionality
655 downloads
Aim/Purpose: National and international survey studies have begun to identify heightened levels of depression, anxiety, and burnout among doctoral students. Nevertheless, little research has been done to evaluate which interventions may support doctoral student wellness.
Background: To guide future interventions research, this study evaluated perceptions of the acceptability and effectiveness of ...
burnout, depression, doctoral students, intervention, wellness
539 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article examines the experience and practice of doctoral students by focusing on different dimensions of the PhD socialization process. It addresses the question of whether university collaborations with businesses influence the experience and practice of PhD students.
Background: The study explores the academic culture in the PhD process through the analysis of the experiences ...
doctoral education, academic culture, university-business collaboration, PhD student’s trajectory
566 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this systematic grounded theory study was to generate a model explaining how grit and a growth mindset develop and influence persistence in doctoral completers. Since doctoral attrition has historically plagued institutions of higher learning, with conflicting explanations reported in the literature, program leaders will benefit by understanding factors associated with ...
grit, growth mindset, doctoral persistence, higher education, personal and so-cial responsibility
886 downloads
PhD Imposter Syndrome: Exploring Antecedents, Consequences, and Implications for Doctoral Well-Being
Aim/Purpose: Research on doctoral students’ well-being suggests that an interplay of social and psychological factors, such as integration into the scholarly community and perceptions of self-worth, shape students’ experiences. The present research examined the role of these factors in the well-being of doctoral students.
Background: Imposter syndrome has long been discussed both formally and inf ...
doctoral education, doctoral well-being, imposter syndrome, mental health, graduate education, doctoral socialization
2190 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In our reflexivity in this duoethnographic study, we aimed to identify and elicit the authentic voices, thoughts, and experiences of international students from China and Cameroon to explore international education equity’s complexities through the internationalization of curriculum in doctoral programs at U.S. institutions.
Background: Many studies have addressed the need for educa ...
international education equity, curriculum internationalization, Chinese, Cameroon, current administration, academic, financial, community
543 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 5, 2020 of the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
Table of Contents, JSPTE, Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
97 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined Higher Education/Student Affairs (HE/SA) programs’ curriculum alignment with the CAS Standards.
Background: HE/SA programs have a limited number of credit hours (27-65) and must structure their curriculum within the confines. The CAS Standards guides HE/SA programs and recommends this curriculum include a focus on six content areas.
Methodology: A quantitativ ...
higher education programs, student affairs programs, graduate preparatory programs, professional preparation, student affairs, professional development
112 downloads
Roger Capote, Senior Vice President of Corporate Services at CAN Community Health (CAN), oversaw the team hosting the 20th Anniversary CANDance revenue in the fall of 2019. Among the champions was Shelly Martin. Martin was well known in the area and had an extensive network that could be potential donors in the community. The morning of the event, Martin approached Capote and committed $250,000, t ...
Donor Relations, Philanthropy, Nonprofit
22 downloads
Legit Global was a major manufacturer of residential and commercial windows. Each division of the company had their own distinct engineering services department. This allowed for custom-fit solutions and engineering organizations, but also communication gaps and inefficiencies. Would centralizing engineering services increase productivity and decrease costs, or would it hamper creativity and sow d ...
Engineering, shared services, centralization
16 downloads
Candy Mitchell, Information Technology Director at Jabil Inc., sank into her desk chair and looked out the window pensively. She had just finished reading a report from her team of data scientists about a predictive model they had created. She saw huge potential in this model as a potential solution to power Jabil’s customer growth strategy. Part of the strategy was to engage with technology start ...
Risk, Credit Ratings, Model, Credit, Electronics
30 downloads
When long-time Floridian Piers Ikerd was looking to transition from the corporate world in the summer of 2018, he sought more independence and ideally the opportunity to take over and transform an existing business. His eye fell on a struggling bar, Aces N Eights, that he was planning to transform into a well-oiled business. His work on an initial business plan convinced him that the key to improv ...
Case review, Marketing, Strategy, Bar, Restaurant, Small business
45 downloads
Techgenics had a decision to make. Their vulnerability management program needed to be compliant with federal regulations and simultaneously they were being hit with budget reductions. Jay Santos had to decide what was the best path forward that met the requirements and kept cost under control.
vulnerability, security, technology
34 downloads
Five senior USF EMBA students are unexpectedly notified that the case study topic that they were expecting to proceed with for a capstone course assignment did not receive the required publication approval. The coronavirus pandemic only complicates the issue. The team must quickly determine what they should do instead.
Case Study, Coronavirus
63 downloads
Aim/Purpose: University of South Florida & New York Market Strategy
Background: The University of South Florida (USF) is looking to target new students outside the Florida Market. As well as they are trying to raise the reputation of the University. USF feels that working with a sports organization will help accomplish those objectives.
Methodology: Example Case Study
Contribution: Hi ...
Sports Sponsorship, Higher Education Marketing, Sports Marketing
38 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Our goal is to provide understanding of if and how the institutional factors found to contribute to a chilly climate are experienced in an international setting and provide a broader understanding of the discourses that create challenges for marginalized and underrepresented groups in STEM.
Background: In August 2018 the Hungarian government stopped funding gender studies program and ...
institutional ethnography, Hungarian higher education, STEM in higher educa-tion, mathematics education
95 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Book Review: Student Learning and Development in Chinese Higher Education: College Students’ Experience in China
Background: This book describes and interprets student learning and development as perceived by students in Chinese higher education institutions.
Impact on Society: Overall, this book appeals to higher education scholars from all countries and regions. It is a good resou ...
student experience, student learning and development, Chinese higher education
59 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Neoliberal ideology in U.S. society and globally is transforming post-secondary institutions into economic drivers of their public purposes, that of promoting societal betterment and educational opportunity. Attendant with the neoliberal transformation of higher education’s purposes has been an erosion of the equity pursuits of postsecondary institutions as they privilege enrolling le ...
equity, public purposes, higher education, neoliberalism, institutional change, civic engagement
156 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to better understand the sources of mentoring and ways in which mentors, as forms of social and familial capital, facilitate the development of capital among Latinx community college students
Background: A more focused and nuanced understanding of the role of mentors in further developing Latinx students’ capital is needed to guide mentoring programs in ...
Latinx, college students, mentoring, community colleges, faculty
135 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This essay highlights how the way educational places and spaces are imagined impacts higher education research, policy, and practice.
Background: Drawing on the rapid transition to online education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, dichotomous thinking about education space is problematized by examining how the physical (e.g., the lecture hall) is intertwined with the digital (e.g. ...
spatial inequality, education technology, space, facilities, blended learning
105 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure of a newly developed Culture of Mattering survey (CoM) that evaluates mattering in the context of relationships with supervisors, colleagues, and the organization as a whole.
Background: Mattering can be defined as the experience of feeling valued and adding value. Despite the importance of mattering in personal and occupa ...
mattering, organizational culture, instrument development, employee, higher education
134 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines how higher education and student affairs doctoral students and their partners navigate the graduate school experience through the lens of linked lives.
Background: Enhancing doctoral students’ ability to integrate their academic and personal lives can contribute to positive student outcomes such as retention and satisfaction. Yet, many features of graduate educati ...
graduate students, graduate education, work-life integration
71 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper illustrates the relationship between graduate students’ social identities and their ability to persevere in an academically rigorous graduate setting. Through our analysis we show that while many students experience marginalization and threats to their identity, they display no less grit than those who do not experience marginalization and threats to their identity.
Backg ...
grit, social identity threat, marginalization
108 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The following questions guided this study: 1) What are the major types of four-year graduation policies and plans being implemented by public four-year colleges and universities? 2) What explicit and implicit messages do leaders convey in constructing four-year graduation policies and plans? 3) What messages might four-year graduation policies and plans send to minoritized student pop ...
four-year graduation, timely graduation, degree completion, discourse, criti-cal discourse analysis
44 downloads
Aim/Purpose
The goal of this study was to investigate the financial management practices of SMMEs operating in under developed regions as a challenge facing SMMEs operating in underdeveloped regions using former Transkei Homelands in Eastern Cape Province as a case study.
Background
In South Africa, the works of Cameron and Miller (2008) highlights that South Africa is ranked among top countr ...
Financial management skills, SMMEs, underdeveloped regions.
73 downloads
Housing preferences are changing. According to (Koebel, Lang, & Danielsen, 2004; Kolson, 2016; Myers & Ryu, 2008; Shaver, 2017; Woo, 2016), the largest demographic, the millennials, prefer low- to mid-rise housing units that are in the walkable urban core areas. These areas have access to cultural activities, entertainment, restaurants, shopping and other amenities such as parks. The retiring baby ...
Missing middle housing, millennials, baby boomers, traditional, neo-traditional neighborhoods, diversity of housing types, walkability, perception and design, perceived-density.
124 downloads
Aim/Purpose
Low cost airline passengers are sensitive towards value for money. They also have their own preferences and perceptions on what encompasses value. This paper discusses passenger intentions to purchase halal food with a specific reference to Malaysia, which has a majority Muslim population (57%). The purpose of this study is to determine the most influential factors that explain passen ...
Passenger intention, low cost carriers (LCC), in-flight halal food, purchasing intention
48 downloads
There is a need for a variety of low-rise housing types in walkable urban core neighborhoods. These housing types once existed in the urban core but are now missing. Daniel Parolek (CNU, 2018) proposed bringing back the Missing Middle Housing (MMH) types as one way to increase the supply. However, the risks of regulations, neighborhood opposition to increased densities, and apparent under-capitali ...
Missing Middle Housing types (MMH), Diverse Housing Types, Traditional Neighborhoods, Urban Core, Qualitative Data Analysis, Grounded Theory, NVivo, Barriers, Millennials, Boomers, Risk, Risk Reduction, Capital Flow, Supply in Housing
33 downloads
Aim/Purpose
The main aim of this study was to investigate the status of records management program at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) using the Nelson Mandela Drive Site of Mthatha Campus as a case study.
Background
For an organization to function effectively, records (both in electronic and paper format) need to be captured, recorded and secured in order to ensure their authenticity, integ ...
Records management, institution of higher learning, administration, Walter Sisulu University (WSU)
197 downloads
An underlying theme of risk, risk reduction, and capital emerged from qualitative research on the factors that affect the supply of the MMH types in urban core neighborhoods in Tampa Bay, Florida (Ojah Maharaj, 2018a). This theme emerged from interviews conducted with different stakeholders, leaders, and experts related to MMH types in the area. The research uncovered the core and underlying facto ...
Risk, Capital, Risk Reduction, Novel Idea, Grounded Theory on Missing Middle Housing (MMH) Types, Missing Middle Housing Supply, Housing Supply, Stakeholders, Developers’ Alliance, Cooperative Risk Reduction, Capital Strategy
46 downloads
Case Study: A Systematic Review of the Most Effective Career Training Programs for a Workforce Board
A systematic review was conducted for a state-sponsored workforce board, a non-profit quasi-governmental workforce development organization located in the northeastern U.S., to determine what are the most effective career training programs in healthcare, advanced manufacturing, hospitality, and marine economy industries for job seekers in U.S. based organizations. The absorptive capacity theory wa ...
absorptive capacity, career development, employment, hiring, OJT, systematic review, workforce board, workforce initiatives
91 downloads
In over 40 years in the workplace, I have witnessed creativity and communication stifled because of toxic leadership. Though my experience was in the military and my research was with the military, my goal is to better understand toxic leadership to inform potential mitigation techniques that are applicable to both business and military environments. Toxic leaders tend to draw conclusions hastily ...
Abusive, Behavior, Control, Destructive, Organizational
241 downloads
This research summary for practice looks at the factors impacting employee turnover in Central Florida sales organizations. Surprisingly compensation is not the factor most recognized by participants in my research study. Flexibility and dynamics were most important and included discussions along scheduling to key performance indicators.
Sales, Turnover, Internal, External, Dynamics, Flexibility
34 downloads
There are over 7,000 chambers of commerce in the United States. Most are led by a paid staff Executive who serves for multiple years as a fulltime employee. They are also driven by a volunteer Chairperson who, typically, serves for one year. Working together is critical for organizational success.
Chamber of commerce, Leadership, advocacy, convening, competition, self-promotion
40 downloads
This study intended to address the question, “How would a purchase price be impacted if a seller provided buyers a notice that the residential property that has been listed for sale is located within a Potential Impact Radius (PIR) of a natural gas transmission line?” Does the notice of the location affect the purchase value a buyer is willing to offer for a residential property? Does the percei ...
Easement, Right of Way, Pipeline, Land Use, Disclosure, High Consequence Area
22 downloads
With veteran retention rates as low as 20% to 35%, in the first two years post-service transition, organizations need to have a better understanding of the factors that affect veteran churn (Ford, 2017). This high rate of churn has a huge financial impact on employers, costing billions of dollars in addition to the loss of productivity. In addition to the high cost for employers, veterans are also ...
Veteran integration, veteran culture, veteran transition, cultural competency, social support, supportive leadership, social identity theory, combat disabilities, Maslow’s Hierarchy, mental health, veteran churn, veteran retention
173 downloads
The purpose of this systematic review is to explore retaliation within organizations and their culture. Specifically, this research examines extant scholarly literature regarding retaliation and how senior leaders, managers, and workers can help reduce it. Further, this study provides organizations intervention recommendations to help mitigate retaliation in small and medium organizations.
In t ...
Collective identity, complaint, complex adaptive systems, inclusive, justice, retaliation, systematic review
69 downloads
The dissertation culminates in an artifact creation called the Practitioner Driven Action Research (PDAR) framework. It was conceptualized, refined, and field-tested during a yearlong Action Research project at the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). PDAR focuses on immediate problem-solving and driving practitioners towards adopting action-driven outcomes grounded in Action Rese ...
Action Research, Organizational Problem Solving, Mixed Methodology, Quantitative Research
20 downloads
Drawing from telework and organizational politics literature, this case study of a sales team at Midwest Global Manufacturing (MGM) sought to understand whether the work location of office-based employees and teleworkers influenced their perceptions of organizational politics (POP). The commonly held belief was that given the numerous outcome differences teleworkers experience, they would also ha ...
perceptions of organizational politics, telework, telecommute, organizational politics
110 downloads
Internal audit independence lays the foundation for its assurance services. Although the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) requires that chief audit executives (CAE) report to the board to ensure internal audit independence, regulations are silent on this requirement. The variances of governance models added complexity. CAEs’ relationship with the board differs depending on the organization’s ...
audit committee, board, board structure, corporate governance, internal audit independence, IIA Standards
63 downloads
Rural communities are often overlooked when it comes to offering cutting edge consumer
healthcare technologies. Mobile applications usually exclude populations in rural demographics
due to the infrastructure requirements and available technology in the region. The population
studied is a low income rural health plan in southwest Georgia. They are uniquely considered as
they have the highest he ...
Mobile applications, Platform development, Assimilation gaps, Design Science Research (DSR), Elaborated Action Design Research (EADR), Multi-level assimilation gaps, Rural healthcare, Consumer platforms
30 downloads
Lack of workplace retirement plan adoption by small business owners is driving todays retirement savings crisis. This paper addresses how the use of two artefacts that were developed and implemented using nudging principles influenced small business owners to adopt workplace retirement plans at a much higher rate.
Nudging, status quo bias, information asymmetry, action design research, savings crisis, covereage crisis
40 downloads
In March 2011, Warren Buffett stepped into chaos. The Chairman of one of Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries, David Sokol, had resigned his position, but there was more to the story. As soon as Buffett is informed of the insider trading claim, the situation turns into a decision-making problem with four core elements: 1) Managerially difficult; 2) Emotionally charged; 3) Intense media coverage; 4) Eth ...
Warren Buffett, Insider Trading, Ethics, leadership, Stockdale Paradox, Case Study
1056 downloads
Organizations have long struggled with appropriate interventions to mitigate knowledge worker turnover. Because of their unique skills, knowledge workers have a considerably higher rate of turnover than traditional workers, and they are expensive to replace. Organizations use performance appraisal systems to identify and retain critical employees. Knowledge workers enable organizations to remain c ...
Performance appraisal, appraisal systems, knowledge worker, knowledge worker segmentation, competent rater, retention, systematic review
166 downloads
Strategic acquisitions continue to emerge as a critical business strategy to expand an organization’s sales, customer bases, and growth opportunities. However, research and anecdotal evidence highlights that many of the strategic acquisitions fail to achieve their stated financial and non-financial goals (Mirvis & Marks, 2011). Many theories constructed to explain this phenomenon. However, there ...
Acculturation, acquisitions, organizational culture, post-acquisition, and sociocultural
86 downloads
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. Consequently, there has been considerable hype, interest, and even misinformation in the media regarding this emergent technology. Practitioners and academics alike are interested in learning how this market functions in order to make evidence-based decisions regarding its adoption. The purpose of this man ...
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Organizational Ethics, AI Adoption, Technology-Organization-Environment Framework, TOE Framework
81 downloads
In Huston’s (2010) framework regarding financial literacy, she provides the following conceptual model (Fig 1). This model, which is widely accepted within the research on financial literacy since 2010, reveals that while financial literacy is certainly part of the story influencing financial behavior, it is not the whole story. We see that Huston includes “other factors” as informing financial ...
Financial literacy, financial behavior, financial planners, self-efficacy, self-control
84 downloads
The Ministry of Tourism and Arts (2018) identified an overall goal of utilizing Zambia’s natural and cultural resources as a tourism driver to increase economic growth for the country. However, the industry has experienced problems with attrition, productivity, and high mortality rates of wildlife police officers (WPOs) which negatively affects the ability to protect the wildlife and natural resou ...
Africa, health program, HIV/AIDS policy, MOTA, rapid evidence assessment, systematic review, tourism, wildlife police officer, workplace wellness, Zambia
81 downloads
Despite having tried extensively to recruit females to the financial management sector, the industry finds women remain a distinct minority. This paper utilizes the 2017 National Survey of College Graduates to further examine the female financial manager retention issue. The findings confirm that females who studied finance are not working in their field (positions closely related to finance) to ...
Financial management, gender, financial services, financial planning, job satisfaction, work motivation, self-determination theory
70 downloads
This document contains the description of the InSITE conference and the schedule.
A printable copy of the full conference proceedings can be downloaded from
http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2020/InSITE_2020_Proceedings.pdf
InSITE, informing science, IT Education, proceedings, conference
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Table of Contents: Proceedings of the 2020 InSITE Conference
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
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Aim/Purpose: This study examined how peer feedback, received and given face-to-face and on the course site, shapes the teacher’s image, from the student’s point of view as the one providing and receiving feedback.
Background: This study examined the effect of receiving and giving peer feedback, face-to-face and on the course site, on forming the teacher’s image, from the student’s point of view a ...
preservice teachers, written feedback, oral feedback, peer feedback, social emotional learning (SEL), public feedback, virtual feedback
38 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Academics are often requested to create and teach courses for emerging technologies with perhaps no experience or guidance on how to do so.
Background: A Framework to develop IT courses for emerging technologies was created and tested to assist academics; the framework was then tested by developing an IoT course.
Methodology: A literature review was conducted to discover theories, m ...
instructional design, framework, motivation, course development, educa-tional technology, emerging technology
92 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The first goal is to develop a decision support system for pricing and production amounts for a firm facing high levels of product returns. The second goal is to improve the management of the product returns process.
Background: A food importer and manufacturer in Israel with a significant product returns rate.
Methodology: A decision support module was added to the plant’s informat ...
supply chain, pricing model, Israel, food industry, product returns, decision support system, ergonomics
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: While traditional Knowledge Management (KM) continues to neglect the self-interests of knowledge workers as well as generative innovation potentials, it also seems unable to respond to rising complexities, opportunity divides, and entropies. This article follows up on a decentralized KM system-in-progress with a specific focus on how its alternative architecture seeks to address the s ...
knowledge management, personal knowledge management system, design science research, informing system, digital platform ecosystem, generativity, entropy
28 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this exploratory study we examine personal information management within music streaming applications. Also, we investigate the sense of ownership over songs being played on music streaming applications and whether the use of these services may be considered a social activity. In addition, we explore the extent of user privacy concern in using music streaming applications.
Backgr ...
music streaming applications, personal information management, privacy, music genre, social activity
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Aim/Purpose: The paper introduces new concepts including the cognitive map, message atoms, and message resonance.
Background: Existing models of the informing process cannot explain how messages are created nor how people deal with multiple messages.
Methodology: Theory development.
Contribution: The theories presented offer new ways to conceptualize the informing process.
Findings: Th ...
cognitive map, informing science, message fragment, message resonance
42 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this research the authors present the designs of three different knowledge object meta-data wrapper models as a supportive technology to assist the knowledge intensive operations of a network of knowledge, such as a living lab.
Background: Within any knowledge driven network environment there is a need to increase the corporate knowledge capacity of the network. The role of exp ...
JSON, JSON-LD, knowledge objects, network of knowledge, knowledge ob-ject wrappers
26 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Given the underlying philosophy of the agile manifesto, this study investigates whether an increase in agile maturity is associated with improved perceived project success.
Background: The underlying philosophy of the agile manifesto is embodied in principle one which promotes the continuous delivery of software that is deemed valuable by the customer, while principle twelve encourag ...
Agile, Scrum, XP, Maturity Model, Agile Maturity Model, Agile Process Im-provement, Project Success, Agile Success
54 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To examine crowd-sourced programming as an experiential learning, instructional medium. The goal is to provide real-time, real-world, artificial intelligence programming without textbook instructional materials.
Background: Open source software has resulted in loosely knit communities of global software developers that work together on a software project. Taking open source software ...
crowd-sourced programming, artificial intelligence, software development, programming, experiential learning, inquiry education, mob programming, artificial intelligence
21 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper the authors explore and analyse the literature to determine the common reasons why a student may choose to plagiarise. The predominant purpose of the research formed part of a larger study to develop metrics and methods to identify potential plagiarism within coding-based assignments.
Methodology: A systematic literature review with the objective to identify and rank ...
students’ attitudes towards plagiarism, plagiarism metrics, plagiarism deterrents
110 downloads
[The full paper was previously published in the International Journal of Community Development & Management Studies, 3, 65-77.]
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to expand the knowledge base on factors likely to impede implementation and adoption of web-based learning management systems to blend with traditional methods of lecturing in universities to cater for the next generation of le ...
ICTs, next generation of learners, teaching, technological skills, lecturers, web-based learning management system, 21st century digital economies
13 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To inform educational stakeholders about of the emerging digital educational badging technology, the industry, and how it applies to adult learning.
Background: An overview of the developing badging system, concepts, key terminology, advantages, challenges, and examples of badge utilization.
Methodology: Exploratory study.
Contribution: Makes known how the current state of the badg ...
badges, open badges, badging, access to higher education, transcript ambi-guity, credential-fraud, open pathways, badge challenges
23 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal "Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology,"16, 21-40.]
The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the learning that happens in assuming a supervisee’s role during the postgraduate study.
Background: The facilitators and barriers students encountered while pursuing postgraduate studies, strategies to ach ...
postgraduate study, supervisee, autoethnographic reflection, supervisory relationship, transformation
14 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal "Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology," 16, 21-40.]
Aim/Purpose: The need for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to maximize the use of their intellectual property and strategic resources for research and teaching has become ever more evident in recent years. Furthermore, little attention is paid in developing ...
knowledge management, knowledge management system, research-teaching nexus, social computing, tacit knowledge
14 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal "Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline," 23, 47-76.]
Aim/Purpose: Use of the term “rigor” is ubiquitous in the research community. But do we actually know what it means, and how it applies to transdisciplinary research?
Background: Too often, rigor is presumed to mean following an establis ...
rigor, relevance, resonance, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, research
14 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the "Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning," 16, 1-17.]
Aim/Purpose: Using Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning (DL) techniques, which mimic the action of the brain, to improve a student’s grammar learning process. Finding the subject of a sentence using DL, and learning, by way of this computer field, to analyze h ...
deep-learning, text-mining, Hebrew, subject-tagger
12 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [The full version of this paper is published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL) https://doi.org/10.28945/4617]
The purpose of this study is to discover usage differences in task performance by students of different cultures, by examining procrastination patterns from a national cultural perspective, exploring the effect of multicultural virtu ...
procrastination, virtual teams, multicultural teams, individual procrastination
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To guide faculty who wish to use the case method in large undergraduate classes
Background: The paper reviews a range of case teaching methods and provides specific guidance on how to use them in various classroom situations.
Methodology: Literature review, reflective experience, interviews, and surveys
Contribution: This paper addresses a gap in case teaching research which ...
case teaching, active learning, experiential learning, large classes
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study will review the existing literature on the advantages and challenges associated with rubric design and implementation. The role of rubric as an authentic assessment instrument will also be discussed.
Background: This study provides an overall understanding of ‘rubric design, the benefits and challenges of using rubrics, which will be useful for both practitioners and res ...
rubric, authentic assessment, rubric design, assessment method, scoring guide
173 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 22 of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2019
informing science, InfoSci, table of contents
109 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In a world of rapidly expanding complexity and exponentially increasing data availability, IT-based knowledge management tools will be needed to manage and curate available information. This paper looks at a particular tool architecture that has been previously proposed: The Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS). The specific focus is on how the proposed architecture conforms to ...
knowledge management, personal knowledge management system, design sci-ence research, design evolution, informing system, digital platform ecosystem, fitness-utility-model, generativity
151 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The growing complexity of the business environment and business processes as well as the Big Data phenomenon has an impact on every area of human activity nowadays. This new reality challenges the effectiveness of traditional narrowly oriented professional education. New areas of competences emerged as a synergy of multiple knowledge areas – transdisciplines. Informing Science and Dat ...
informing science, data science, transdiscipline, education
140 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to propose an ensemble learners based classification model for classification clickbaits from genuine article headlines.
Background: Clickbaits are online articles with deliberately designed misleading titles for luring more and more readers to open the intended web page. Clickbaits are used to tempted visitors to click on a particular link either to moneti ...
authentic news; clickbaits; ensemble learning; natural language processing; performance measures
236 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we address the theoretical challenges today’s scientific community faces to precisely draw lines between true and false pictures. In particular, we focus on problems related to the hidden wonders of science and the shiny images produced for scientific papers or to appeal to wider audiences.
Background: As rumors (hoaxes) and false news (fake news) explode across socie ...
fake pictures, scientific fraud, scientific pictures, public understanding of sci-ence, science communication, science journalism
136 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Absence of new scientific approaches and specialists (generalists), who professionally obtain such approaches, is one of the main reasons for an ineffective solution of complex multifactor problems of the modern society.
Background: The article briefly describes the concept of systems transdisciplinary integration of knowledge of different scientific disciplines. Also, it shows an op ...
transdisciplinarity, synthesis of knowledge, generalists, systems transdisciplinary approach
118 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first official definition of the term “transdisciplinarity.” This paper focuses on a critical analysis of the development of modern transdisciplinarity since its inception.
Background: The article presents two main directions for the development of transdisciplinarity. It also shows its identification features, strengths, and weaknesses ...
transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems transdisciplinary ap-proach, higher education, unicentrism, Russian school of transdisciplinarity
291 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This series of papers on Fake News: Bias, Misinformation, and Disinformation examines fake news from an Informing Science perspective. As such, the papers in this special series make novel con-tributions to the field by viewing the issues through the transdisciplinary lens of informing science. This series makes no claim to summarize or review all that has been written on this topic. ...
informing science, bias, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news
86 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Many disciplines have addressed the issue of “fake news.” This topic is of central concern to the transdiscipline of Informing Science, which endeavors to understand all issues related to informing. This paper endeavors to build a model to address not only fake news but all informing and misin-forming. To do this, it explores how errors get into informing systems, the issue of bias, a ...
informing science, bias, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news
93 downloads
The present paper identifies a variety of conceptual schemes that have emerged within informing science and consider how they might be applied to fake news. The paper begins with a brief overview of fake news. This is followed presentations of various models identified in a two-volume survey of informing science. The models presented include those dealing with extrinsic (i.e., environmental) compl ...
fake news, informing science, extrinsic complexity, conceptual scheme
81 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper provides general background on the who, what, when, and why of deception.
Methodology: It uses a naturalistic observational methodology. Whenever possible, the paper provides examples.
Contribution: The research cited in this paper comes from a large variety of disparate fields of study. As such, it is one of the few multidisciplinary attempts to understand de-ception
...
deception, principles, tactics, fake news
165 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper explores the success of KGB Operation SIG to incite hatred and create chaos against a democracy
Background: About 50 years ago, the KGB created the means to create upheaval in the Mid-dle East. This paper explores one such campaign and its successor campaign, revealing some disinformation techniques in use today.
Methodology: The paper brings together literature from man ...
informing science, bias, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news, deception, Russia, Operation SIG, PLO, Nazi, Israel, KGB
592 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 18, 2019
information technology education, JITE, innovations in practice
113 downloads
JITE: Research, Volume 18, 2019, Table of Contents
table of contents, JITE, IT education
235 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Assessing non-technical skills is very difficult and current approaches typically assess the skills separately. There is a need for better quality assessment of these skills at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Background: A method has been developed for the computing discipline that assesses all six non-technical skills prescribed by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering an ...
computing education, learning outcomes, employability, transferable skills, assessment
407 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper reports on a case study project which had three goals; to develop a suite of original interactive digital skills e-tutorials to be embedded in undergraduate and postgraduate courses; to evaluate the students’ experience and engagement with the e-tutorials over one semester; and to explore their general attitudes towards online and blended learning.
Background: Online and b ...
blended learning, digital literacy, e-learning, e-tutorials, higher education, online learning, online tutorials
2558 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This systematic literature review investigates the underlying factors that influence the gap between the popularity of online learning and its completion rate. The review scope within this paper includes an observation of possible causal aspects within the non-ideal completion rates in online learning environments and an identification of recommended strategies to increase retention r ...
student retention, online learning, instructional strategies, higher education
1482 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, the researchers investigated whether the out-of-class learning approach could help the students to attain any valuable learning outcomes for cybersecurity learning and could enhance the perceived value of cybersecurity education among the students.
Background: Cybersecurity learning poses challenges for its students to learn a complicated subject matter and the student ...
cybersecurity education, out-of-class learning, learning outcomes
301 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examined types of errors made by novice programmers in different Java concepts with students of different ability levels in programming as well as the perceived causes of such errors.
Background: To improve code writing and debugging skills, efforts have been made to taxonomize programming errors and their causes. However, most of the studies employed omnibus approaches, ...
concept, Java, achievement level, error analysis, programming
299 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Students’ perceptions about feedback in e-tests have not been studied using qualitative methods. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the students' attitude towards electronic tests, focusing on the feedback.
Background: Despite the advantages of electronic tests, it is one of the neglected technologies in the students’ evaluation process. Based on the technolog ...
electronic test, assessment, feedback, student perceptions, instant feedback
374 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current study examines the impact of an intervention program to train teachers to collaborate with their students while creating digital games.
Background: Teachers seem unable to leverage the potential of ICT to present students with a rich learning environment. ICT integration is usually at a relatively simple and concrete level without changing the traditional teacher-student ...
collaboration, digital games, 21st-century skills, teacher training, professional development, intrinsic motivation, resistance to change
258 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To study associations between elementary-, middle- and high-school students’ perceptions of classroom environment and student-teacher relationship and their out-of-class communication practices via WhatsApp app.
Background: Communication between students and teachers is usually extended beyond the classroom’s time and space. This communication, referred to as out-of-class communicati ...
out-of-class communication, student-teacher relationship, classroom environ-ment, social media, instant messaging, WhatsApp
471 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main aim of this study was modeling a collaborative process for knowledge visualization, via the creation of infographics.
Background: As an effective method for visualizing complex information, creating infographics requires learners to generate and cultivate a deep knowledge of content and enables them to concisely visualize and share this knowledge. This study investigates cre ...
creating infographics, knowledge visualization, infographic design model, Bridge21 learning model
215 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Educational robotics competitions are a popular way to increase students’ interest in science and engineering during their K-12 years. However, female students are typically underrepresented in these competitions. The goal of this study is to determine differences in the experiences of male and female robotics competition students in order to better support female students and increas ...
gender, robotics, programming, competitions, STEM
339 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to explore whether having state Computer Science standards in place will increase young children’s exposure to coding and powerful ideas from computer science in the early years.
Background: Computer science education in the K-2 educational segment is receiving a growing amount of attention as national and state educational frameworks are emerging. By focusing on the ...
early childhood, computer science, coding, STEM, policies, frameworks
345 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate how the facilitation of a vocational lecturer (teacher) influenced the engagement of fifteen carpentry students during their learning. This facilitation occurred while the students used smartphones and mobile applications to create visual assessment ePortfolios.
Background: To encourage independence and peer collaboration, when creating their v ...
student engagement, mobile technologies, smartphones, eportfolios, vocational learning
418 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to describe and demonstrate the results of an intervention through educational robotics to improve the computational thinking of student teachers.
Background: Educational robotics has been increasing in school classrooms for the development of computational thinking and digital competence. However, there is a lack of research on how to prepare future teachers of Ki ...
computational thinking, educational robotics, digital competence, student teachers
492 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a data mining approach for analyzing responses to advanced declarative programming questions. The goal of this research is to find a model that can explain the results obtained by students when they perform exams with Constructed Response questions and with equivalent Multiple-Choice Questions.
Background: The assessment of acquired knowledge is a fundamental role ...
constructed response, multiple-choice questions, educational data mining, support vector machine, neural networks
104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we highlight the need to monitor and diagnose adaptive e-learning systems requirements at runtime to develop a better understanding of their behavior during learning activities and improve their design. Our focus is to reveal which learning requirements the adaptive system is satisfying while still evolving and to provide specific recommendations regarding what actions ...
runtime requirements, requirements compliance, adaptive e-learning system, learning analytics, goal modeling, adaptive e-learning system, evaluation
247 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Currently, Information Systems (IS) departments in business schools are moving towards integrating learning to program or code in their undergraduate core courses. Many factors affecting IS student success in learning to program have been identified, but there is still a dearth of knowledge about student perceptions on their own competence. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...
Information systems, programming self-efficacy, IS student classification, competent programmers.
307 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aims to evaluate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) implementation in academic colleges of education. The article offers a conceptual framework for ICT implementation within teacher education in the information era, which combines an array of frameworks and addresses the needs of teacher education.
Background: The study examines the components of ICT implementat ...
ICT implementation, colleges of education, models of implementation, ICT literacy, online questionnaire, pre-service teachers
990 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the online teacher- students’ interactions using WhatsApp, an instant messaging tool, and to identify the students’ view towards the use of that tool in a law course from a higher education institution in Colombia.
Background: WhatsApp is a trending tool that is ultimately being used in academic contexts. However, little research is known on t ...
mobile learning, WhatsApp, higher education, interaction, law
391 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research investigates the success variables affecting the adoption of social networking sites (SNS), namely Facebook, and learning management systems (LMS), specifically Moodle, in developing countries.
Background: In contemporary education, universities invest heavily in the integration of LMS with traditional classrooms. Conversely, such technologies face a high rate of fail ...
social networking sites (SNS), learning management systems (LMS), DeLone and McLean’s Information Systems Success (D&M ISS) model, higher education, the Middle East
412 downloads
Aim/Purpose: There is a huge array of educational technology tools that are now in use today. These tools have changed the way teachers teach and the way students learn. Among the many educational technology tools that are gaining popularity are the online collaboration tools. Online collaboration tools are web-based tools that allow individuals to do things together online like messaging, file sh ...
online collaboration tool, software effectiveness, educational technology, usability metrics
698 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the perceptions and motivations of state senior high school teachers in rural districts in Indonesia towards ICT use in learning activities.
Background: In 2013, Indonesian government launched an ICT-based curriculum known as 2013 Curriculum. According to this curriculum, ICT must be integrated into all subjects as learning resources and media. Even tho ...
perception, motivation, teachers, Indonesia, ICT use, 2013 curriculum
576 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students, and parents. This research aims to investigate the impact of using the Edmodo network among the students at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University and students’ attitudes toward it.
Background: The creators of e-learning systems have recently taken remarkable strides, including the development of a full range ...
Edmodo, academic social media, blended learning, e-learning networks
422 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether the effectiveness of the Technology-engagement Teaching Strategy using personal response systems with student’s approaches to learning will increase the pass rate in the Mathematics course
Background: The challenge in this study was to develop the learning activities that accommodate individual differences and diversity in l ...
teaching strategy, personal response systems, students’ approaches to learning, mathematics, higher education
151 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine and understand the attitude of Kazakhstani universities’ instructors towards ICT integration into the curriculum and to find out the relationship between instructors’ attitudes towards ICT and their actual usage of ICT for teaching and learning processes.
Background: The Kazakhstani government has taken initiatives and developed state programs t ...
ICT integration into curriculum, attitude towards ICT use in teaching, barriers to integrating ICT into teaching, ICT in higher education
164 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore whether students’ self-initiated personal technology use differ by class size as well as to explore students and instructors’ perspectives on whether students’ technology use in class is a problem.
Background: Because class size influences several aspects of student engagement, it is plausible that class size would affect students’ technology beha ...
media in education, post-secondary education, pedagogical issues, improving classroom teaching, laptop multitasking
475 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study reviewed previous research on the role of gamification techniques in promoting students’ learning.
Background: The role of gamification in promoting students’ learning has been investigated empirically by many scholars. To date, mixed results about the effectiveness of gamification have been reported, and researchers frequently argue that the inappropriateness of certain t ...
gamification, gamified learning activities, higher education, lifelong learning
1372 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The principal aim of this study was to reveal digital citizenship levels of pre-service teachers enrolled in 1st and 2nd year in the education faculty at the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University in Muğla, Turkey. Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of digital citizenship and their patterns of knowledge of digital citizenship were explored.
Background: This study examines the concepts of digit ...
digital citizenship, pre-service primary school teachers, digital technologies, internet
225 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This work examines which factors influence user views on the learning effectiveness of serious games. For that matter, a model was developed and tested.
Background: Although the impact of serious games on learning is their most widely ex-amined aspect, research is spread thin across a large number of studies having little in common in terms of their settings, samples, and learning su ...
enjoyment, learning effectiveness, serious games, structural equation modeling, subjective narration quality, subjective realism
251 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether ESL students in Thailand felt comfortable and confident using online course management tools as indicated by the levels of their online learning self-efficacy.
Background: While online learning has become commonplace in most US based universities, some international educational institutions are just now dealing with the enormous task o ...
online learning, ESL learners, self-efficacy
218 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research proposed a 3D multiuser virtual learning environment (3DMUVLE) educational game design framework by combining ATMSG, ADDIE, E-Simulation, and 3D Open Simulator Technology Architecture. This paper focused on a case study of online training for food crops productivity data surveys.
Background: The conventional online training still lacks engagement, immersion, and curiosi ...
3D, virtual learning environment, educational game, online training
202 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research is a comparative test between two Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design approaches - Apple versus one informed by child users.
Background: There are studies concerning the creation of graphical interfaces for kids, however, they do not involve them in the design process. On the other hand, operating systems such as Apple or Android impose their graphic guidelines desi ...
usability, mobile devices, games, children
120 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Effective e-learning systems need to incorporate student characteristics such as learning style and knowledge level in order to provide a more personalized and adaptive learning experience. However, there is a need to investigate how and when to provide adaptivity based on student characteristics, and more importantly, to evaluate its value in learning enhancement. This study aims to ...
adaptivity, e-learning, learning style, evaluation, computer science education
484 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aimed to investigate the influence of technology support, social support, academic support, and service support on student satisfaction and their relationships in private and state universities.
Background: Coherent support between students, teachers, and management is usually extended beyond classroom scheduling and space. This support has a positive significant influence ...
technology support, academic support, social support, service support, stu-dent satisfactiontechnology support, academic support, social support, service support, student satisfaction
244 downloads
Aim/Purpose: At a public, higher education program in information technology, faculty are frequently asked to evaluate their curricula concerning: course content, the matriculation experience, where and in what capacity graduates are employed, and future academic initiatives developed to keep pace with changes in technology. The problem is determining the best process or mechanism to accumulate th ...
CIS curriculum development, IT careers, email surveys, Cooperative education, STEM, curriculum assessment
159 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 16, 2019
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology, InSITE
110 downloads
Aim/Purpose: One of the most fascinating developments in computer user interfaces in recent years is the rise of “chatbots”. Yet extent information system (IS) curriculum lacks teaching resources on chatbots programming..
Background: To better prepare students for this new technological development and to enhance the IS curriculum, we introduce a project that teaches students how to program si ...
information system education, chatbot, artificial intelligence, student perceptions
370 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this project was to explore a method to enable an updated under-standing of digital literacy to be implemented in curricula in an environment of an existing, but outdated, understanding of digital literacy.
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Background: The changing healthcare environment increasingly emphasizes the importance of digital literacy skills; therefore academics in the optometry discipline at ...
optometry, digital literacy, graduate learning outcomes, health professional education
139 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The flipped classroom approach is one of the most popular active learning approaches. This paper explores the effectiveness of a new pedagogy, known as FOCUSED, for postgraduate students.
Background: The flipped classroom approach is a trendy blended learning pedagogy which capitalizes on the flexibility of online learning and the stimulating nature of face-to-face discussion. This ...
blended learning, flipped classroom, online learning, peer interactions, post-graduate students
108 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Drone technology has been increasingly used in education. This paper reports a study of assessing teachers’ readiness and training needs for using drone technology in their teaching.
Background: New technology promotes new ways of practices. With the sophisticated design and the affordance to explore our world from a bird’s eye perspective, a drone has been increasingly used to sup ...
drone, unmanned aerial vehicle, teacher education, STEM education, TPCK
270 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the sense of challenge and threat, negative feelings, self-efficacy, and motivation among students in a virtual and a blended course on multicultural campuses and to see how to afford every student an equal opportunity to succeed in academic studies.
Background: Most academic campuses in Israel are multicultural, with a diverse student body. ...
multiculturalism, threat, challenge, motivation, virtual course, blended course, transactional distance
77 downloads
Agile Requirements Engineering: An Empirical Analysis and Evidence from a Tertiary Education Context
Aim/Purpose: The study describes empirical research into agile Requirements Engineering (RE) practices based on an analysis of data collected in a large higher education organization.
Background: Requirements Engineering (RE) in agile development contexts is considerably different than in traditional software development. The field of agile RE is still nascent where there is a need to evaluat ...
agile requirements engineering, case study, empirical, agile, Scrum, tertiary edu-cation
88 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To capture digital training experiences, the paper introduces a novel data collection method – a graphic questionnaire. It aims to demonstrate the opportunities and limitations of this tool for collecting feedback from socially disadvantaged participants of digital literacy training about their progress.
Background: In training of digital skills for disadvantaged audiences through ...
digital literacy, digital divide, graphic questionnaire, elderly persons, people with hearing impairment, children, assessment
236 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Our research goal was to examine the factors that motivate women to enroll in Computer Science (CS) courses in order to better understand the small number of women in the field of CS.
Background: This work is in line with the growing interest in better understanding the problem of the underrepresentation of women in the field of CS.
Methodology: We focused on a college that diff ...
women, underrepresentation, computer science, culture, Haredi
103 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Providing both formative and summative assessment that allows students to learn from their mistakes is difficult in large classes. This paper describes an automated assessment system suitable for courses with even 100 or more students.
Background: Assessment is a vital part of any course of study. Ideally students should be given formative assessment with feedback during the cour ...
automated assessment, formative and summative evaluation, self-paced learning, feedback, ‘little and often’ assessment
117 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Little is known of the cultural competence or leadership styles of a minority owned newspaper. This autoethnography serves to benchmark one early 1990s example.
Background: I focused on a series of flashbacks to observe an African American weekly newspaper editor-in-chief for whom I reported to 25 years ago. In my reflections I sought to answer these questions: How do minorities i ...
cultural competence, microaggression, racism, prejudice, African American, newspapers, leadership, journalism, autoethnography, epistemology, flashbacks, reflection
85 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Bring your own device (BYOD) provides opportunities for both the organization and employees, but the adoption of BYOD also introduces risks. This case study of an organization’s BYOD program identifies key positive and negative influences on the adoption decision.
Background: The consumerization of IT introduced the BYOD phenomenon into the enterprise environment. As mobile and Int ...
Bring your own device (BYOD), IT management, benefits, risks, Technology-Organization-Environment framework, case study, financial services, South Africa
205 downloads
Aim/purpose
The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychosocial and emotional outcomes of an introductory health science workshop designed to support and assist incoming health science students before starting their university study.
Background
For the past two decades, a South Australian university offered an on-campus face to face workshop titled ‘Preparation for Health Sciences’ to ...
transition to university, first year, psychosocial, anxious
78 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents an exploratory case study into using 360° videos to present small segments of lecture content for IT students in an Australian University. The aim of this study was to understand; what is the impact of incorporating 360° videos into class content for students and teaching staff? In this study the 360° videos are described as “learning atoms”. Learning atoms are sho ...
virtual reality, students, improving classroom teaching
99 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a prototype of an information-generating computer tool designed to automatically map the dental restorations in a panoramic radiograph.
Background: A panoramic radiograph is an external dental radiograph of the oro-maxillofacial region, obtained with minimal discomfort and significantly lower radiation dose compared to full mouth intra-oral rad ...
medical information, panoramic images, dental restorations, radiologic informative report, machine learning, computer vision, image processing
129 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Teachers are being asked to integrate mobile technologies into their content creation and distribution tasks. This research aims to provide an understanding of teachers taking on this process and whether the use of technology has influenced their content creation and distribution in the classroom.
Background: Many claim that the use of technology for content creation and distribut ...
task-technology fit, education technology, content creation, content distribution, technology choices, teachers
518 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to answer the research question titled What are the competencies required for the Business Process Analyst (BPA) role in organizations with ERP systems in Kenya. Through 4 hypotheses, this study focuses on two specific aspects: (1) Enhancing BPM Maturity and (2) ERP implementation.
Background: The emergence of complex systems and complex processes in organizations i ...
enterprise systems, BPA competencies, business process analyst, context
53 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the benefits and challenges of experiencing virtual multi-cultural teamwork in order to learn entrepreneurship.
Background: Entrepreneurial eco-system usually requires working in international, virtual multi-cultural diverse teams. Higher education institutes are trying to educate future generation of entrepreneurs, coping with challenges derived from the virtua ...
entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning, multicultural, virtual, global team-work
74 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To understand readiness of students for learning in online environments across different age groups.
Background: Online learners today are diverse in age due to increasing adult/mature students who continue their higher education while they are working. Understanding the influence of the learners’ age on their online learning experience is limited.
Methodology: A survey methodol ...
online learning, readiness, age, motivation, self-efficacy, anxiety
178 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Blended learning can transform students experience and learning in higher education. Although the literature extensively explores benefits of blended learning, limited research exists to provide a detailed design principle for implementing instructional activities in blended courses and its usage as tool to influence learning outcomes for second language first year accounting learners ...
learning management system, learning pathway, community of practice, independent learning, content analysis, second language learners
86 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Any system that aims to address the task of modeling social media communication need to deal with the usage of emojis. Efficient prediction of the most likely emoji given the text of a message may help to improve different NLP tasks.
Background: We explore two tasks: emoji identification and emoji prediction. While emoji prediction is a classification task of predicting the emojis ...
emoji prediction, machine learning, social media, supervised learning
53 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim and purpose of this study is to understand why there is a dearth of faculty of color ascending to senior levels of leadership in higher education institutions, and to identify strategies to increase the representation of faculty of color in university senior administrative positions.
Background: There is a lack of faculty of color in senior level academic administrative pos ...
leadership development, higher education administration, faculty of color, glass ceiling, critical race theory
445 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether grit was a contributing factor to student persistence and success at minority serving institutions.
Background: A number of studies conducted in the past fifteen years have concluded that grit is a positive predictor of achievement across many domains. But, is grit really the ultimate panacea for student success? This longitudinal stud ...
grit, persistence to graduation, student retention, graduation rates, business education, student success, first generation college students, HBCU, minority learners, UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, persistence and perseverance, grit in education
278 downloads
Table of Contents of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning
Table of Contents, IJELL, e-skills, lifelong learning
75 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to explore positive and negative aspects of student-teacher communication via Facebook, as perceived by students in secondary education.
Background: Student-teacher relationship is key to students’ cognitive, social and emotional development. In recent years, as social networking sites (e.g., Facebook) became popular, these connections have extende ...
student-teacher relationship, student-teacher communication, social networking sites, Facebook, SNS-mediated communication
211 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of faculty and student perceptions of the importance of resource, interpersonal, information, systems, and technology management competencies in the hospitality industry
Background: The increasing complexity and technological dependency of the diverse hospitality and tourism sector raises the skill requirements needed, and expect ...
SCANS, career readiness, workplace readiness, 21st century skills, hospitality education, first generation college students, technology readiness, HBCU, mi-nority learners, UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, e-skills, lifelong learning
496 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to determine where nursing students from a metropolitan university subsequently work following graduation, identify the factors that influence decisions to pursue careers in particular locations, ascertain educational plans in the immediate future; and explore the factors that might attract students to pursue postgraduate study.
Background: The global nursing shortage ...
nursing, graduate destinations, educational aspirations, clinical experiences
96 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to explore positive and negative aspects of teacher-teacher communication via Facebook, as perceived by teachers in secondary education.
Background: Teacher-student relationship is key to teachers’ wellness and professional development and may contribute to positive classroom environment. In recent years, as social networking sites (e.g., Facebook) ...
teacher-student relationship, teacher-student communication, social networking sites, SNS-mediated communication, Facebook
194 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To examine how positive/negative message framing – based on peripheral cues (regarding popularity, source, visuals, and hyperlink) – affects perceptions of credibility of scientific information posted on social networking sites (in this case, Facebook), while exploring the mechanisms of viewing the different components.
Background: Credibility assessment of information is a key skill ...
credibility assessment, message framing, social networking sites, peripheral cues, eye tracking
132 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the modern world, simulation has become a new phenomenon in education, which conveys new and innovative ideas of curriculum, instruction, and classroom management. It makes certain of Aristotle’s words when he said that “The things we have to learn before we do them, we must learn by doing them”. One might think that simulation in education is one of these technologies.
This stud ...
conflict, satisfaction, simulation in education, simulation scenario
91 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the research was to examine the relationship between the sub-dimensions of organizational culture perceptions, such as task culture, success culture, support culture, and bureaucratic culture and job motivations of ISMEK Lifelong Learning Center teachers.
Background: It is thought that if teachers’ perceptions of organizational culture and levels of job motivation are ass ...
adult education, lifelong learning, organizational culture, job motivation
132 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce, describe, and document the methods involved in the preparation of a mindset intervention built into a freshmen development course, and established after years of longitudinal research, that is designed to have a positive impact on the outlook, achievement, and persistence of first generation and under-prepared students.
Background: A number ...
grit, growth mindset, mindset intervention, self-efficacy, social cognitive theory, learning intervention, student retention, student success, business education, first generation college students, HBCU, minority learners, UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, learning self-efficacy, goal setting, grit in education
492 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 14, 2019, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD, doctoral studies
645 downloads
IJIKM, contents
127 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to examine the role of Knowledge Management (KM) infrastructure (technological, structural, and cultural) in enhancing job satisfaction in the context of developing countries, as exemplified by Jordan.
Background: Despite the presence of job satisfaction studies conducted in educational institutions across the world, knowledge management issues have not been taken ...
knowledge management infrastructure, knowledge management, job perfor-mance, Jordan
379 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This systematic review synthesizes the literature on doctoral writing and feedback published in peer-reviewed English-language journals between 1997 and 2017 to provide insight into how these topics have been theorized and approached. The goal was to examine how this literature characterizes the development of academic identity in doctoral students to better understand the conceptual ...
academic identity, doctoral writing, feedback, systematic review
1553 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this article, we provide a better solution to Webpage access prediction. In particularly, our core proposed approach is to increase accuracy and efficiency by reducing the sequence space with integration of PageRank into CPT+.
Background: The problem of predicting the next page on a web site has become significant because of the non-stop growth of Internet in terms of the volume o ...
Webpage access prediction, sequence prediction, compact prediction tree, PageRank algorithm
254 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to investigate doctoral student preparation for the professoriate through a formal course entitled “The Professoriate.”
Background: Many studies addressed the need for improved graduate preparation, however, the study of doctoral student experiences in preparation courses, designed as part of the doctoral academic programs, has received less attention.
Methodology: ...
doctoral education, doctoral student preparation, the professoriate
688 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze various performance metrics and approaches to their classification. The main goal of the study was to develop a new typology that will help to advance knowledge of metrics and facilitate their use in machine learning regression algorithms
Background: Performance metrics (error measures) are vital components of the evaluation frameworks in various ...
performance metrics, error measures, accuracy measures, distance, similarity, dissimilarity, properties, typology, classification, machine learning, regression, forecasting, prognostics, prediction, evaluation, estimation, modeling
2518 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to contribute to current knowledge of team supervision. Specifically, we examine the relationship between main supervisor and co-supervisor regarding credibility in the division of roles and responsibilities within supervision teams.
Background: The overall intention of this article is to provide more information about the dynamics in the relationship betwee ...
team supervision, power dynamics, responsibility, academic competencies, doctoral programs
791 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study forms part of the World IT Project, which aims to gain a deeper understanding of individual, personal and organisational factors influencing IT staff in a modern, work environment. The project also aims to provide a global view that complements the traditional American/Western view. The purpose of this study is to investigate and report on some of these factors, in particu ...
turnover intention, job satisfaction in IT staff, IS personnel, workforce, burn-out, exhaustion
218 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined doctoral faculty of educational leadership within the state of Georgia in the United States. The aim was to illustrate the academic qualifications and practitioner experiences of the faculty that develop students in educational leadership programs to be scholarly practitioners and future educational leaders.
Background: Faculty of educational leadership program ...
academic qualifications, Doctor of Education, doctoral faculty, educa-tional leadership, practitioner experiences, scholarly practitioners
600 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the activities involved in facilitating self-selecting teams for Agile software development projects. This paper also discussed how these activities can influence the successful expertise coordination in Agile teams.
Background: Self-selecting teams enable Agile team members to choose teams based on whom they prefer to work with. Good team bonding allows A ...
agile software development, self-selecting teams, expertise coordination, grounded theory
113 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Dropout is a critical problem in graduate college programs across disciplines and institutions. Yet relatively little research has assessed graduate students’ motivations for dropping out across disciplines, or systematically modeled perceptions that contribute to dropout intentions.
Background: Perceptions drive critical decisions that people make about their lives, and a core se ...
graduate education, graduate student retention, dropout intentions, graduate student perceptions, self-efficacy, satisfaction, graduate college experience, graduate experience gap, competence, identity development
741 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to identify prosumers’ engagement in business process innovation through knowledge sharing.
Background: In the increasingly competitive knowledge-based economy, companies must seek innovative methods of doing business, quickly react to consumer demand, and provide superior value to consumers. Simultaneously, contemporary consumers, named “prosumers ...
consumer engagement, consumer knowledge, prosumer, knowledge sharing, business processes, consumer innovations
115 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Doctoral student completion rates are notoriously low; although statistics differ depending on which study one consults, a typical completion rate is about 50%. However, studies show mentors can use strategies to improve students’ graduation rates. Our purpose was to learn from effective mentors about the processes they believe are most important in guiding doctoral students to the su ...
doctoral student mentoring, writing support, research methods support, best practices, empirical paper
988 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the influence of ambidextrous knowledge sharing in industrial clusters on innovation performance from the perspective of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities.
Background: The key factor to improving innovation performance in an enterprise is to share knowledge with other enterprises in the same cluster and use dynamic capabilities to absorb, integrate, and create ...
industrial cluster, ambidextrous knowledge sharing, innovation, dynamic capabilities, China
171 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article uses the enrollment approach contained in the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to challenge the deterministic perspectives of doctoral socialization and offers a new perspective based on co-construction between social and technological entities mobilized during the doctoral education as a driver of success.
Background: Most studies have used deterministic approaches to show th ...
doctoral education, doctoral socialization, PhD students, supervisory politics, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), socio-technological enrollment
648 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study empirically analyzed and examined the effectiveness of the online advocacy banners on customers’ reactions to make replacements with the similar products in their shopping carts.
Background: When a product in a shopping cart is removed, it might be put back into the cart again during the same purchase or it may be bought in the future. Otherwise, it might be abandoned and ...
recommendation banner, product similarity, association rule
77 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between knowledge sharing process and innovation success with specific emphasis on tacit knowledge. Based on the literature review, we hypothesised that knowledge donating and collecting have a positive relationship with innovation success.
Methodology: The hypotheses were empirically tested using the partial least square path modelling with d ...
tacit knowledge, knowledge sharing, knowledge donating, knowledge collecting, innovation success
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This conceptual paper proposes interaction support based on the Interaction Equivalency Theorem (EQuiv) to support interaction for non-traditional doctoral students who have been identified as attrition risks.
Background: The master-apprentice form of doctoral education consists primarily of interaction with the supervisor for academic purposes. If this interaction is impaired, it m ...
doctoral education, persistence, interaction equivalency theorem, part-time non-traditional students
658 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to investigate if participation in business association’s programs through the traditional and new media platforms influences family businesses in South Eastern Nigeria to diversify into similar or different businesses.
Background: Before the advances in information and communication technology, businesses were carried on via the traditional media. The application of ...
family business, social network, unrelated diversification strategy, related diversification strategy
104 downloads
Aim/Purpose: New models of curriculum and instruction are needed to help increase completion rates of doctoral programs, as only about half of all students who begin doctoral programs complete them. This paper presents preliminary results of an evaluation of a promising new model called the Ewing Model© where the culminating projects of a doctoral program is completed in a series of five sequentia ...
retention, attrition, completion, Ewing Model, social connectedness, doctoral research project, applied research project, dissertation, culminating project, usefulness of curriculum and instruction
804 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and organizational innovation (OI). It also enriches our understanding of the mediating effect of organizational learning (OL) in this relationship.
Background: KM’s relationship with OL and OI has been tackled extensively in developed countries’ literature. Nowadays, the challenges of dev ...
knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational innovation, Jordanian manufacturing companies
208 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite the literature documenting the importance of family in persistence, doctoral students’ Academic-Family integration has been relatively ignored. Thus, in this study, the construct of doctoral academic-family integration is defined, followed by the creation and validation an instrument.
Background: The challenge of integrating the doctoral degree program and family is a centra ...
doctoral student persistence, academic-family integration, academic-family boundaries, academic-family balance, retention, persistence
742 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite the fact that the plethora of studies demonstrate the positive impact of information technology (IT) capabilities on SMEs performance, the understanding of underlying mechanisms through which IT capabilities affect the firm performance is not yet clear. This study fills these gaps by explaining the roles of absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship. The study also ela ...
information technology capabilities, IT integration, IT alignment, absorptive capacity, corporate entrepreneurship, innovation performance, firm perfor-mance
795 downloads
Aim/Purpose: For the purpose of better understanding the reasons of their withdrawal and experiences, this study seeks to elicit the voices of Chinese international students who have withdrawn from doctoral studies in Canada.
Background: This study used Tinto’s institutional departure model as a framework. His model illustrates that the experience of individuals in that institution modifies their ...
doctoral students, withdrawal, cultural differences, Chinese international students
817 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To examine millennial satisfaction towards online food delivery services, including e-service quality, food quality, and perceived value as the determinants and behavioral intention as the consequence.
Background: Among the generational cohorts, millennials are a demanding target group for many retailers, including restaurants. Despite many studies examining millennial behavior in th ...
millennial, satisfaction, online food, home delivery service
429 downloads
Aim/Purpose: We sought to understand factors that dissuade engineering and computing doctoral students in the United States from pursuing a career in the professoriate.
Background: Many PhD students start the doctoral process excited about the possibility of becoming a professor. After a few years of doctoral education, however, many become less interested in academic careers or even come to loat ...
doctoral programs, engineering and computing, academic careers
687 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to identify the main factors influencing consumers’ adoption of social commerce (s-commerce). Based on the socio-technical theory, the study suggests a research model that investigates the key social and technical factors driving consumers’ decision to purchase from social commerce websites. In addition, the research model explores the interactive relationship among th ...
social commerce, trust, e-commerce, post purchase experience, familiarity, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, TAM
906 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Although there are calls for better teaching training for accounting doctoral students, there are limited research findings on rankings of accounting doctoral programs based on the teaching effectiveness of their graduates.
Background: There are two research objectives of this study. First, we rank the US accounting doctoral programs based on the student perceptions of the teaching e ...
doctoral program, accounting doctoral program, accounting program, teaching training, ratemyprofessors, student rating
541 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores how women-led SMMEs in developing countries, specifically in the Mozambican context, institutionalise e-commerce by focusing on the ongoing interaction between the SMME, its context, and process of e-commerce institutionalization.
Background: It is believed that institutionalization of e-commerce provides significant benefits of unlimited access to new markets, an ...
small micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs), contextualist inquiry, e-commerce, developing countries
58 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores the various teaching and learning approaches, curriculum design, and program requirements for 70 doctoral programs in leadership.
Background: Early research indicates that few studies have addressed learner-centred and process-based approaches to leadership studies among doctoral programs in leadership worldwide. This study is the first complete review of programs ...
teaching and learning approaches, doctoral programs, leadership, organisational leadership, learner-centred approach
582 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Vis-à-vis management of crisis and disaster situations, this paper focuses on important use cases of social media functions, such as information collection & dissemination, disaster event identification & monitoring, collaborative problem-solving mechanism, and decision-making process. With the prolific utilization of disaster-based ontological framework, a strong disambiguation syste ...
disaster management, social media, ontological support, semantic search, SPARQL, RDF
70 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between preadmission criteria and doctoral student performance ratings and to develop a model to predict student persistence in one doctoral program of educational leadership.
Background: Individuals responsible for program admission decisions have a responsibility to minimize bias in the candidate selection process. Despite an i ...
doctoral students, educational leadership, admission, selection, Graduate Record Examination (GRE), grade point average (GPA
569 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the role of social support in the PhD. Despite universities’ efforts to provide a collegial PhD experience, candidates report isolation and loneliness in doctoral education – a factor contributing to attrition.
Background: Previous research (Mantai & Dowling, 2015) defined social support in four categories: moral, emotional, guiding and mentoring, companionshi ...
social support, relationships, PhD, doctoral experience, researcher development, student diversity, belonging
862 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationships among compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, IT Infrastructure, security, top Management Support, financial Support, information Policies, employee engagement, customer pressure, competitive pressure, information integrity, information sharing, attitude toward adopting technology factors, and CRM adoption
Background: Customer rela ...
customer relationship management system, small and medium enterprise, CRM adoption, Palestine
83 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This work examines the role of professional development in higher education graduate programs through the use of reflective teaching approaches. We discuss the relevance of a professional development framework in supporting the exploration of moral reasoning in addressing challenges in the higher education profession.
Background: Shifts in demographics within college university envi ...
professional development, graduate programs, moral reasoning, racial and cultural awareness
586 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article provides a much needed insight into the experiences of doctoral researchers in the UK that identify as Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Trans-, Queer, or outside of heteronormative or cis-normative identities (LGBTQ+) to address the question of what support, culture, and pedagogy might better support doctoral researchers who identify as LGBTQ+.
Background: While experiences of LG ...
LGBTQ+, supervision, doctoral education, postgraduate research, equality, diversity, inclusion
851 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores students’ perceptions of qualities they believe their ideal supervisor should possess as well as those they see as characterizing their current and past supervisors.
Background: Over more than three decades, multiple cultural contexts and diverse methodologies, research studies have demonstrated that what person related human qualities in postgraduate research sup ...
supervisory qualities, supervision, supervisory relationships, postgraduate attrition
757 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed at investigating whether doctoral students are already confronted with expectations that reflect a primacy of research and whether they adopt such views for themselves.
Background: There is a consensus among academics in the university system that research is typically valued more strongly than teaching in terms of prestige, rewards, and career options. Such prioriti ...
doctoral students, research, teaching, expectations, primacy, private relationships, supervisor, colleagues, prioritization, academics
544 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore trends and motivations for doctoral students’ participation in domestic and international conferences. We draw on doctoral students’ perceptions and experiences from four contexts (USA, Scotland, England, Australia) to further explore variations across different global contexts.
Background: There is increased recognition of the importance of confer ...
doctoral education, doctoral/PhD students, networking, academic conference, academic workforce
667 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The overall aim of this study was to improve our understanding of engineering student satisfaction and expectations with PhD supervision and their perceptions of the roles in a supervisory relationship.
Background: Studies on PhD supervision quality are highly valuable, mainly when they provide information on supervision experiences from students’ perspectives, rather than from super ...
doctorate, higher education, relationship, advisor, survey
628 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to align key aspects of the heroic journey archetype with existing research and writing about doctoral students, thereby extending previous discussions of this topic.
Background: While obtaining a doctoral degree is often described as a heroic journey, that assertion has not been fully explored from a depth psychology standpoint. Because myth i ...
doctoral education, heroic journey, archetypes, Jungian psychology
679 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Graduate programs aim to prepare students for future professional roles, yet doctoral graduates often earn faculty positions at institutions that differ from those in which they were socialized. Navigating this “preparation gap” can produce feelings of uncertainty, tension, and, ultimately, dissonance. This collaborative autoethnographic study explores the gap as it was experienced by ...
early career faculty, doctoral socialization, collaborative autoethnography
620 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The doctoral experience is a complex, challenging, and life-changing process. Cultivating a scholarship mindset is a requirement for success in early and later academic careers. This paper presents a situated framework for socializing doctoral students' scholarship mindset.
Background: Faculty of doctoral education programmes prepare students for higher education and other schola ...
doctoral education; doctoral mentoring; doctoral programmes; scholarship; scholarship mindset, socialisation
544 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The quality, degree of effort and persistence required in doctoral studies can be sustained through intrinsic motivation. Despite the critical role of motivation, studies that examine ways to promote doctoral students’ motivation are lacking. This study, drawing on the self-determination theoretical (SDT) framework, aims to offer advice for supervisory practices to facilitate the sati ...
higher education, supervisory practices, doctoral studies, motivation, self-determination theory
679 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess to what extent current doctoral students developed self-authored perspectives, as well as to assess whether or not there was an association between the number of years in the doctoral program and the development of three dimensions of self-authorship (i.e., Epistemological, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal).
Background: Self-authorship is a way ...
self-authorship, developmental theory, doctoral students, teaching and learning, higher education
581 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Doctoral education faces a serious problem: many students across the country begin the degree, but never graduate. However, effective mentoring can help students attain graduation, signaling their successful transformation to scholar. We believe the power of the mentor to bring about the transformation from student to scholar has to do with the quality of the relationship between ment ...
trust, authoritative style, tough love, collegiality, doctoral mentoring, empirical and theory-building paper
572 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine to which degree age, race, and Socioeconomic Status (SES) influence academic self-efficacy and academic self-handicapping behaviors in doctoral.
Background: Across all disciplines, more than 50% of students who begin a doctoral program do not persist to graduation. Although the issue of student retention and psychological factors have been ...
doctoral students, student retention, academic self-efficacy, academic self-handicapping
698 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article reports on university-funded research conducted to inform, design and implement applied industry-integrated training that could support higher degree by research (HDR) candidates in the disciplines of nursing and creative arts.
Background: Doctoral candidates contribute in steadily increasing numbers to the intellectual and economic capital of universities globally, how ...
higher degree by research (HDR) training, doctoral training, doctoral support, action research
545 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand doctoral and postdoctoral trainee preferences for different models of career development resources and how career-relevant social capital affects these preferences.
Background: The supply and demand mismatch within the academic job market is augmented by a growing complaint that trainees are not prepared for a range of careers beyond the aca ...
social capital, biomedical, career development, doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows
647 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores how online structured doctoral programmes (OSDPs) can sustain more fully the collective dimension of supervision for student emancipation leading to academic success. The paper answers the following research question: What mechanisms, if any, are responsible for successful online supervision leading to student academic success, and under what conditions can this oc ...
autoethnography, collective reflexivity, corporate agency, critical realism, online supervision
549 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper establishes how doctoral supervisors develop the supervision skills needed to handle the doctoral supervision process in the contemporary world.
Background: While the existing literature confirms that PhD holders can supervise doctoral students, there is a need to provide supporting evidence that the skills they possess qualify them to do this.
Methodology: Using the qua ...
doctoral supervision, supervisors, principal investigators, doctoral education
828 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to describe the experiences of educational leadership doctoral students when taking a conference course for the fulfillment of their program’s experiential learning requirements. The research explains how the course added to students’ understanding of educational research and development as research scholars.
Background: Research on doctoral student ...
scholarly development, educational leadership conference, doctoral students, adult learning theory, socialization, experiential learning
544 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This qualitative case-study explores how a doctoral student’s family influences the doctoral student’s success from the perspective of doctoral students who were enrolled in an online doctoral program.
Background: Previous research has shown that family can significantly influence doctoral student success; however, it is not clear what is meant by family nor what the details of the i ...
doctoral student, doctoral student success, retention, attrition, family support, family integration, qualitative, orientation
705 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This work contributes to the expansion of dialogue on doctoral education research in the United States, South Africa, and within the context of higher education internationalization. There is an emphasis on identifying and reinterpreting the doctoral process where racial and cultural aspects have been marginalized by way of institutional and systemic exclusion. An underlying premise i ...
doctoral studies, internationalization, racial and cultural diversity
565 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examined whether, and how, graduates of an EdD program continued to (a) engage in scholarly practitioner efforts and (b) employ inquiry skills in their workplace settings after completion of their doctoral studies.
Background: Little research has been conducted on follow-up of graduates of doctoral programs. The limited research that has been done, typically, was conduct ...
doctoral program graduates, scholarly practitioner, inquiry skills, CPED, EdD
530 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 4, 2019, of the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
Table of Contents, JSPTE, Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
92 downloads
Leslie was the founder of US Doggie Bakery in 2004 in Singapore, he had a vision of providing nutritious meals for dogs using human-grade ingredients. After three years, the third outlet was opened as a franchised business. In 2008, there was a change of the key personnel decided to leave and new business opportunity for Leslie overseas. The future of US Doggie Bakery was at a crossroad and was he ...
bakery, dog food, franchise business
50 downloads
Consulting Solutions Inc has spent the past 20 years serving the Federal Government. Consulting Solutions got its start as an 8(a) company in the DIA Mentor-Protégé program as a Protégé business delivering top notch IT & Mission Services. The company graduated from both the 8(a) program and the DIA Mentor-Protégé program, demonstrating an ability to bid and execute on large scale programs. Thro ...
consulting, government, federal, business, case study, continuing resolution, federal budget
17 downloads
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), all healthcare providers were required to adopt and show meaningful use of an electronic medical health record (EMR). To avoid a penalty, integration had to occur before January 1, 2014. Many hospitals and older physicians struggled with this. This digital change was new to not only physicians but also the business leaders that ran thos ...
Electronic Medical Records, medicine, hospitals, organizational change
156 downloads
On October 8, 2015, Glenn Peterson, President of Primo Flight Parts, Inc. (PFP), faced an important deadline: In one week, he needed to finalize his 2016 proposed budget so that supporting materials could be assembled and sent to the Board of Directors in advance of its October 23 meeting, when (he hoped) the budget would be approved. Peterson had been through this process many times since becomi ...
Evidenced-Based Decision Making, Data Stratification, Non-Value-Added Costs, Process Improvement, Operational Improvement, Transforming Data into Information, Operational Efficiency, Operational Inefficiency, Data-Based Decison Making, Business Analytics, Process Mapping, Department Analysis
56 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the phenomena of vicarious bullying, or an abetting bully, when a bully’s subordinate is used to inflict abuse on the target. This study examines who is most affected by this multi-faceted organizational abuse in American higher education.
Background: Workplace bullying has received international attention. Recent studies in the United States h ...
higher education, workplace bullying, vicarious bullying, gender, race
169 downloads
In May 2016, Jennifer Stancil, the new president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa, Florida was considering further steps to take toward her goal of making the downtown museum an educational and entertainment destination for children and their families. The CEO had been hired on November 23, 2015 with a mandate to rebrand the museum as a world-class learning en ...
nonprofit, marketing, communications, public relations, branding
440 downloads
Dr. Ken Atwater, President of Hillsborough Community College (HCC), saw the email flash across his monitor, “2018-19 Performance Funding: Hillsborough Community College” sent from the Chancellor of the Florida College System (FCS). The email was 12 months in the making. In 2015, the Florida Legislature created the first performance funding-based incentive program in its General Appropriations Act ...
Community College,performance based funding, Florida
16 downloads
In 2018, as the trade wars between the United States and China reached new heights, John faced challenges as he needed to quickly execute a plan to mitigate any risks to his company. The imposed tariffs were putting significant pressure on John’s current business initiatives, financial goals, and could derail is customers’ satisfaction.
John knew that he was in safe hands with the support of Jabi ...
Jabil, Supply Chain, Trade War, Tariff, Sanction, United States, China, Manufacturing, Electronic Manufacturing Service, Compliance
39 downloads
JoAnn put down the inventory reports of four Mosaic mines that she had been contemplating. Much of the raw material for the company’s phosphate fertilizer production was mined and processed at these Florida facilities. Keeping track of the vast array of equipment, parts, and supplies required to operate the mines had become an issue.
JoAnn Speaks, Purchasing Manager at Mosaic Company, was taske ...
inventory, mining, rfid, vending, technology, radio-frequency
27 downloads
As founder of the Women’s Money Empowerment Network (WoMEN), Dr. Laura Mattia she was worried that others were getting close to her platform idea in the financial services marketplace. She was thinking that it was finally time to launch her brand and dream in a comprehensive and meaningful fashion. A decisive step forward must be taken or a potential competitor could steal her platform idea. How c ...
financial planning, marketing, financial advisors, target marketing
19 downloads
Honeywell was an industry leader in the aerospace market for both government and commercial needs, and had a proud history of making best-in-class products for a wide range of customers. Mike Brutsman, senior project manager, thought, “We have great data, great analysts, and great products. Why can’t we provide better and timelier project data to all our customers?” To address these issues, Aero ...
Microsoft Project Online, cloud-based, aerospace, MPSO, project management
40 downloads
Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Florida is best known for their coordination of helping hand for the building of affordable homes in communities all across the world. Although effective at their mission, the organization had been procuring supplies the same way for decades, with no major analyses or innovations to their processes.
HFH Florida’s CEO, Barbara Inman, decided to reach out to the Univer ...
Supply chain, supply chain management, procurement, CSCMP, Habitat for Humanity, purchasing, centralized, centralized procurement, decentralized procurement, decentralized, non-profit
79 downloads
A payment solutions company learned that one of its prominent business partners was about to purchase one of its chief competitors, resulting in one of the most significant threats in the company's 30-year history. Could they maintain a relationship with a partner who was also a competitor? Was there an opportunity to redesign the business model for mutual benefit? What was the best approach to en ...
credit, payment, financial, banking, fintech
17 downloads
By implementing a better solution for shipment tracking, Michael wanted to facilitate better overall delivery service between WDS and its customers. The hardest question was that he did not know where to start. The quick solution of implementing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system would solve the majority of problems related to copying and pasting data. However, it might not help in the long ...
information systems, logistics, local business
18 downloads
How does MCS grow from a small business to a mid-size business? MCS is currently in an in-between phase, too big to be considered small in some industries categories and too small to be considered mid-size in others.
Information technology, federal government, small business
21 downloads
This discussion case follows a manager of IT for a global mattress manufacturer as he contemplates a decision surrounding conflicting feedback regarding a IT vendor named Pivotal IT. The case may be taught in both undergraduate (upper level) and graduate courses.
IT Managed Services, Outsourcing, Contingency Planning
28 downloads
Mike Joshi (MJ) - IT Director of ABC Corp (ABC) just got done with a meeting with Bob – Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations and Assurance for ABC Corp. MJ was asked to improve the output of ABC Corp’s current workforce to stay competitive in the hyper competitive telecommunications sector using technology. Bob demanded that MJ figure out a way to improve efficiency in ABC’s staff a ...
GAMIFICATION,BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION,BUSINESS EFFICIENCY
43 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored the connection between Tinto’s notion of “rites of passage” and Kenny’s parental attachment. Specifically, this study sought to explain how students’ parental attachment (i.e., affective quality of parental relationships, parents’ ability to facilitate independence, and parents as source of support) influenced their rites of passage (i.e., separation, transition, i ...
persistence, parental attachment, rites of passage
51 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Using discourse analysis, this study analyzed language used at universities undergoing budget cuts.
Background: In times of economic hardship and declining public support, institutions can generate more revenue or reduce expenditures, referred to as retrenchment, to meet their resource needs. Yet, scholarship on organizational approaches to retrenchment is scarce.
Methodology: Usi ...
retrenchment, budget cutting behaviors, discourse analysis
125 downloads
Aim/Purpose: While there are studies that examine the experience of LGB or international students, we are not aware of any study that examines both intersectionalities. In this study, we attempt to be the first to examine the experiences of international LGB students and the resources they utilize on campuses.
Background: This research provides an understanding of how this population of students ...
LGBTQIA, international students, intersectionality, student engagement
242 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Persistence rates among Black and Latinx students continue to fall behind those of their White peers. One way to address this issue is to promote a stronger college sense of belonging. While student involvement has been linked to sense of belonging, postsecondary institutions need to seriously reflect on, and recommit to, their own role in engaging Black and Latinx students to promote ...
Black and Latinx students, sense of belonging, college student engagement
208 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to apply Albert Bandura’s findings of the Bobo Doll experiments to organizational behavior and workplace bullying in higher education. The Bandura social psychological experiments confirm that people who see aggression also need to witness an intervention to aggression to learn that the organization does not welcome aggression in their work environment.
B ...
workplace bullying, Bobo Doll, laissez-faire leadership, deliberate indifference
458 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how faculty members teaching undergraduate diversity courses at liberal arts colleges in the southern United States addressed the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in their classrooms.
Background: Humanities and social science faculty teaching undergraduate diversity courses faced the decision of whether, and how, to ad ...
politics, 2016 election, college faculty, diversity courses, diversity require-ment, general education, academic freedom, liberal arts colleges, qualitative
82 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Black contributions to higher education are frequently marginalized by some of the field’s most commonly cited historians. The purpose of this conceptual paper is threefold: to demarginalize the role of Black Americans within the higher education history narrative; to demonstrate the need to reconsider the course reading selections used to facilitate learning in this area; and, to emp ...
higher education, history, Black, African American
51 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This preface presents the papers included in this Special Series of the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education.
Background: This special series was put together in an effort to show the interconnectedness of our world through globalization and internationalization within higher education.
Methodology: A qualitative conceptual analysis of the themes and insig ...
transnational education, globalization, internationalization, higher education, international research, study abroad, global responsibility, diversity, interfaith; campus worldview; campus climate
71 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare domestic and international students’ experiences of the campus worldview climate.
Background: Internationalization efforts have continued to increase and more institutions are codifying internationalization into their mission statements or strategic plans. However, most international students are coming to the United States from countries that ...
internationalization, international students, worldview diversity, interfaith
62 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper evaluates three community college internationalization plans using quantitative textual analysis to explore the different foci of institutions across three U.S. states.
Background: One of the purposes of community college internationalization is to equip future generations with the skills and dispositions necessary to be successful in an increasingly globalized workforce. ...
internationalization, community college, quantitative textual analysis, digital scholarship, international students
117 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Education is vital as it is a major investment in human capital. Tertiary education, in particular, contributes to the growth of knowledge and advances skills, which helps in the development of a country. This paper aims to look at the research and technological output at the tertiary level in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Background: Saudi Arabia and Iran have an aspiration for leadership ...
academia, Iran, R&D, research output, Saudi Arabia, tertiary education
74 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, we explored the learning experiences of graduate students enrolled at Vietnamese-German University (VGU), a transnational collaborative university that uses English as the language for instruction that is primarily conducted by German faculty.
Background: Transnational education has gained in popularity across the globe, often with English serving as the common languag ...
Vietnam, Germany, transnational education, English as lingua franca, student learning
99 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this collaborative autoethnographic research study was to explore how a shared Ghanaian study abroad experience would (re)shape how two U.S. first-generation Black women doctoral students understood teaching, learning, and academic achievement. Through our experiences, we reflected on what a reimagining U.S. higher education could look like to facilitate a cultural shif ...
Ghana, study abroad, graduate preparation, higher education, student affairs, African American students, counselor education
133 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This investigation examines 15 interviews at one critical case in Finland to explore the ways in which practitioners of higher education address the challenges associated with the pursuit of a global social good agenda. Employing the language of the participants, the purpose of this investigation is to explain the ways in which tertiary education practitioners conceptualize their “glo ...
social good, internationalization, higher education, global responsibility, Finland, critical, neoliberalism, global, university, coloniality, social justice, practitioner
57 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Higher education has faced increasing perceptions, mainly by students, of unwelcoming campus racial and diversity climates. As a result, during the past decade, there has been a peak in the inaugurations of chief diversity officers. Yet, little is known about how these offices are established.
Background: This study explores and describes the emergence of the chief diversity office a ...
diversity, campus climate, race, CDO, leadership, higher education, equity, inclusion
295 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Book Review: Multicultural and Diversity Issues in Student Affairs Practice - A Professional Competency Based Approach
Background: This text explores cases and concepts regarding multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion in student affairs practice as guided by ACPA/ NASPA competencies.
Methodology: Review
Contribution: Review
Findings: Overall, this text is a useful resource for ...
multiculturalism, diversity, inclusion, student affairs
26 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To inclusively consider the diversity within student gender-identification at post-secondary institutions, we investigate expanding gender self-identification options on admissions forms; often the first point of student contact with campuses.
Background: Even if inspired and motivated by inclusion, many of the gender categories in use presently have challenges, including conflating ...
gender diversity, gender categories, gender data, demographics, education, post-secondary students, transgender, non-binary
61 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper establishes a research agenda for learning from global approaches to higher education as a field of study by encouraging research into new methods and practices in leadership development from emerging scholars and practitioners around the world.
Background: Significant growth has occurred in the number of academic programs, research centers, and scholars serving in the fie ...
higher education as a field of study, leadership development, international higher education
56 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper encourages the reader to think about the role history, or foundations, plays in graduate programs in the field of higher education. In so doing it looks at the types of conversations scholars in other fields and disciplines have had concerning the value of teaching students to think historically in settings where history is not the primary mode of scholarship, before think ...
higher education, foundations, graduate education, higher education programs
48 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The focus of this study is to find the relationship between the components in Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) such as attitude, subjective norms (Media), subjective norm (celebrity), psychological attribute (self-esteem) and psychological attributes (social status) which influence Seoul Korea female intention to undergo cosmetic surgery in Seoul, Korea.
Background: South Korea was ra ...
Beauty Industry, Women Behavior, Cosmetic Surgery, Intention, South Korea
139 downloads
Through the 2016-2017 academic year, student aid applicants completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid used the immediately previous year’s tax information. Beginning in 2017-2018, students were required to use two-year-old tax return information creating a lag in the timeliness of financial health data used to calculate financial aid eligibility. This older data is called Prior-Pri ...
Student Financial Aid, FAFSA, Prior-Prior Year
23 downloads
Aim/Purpose
The study seeks to examine the strategic interventions needed to promote the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Specifically, it analyzed the relationship between organizational learning, cultural values and SMEs performance.
Background
The performance of SMEs has been identified as one of the most important success factors behind growth, development and indu ...
Strategic interventions, organizational learning, cultural values, performance, SMEs
136 downloads
This research was conducted to address leadership concerns regarding managers’ effectiveness in leading a multicultural workforce. Essential leadership skills for frontline managers were explored via pilot study interviews and a follow-on survey. Six leadership skills were identified and prioritized that are currently informing the company’s new leadership development program initiative.
Leadership Skills, Leadership Development Programs, Frontline Managers, Multicultural Organizations
85 downloads
Next Horizons is an entrepreneurial for-profit networking business group. The company operates similar to a professional organization with selective membership and membership fees. Next Horizons aims to expand its current business model by increasing its paying membership. The purpose of this case study is to systematically gather and review evidence on members’ perceived benefits of their members ...
Professional association, professional organization, membership, social exchange theory, systematic review, rapid evidence assessment, rapid evidence assessment
65 downloads
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The main aim of the study is to critically examine the forces that can impede or support students to use e-learning in higher education teaching and learning environment which require not only pre-technological literacy’s but easy access to the e-learning platform and ICT devices.
Background
The concept of e-learning has grown considerably in the past three or four decades, which ac ...
Information and Communication Technologies, technological skills, training.
81 downloads
The paper uses a mixed method approach to conduct a literature review of existing econometric studies to determine the key drivers of export diversification and economic growth, and to examine whether export diversification propels or hinders economic growth. The paper differs fundamentally from previous studies, as it focuses on identifying the key variables used, the frequency with which they ar ...
Export Diversification, Economic Growth, Developing Countries, Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States.
210 downloads
Aim/Purpose:
The Malaysian government has given numerous incentives to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including those in the food manufacturing sector, in an attempt to boost their performance. This study aims to assess the effects of these incentives, particularly financial and tax incentives, on the performance of SMEs in the Malaysian food manufacturing sector.
Background:
Millions of ...
small medium enterprises, structure-conduct-performance, food manufacturing industry, financial incentives, tax incentives
155 downloads
Operating a business in an Economic Development Zone can offer benefits allowing a business owner to reduce its operating expenses and increasing the competitive advantage.
Rural Enterprise Zone, Enterprise Zone, Economic Development District, Economic Development Strategy, Housing and Urban Development, Rural Development, Smart Rural Development, Rural Incubator, Empowerment Zone, Enterprise community, Entrepreneur, Opportunity Zone and Promise Zone
10 downloads
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This study aims to identify the level of perception level of consumer and the relationship between knowledge, attitude and practice toward consumer perception on the halal cosmetic product.
Background:
Halal labelled cosmetic sector is expected to thrive in Malaysia. The consumption and expenditure among Malaysian consumers on cosmetic products in personal body care, beauty and wel ...
Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Cosmetic Halal label
129 downloads
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The purpose of this study is to expand the knowledge base on factors likely to impede implementation and adoption of web-based learning management systems to blend with traditional methods of lecturing in universities to cater for the next generation of learners in Africa and Eastern Cape Province South Africa in particular.
Background:
The shift from the industrial economies to 21 ...
ICTs, next generation of learners, teaching, technological skills, lecturers, web-based learning management system, 21st century digital economies.
23 downloads
Government, private business, and academia have been placing increasing emphasis on collaboration in multi-stakeholder, multicultural environments. Persons working within the Department of Defense Theater Security Cooperation environment must regularly interact with others coming from cultures that are dissimilar to their own. They must adapt to these different cultural environments.
collaboration, effectiveness, sensemaking, expatriate, adaptation, power distance, self-monitoring
19 downloads
Entrepreneurship has emerged over the last three decades as arguable the most potent economic force the world has ever experienced. This economic expansion has paralleled rapid growth in the field of entrepreneurship education. Recent developments in curricula and programs devoted to entrepreneurship, new venture creation and corporate innovation have been remarkable. The number of colleges and ...
Entrepreneurship Education, Universities Entrepreneurship Education, University Innovation Concept Centers, New Collegiate Entrepreneurship Programs
28 downloads
A culture of innovation is an attribute in business, which can be measured both qualitatively and quantitatively. The measurement of innovation empirically correlates with other measures of the corporate brand, such as overall reputation, perception of management, and investment potential. It seems logical then that the process of innovation may be a more strategic tool that is akin to corporate b ...
Innovation, innovative, innovation management, innovation processes, business culture, innovative culture, disruptive innovation, intangible assets, brand measurement, brand equity, customer experience
35 downloads
Fifty million years ago, the equine is chronicled in the early days of Eohippus, the earliest known horse to man. In the 1400s, Cortez and Christopher Columbus transported the first domestic horses to the Americas. Ancient times supported the use of horses in times of war where the industry began utilizing the horse as a vehicle. Today, the equine industry is strongly steeped in traditions and cul ...
Equine, Horses, Hoof care, Natural Horsemanship, Farrier, Shod, Barefoot, Change, Status Quo
91 downloads
The equine industry is changing after hundreds of years of solid foundations built on long-standing beliefs. The natural horse and hoof introduction have spurred a push to wake up this sleeping, yet strong industry. Both factions of the industry, hoof care, and horsemanship are affected. The debate of natural versus traditional is growing causing friction in some areas and asking participants to p ...
Horses, Equine, Natural Horsemanship, Qualitative Data Analysis, NVIVO, Status Quo, Change
33 downloads
Aim and Purpose:
The African-Canadian Career Excellence (ACCE) initiative was developed to address the loss of highly-educated, English-speaking Black youth from the Greater Montreal Area (Quebec, Canada) facing issues of unemployment and underemployment.
Background:
The ACCE initiative partners – African and Caribbean Synergic inter-organizational Network of Canada (ACSioN Network), Black C ...
African-Canadian, Black-African youth, multiculturalism, Quebecers, English-speaking, discrimination, systemic discrimination, employability, workforce development, labor force development, community economic development, labor market, skills gap, diversify, diversity, recruitment strategy, public policy, African issues
46 downloads
Change management is at the forefront of many business leader’s minds and at the center of most boardrooms. Change is inevitable yet change for many is a very hard task. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2017 that the U.S. spent $63.2 billion on consulting costs, which is an 8.1% increase from $58.7 billion in 2016 (Shumsky, 2018). Many companies pay for high-level consultants to aid around orga ...
Change Management, Status Quo, Grounded Theory, Resistance to change, Organizational Change
18 downloads
Are U.S. Millennials Really Disengaged at Work? A Review of the Academic and Practitioner Literature
This is a generational workplace engagement article focused on millennials. The article introduces a variety of academic and practitioner information and research relating to millennial disengagement in the workplace. Concepts covered include employee engagement and disengagement, generational differences and specifically millennial engagement and disengagement. The goal of the article is to revie ...
Millennials, generational differences, workplace engagement, workplace disengagement
93 downloads
For healthcare insurance companies, managing and reducing medical costs is important to remain viable and/or meet investors and stakeholder expectations. The accountability to minimize costs and remain competitive becomes a responsibility for managers who work in these companies. Therefore, managers must continually look for methods to identify and implement opportunities that improve case manag ...
Case management, case management processes, efficiency, medical cost reduction, healthcare insurance, scientific management theory
62 downloads
Aim/Purpose:
Data from two large Canadian surveys are used to analyze educational and earnings performance of Blacks and Whites. The main purpose of this study is to determine how well blacks perform relative to Whites in these two areas.
Background:
Canadian researchers have been studying black performance in education and labor markets since the 1970’s. Much of this research was done before 2 ...
Canada, Racism, Blacks, Ordered probability Models, Beta Distributions, Mixtures
31 downloads
From the beginning of their inception, Student Loans have been a powerful and many times necessary tool to allow middle and low-income families to send their children to college despite the increasingly higher costs (Collier, D. A., & Herman, R., 2016). These loans are highly regulated by the government under different policies that have changed over time based on the needs of the borrowers and go ...
Student Loan History, Student Loan Policies, National Defense Education Act (NDEA), Federal Loan Regulations, Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), Department of Education, Direct Loans, Income Driven Repayment programs, Student Loan Consolidation, Higher Education Act
130 downloads
Summary:
This paper presents a general overview of the challenges faced by English-speaking Black community members in Montreal, as well as the exacerbation of those barriers for individuals with a history of justice involvement. Frontline community initiatives focusing on education, employment, and entrepreneurship at DESTA Black Youth Network are profiled as an example of grassroots efforts to ...
Black Community, English-speaking, Montreal, Intersectional, Anti-Black Systemic Racism, Justice, Education, Employment, Income, Entrepreneurship
24 downloads
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are critical to managing student information and college operations, but can be challenging for colleges to implement. Consortia present a unique solution to colleges to address gaps in their expertise and skills needed to achieve a successful ERP implementation, even if that collaboration takes place with a competitor.
Higher Education Consortia, ERP in Higher Education, Coopetition in Higher Education.
24 downloads
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This article explains the movement for Afrocentric public schools in Canada, particularly in Montreal, and the controversy it has generated. It is also argued that Black youth would gain significantly from community based educational programs that root their learning more closely in the life, experiences and needs of their community.
Background:
The Black Academic Scholarship Fun ...
Black learners, equity, education, non-profit organization
20 downloads
By 2020, the AI market is expected to grow by $47 billion, with the international big data analytics industry expected to grow by $203 billion. The vast majority of AI development is conducted by a modest number of techno-giants (Twitter, IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple...). There are over 7 billion people worldwide, yet all of the code is being written by a mere 10,000 people in s ...
Artificial intelligence, AI, AI bias, executive function, decision-making, AI dependency
151 downloads
Autonomous Vehicle (A/V) technology has been advancing at a rapid pace but the prospect of mass deployment has not been achieved. Inherent expected benefits of this technology such as reduced loss of life, productivity improvements, and greater vehicle efficiency utilization have yet to materialize. The American public’s resistance, and governmental regulation have prevented widespread adoption ...
A/V technology, Driverless, Lidar, Cloud-based computing, Artificial Intelligence, Radar, Mapping, Self-driving, Robotic, Data Analytics, Connected Vehicles (CV’s), Smart Cities, DSRC, C-V2X, ADAS
53 downloads
Autonomous Vehicles have made rapid advances, yet remain elusive for mass adoption. Technology remains in beta phase, and fully autonomous vehicles are not expected until the 2030’s as numerous companies have spent billions of dollars racing towards a safe and reliable solution. Almost 40,000 Americans lose their lives in traffic fatalities every year. The technology for Connected Vehicles and ...
Connected Vehicles (CV’s), Semi-Autonomous vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles technology, Smart Cities, DSRC
34 downloads
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Logistics Competency is implementing new technology that will transform the way that logistics analysis is performed. Implementing technology can be a challenge for organizations and especially when the technology disrupts the existing logistics processes. Some of the workforce may view the use of digital devices as frustrating and are likely to be re ...
Technology acceptance, TAM, user perceptions, trust, organizational alignment, digital processes, logistics, case study, systematic review
77 downloads
A large complex government organization is planning a restructure of their organization from a hybrid matrix or competency-aligned team structure to a more dominant mission-aligned structure. This restructure has the potential to spur organizational problems from employee churn, including a decrease in employee engagement as well as detract from product delivery. The purpose of this study is to sy ...
Ambidextrous leader, employee engagement, rapid evidence assessment, reorganization, restructuring, systematic review
117 downloads
The purpose of this article is to synthesize the current literature on social capital theory in the field of management. The contribution to the management literature lies in presenting a theoretical framework that incorporates the organizational factors that may impact the three dimensions of social capital. The literature, to date, has failed to provide a comprehensive framework which incorporat ...
Social Capital Theory, Structure, Culture, Strategy, Inter-Company Networks, and Stakeholder Orientation
63 downloads
Background:
On December 7, 2018, the Black Community Forum of Montreal held a conference on “Community Education and Development: perspectives on English-Speaking Blacks and Other Minorities”. The IJCDMS Journal has selected a number of the conference papers for publication in its Special Conference Series: “Collaborative Unity and Existential Responsibility.” This article serves as an overvi ...
English speaking visible minorities Quebec and Canada, non-visible minorities, social and economic indicators, fitness landscape, complex adaptive systems, employment rate, social entrepreneur, ruggedness of landscape
36 downloads
Aim/Purpose
Despite growing interest and an incremental increase of published material on civil aviation, the bulk of existing research remains focused on topics related to operations and technical training. This significant shortage of literature on civil aviation management issues. This study addresses the shortage of aviation management research and encourages research work in this field.
Co ...
Aviation management, journal review, research, ICAO strategic goals.
316 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In transport industry, production and consumption of services are inseparable. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine passenger perceived quality and satisfaction between Chinese airlines and Foreign airlines.
Background: Increased wealth and prosperity across Asia has generated a massive increase in air travel. Marketers in airline industry have increasingly become m ...
Chinese airlines, foreign airlines, gap analysis study, satisfaction, service quality, SERV-QUAL model, full-service airlines
8 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this article is how to improve the profitability and to reduce risk in airline industry by applying variance analysis.
Background: Airline industry unveiled a serious number of practices to shape rich and personalized passenger experiences and to create new ways to drive profitability. However, due to economic challenges, the risk of fluctuating profitability must be bette ...
Improve profitability, risk reduction, airline industry, variance analysis
27 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The general objective of this study is to analyze the relation between flight parameters and cerebral oximetry of the pilot during different flight situations.
Background: Ultralight aviation pilots are exposed to different environmental situations due to the non-pressurized and non-acclimatized nature of the aircraft cabin. In a flying aircraft, any factor responsible for decreased m ...
Ultralight Aviation, Hypoxia, Physiological Parameters, Monitoring System.
6 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study analyzes the scope of the regulations developed by India’s administration with regards to civilian and commercial usage of drones. It also addresses the proposed mechanism to implement the regulations. The paper addresses two noteworthy questions that need to be answered. The first being whether regulatory measures are essential for the establishment of the operation of dro ...
Drone Regulations, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPAs), Commercial Drones and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
8 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The global air transport industry has experienced an exponential increase of passenger demand over the last few decades. Despite the occurrence of this increase, the size of aircraft has not seen significant change over time. This study aims to describe and explain this phenomenon by categorizing aircraft into different segments based on seating capacity.
Background: Airline indust ...
Air transport, aircraft size, distance, passenger fleet
3 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Today, within the airport and airline industry, characteristics and variables that opera-tors must take into account when planning and running airports are very critical. Therefore, they have to be seriously considered as paramount to ensuring the process of planning and design of airports.
Background: Considering the characteristics and variables that airport operators are required ...
Characteristics, variables, operator, planning and airports, airport operating capacity, taxiways and runways
8 downloads
Table of Contents: Proceedings of the 2019 InSITE Conference
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
117 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the behavior of financial firm employees with regard to information security procedures instituted within their organization. Furthermore, the effect of information security awareness and its importance within a firm is examined.
Background: The study focuses on employees' attitude toward compliance with information security policies (ISP), combined with variou ...
information security awareness, information security policy, employee com-pliance, organizational culture, human behavior
47 downloads
Background: The current decade has witnessed rising spates of threats and attacks that have threatened the safety and security of cyberspace, thereby giving rise to contemporary discourses pertaining the realities that these ominous trends portend for technology innovation and digitalisation, in the emerging global digital society. In the process, the technological capabilities that have been use ...
TeLEs, IT-aided education, cybersecurity, technology & education, infor-mation technology, technology & learning, pedagogy, information society
41 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the face of the onslaught of fake news, we aim to address the challenge of how we, as academics, can guide our students to be able to critically assess and evaluate information.
Background Fake news has assumed alarming proportions and is a challenge to academia, organizations, causes and governments. How can our students be prepared to deal with this challenge?
Methodology: De ...
fake news, social media, communication theory, the receiver
23 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of the paper is to consider how the informing phenomenon referred to as “fake news” can be characterized using existing informing science conceptual schemes.
Background: A brief review of articles relating to fake news is presented after which potential implications under a variety of informing science frameworks are considered.
Methodology: Conceptual synthesis.
Con ...
fake news, informing science, extrinsic complexity, conceptual scheme fake news, informing science, extrinsic complexity, conceptual scheme
17 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper explores the success of KGB Operation SIG to incite hatred for the purpose of overthrowing a democracy.
Background: About 50 years ago, the KGB created the means to create upheaval in the middle east. This paper explores one such campaign and reveals some disinformation techniques in use today.
Methodology: The paper brings together literature from many fields in its ...
Operation SIG, disinformation, Israel, propaganda, bias, KGB, Nazi
1831 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 22]
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to propose an ensemble learners based classification model for classification clickbaits from genuine article headlines.
Background: Clickbaits are online articles with deliberately d ...
authentic news; clickbaits; ensemble learning; natural language processing; performance measures
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To engage the reader to think more deeply about lying in the context to a discussion of fake news.
Background: Many have read the scriptures holy to Christians; this discussion leads to questions about why even characters within tell things that are not true.
Findings: The Hebrew and Greek Bibles are filled with instances where the characters, even G-d, appears to have lied, and ...
Bible, fake news, lying
25 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The proliferation of fake news through social media threatens to undercut the possibility of ascertaining facts and truth. This paper explores the use of ancient rhetorical tools to identify fake news generally and to see through the misinformation juggernaut of President Donald Trump.
Background: The ancient rhetorical appeals described in Aristotle’s Rhetoric—ethos (character of ...
fake news, facts, misinformation, disinformation, alternative facts
604 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies, Volume 14]
Aim/Purpose: This work expands discussions on the application of cultural frameworks on research in doctoral education in the United States and South Africa. There is an emphasis on identifying and reinterpreting the doctoral process where racial and cultural aspects ...
doctoral studies, internationalization; racial and cultural diversity
24 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Continuing low percentage of on-time-completion of doctoral studies suggest the exploration of new approaches to the process is desirable.
Background: PhD studies may be viewed as a project- it is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product. Project management practices have proven to be helpful in numerous domains.
Methodology: Process analysis method will be app ...
doctoral studies, supervision, project management
27 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper will describe the initial development of systems to evaluate research education activities of a U.S. academic Partnership to train minority students as cancer researchers and provide preliminary data from monitoring Partnership activities during the first six months.
Background: There is increased focus on multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary research training programs. ...
academic training, neoplasms, research center, doctoral students, minority groups
28 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: The flipped classroom approach is one of the most popular active learning approaches. This paper explores the effectiveness of a new pedagogy, known as FOCUSED, for postgraduate students.
Background: The flipped classroom approach ...
blended learning, flipped classroom, online learning, peer interactions, post-graduate students
11 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper we wish to present a new direction for the instruction of a Principles of Programming Languages (PPL) course.
Background: Teaching PPL using the standard curriculum found that the students do not understand the overall concepts, getting lost in the abundance of minute details. We needed a way to emphasize the higher level constructs important to this body of knowledg ...
principles of programming languages, CSE
20 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: In this article, we introduced a project on teaching chatbot programming in an information systems class.
Background: One of the most fascinating developments in computer user interfaces in recent years is the rise of “chatbots”. ...
information system education, chatbot, artificial intelligence, student perceptions
16 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Providing both formative and summative assessment that allows students to learn from their mistakes is difficult in large classes. This paper describes an automated assessment system suitable for courses with even 100 or more students ...
automated assessment, formative and summative evaluation, self-paced learning, feedback, ‘little and often’ assessment
40 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: To capture digital training experiences, the paper introduces a novel data collection method – a graphic questionnaire. It aims to demonstrate the opportunities and limitations of this tool for collecting feedback from socially disadv ...
digital literacy, digital divide, graphic questionnaire, elderly persons, people with hearing impairment, children, assessment
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Build a program that teaches prospect managers the skills that are relevant for leading data science activity.
Background: Data science becomes ubiquitous in organizations. It is imperative to train students in management departments in the skills that are relevant to this field. Most courses in data science focus on technical knowledge like model building methods, and neglect orga ...
data-science, data-science instruction, management
19 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents an exploratory case study into using 360° videos to present small segments of lecture content for IT students in an Australian University. The aim of this study was to understand; what is the impact of incorporatin ...
virtual reality, students, improving classroom teaching
13 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 18.]
Aim/Purpose: The study examined types of errors made by novice programmers in different Java concepts with students of different ability levels in programming as well as the perceived causes of such errors.
Background: To improve code wr ...
concept, Java, achievement level, error analysis, programming
16 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This is a discussion of research in progress. The study will attempt to address the research question, what is the impact of the “No fear Act “on the current definition of diversity by the various CFO Act agencies and how does it influence the recruitment of CFOs and their deputies within the federal CFO agencies?
No Fear Act, discrimination, retaliation, work environment, financial manage-ment, diversity, cultural transformation, inclusive workplace environment, civil rights
34 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions in the global market. Research examining the impact of female leadership influence on corporate sustainability over time is limited. This paper contributes to the literature addressing leadership gender, corporate sustainability, and business ethics.
Background: Previous literature suggests the long-term effec ...
leadership gender, corporate sustainability, CSR, business ethics
22 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Educational stakeholders have little understanding of digital educational badg-ing.
Background A current overview of the developing educational badging ecosystem, key terminology, advantages, challenges, and examples of badge utilization.
Methodology: Illustrative case study
Contribution: Creates a record of the developing digital badge industry providing insights to educatio ...
badges, open badges, badging, access to higher education, transcript ambiguity, credential-fraud, open pathways, badge challenges
46 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Science is becoming a computational endeavor therefore Computational Thinking (CT) is gradually being accepted as a required skill for the 21st century science student. Students deserve relevant conceptual learning accessible through practical, constructionist approaches in cross-curricular applications therefore it is required for educators to define, practice and assess practical wa ...
computational thinking, science education, agent-based modeling and simula-tion, computational science, computational practices
32 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes the growing need for a new transdiscipline in cyberbiosecurity as well historical challenges associated with knowledge generation and integration among contributing disciplines.
Background: Within the United States, there is an emerging call for cyberbiosecurity; however, cyberbiosecurity roles, practices and metrics have not been defined and federal agencies a ...
transdiscipline, knowledge framework, cyberbiosecurity
25 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The increased production of processed food, rapid urbanization, and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in dietary patterns so people are now consuming more unhealthy foods. To change unhealthy dietary patterns, there is a need to educate the individuals to keep a balanced diet that is rich in nutritional requirements. One way to educate a heterogeneous population, from preschool ...
game-based learning, educational escape games, situated learning theory
153 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Today more and more transactions and acquisitions are controlled directly from mobile devices, especially smartphones applications. Previous studies have examined the adoption of financial applications based on a single theory as a theoretical basis. In order to examine the phenomenon in a wider way, we used in this study two theories as a theoretical basis.
Background: It is impo ...
financial application, IT adoption, mobile banking, technology acceptance model, diffusion innovation theory
25 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a prototype of an information-generating computer tool designed to automatically map the dental restorations in a panoramic radiograph.
Background: A panoramic radiograph is an external dental r ...
medical information, panoramic images, dental restorations, radiologic informative report, machine learning, computer vision, image processing
17 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the structure of the bone tissue by using texture analysis of the bone trabeculae, as visualized in a routine radiograph of the proximal femur . This could provide objective information regarding both the mineral content and the spatial structure of bone tissue. Therefore, machine-learning tools were applied to explore the use of texture analysis fo ...
medical information, machine learning, structure analysis, osteoporosis, bone strength
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper discusses theoretical and curricular aspects of computational thinking in curriculum and challenges noticed on introducing recent ICT perspectives in Australian Schools.
Background: It presents the way computational thinking is defined and understood in curriculum documents and a set of relatively new implementations that were de-signed nationally and in the New South Wa ...
computational thinking, computer science education, ICT education, Australian curriculum reforms
19 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 22]
Aim/Purpose: The growing complexity of the business environment and business processes as well as the Big Data phenomenon has an impact on every area of human activity nowadays. This new reality challenges the effectiveness of traditional ...
informing science, data science, transdiscipline, education
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Aim/Purpose: This paper describes foundational principles of universal instructional design (UID), which is also known as universal design for learning, that support accessibility and inclusivity for a diverse population of students and discusses how these design principles and instructional strategies are being implemented in courses we instruct.
Background: The goal of any instructor should b ...
universal design for learning, diversity, inclusion
372 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This project aims to prototype the functionality of a user-generated geospatial meteorology map. This includes the design and implementation of a database driven website with a public and a password protected admin component, in addition to database, web server and hardware components.
Background: Previous research described and assessed the feasibility of a system in which end-use ...
GIS, weather, crowdsourcing, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Arduino, CSS, JavaScript
27 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the benefits and challenges of experiencing virtual multi-cultural teamwork in order to learn entrepreneurship.
Background: Entrepreneurial eco-system usually requires working in international, virtual multi-cul ...
entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning, multicultural, virtual, global team-work
16 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, Volume 14.]
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to identify prosumers’ engagement in business process innovation through knowledge sharing.
Background: In the increasingly competitive knowledge-based economy, companies must seek innovative ...
consumer engagement, consumer knowledge, prosumer, knowledge sharing, business processes, consumer innovations
9 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, we explore the applicability of the social identity theory and the evolution of an initiative to address the issue of ensuring that women of color not only survive in the technology industry, but that they thrive in every aspect of leadership, including reaching the top senior executive levels (C-Suite) in their organizations.
Background: Despite all the evidence tha ...
diversity, information technology, social identity theory, women, women of color, underrepresented minorities
40 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, Volume 18]
Aim/Purpose: To understand readiness of students for learning in online environments across different age groups.
Background: Online learners today are diverse in age due to increasing adult/mature students who continue their higher education while they are ...
online learning, readiness, age, motivation, self-efficacy, anxiety
16 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To understand the current state of the body of literature in blockchain technology and propose dimensions for acceptance.
Background: Blockchain technology has large promise to replace centralized and even distributed database systems. Its premise focuses on issues such as transparency, immutability, and privacy of transactions. Created for bitcoin, researchers and practitioners ha ...
blockchain, application, information systems, cryptocurrency
49 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Multimedia has been accepted as an enhanced learning medium. We present in this paper the application of a multimedia tool to teach the entity relationship diagram and its effect on performance.
Background: Based on the theory of flow and, more specifically, cognitive absorption and perceptions (usefulness and, ease of use, attitudes and intentions) we propose a model to explain pe ...
multimedia, performance, cognitive absorption, flow, learning
21 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this project was to explore the perceptions of information technology students about student-facing learning analytics dashboards that display ranking information, and whether they perceive that their motivation to study would be influenced by the use of dashboards that display their performance relative to other students.
Background: While there has been a focus on the ...
learning analytics dashboards, student motivation
135 downloads
Agile Requirements Engineering: An Empirical Analysis and Evidence from a Tertiary Education Context
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: The study describes empirical research into agile Requirements Engineering (RE) practices based on an analysis of data collected in a large higher education organization.
Background: Requirements Engineering (RE) in agile developme ...
agile requirements engineering, case study, empirical, agile, Scrum, tertiary education
12 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper focuses on student newspapers in the midst of digital transfor-mation and the impact this has on their future survival.
Background: The ramification of digital transformation on commercial newspapers is not new, but looking at it from a big picture helped to us to connect to what has been happening with student newspapers across the United States.
Methodology: Through ...
student newspapers, digital media, hybrid approach, digital transformation
19 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this project was to explore a method to enable an updated under-standing of digital literacy to be implemented in curricula in an environment of an existing, but outdated, understanding of digital literacy.
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Background: ...
optometry, digital literacy, graduate learning outcomes
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To update a 2010 study that recommended “rules of thumb” for more effective use of PowerPoint in the post-secondary business classroom. The current study expanded the focus to include the business classroom in India as well as the US and examined possible shifts in student perception of the utility of PowerPoint among Generations Y and Z.
Background: The study examined students’ pe ...
PowerPoint, post-secondary business classrooms, Generations Y and Z in the US and India
43 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Improving or changing business processes is one of the most important roles for Information technologies functions. Yet, most organizations struggle with planned process change and even more with unplanned change. There is little support from research as the dynamics of planned process change is understudied and unplanned process change is seldom researched.
Background: This paper ...
business process management, work system theory, systems thinking, un-planned change, #feesmustfall
26 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Drone technology has been increasingly used in education. This paper reports a study of assessing teachers’ readiness and training needs for using drone technology in their teaching.
Background: New technology promotes new ways o ...
drone, unmanned aerial vehicle, teacher education, STEM education, TPCK
19 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Bring your own device (BYOD) provides opportunities for both the organization and employees, but the adoption of BYOD also introduces risks. This case study of an organization’s BYOD program identifies key positive and negative influe ...
Bring your own device (BYOD), IT management, benefits, risks, Technology-Organization-Environment framework, case study, financial services, South Africa
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this pilot case study is to provide details on developing a framework for e-mentoring graduate level online health education students as an added component of an online health education course.
Background: E-mentoring gives faculty the opportunity to share professional knowledge with students and impart practical experiences. In addition, faculty can show how the ...
mentoring, e-mentoring, graduate students, health educators, ADDIE model, HEDTAM
25 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/purpose
The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychosocial and emotional outcomes of an introductory health science workshop designed to support and assist incoming health science students before starting their university study.
B ...
transition to university, first year, psychosocial, anxious
11 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 22.]
Aim/Purpose: In a world of rapidly expanding complexity and exponentially increasing data availability, IT-based knowledge management tools will be needed to manage and curate available information. This paper looks at a particular tool ...
knowledge management, personal knowledge management system, design sci-ence research, design evolution, informing system, digital platform ecosystem, fitness-utility-model, generativity
5 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Project Management (PM) capability is one of the skill sets that employers across a broad range of industries are seeking with a projected current talent deficit of 1.5 million jobs.
Background A course syllabus is both a tool and a resource used by the learners, the faculty, and the school to articulate what to learn, how to learn, and how and when to access and evaluate the learni ...
project management, course syllabi, learner-centredness, AACSB, PMBOK
25 downloads
Aim/Purpose: We explore impressions and experiences of Information Systems graduates during their first years of employment in the IT field. The results help to understand work satisfaction, career ambition, and motivation of junior employees. This way, the attractiveness of working in the field of IS can be increased and the shortage of junior employees reduced.
Background: Currently IT profe ...
professional life, working life, work satisfaction, work-life balance, information systems, graduates, survey, gender
15 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 15.]
Aim/Purpose: Following the widespread use of social networking applications (SNAs) by children, adolescents, and young adults, this paper sought to examine the usage habits, sharing, and dangers involved from the perspective of the children, adolesc ...
e-safety, social networking apps, WhatsApp, shaming, cyberbullying, privacy
16 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the sense of challenge and threat, negative feelings, self-efficacy, and motivation among students in a virtual and a blended course on multicultural campuses and to see how to afford every student ...
multiculturalism, threat, challenge, motivation, virtual course, blended course, transactional distance
10 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Little is known of the cultural competence or leadership styles of a minority owned newspaper. This autoethnography serves to benchmark one early 1990s example.
Background: I focused on a series of flashbacks to observe an African ...
cultural competence, microaggression, racism, prejudice, African American, newspapers, leadership, journalism, autoethnography, epistemology, flashbacks, reflection
2 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Our research goal was to examine the factors that motivate women to enroll in Computer Science (CS) courses in order to better understand the small number of women in the field of CS.
Background: This work is in line with the growi ...
women, underrepresentation, computer science, culture, Haredi
9 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this exploratory study we examine personal information management within music streaming applications. Also, we investigate the sense of ownership over songs being played on music streaming applications and whether the use of these services may be considered a social activity. In a later stage, we intend to test privacy related issues in music streaming applications and the factors ...
music streaming applications, personal information management, privacy, personalization
91 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present research is devoted to teaching and training students in marine institutions of higher education including navigators that given the dynamic development of the maritime industry should still be in the early stages of education involved by teacher to lifelong learning and be able to teach others.
Background: The rapid development of the marine industry, modern ship techn ...
competency based education, higher education, creative thinking, critical thinking, mentors
73 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 15.]
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This study aims to determine where nursing students from a metropolitan university subsequently work following graduation, identify the factors that influence decisions to pursue careers in particular locations, ascertain educational ...
nursing, graduate destinations, educational aspirations, clinical experiences
4 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Teachers are being asked to integrate mobile technologies into their content creation and distribution tasks. This research aims to provide an understanding of teachers taking on this process and whether the use of technology has infl ...
task-technology fit, education technology, content creation, content distribution, technology choices, teachers
26 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to answer the research question titled What are the competencies required for the Business Process Analyst (BPA) role in organizations with ERP systems in Kenya. Through 4 hypotheses, this study focuses on two specific ...
Enterprise Systems, BPA competencies, Business Process Analyst, Context.
5 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The paper aims to discuss the experience of early Thai educators in adopting Educational Technology in IT and Marketing Education.
Background: As the world become increasingly digitized, educators need to keep up through the use of educational technology to effectively increase learning efficiency.
Methodology: Conducting an interview.
Contribution: A hands-on teaching exper ...
educational technology, IT education, marketing education, Thailand
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Finding and tagging citation on an ancient Hebrew religious document. These documents have no structured citations and have no bibliography.
Background: We look for common patterns within Hebrew religious texts.
Methodology: We developed a method that goes over the texts and extracts sentences con-taining the names of three famous authors. Within these sentences we find common ...
citations, text-mining, information extraction, Hebrew
46 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Any system that aims to address the task of modeling social media communication need to deal with the usage of emojis. Efficient prediction of the most likely emoji given the text of a message may help to improve different NLP tasks.
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emoji prediction, machine learning, social media, supervised learning
24 downloads
The Benefit of Information in a Single-server Queue with Heterogeneous Service Valuations [Abstract]
Aim/Purpose: How does heterogeneous valuation of service affect optimal control of queues?
Background We analyze this heterogeneity by adding a component of travel costs, which differ with distance from the service point.
Methodology: Mathematical analysis of queuing theory. Analyzing the anarchy function.
Contribution: Enabling consumers to make optimal choices based on knowledge about ...
queuing, profit maximization, price of anarchy, observable queue
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this report is to provide an understanding of cultural diversity in today’s global economy and to understand what shapes our identities and what influences our behavior.
Background: Culture is the way of functioning in today’s world and it refers to the shared language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects that are passed down from one generation t ...
diversity in the workplace, cultural diversity, socio-cultural differences, cultural differences, ethnicity
59 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes a novel approach to systematically improve information interactions based solely on its wording.
Background: Providing users with information in a form and format that maximizes its effectiveness is a research question of critical importance. Given the growing competition for users’ attention and interest, it is agreed that digital content must engage. Howeve ...
information behavior, text analysis, computational linguistics, information interaction, user experience (UX), knowledge acquisition, decision-making, user engagement, content strategy, digital nudging
21 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: Blended learning can transform students experience and learning in higher education. Although the literature extensively explores benefits of blended learning, limited research exists to provide a detailed design principle for impleme ...
learning management system, learning pathway, community of practice, independent learning, content analysis, second language learners
7 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examines the current credit treatment of Contribution in Aid of Construction (CIAC) on investor own utilities (IOU) and its impacts on the current state of utility infrastructure in the state of Florida
Background: The Congressional Budget Office describes a synergist contributing to the present aged utility infrastructure is the cost of replacement within the water indus ...
Contribution in Aid of Construction (CIAC), debit treatment, investor own utilities, dilapidated infrastructure, financial resources, credit treatment
56 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16]
Aim/Purpose: The aim and purpose of this study is to understand why there is a dearth of faculty of color ascending to senior levels of leadership in higher education institutions, and to identify strategies to increase the representation of facul ...
leadership development, higher education administration, faculty of color, glass ceiling, critical race theory
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this study is to advance understanding of ICT utilization by SMMEs by checking access, ability (in terms of technological skills) and usage of ICT among some SMMEs entrepreneurs operating their businesses in an underdeveloped areas to enhance their business activities in order to utilizes the digital opportunities 21st century digital economies present.
Background: In ...
information and communications technology, small medium and micro-sized enterprises, 21st century digital economies
168 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Being noticed as a scholar is becoming increasingly difficult as publication outlets proliferate and the number of scholars grows. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the use of online academic profiles to enhance the reputation and visibility of scholars.
Background: A scholar's reputation is built by garnering the attention of peer experts capable of judging the credibilit ...
online academic profile, scholarly reputation, scholar visibility, academic social networks
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This contribution is a tutorial workshop on searching and finding information by using an image as query. Also related topics are addressed. Participants learn about state-of-the-art applications and limitations of reverse image search on the internet and WWW. So they will be motivated and enabled to apply this relatively new method to discover information and to support other potenti ...
search by image, reverse image searching, Internet, WWW, search systems, search services, TinEye, Google, Yandex, precision, semantic gap
5 downloads
Workshop: Keyword Discovery: Visualizing Your Topic in Research, Thesis and Dissertation Development
Aim/Purpose: Participants will learn various digital tools to assist them in the discovery of appropriate keywords for their own research and writings as well as in teaching.
Background: Experiences teaching undergraduates and graduate students information literacy and retrieval have identified several areas where students have problems in searching databases because of misconceptions as to w ...
information literacy, keywords, information instruction, undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers
29 downloads
Table of contents for Volume 21 of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2018.
Informing Science, table of contents
156 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Provides a theoretical model as to where we should source our information as the environment becomes more complex.
Background: Develops a theoretical model built on extrinsic complexity and offers a conceptual scheme relating to the relative value of different sources.
Methodology: The paper is purely conceptual in nature.
Contribution: Develops a model that could be tested relati ...
Extrinsic complexity, environment, informing sources, client, informer
134 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes an empirical examination of how users’ willingness to disclose personal data is influenced by the amount of information provided on landing pages – standalone web pages created explicitly for marketing or advertising campaigns.
Background: Provision of information is a central construct in the IS discipline. Content is a term commonly used to describe the inform ...
consumer behavior, information systems, content strategy, human computer interaction, informing science, user engagement, e-commerce, marketing, decision making
605 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This is an introductory paper for the Special Series on transdisciplinary communication. It summarizes the various articles in the special series and raises questions for future investigation.
transdisciplinary communication
FEATURED
778 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Transdisciplinarity is considered as a framework for understanding knowledge producing teams (KPTs). Features of transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams (TDKPTs) are provided using a complex adaptive systems (CAS) lens. TDKPT features are defined and linked to complexity theory to show how team participants might develop skills that more truly express complex adaptive conditions.
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transdisciplinarity, knowledge producing teams, complexity, systems
265 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Collaborative, interdisciplinary research is growing rapidly, but we still have limited and fragmented understanding of what is arguably the heart of such research—collaborative, interdisciplinary reasoning (CIR).
Background: This article integrates neo-Pragmatist theories of reasoning with insights from literature on interdisciplinary research to develop a working definition of col ...
argumentation, discourse, interdisciplinary, integration, intersubjectivity, transdisciplinary, Toolbox
340 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To understand the process of social change creation in social entrepreneurial ventures (SEVs), specifically emphasizing the role and nature of the communicative process in social change creation.
Background: Drawing on data from seven SEVs from India and the US and employing a grounded theory methodology, this research scrutinizes the social change process and uncovers the role and c ...
social entrepreneurship, social change, transdisciplinary collaboration, communication, dialogue, complex problem solving
216 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Given that leadership has been shown to play a key role in knowledge-producing organizations, leaders of transdisciplinary science have received surprisingly little empirical attention. This study addresses the research gap by examining leadership in the context of a new transdisciplinary research organization.
Background: Drawing on complexity leadership theory—a framework developed ...
transdisciplinary science, medicine, collaboration, research center, complexity leadership theory, knowledge integration
401 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The complexity of scientific problems has spurred the development of transdisciplinary science, in which experts are brought together to collaborate across disciplinary and practice boundaries. These knowledge diverse teams can produce novel solutions, but they often fail to achieve their potential.
Background: Leaders have a crucial role to play in enabling effective collaboration ...
interdisciplinary teams, multidisciplinary breadth of experience, team innovation
564 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the implications of machine-mediated communication on human interaction in cross-disciplinary teams. The authors explore the relationships between Open Science Theory, its contributions to team science, and the opportunities and challenges associated with adopting open science principles.
Background: Open Science Theory impacts many aspects of human interaction t ...
open science theory, research transparency technology, teams, open science framework
166 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper introduces a Social Machine for collaborative sensemaking that the developers have configured to the requirements and challenges of transdisciplinary literature reviews.
Background: Social Machines represent a promising model for unifying machines and social processes for a wide range of purposes. A development team led by the author is creating a Social Machine for activi ...
cognitive bias, epistemological beliefs, multiple texts, sensemaking, Social Ma-chines, transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research
200 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes the regulatory affairs discipline as a useful case in the study of both inter- and transdisciplinary science and dynamics related to communication across multiple boundaries. We will 1) outline the process that led to the development of transnational competencies for regulatory affairs graduate education, 2) discuss how the process highlights the transdisciplinary ...
transdisciplinary, competencies, regulatory affairs, higher education
98 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we discuss how a Transdisciplinary (TD) and a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) initiative was conceptualized, developed, implemented, and sustained at a small academic institution with limited research infrastructure, emphasizing the role of capacity building.
Background: Most examples of the implementation of TD research come from large-scale initiatives ...
transdisciplinary research, community based participatory research, capacity building, Hispanic Serving Institution
171 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The authors argue that interdisciplinarity, together with the more recent concept of transdisciplinarity, can be seen as a coherent attempt not so much to reassemble the fragmented structure into a whole, as to create a fruitful collaboration and integration among different disciplines that takes into account their specificity.
Background: At the threshold of the Modern Age, a seri ...
transdisciplinarity, critical epistemology, philosophy of boundaries, status of humanities, Michel Foucault, Russian school of transdisciplinarity
84 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify the possibilities for reducing the second and third levels of the digital divide (or inequality) through conscious application of digital technologies, especially through the promotion of digital means for information, enlightenment, and entertainment.
Background: This article reviews studies carried out between 2000 and 2017, which investigate th ...
digital divide, digital technology, literature review, reducing digital inequali-ties
401 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study was undertaken to shed light on how the use of a heteronormative mobile dating application creates an environment to promote psychological empowerment among female users within the online dating scene. The study focused on a mobile dating application which specifically challenges traditional gender roles, namely Bumble.
Background: Mobile dating applications have become an ...
mobile dating applications, online dating, women empowerment
251 downloads
able of Contents for Volume 17, 2018, of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Research
table of contents, JITE, IT education
305 downloads
Table of Contents of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 17, 2018
136 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory case study was to understand how teachers, working with English Language Learners (ELLs), expanded their knowledge and instructional practices as they implemented a one-to-one iPad® program.
Background: English Language Learners experience linguistic, cultural, and cognitive shifts that can be challenging, and at times lead to isolation for ELLs. Whil ...
English Language Learners; 1:1 iPads, pedagogy
454 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The effective adoption of an ICT across every segment of the student population may occur where the design, implementation and supports recognize and adjust for variations in adoption practices across the student population and the situatedness of the promoted ICT adoption. The goal of this study was to demonstrate methods to explicate variations in perceptions and meanings associate ...
student, technology, equity, situatedness, segment, cluster, practice, learning, pedagogy, adoption
493 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this article is to develop a tool to detect plagiarism in real time amongst students being evaluated for learning in a computer-based assessment setting.
Background: Cheating or copying all or part of source code of a program is a serious concern to academic institutions. Many academic institutions apply a combination of policy driven and plagiarism detection approaches. T ...
plagiarism detection, plagiarism detection tools, computer-based assessment, quality education, dishonesty
293 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the variations in student participation patterns across different types of instructional activities, learning modes, and with different instructional guidance approaches. In the current study, different variables, modes of learning (guided versus unguided), and types of guidance (social versus cognitive) were manipulated in a series of microblogging-supported c ...
instructional guidance, social media, microblogging, Twitter
167 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current case study aimed to investigate the engagement of nine English as foreign language (EFL) learners in online peer feedback on writing in a Facebook group. Specifically, the study focused on the issues of writing addressed in peer feedback and the learners’ perception of peer feedback in the Facebook group.
Background: Peer feedback on writing has attracted the attention of ...
peer feedback, online peer feedback, Facebook, EFL writing
458 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Bioengineering is a burgeoning interdisciplinary learning domain that could inspire the imaginations of elementary aged children but is not traditionally taught to this age group for reasons unrelated to student ability. This pilot study presents the BacToMars videogame and accompanying curricular intervention, designed to introduce children (aged 7-11) to foundational concepts of bio ...
biological engineering, elementary school, videogames
226 downloads
Aim/Purpose: We aim to bring a better understanding of technology use in the educational context. More specifically, we investigate the determinants of webinar acceptance by university students and the effects of this acceptance on students’ outcomes in the presence of personal characteristics such as anxiety, attitude, computer self-efficacy, and autonomy.
Background: According to literature in ...
webinar, UTAUT, students’ outcomes, personal characteristics, Smart-PLS
338 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper provides a general-purpose categorization scheme for assessing the utility of new and emerging three-dimensional interactive digital environments (3D-IDEs), along with specific pedagogic approaches that are known to work. It argues for the use of 3D-IDEs on the basis of their ludic appeal and ability to provide intrinsic motivation to the learner, and their openness that al ...
3D-IDE, virtual environment, immersion, ludic, intrinsic motivation
590 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between teacher presence and social presence on one hand, and feelings of challenge and threat, self-efficacy, and motivation among students studying in virtual and blended courses on the other.
Background: Physical separation between teacher and learners may lead to transactional distance, which should be reduced through t ...
blended course, challenge, motivation, learning community, self-efficacy, virtual course, social presence, teacher presence, threat, transactional distance
438 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The dynamic nature of the information systems (IS) field presents educators with the perpetual challenge of keeping course offerings current and relevant. This paper describes the process at a College of Business (COB) to redesign the introductory IS course to better prepare students for advanced business classes and equip them with interdisciplinary knowledge and skills demanded in t ...
curriculum design, course development, IS core course, technology
144 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study was aimed at enhancing students’ learning of software engineering methods. A collaboration between the Computer Science, Business Management, and Product Design programs was formed to work on actual projects with real clients. This interdisciplinary form of collaboration simulates the realities of a diverse Software Engineering team.
Background: A collaborative approach im ...
software engineering education, interdisciplinary learning, collaborative approach
216 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explored an alternative means to offering supervisory coaching to teachers, professional development, and virtual teacher coaching through the use of videoconferencing.
Background: Teacher coaching has been identified as an effective way to improve teacher implementation of research proven effective classroom strategies. The use of technology to implement coaching wid ...
virtual teacher coaching, videoconferencing, professional development, emo-tional/behavior disorders, opportunities to respond
219 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this paper is to examine whether having female robotics teachers positively impacts girls’ performance on programming and robotics tasks
Background: Women continue to be underrepresented in the technical STEM fields such as engineering and computer science. New programs and initiatives are needed to engage girls in STEM beginning in early childhood. The goal of this work ...
gender, STEM, robotics, programming, early childhood
376 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the flipped classroom model on learner achievement and satisfaction for undergraduate learners
Background: The context for this research on the flipped classroom was an introductory technology literacy course at a public, research university.
Methodology: This study employed a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design consist ...
flipped classroom, learner achievement, learner satisfaction, blended learning; technology literacy
353 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes the context, development, implementation, and the potential transferability of an integrated online research environment that allows its users to conduct all aspects of research online.
Background: While the content of most traditional courses can be delivered online and learning outcomes can be achieved by adopting equivalents to face-to-face pedagogic approache ...
online research, virtual lab, innovation
161 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents the findings of an Activity-Oriented Teaching Strategy (AOTS) conducted for a postgraduate level Software Engineering (SE) course with the aim of imparting meaningful software development experience for the students. The research question is framed as whether the activity-oriented teaching strategy helps students to acquire practical knowledge of Software Engineeri ...
software engineering education, activity oriented teaching, learning environ-ment, flipped classroom
106 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study is based on the DeLone and McLean’s Information Systems Success (D&M ISS) model, which was modified to determine the success factors responsible for the acceptance of an e-learning system called Canvas by students of a Nigerian University.
Background: The adoption of eLearning has been under studied within the context of developing countries. There have been calls in the l ...
eLearning systems, IS success, universities, Nigeria
622 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate the feasibility of automatic assessment of programming tasks and to compare manual assessment with automatic assessment in terms of the effect of the different assessment methods on the marks of the students.
Background: Manual assessment of programs written by students can be tedious. The assistance of automatic assessment methods might pos ...
assessment of programs, automatic assessment, UTAUT, assessment goals
90 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we analyze the phenomenon of “classroom WhatsApp groups”, in which a teacher and students from a particular classroom interact with one another, while specifically focusing on the student perspective of these interactions.
Background: The instant messaging application WhatsApp enables quick, interactive multimedia communication in closed groups, as well as one-on-one i ...
teacher-student communication, secondary school, WhatsApp, social networks technology (SNT), media in education
1670 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To identify positive and negative aspects for learning of interactive tablet technology learning activities that promote student engagement and learning.
Background: Engaging students in mathematics classes is an on-going challenge for teachers.
In 2008 we were offered the opportunity to run interactive activities with a class set of tablet PCs that had just been released on to the ...
interactive, engagement, achievement, digital ink, feedback
322 downloads
Aim/Purpose: There is growing number of countries embarking on large-scale, government-supported initiatives (e.g., Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Brazil, India, Iran, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates) to distribute tablet devices to students in the K-12 schooling sector. The review of the government-supported initiatives concluded that the majority of the ...
interactive technologies, reading intervention, comprehension, grade school, Jamaica
586 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this paper is to examine digital applications used in Swedish schools and whether they fulfill their potential as support for learners. This is done by examining the kinds of feedback they provide and discussing if this feedback supports learning or not.
Background: The paper targets one aspect regarding which educational apps can be of high value for learners and teacher ...
digital applications, verification feedback, corrective feedback, elaborated feed-back, encouraging feedback, result feedback
340 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated the potential use of Second Life (SL) to facilitate nursing students’ confidence and motivation, as well as its impact on their self-regulated learning development.
Background: The current emphasis on nursing education in general has resulted in more consideration of different virtual learning environments as a means for assessing individuals’ learning in a h ...
Second Life, nurse education, higher education, online learning
255 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to survey student opinions about technology in order to best implement and utilize technology in the classroom. In this paper, technology refers to ‘digital technology’. The aims of this study were to: (1) examine student attitudes towards technology in regards to enjoyment and perceived usefulness; (2) investigate what tools and devices students enjoyed ...
student attitudes, digital technology, device choices, learning tools, higher education
867 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore whether students’ self-reported use of various learning strategies affected their perceptions on different course activities as well as their perceived performance in terms of both cognitive learning outcomes and general skills.
Background: In a highly active learning environment that incorporates research into teaching, the effective use of various learni ...
research-teaching nexus, learning strategies, student perception, learning out-comes, academic performance
206 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the factors that influence university students’ intentions to adopt mobile learning for their learning activities. A theoretical model is developed based on prior research incorporating constructs from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and specific mobile learning constructs, as well as the mo ...
mobile learning, university, factors, moderating effect, UTAUT, TAM, SEM
349 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates, through structural equation modeling, the direct and indirect effects of blended learning on overall course satisfaction and student performance in interior architecture.
Background: For critical education contexts, it is important to analyze student satisfaction with blended learning as well as its effects on student performance. In the context of teaching d ...
blended learning, design teaching, student performance, course satisfaction, personalized learning
217 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study describes and evaluates a teacher preparation program that combines a school-university partnership and a 1:1 device initiative.
Background: This educational design research report combines a 1:1 technology device experience with a school-university partnership to enhance teacher preparation for educational technology use.
Methodology: This is a mixed-methods education ...
teacher preparation, teacher candidate, educational technology, educational technology confidence, 1:1, school-university partnership
227 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this work is to explore which factors impact on the adoption of the flipped classroom in vocational education to pave the way for the schools which want to apply this model.
Background: Although various experiences in the use of the flipped classroom have been reported in recent years in the literature, fewer efforts have been done on how to implement this model from a ped ...
flipped classroom approach, inverted classroom, active learning, educational technology
524 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Extant research provides conflicting information regarding the role that lecture behaviors play within e-learning lectures. This study sought to understand what role motivation plays in increasing the likelihood that students engage in lecture behaviors in general, and how motivation affects the differing types of lecture behaviors.
Background: The growth of online learning has incre ...
cyber university; intrinsic goal orientation; Korea; lecture behaviors; motivation; online learning
259 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aimed to examine teacher educators’ perceptions regarding their ability to implement innovative pedagogies following a year during which they used a newly equipped Active Learning Classroom (ALC), designed for teacher training
Background: To this end, we asked how participants perceived the effective use of the ALC and how they were able to leverage the use of the ALC to i ...
TPACK, teacher educators, teaching style, teacher perceptions, techno-logical classroom, pedagogy
222 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the present study was to examine peer interactions and the instructor’s facilitation of online asynchronous group discussions on free writing among 20 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) joining one Saudi university over one academic semester. The study also attempted to explore the views of the learners on the online interactions.
Background: Peer interaction ...
peer interaction, instructor’s facilitation, asynchronous tools, EFL writing
162 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study aims to explore the dimensions of identities in relation to an online community of practice (CoP) and how the dimensions of identities influence the way teachers behave on their online CoP.
Background: One of the emerging approaches for teachers’ professional development is through a form of community of practice, through which teachers learn through collaboration and acti ...
teachers’ identities, online identities, dimensions of identities, online, community of practice
182 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Research shows that students encounter difficulties in identifying the structure of argumentation texts and in understanding the main message of the argument. The research examined the effect that learning Logic Programming (LP), while applying logic inference, has on students’ understanding of argumentation texts.
Background: Understanding an argumentation text means exposure to it ...
argumentation, logic programming education, language education, computa-tional thinking, interdisciplinary analogies
148 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study intends to find out the difference between the use of Schoology-based e-learning and conventional learning by integrating character education in the learning process
Background: E-learning has a high contribution to change learning process positively, but it is a big challenge to conduct character education through e-learning, because of the reduced intensity of face-to-fa ...
ANEKA, e-learning, physics, character education, Schoology
167 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 15, 2018
IISIT, Informing Science, information technology, InSITE
121 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify how Advanced level Mathematics and Mathematics course units offered at university level do impact on the academic performance of theoretical Computer Science course units.
Background: In Sri Lankan state universities, students have been enrolled only from the Physical Science stream to do a degree program in Computer Science. In addition to ...
theoretical computer science courses, academic performance, discrete mathematics
73 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study was to concept test a new instructional aid called Virtual Pathology Learning Resource (VPLR), which was used as a vehicle to communicate information and enhance teaching and learning of basic sciences (Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology) to allied health science students at a South Australian university.
Background: Pathology was traditionally taught usi ...
virtual learning, pathology, higher education, allied health science students, tissue specimens, case scenarios, medical radiation
90 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the changing paradigms for technical skills that are needed by Data Engineers in 2018.
Background: A decade ago, data engineers needed technical skills for Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. With the advent of Hadoop and NoSQL Databases in recent years, Data Engineers require new skills to support the larg ...
data engineer, data scientist, data science
90 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Although cassava is one of the crops that can be grown during the dry season in Northeastern Thailand, most farmers in the region do not know whether the crop can grow in their specific areas because the available agriculture planning guideline provides only a generic list of dry-season crops that can be grown in the whole region. The purpose of this research is to develop a predictiv ...
geospatial, remote sensing, machine learning, suitability, cassava prediction
97 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Medical images are very sensitive data that can be transferred to medical laboratories, professionals, and specialist for referral cases or consultation. Strict security measures must be utilized to keep these data secured in computer networks when transferred to another party. On a daily basis, unauthorized users derive ways to gain access to sensitive patient medical information.
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medical image, quantum cryptography, security, quantum key distribution
185 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of educational games on learning computer programming. In particular, we are examining whether allowing students to manipulate the underlying code of the educational games will increase their intrinsic motivation.
Background: Young students are fond of playing digital games. Moreover, they are also interested in creat ...
educational games, games based learning, learning programming
103 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This exploratory study investigates the influential factors of users’ decisions in the dilemma of whether to agree to online personalization or to protect their online privacy.
Background: Various factors related to online privacy and anonymity were considered, such as user’s privacy concern on the Web in general and particularly on social networks, user online privacy literacy, and ...
online privacy behavior, online personalization, privacy paradox, privacy concern, online privacy literacy, online privacy self-efficacy
87 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To monitor Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) established by the United Nations through the hierarchical architecture of informing systems
Background: The paper discusses the case of Poland and its Gdansk region
Contribution: The solution combines the big-picture of civilization with small-picture of a nation, regions, cities, and firms
Findings: The presented solution can be i ...
sustainability, globalizing society, sustainability development goals, informing systems, population bomb, ecological bomb, strategic resources depletion bomb
58 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes and information system for the maintenance and management of municipal lighting systems that also serves as a decision support tool for reducing power consumption on urban lighting.
Background: Many municipalities are financially constrained and unable to invest in improving their lighting infrastructure. We propose a very efficient and inexpensive way to set up ...
energy efficiency, municipal budget, integer programming, optimization
52 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The proposed Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) for Empowerment (PKM4E) Framework expands on the notions of the Ignorance Map and Matrix to support the educational and informing concept of a PKM system-in-progress.
Background: The accelerating information abundance is depleting the very attention our cognitive capabilities are able to master, contributing to widening individual and ...
personal knowledge management, knowledge management, knowledge society, knowledge worker, informing science, ignorance matrix, cumulative synthesis, chance discovery, abduction, memes, knowcations
91 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this article is to establish the different impacts of technological changes in institutions generating irrevocable changes in today’s society.
Background: Technological changes have had a positive impact on many aspects of everyday life today, and it is natural that both public and private institutions benefit from this reality.
Methodology: The research method used i ...
technological changes, electronic government, information and communication technology
216 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Authentic assessments offer students the opportunity to develop skills that implement the formal learning they receive in the classroom. Although there is a need for accounting graduates to possess a plethora of skills to equip them for success, there is a shortage of literature that focuses on authentic assessment design for accounting courses. This paper aims to address this gap by ...
reflective journals, critical thinking, accounting education, graduate-attributes, problem-based learning, work –integrated learning
213 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The primary objective of this research is to build an enhanced framework for Applied and Computational Math. This framework allows a variety of applied math concepts to be organized into a meaningful whole.
Background: The framework can help students grasp new mathematical applications by comparing them to a common reference model.
Methodology: In this research, we measure the ...
framework, applied math, computational math, data science, concordance
77 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is to understand how video lectures of the same length and content as the current face-to-face lectures can be designed and implemented to have a positive effect on student performance, particularly when there is a campus shutdown.
Background: In a number of South African universities protests by the students are on the increase. Often, they lead to the ca ...
video lectures, organisation and design of videos, quality of the videos and content, student performance, quasi-experimental design
46 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Student dropout in higher education institutions is a universal problem. This study identifies the characteristics of dropout. In addition, it develops a mathematical model to predict students who may dropout.
Methodology: The paper develops a mathematical model to predict students who may dropout. The sample includes 555 freshmen in a non-profit private university. The study uses ...
dropouts, attrition, persistence, retention, higher education
172 downloads
Table of Contents of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning
Table of Contents, IJELL, e-skills, lifelong learning
70 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Work-based learning has been identified in the literature, and is established in academia and in the global worlds of work; however, an examination of work-based research, particularly at the doctoral level, has been less well articulated. Moreover, a paucity of published literature on either work-based research or Professional Studies means little is known about the dynamics and driv ...
work-based learning, work-based research, professional studies, reflective practice, mixed methods research, action research
246 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Most research on work-based learning and research relates to theory, including perspectives, principles and curricula, but few studies provide contemporary examples of work-based projects, particularly in the Australian context; this paper aims to address that limitation.
Background: The Professional Studies Program at University of Southern Queensland is dedicated to offering advanc ...
advanced practice professional, work-based learning, work-based research, leadership, safety, investigation, identity
149 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents the preliminary findings of a pilot survey that sought to examine the technology uses, backgrounds, needs, interests, career goals, and professional expectations of Generation Z students enrolled at a minority serving institution in the United States Mid-Atlantic region.
Background: Students entering college today are part of Generation Z born in the late 90’s thr ...
technology skills, career readiness, technological literacy, Generation Z, com-puter concepts course, computer education, computer skills assessment, UMES, minority learners, career and technology readiness, technology assessment, digital literacy, computer self-efficacy
340 downloads
Contribution: This study contributes to scientific literature by detailing the impact of specific factors on the privacy concerns of citizens living in an African city
Findings: The findings reveal that the more that impersonal data is collected by the Smart City of Cape Town, the lower the privacy concerns of the digital natives. The findings also show that the digital natives have higher privac ...
smart cities, privacy concerns, digital natives, developing countries, South Africa
141 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The digital divide and educational inequalities remain a significant societal problem in the United States, and elsewhere, impacting low income, first-generation, and minority learners. Accordingly, institutions of higher education are challenged to meet the needs of students with varying levels of technological readiness with deficiencies in information and digital literacy shown to ...
digital divide, information literacy, first generation college students, technology readiness, HBCU, minority learners, technology assessment, digital literacy, under prepared students, IC3, computer skills, computer concepts course, computer education, generation z, computer skills assessment, UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, SAM, Cengage, skills assessment management, Certiport, technological competency
1637 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the influence of Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE), and Facilitating Conditions (FC) on the use of smart phones for mobile learning by postgraduate students in University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Background: Due to the low level of mobile learning adoption by students in Nigeria, three base constructs of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Tec ...
Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE), Facilitating Conditions (FC), mobile learning, smartphone use
1068 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research inquires how students perceive the role of Technology Education and Cultural diversity (TEC) instructors in improving their 21st century skills. In addition, this study examines the students’ preferred learning style: face to face, synchronous and asynchronous.
Background: 21st century skills include, among others, collaboration, Information and Communication Technology ...
21st century skills, online collaborative learning, course design, instructor role, TEC model
429 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines differences in credit and noncredit users’ learning and usage of the Plant Sciences E-Library (PASSEL, http://passel.unl.edu), a large international, open-source multidisciplinary learning object repository.
Background: Advances in online education are helping educators to meet the needs of formal academic credit students, as well as informal noncredit learners. ...
learning object repository, learning approaches, noncredit learners, cluster analysis, web-tracking data
109 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents some of the issues that academia faces in both the detection of plagiarism and the aftermath. The focus is on the latter, how academics and educational institutions around the world can address the challenges that follow the identification of an incident. The scope is to identify the need for and describe specific strategies to efficiently manage plagiarism inciden ...
academic integrity, plagiarism, higher education, cheating, policy, procedure
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Following the widespread use of social networking applications (SNAs) by children, adolescents, and young adults, this paper sought to examine the usage habits, sharing, and dangers involved from the perspective of the children, adolescents, and young adults. The research question was: What are the usage habits, sharing, drawbacks, and dangers of using SNAs from the perspective of ch ...
e-safety, social networking apps, WhatsApp, shaming, cyberbullying, privacy
249 downloads
IJIKM, contents
181 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 13, 2018, of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD
651 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the time that we study for our dissertation, our learning takes many turns. Sometimes we feel excited, motivated and accomplished, while other times frustrated, tired or unsure. This paper presents a poem to illustrate one student’s PhD journey through reflection on those fluctuations, milestones and learning moments experienced along the way.
Background: Central to the journey pr ...
autoethnography, interpretivist paradigm, learning, poetry
1153 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the issue of knowledge acquisition among faculty members.
Background: The paper reports the use of knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources by faculty members. It also identifies demographic differ-ences among participants in using knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources.
Methodology: The study used an online survey-based q ...
knowledge, knowledge sources, knowledge acquisition tools, faculty members, universities, colleges, UAE
295 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify some of the issues in writing a trans-disciplinary doctoral thesis and to develop strategies for addressing them, particularly focusing on the presentation of data and data analysis. The paper, based on the authors’ own experience, offers guidance to, and invites further comment from, transdisciplinary doctoral candidates, their supervisors and the ...
transdisciplinarity, doctorate examination, doctoral writing, data analysis, higher degree research students, research communication
724 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine empirically the effects of certain key Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems on the comprehensive achievement of the crucial roles of Computer-Based Information Systems (CBISs)
Background: The effects of the CSFSs were examined in the higher education sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arab ...
enterprise resource planning, critical success factors, ERP implementation, comprehensive achievement of the CBIS’s roles
547 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study analyses the concept of doctorateness and its defining characteristics and gives a definition for it by examining the various ways it is used in doctoral education literature.
Background: The term ‘doctorateness’ is an immature unclarified concept referred to as a common quality for all doctoral awards. With the emergence of different types of doctoral studies worldwide, ...
doctorateness, definition, concept, doctorate, doctoral education, model
987 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The current study investigates the relationship between mobile and email marketing and consumer impulse buying tendencies in Pakistan.
Background: Technology has become a primary driver for all business operations, which has dramatically transformed the wireless communications marketing paradigm. However, researchers have claimed that further inquiry is still needed to explore the ro ...
marketing communications, mobile marketing, email marketing, impulse buy-ing tendencies, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
350 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Retention of doctoral students, particularly during the dissertation stage, has been a decades-old concern. The study examined the value of dissertation chairs’ use of a cloud-based video technology for coaching doctoral students, and its influence on psychological factors previously linked to retention. The psychological aspects included social presence, research self-efficacy, socia ...
emerging technology, video meeting technology, virtual coaching, doctoral stu-dent coaching, doctoral student retention, social presence, research self-efficacy, social isolation, intrinsic motivation, web conferencing
721 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study is carried out to determine the factors influencing the implementation of IT governance in public sector.
Background: IT governance in organizations plays strategic roles in deciding whether IT strategies and investments of both private and public organizations could be efficient, consistent, and transparent. IT governance has the potential to be the best practice that cou ...
IT governance process, public organizations
290 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The wide use of online banking and technological advancement has attracted the interest of malicious and criminal users with a more sophisticated form of attacks.
Background: Therefore, banks need to adapt their security systems to effectively stem threats posed by imposters and hackers and to also provide higher security standards that assure customers of a secured environment to ...
multilevel-security, authentication, soft-token, cybercrime
168 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study is to provide a preliminary examination of students’ retention factors of engagement, communication, and isolation that may be affected by the introduction and use of online communities for dissertation development within an online doctoral program.
Background: This research is a continuation of the university’s 5-year research initi ...
online learning, private workspaces, retention, attrition, isolation, communica-tion, student engagement, connectedness, doctoral programs
1237 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to answer the research question whether the ways in which prosumers share their knowledge with enterprises and public organizations are in line with the ways in which enterprises and public organizations expect them to get engaged in knowledge sharing.
Background: Contemporary consumers do not wish to be passive consumers anymore. They want to satisf ...
knowledge, knowledge sharing, prosumer, prosumption, consumer, product evaluation, product co-creation
181 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present work focuses on French PhD students’ well-being: an understudied working population thus far, which impedes the development of evidence-based policies on this issue in France.The focus of this work is the well-being of French PhD students, on which almost nothing has been published thus far, impeding any evidence-based policy on this issue to be carried out in France.
Bac ...
PhD students, graduate students, doctoral students, well-being, mental health, positive psychology
1359 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze various text classification techniques employed in practice, their strengths and weaknesses, to provide an improved awareness regarding various knowledge extraction possibilities in the field of data mining.
Background: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping text classification techniques to better acquire knowledge. However, in spite of the growth a ...
classification, machine learning, statistical methods, analysis
771 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to develop an information technology (IT) maturity model for incident management (IM) process that merges the most known IT frameworks’ practices. Our proposal intends to help organizations overcome the current limitations of multiframework implementation by informing organizations about frameworks’ overlap before their implementation.
Background: By previously ide ...
IT framework, maturity model, DSR, incident management, overlap, ITIL, COBIT, CMMI
579 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to further our collective understanding of the practicalities and possibilities of the Thesis by Publication (TBP) in the disciplinary context of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) in Australia.
Background: Recent times have seen an increasing pressure for publication during candidature in Australian universities for a range of strategic goals that are ...
thesis by publication, publication during candidature, thesis structure, hu-manities, social sciences
856 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Engagement in doctoral training is intended to lead to personal development, as well as – of course - the development of a person’s skills as a researcher. Having engaged in the occupation of doctoral training, I aim to reflect upon how my identity as researcher developed throughout this process; that is, through doing, being, becoming, and belonging. The aim of my doctoral research w ...
woman-to-woman, rape, sexual assault, identity, occupation, occupational science, auto/biography
630 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper explored the factors (enablers and barriers) that affect Bitcoin adoption in South Africa, a Sub-Saharan country with the high potential for Bitcoin adoption.
Background: In recent years, Bitcoin has seen a rapid growth as a virtual cryptocurrency throughout the world. Bitcoin is a protocol which allows value to be exchanged over the internet without a central bank or inte ...
Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, virtual community, virtual investment community, South Africa
474 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Understanding the educational needs of postgraduate research candidates (PGRs) is essential to facilitate development, support attainment, and maintain graduate quality.
Background: The production and effective defence of the research thesis are the summative assessment tools used in postgraduate research education. Examiners’ reports provide a rich source of feedback and indicate th ...
doctoral training, education, feedback, learning needs assessment, quality out-come, quality graduates
583 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Two research objectives were addressed in this study. The first objective was to determine the effect of knowledge management orientation behaviour on business performance, and the second objective was to investigate the mediating effect of market orientation in the relationship between knowledge management orientation behaviour and business performance.
Background: In business strat ...
knowledge management orientation, market orientation, business performance, economy creative, small and medium enterprises
272 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Learning to conduct research, including considerations for concepts such as reflexivity, is a key component of doctoral student preparation in higher education. Yet limited attention is given to doctoral student training for conducting international research, particularly in understanding researcher reflexivity within international contexts.
Background: Incorporating reflexive prac ...
doctoral education, internationalization, reflexivity, research training, higher education
705 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the research profile of the papers published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM) to provide silhouette information of the journal for the editorial team, researchers, and the audience of the journal.
Background: Information and knowledge management is an interdisciplinary subject. IJIKM defines intersections of multip ...
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, IJIKM, research profile, content analysis, thematic analysis
FEATURED
457 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To present quantitative results of an investigation that assessed crises reported by doctoral candidates while working toward their degree.
Background: Crises that candidates encounter during their doctoral journey may lead to attrition from the doctoral program. A crisis in a doctoral project has several characteristics that must be understood in order to identify the crisis and, ...
crisis in doctoral research, adviser-candidate relationship, doctoral education
718 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore and describe the role of care and socio-emotional learning in the first year of doctoral study. In particular, understanding the nature of the caring relationships doctoral students experience and their development of effective socio-emotional capacity are the primary foci of this study. It may provide institutions with data necessary to ad ...
doctoral study, socio-emotional learning, ethics of care, learning care
1559 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims at (1) extending an existing theoretical framework to gain a deeper understanding of the technology acceptance process, notably of the Facebook social network in an unexplored Middle East context, (2) investigating the influence of social support theory on Facebook adoption outside the work context, (3) validating the effectiveness of the proposed research model for en ...
social media networks, Facebook acceptance, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, (UTAUT), social support theory, perceived playfulness, individual differences, Middle East
520 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present quantitative, cross-sectional study aimed to investigate objective and subjective factors in the self-determination of doctoral students in their educational activities. Objective determinants included major discipline and forms of academic and scholarly activity (that is, attending classes and writing papers), and subjective determinants included personal characteristics ...
education, doctoral students, internal motivation, academic-scholarly activity, self-determination, psychological needs
1165 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study analyzes the mechanism of Internet capability (IC) driving knowledge creation performance (KCP). We consider the mediating role of strategic flexibility and the moderating role of informatization density.
Background: The key to achieving KCP for firms is to transform knowledge created into new products or services and to realize the economic benefits. However, the research ...
Internet capability, knowledge creation performance, strategic flexibility, informatization density
147 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The traditional doctoral dissertation is the first major research project that is led by doctoral students, but it does not necessarily prepare them to publish shorter articles in journals. The manuscript dissertation provides a way for doctoral students to establish themselves as researchers while gaining the experience of developing peer-reviewed manuscripts before graduation, thus ...
manuscript dissertation, doctoral dissertation, publication, tenure-track faculty, doctoral advisors
755 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study was to assess the interrelationships among knowledge management infrastructure, knowledge management process, intellectual capital, and organization performance.
Background: Although knowledge management capability is extensively used by organizations, reaching their maximum financial and non-financial performances has not been fully researched. Therefore, ...
knowledge management infrastructure, knowledge management process, intellectual capital, organization performance, Jordan
1392 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the creation and organization of an organic collaborative doctoral cohort, in order to better understand what makes doctoral cohorts successful. The participant-researchers explore their experience as creators and members of this unique group.
Background: Although adults often prefer to work on their own, cohorts provide opportunities for colla ...
collaborative autoethnographies, doctoral students, cohort, collaboration, higher education
615 downloads
Aim/Purpose: A vital business activity within organizations is tacit knowledge (TK) transfer. This work aims to propose a novel framework for TK transferability in multinational corporations (MNCs) from the information and communication technology (ICT) perspective.
Background: In the past two decades, researchers have developed several frameworks for TK transfer based on humanistic, business, an ...
tacit knowledge, transferability, information and communication technology, multinational corporations
192 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Multiple emotional and cognitive resources are needed for graduate students to overcome stress associated with balancing studies and personal life. This research aimed to explore the difficulties, which graduate student-mothers face while balancing school and parenting, and describe mechanisms of the balancing process.
Background: Graduate student-mothers need to structure their ti ...
graduate school, student-mothers, intensive mothering
683 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore individual variation in doctoral candidates’ perceptions about research writing and themselves as writers (research writing perceptions) across three countries (Spain, Finland, and the UK) and the relationship with doctoral candidates’ research conditions and social support.
Background: The present study employed a person-centered approach to identify prof ...
doctoral candidates; doctoral writing; writing perceptions; social support; re-search writing; cross-national study
707 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this research, we examined the influence of the information system (IS) quality dimensions proposed by Wixom and Todd on reading satisfaction of online newspaper readers in Bangladesh, especially the readers’ intention to revisit and recommendations through electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM).
Background: We identified the top 50 most visited websites, of which 13 were online newspape ...
information quality, system quality, IS success model, online newspapers, PLS
147 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this article is to discuss a PhD student’s experience of working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, amidst a rapidly changing global situation. The focus is on how the research process influenced the novice PhD student, and how the student’s subject position influenced the research.
Background: The incentive for this article comes from an examiner’s comment, which ...
autoethnography, Finland, PAR, pedagogical love, unaccompanied minors
578 downloads
Antecedents and Adoption of E-Banking in Bank Performance: The Perspective of Private Bank Employees
Aim/Purpose: This paper identifies the antecedents that affect E-Banking (EB) adoption and investigates the relationship between the level of EB adoption and the performance of private banks.
Background: Rapid technological advancement has transformed the business environment dramatically. These advancements particularly the Internet has reshaped the way businesses operate. Over the last decade, ...
technology acceptance, e-banking, adoption, performance, Sudan
143 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Research on students in higher education contexts to date has focused primarily on the experiences undergraduates, largely overlooking topics relevant to doctoral students’ mental, physiological, motivational, and social experiences. Existing research on doctoral students has consistently found mental and physical health concerns and high attrition rates among these students, but a co ...
doctoral education; doctoral well-being; higher education; graduate education; doctoral achievement
15345 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper reports our implementation of a prototype system, namely PRATO (Proposals Reviewers Automated Taxonomy-based Organization), for automatic assignment of proposals to reviewers based on categorized tracks and partial matching of reviewers’ profiles of research interests against proposal keywords.
Background: The process of assigning reviewers to proposals tends to be a compl ...
reviewers matching, taxonomy-based, Jaccard index, proposals auto assignment
82 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how the basic psychological needs of self-determination theory are reflected in doctoral students’ motivation to earn the PhD.
Background: As isolating as the doctoral experience seems, it is one that occurs in a social-cultural environment that can either support or hinder the student. This research highlights the motivational influences of l ...
basic psychological needs theory, doctoral student motivation, library and infor-mation science, self-determination theory
578 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This explanatory study aimed to determine the mediating role of ERP in the relation between the effect of a socio-technical approach and decision-making environment, and firms’ sustainable performance.
Background: Although earlier studies have discussed the critical success factors of the failure or success of an ERP system and the extent to which it achieves its desired objectives, ...
organizational culture; socio-technical approach; decision-making environment; ERP system; sustainable performance
437 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined an Ed.D. program redesign to address time to degree completion. The aim was to emphasize the need to improve students’ academic writing and embody a scholarly practitioner approach to research.
Background: Doctoral programs have the highest attrition of graduate programs, with almost half of the students taking six to seven years to complete.
Methodology: An ex- ...
degree completion, educational leadership, leadership preparation, problem of practice, scholarly practitioners
754 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between the knowledge management (KM) process and the performance of construction companies. The ultimate goal is to promote better efficiency and competitive advantage in the construction industry by making the best use of knowledge.
Background: While attention to KM is currently on the rise, as shown by the number of studies conducted ...
knowledge, knowledge management, corporate performance, construction
116 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the rich potential for transformative learning, for both supervisees and supervisors, that is embedded in cross-cultural supervision.
Background: Our example is an analysis of experiences from a five-year long cross-cultural supervisory relationship between a Tanzanian PhD student and a Norwegian supervisor.
Methodology: In the research, we f ...
PhD supervision, cross-cultural supervision, transformative learning, trans-culturation, action research
603 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article presents an analysis of female faculty representation on dissertation committees in comparison to the percentage of women faculty in departments of engineering in 2013 and 2014.
Background: Collaboration is an indication of a robust research program, and the consequences of collaboration may benefit one’s academic career in numerous ways. Gender bias, however, may impede ...
gender bias, gender imbalance, doctoral committee, collaboration
528 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we examine how first-year education doctoral (EdD) students in a peer mentoring program may be supported in the academic and psychosocial domains to increase timely degree completion, decrease attrition, and improve the EdD program for students and faculty.
Background: EdD students often face unique trials based on academic, social, professional, and personal challenge ...
doctoral program, EdD, education doctorate, mentee, mentor, peer mentoring, program evaluation
604 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The qualitative study aims to examine the lived experiences of women persisting in the distance; professional doctoral degrees as they seek to integrate and balance their family of origin and current family system with their development as scholars.
Background: A vital reason many women choose not to drop out of their doctoral programs is that they experience conflict between their i ...
distance education, women, doctoral education, work-family balance, work-family borders, persistence, family of origin, family system
621 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examined why Ed.D students discontinued their doctoral programs during the dissertation phase as well as how a student’s needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence were met during different stages of the program.
Background: Time to complete the doctoral degree continues to increase. Between 40-60% of doctoral students are making the decision to discontinue work toward ...
retention, attrition, doctoral program, cohort, self-determination theory
594 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article demonstrates how experiences of a supervisee can become foundational in carving a career identity of PhD supervisors. The purpose of the article is to analyze how South African emerging supervisors could carve a career identity as PhD supervisors.
Background: This article uses an autoethnographic case study to address the problem of experiences of poverty, marginalizatio ...
autoethnography, career identity, PhD supervision, philosophy, reflexivity
604 downloads
Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education, Volume 3- Printable Table of Contents
Table of Contents for Volume 3, 2018, of the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
Table of Contents, JSPTE, Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
97 downloads
This note provides a brief description of web application vulnerabilities and preventive measures.
web vulnerability, cyber attack, cross-site scripting, OWASP,cross-site request forgery
21 downloads
This note provides a basic overview of privacy issues, with an emphasis on the implications of the web and social networks.
privacy cybersecurity, social networks
24 downloads
Adele Botha, a project manager in the Information Communication and Technology for Rural Education Development (ICT4RED) initiative in South Africa, pondered on what to do with the Twitter and Whatsapp data that had been secured over the course of the study. The data consisted of communication between people at the implementation sites and management of the ICT4RED initiative in the city of Pretor ...
South Africa, social media, rural education, whatsapp
13 downloads
A technical note framing the different levels at which cybersecurity problems are encountered.
cybersecuirty, problem space
25 downloads
This note provides a summary of disaster recovery with emphasis on information technology disaster recovery.
Information technology, disaster, disaster recovery, disaster recovery planning, data loss
18 downloads
Antonia Makina, an education consultant in the Directorate for Curriculum and Learning Development at the University of South Africa (UNISA), was assigned the task of recommending a theoretical guideline for adoption by the management of the university in its quest to implement Open Distance E-learning (ODeL) at the university. This was because Open Distance E-learning delivery presented new chall ...
South Africa, e-Learning, Distance Learning, Pedagogy, Learning Theories
30 downloads
Mr Benton Alexander, Director of eHealth in the Eastern Cape Department of Health, reflected on his 20th year in the position. During his tenure, various telemedicine projects had been implemented in the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH). He had been asked by the ECDoH to investigate the reasons behind the past failure of telemedicine in the province. He felt that most of the factors he ...
South Africa, telemedicine, healthcare, regulations, Eastern Cape
20 downloads
The new CEO of a year, Mymoena Ismail, pondered on how to re-invigorate the once dynamic and highly innovative government entity as part of three integrated government entities. The questions at the top of her mind therefore revolved around how to transform the government agency into an agency that prepared South Africans with the new kinds of ICT skills that were needed in the medium to long term ...
South Africa, eSkills, NEMISA, national development plan
16 downloads
Dr. Jackie Phahlamohlaka reflected on what he would propose to the board regarding the transformation of the existing Siyabuswa Educational Improvement and Development Trust (SEIDET) community centre to a smart community centre. As the Competency Area Manager at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa, the founder of SEIDET and the chairman of its Board of Trustee ...
South Africa, community center, digital village, economic development
54 downloads
The Wikyo Akala Project (WAP) was a cooperative set up as a social enterprise that sought to pool the
efforts of the sandal makers in the Korogocho area, Nairobi, Kenya, in order to improve their sales
revenue using the internet platform. WAP struggled to survive as a “bricks-and-mortar” social enterprise
in the first six years of operation. However, with the adoption of a “clicks-and-mortar” d ...
Kenya, sandals, digital marketing, economic development
25 downloads
In 2015, Samuel who was registered for a master’s programme in the Department of Business Management, housed within the Faculty of Management and Commerce at a prominent university located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, decided on a research topic in the area of social media service quality using the E-S-SERVQUAL model. Once he settled on a topic, the next step would be to choose th ...
South Africa, Research, Ethics, Plagiarism
28 downloads
Dr. ZW Saul, the Head of the Department of African Languages at the University of Fort Hare, was considering the future of a text-to-speech system that converted English text into isiXhosa audio. The system had experienced a successful pilot, but much work remained to be done in taking the project to full implementation and sustainability.
South Africa, Text-To-Speech, isiXhosa, Eastern Cape, Xhosa
14 downloads
Antoinette Lombard, Director of the e-skills unit at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), had initiated a skills development and employee engagement project for the Human Resource (HR) Department through offering an e-skills and e-literacy course to the service workers of the University. Service workers included cleaning, gardening, maintenance and electrical workers. After a reasonably succes ...
South Africa, e-literacy, higher education, Vaal University of Technology
6 downloads
The Head of Institutional Planning at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Mr. Stevens, was working with the 2016 UWC Institutional Operational Plan (IOP) White Paper. He was using this document in his planning. One of the goals of the IOP was the development of the campus and surrounding areas, which required his executive direction. Two intertwined concerns dominated the infrastructure deve ...
South Africa, commuting, infrastructure, wi-fi, higher education
10 downloads
Jane, an academic staff member of a university based in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, had been involved in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research for many years. Jane wanted to apply for academic promotion to an Associate Professor position at her institution. In order to be promoted to an Associate Professor level, Jane was required to demonstrate ...
South Africa, community engagement, higher education
12 downloads
Colin Thakur, an expert researcher for the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa, ruminated on the recommendation he would make to that committee. The IEC had commissioned him to undertake a neutral comprehensive international study of e-voting implementations and experimentation. His goal was then to advise whether South Africa was in a position to adopt e-voting.
South Africa, electronic voting, eVoting, government, elections
50 downloads
William Murphy, a college professor and a black belt in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community, frowned as he considered a project that he had been working on. Working in conjunction with Georgette Oden, a lawyer and the head of investigations at Bullshido.net, he had proposed a systematic investigation that would seek to identify sex offenders within the martial arts instruction community. Now he need ...
cyber forensics, cybersecurity, jiu jitsu, law enforcement, martial arts, sexual predators
37 downloads
Masana Twala and Emily Brown, the co-founders of ME Data Services (MEDS), believed they had identified an excellent opportunity in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) domain. They were excited to set their idea in motion and, as many technology services entrepreneurs do, they feared that if they did not act promptly they could lose this chance. However, as recent entrants to the fiercely compet ...
South Africa, small business, business process outsourcing, data services
4 downloads
After a conference call with a team of his business consultants, Damon Auer, Vice President of Health and Life Sciences at Tribridge, pondered on the challenges facing his team as they tried to expand sales of Tribridge’s new Microsoft cloud based software platform–Health360. Damon, an expert in transformational Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Resource Management (CRM) programs, sp ...
cloud computing, CRM, customer resource management, enterprise resource planning, ERP, healthcare, international, Microsoft, Tribridge
74 downloads
Tshepo Manaka, an analyst programmer in the integration team at Woolworths Holdings, South Africa, was responsible for development and configuration of the DataPower appliance. The DataPower appliance was used for integration of data between Woolworths South Africa and external units; it worked as a multi-protocol gateway. Three months after the integration of Woolworths South Africa with the Aus ...
South Africa, database, retail, Woolworths
32 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Understanding how students develop a sense of efficacy as researchers can provide faculty members in higher education doctoral programs insight into how to be more effective teachers and mentors, necessitating discipline-specific research on how graduate programs are and can be fostering students’ research self-efficacy (RSE). Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore how doctora ...
graduate student socialization, research self-efficacy, research training
157 downloads
Reprivata has developed a cybersecurity solution, which can fundamentally change how companies can create private, trust-based interconnections with their third party business partners. Now, how do they attract the right “early adopter” to implement it?
Community of Trust, cybersecurity, risk management
70 downloads
Telemedicine technology had advanced rapidly with the growth of the internet in the 2000’s. The technology, also known as telehealth, allowed patients to receive medical care remotely rather than traditional in-person doctor visits at a facility. Consumer demand exploded throughout the 2010’s, and some of the best hospitals in the world started implementing some forms of telehealth technology; som ...
Electronic Health Records, healthcare, insurance, Regulation, Telemedicine
244 downloads
“What if we took pharmacy back to its DNA… back to its essence… and then we prescribed empowerment, innovation, creativity, teamwork and personalization?” –USF Health Website
Having pondered this question, which had been his guide and vision throughout his career, Dr. Kevin Sneed asked himself how technology could be used toward the next advancement of pharmacy related health care. As the Found ...
healthcare, Higher education, information technology, medicine, patient care, pharmacy, USF Health
7 downloads
Mr. Berlin Msiska, the CEO for the Zambia Revenue Authority (Tax Administration), was wondering how return on investment (ROI) might be used to assess investments in ICT intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the country’s tax system. The critical decision being faced was “How can the ROI of tax systems be computed and should we advocate using ROI?
Zambia, taxes, return on investment, ROI, government
18 downloads
Marlo Murphy-Braynen, CFO at The College of The Bahamas (the College) rose early on September 28, 2017, and headed into the office, where many tasks awaited her. An online payment solution was urgently needed, to address the long line of students who queued up daily at the Business Office. In three weeks the College’s annual budget was due; normally this would take three months to prepare. There w ...
Audit, corporate governance framework, accountability, fairness, and transparency.
27 downloads
It was late on a Friday evening and the “big” question had raised its ugly head again. Husband and wife, Eli Cohen and Betty Boyd, were slowly sipping their second glass of their favorite merlot and debating how to make Informing Science Institute (ISI) into a sustainable organization. They had founded ISI, an academic association, in 1998 to foster the development of a scientific discipline calle ...
Discussion Case, Leadership, Process of Sucessful Change, Strategy, Sustainability
267 downloads
As Sydney Freeman, Jr., Associate Professor in the Adult, Organizational Learning and Leadership program at the University of Idaho’s College of Education, did one final review of his syllabus for ED 589 Theoretical Applications & Design of Qualitative Research, he knew that this was a different approach to teaching qualitative research. Generally, this kind of information was better taught in per ...
teaching qualitative research
139 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Review of Beth Berila's book, Integrating Mindfulness Into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy: Social Justice in Higher Education
Background: I am a Fine Arts instructor who integrates contemplative methods in my curriculum and is interested in mindfulness techniques. Beth Berila is Director of Women's Studies at St. Cloud University, as well as a 500-hour registered yoga teacher.
Methodolo ...
pedagogy, mindfulness, contemplative, integrated, social justice, anti-oppression, higher education
127 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Service Learning is not used in graduate education to the extent it is in un-dergraduate education. This paper utilizes a developmental evaluation methodological approach and a strategic partnership conceptual framework in examining a service learning course in which higher education master students gain valuable experience they can use in their careers while assisting high school stu ...
service learning, college admission, graduate students
89 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how the professional development of two Mexican-American women post-secondary educators was impacted by the reflective literacy practices (RLPs) of their students and themselves. RLPs were defined as verbal and written dialogue that fosters reflection of their learning.
Background: Research suggests that RLPs can be empowering for students, y ...
Mexican-American, voice, post-secondary, reflective literacy practices
49 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This qualitative study examines the discourse of study abroad (SA) electronic advertising and how it potentially constrains participation by students of color in education abroad using a critical race theory (CRT) perspective.
Background: Through visual and text communication, SA advertisements define the SA participant as affluent and White and construct SA as opportunities for tour ...
study abroad, critical race theory, students of color, advertising
167 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper invites readers to engage with analyses that diagnose the racial-colonial foundations of US universities as the root cause of many contemporary higher education challenges. To do so, it traces the “underside” of violence that subsidized three moments in US higher education history: the colonial era; land-grant legislation; and the post-War “golden age.” I argue that confron ...
higher education, history, foundations, capitalism, colonialism, racism
585 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Using a sample of historically Black college/university (HBCU) students, the study examined (1) differences in academic self-esteem (ASE) levels when considering students’ performance on an academic task that was either easy (low in cognitive demand) or difficult (high in cognitive demand), (2) gender differences in ASE levels, and (3) variations in academic self-concepts, given basel ...
academic self-esteem, perceptions of rigor, academic achievement, HBCU, col-lege students
63 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to provide an appreciative re-telling of public regional universities (PRUs) to advance the study of postsecondary education.
Background: Journalists, scholars, and policymakers frequently describe PRUs from a deficit perspective. The dominant narrative about PRUs influences how we prepare new higher education professionals, where faculty and ...
public, regional, comprehensive, university, opportunity, narrative, president, qualitative, appreciative
111 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Using the lens of critical theory, the authors of this study analyzed if institutions of varying institutional type acknowledged the role of the presidents’ spouses in presidential biographies and press releases. The purpose of this investigation was to establish to what extent institutions are transparent about the involvement of the presidential spouse.
Background: Spouses of high ...
college president, presidential spouse, content analysis, organizational commu-nication, critical theory
59 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between leadership style, performance, and organizational trust. In addition, it will look into the relationship between four leadership styles and employee performance moderating by organizational trust in the case of Shahid Hashemi nejad Gas Refinery.
Background: The leadership is one of the key important functions in ...
Leadership styles, organizational trust, employee performance, Structural equation modeling
150 downloads
What triggered the crash of the U.S. housing market? This analysis looks at the economic and industry forces that led to an economic downturn that put as many as half of all U.S. residential builders out of business.
Since the Great Depression, the U.S. housing market has significantly influenced economic production and employment levels. Direct and indirect investments in the housing industry, a ...
Business Failure, Economics, Financial Bubbles, Financial Regulations, Great Recession, Home Building, Housing Bubbles, Housing Market, Sub-Prime Lending
35 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to examine the effect of ethical leadership on corporate governance, corporate performance and corporate social responsibility in selected Nigerian deposit money banks.
Background: Business ethics, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility developed as movements to check unethical and corrupt practices in organizations and by extension improve the perf ...
Ethical Leadership, Corporate Governance, Corporate Performance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deposit Money Banks
303 downloads
The discovery and development of life-saving drugs have been central to improving health worldwide. However, the state of pharmaceutical innovation has been recently challenged due to falling industry outputs, with breakthrough therapies remaining elusive for many companies. Sustaining drug innovations is a top priority for pharmaceutical executives. This researcher examines existing literature to ...
Pharmaceutical innovation, management strategies, sustained innovation, biopharmaceutical, R&D, strategic alliances.
53 downloads
The president recently signed an executive order fulfilling his pledge to reduce federal regulations because it is a widely held belief that unfettered business activity and free-market solutions are integral to economic growth and prosperity, and that government intervention and regulation would be inimical to growth and prosperity. It is difficult to argue with the success of a laissez-faire ec ...
Competition, rent-seeking, monopoly, regulations, government, information asymmetry, externalities, rent-seeking, economic growth.
12 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research will explore the factors that determine the level of adoption and participation in sustainability practices among the local dairy farmers in Malaysia.
Background: Sustainability is often aimed at a solution in most fields: economics, social, and ecological welfare. Sustainability is known as the best technique to practice farming, which ensures the continuity of the pra ...
Sustainability, Sustainability Development, Dairy Farmers, Agribusiness
83 downloads
Quality management (QM) in one of its many forms has become an integral part of contemporary business. Since its mainstream introduction to the United States in the early 80’s it has become more than a strategy or a competitive differentiator. QM is now a customer expectation. Most of the voluminous research done in this field was conducted by large businesses for large businesses. However, th ...
Quality, Quality management, TQM, Small business, SME, Small enterprise
58 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the factors that influence customer intention to use mo-bile payment service in Nanjing, China. It also gains a deeper understanding and better insight of Chinese consumer behavior.
Background: Mobile payments services represent a tremendously interesting paradox in the world of telecommunications. Although, they are convenient, quick and easy but there is not sti ...
Mobile payment, intention, attitude, perceived risk, perceived usefulness
466 downloads
The Legend of Martha Stewart: Insider Trading
For decades institutional investment managers and individual investors have searched for different ways to make outsized returns in the stock market. Finance theories were created by academics to suggest that this task is not possible because the market is efficient. However, as a scholar-practitioner, I have come to realize that Insider Trading discl ...
Insider trading; Inside information; information content; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Efficient market hypothesis; Stock returns; Insider transactions; Electronic filings; Financial market anomaly.
524 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conduct a multi-case/agent analysis using complexity theory to develop propositions that guide and inform our research for solutions to the problems of integration and full participation of the English-speaking Black community in the societies of Montreal and Quebec.
Background: This study was motivated by our interest in community organizational le ...
Complex Adaptive systems, minority communities, diversity, communication technologies, ingenuity gap, cultural change models, communication and in-forming system
91 downloads
This Industry Analysis looks into the aspects of the stakeholders within the constructs of the college football environment and seeks to explain the various impacts on key stakeholders within the constructs of this industry. More importantly this research tracks the student-athlete both decision paths of the process of seeking a professional football career or an education with the benefits to pla ...
NCAA, Division I, Student-Athlete, Parents, College Football, Conferences, SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, High School, Recruiting, Recruit, Coach, Head Coach, African American, Student, University, College, College Football, Football, NFL Draft, NFL, Revenue, Academics, National Championship, BCS
38 downloads
According to Michael Kratsios, Deputy US Technology Officer, and Executive Assistant of President, UASs will contribute to 100,000 new jobs and provide nearly $80 Billion in economic impact in the United States over the next decade, but "errant use poses unique safety and technological challenges" (Kratsios, 2018). It is these two opposing potential results that pit the advocates for fully integra ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Aerial Photography, DJI, Drones, FAA, Disruptive Technology, Aviation, Law Enforcement, Emergency Response, Agriculture, Construction
31 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this research is to analyze the literature to-date thoroughly and conceptualize a born-global speculative start-up (BGSS) pervasive phenomenon model.
Background: The concept of ‘Born-Global’ or International New Venture (INV) firm was introduced into business theory in 1988. Over the last decades BGSSs such as Apple, IBM, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, ...
BGSS, Pervasive Technologies, Pervasive Advertising, Corporate Social Responsibility, Pervasive Phenomenon
69 downloads
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The main objective of the current study is to develop a business model for service providers of cloud computing which is designed based on circular economy principles and can ensure the sustainable consumption.
Background Even though the demand for cloud computing technology is increasing day by day in all over the world, the current the linear economy principles are incapable to en ...
Cloud computing, circular economy, circular business model, business model
152 downloads
The UAS industry is experiencing a rapid expansion, doubling every year since 2013, as adopters of this disruptive technology find new ways to benefit from these aerial platforms (Spencer, 2018). Of particular interest is the use of small to medium sized UASs, with a cost to the user of less than $2,000 that are the catalyst for this growth. Despite this rapid growth, UAS operators claim an inabil ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Aerial Photography, DJI, Drones, FAA, Disruptive Technology, Aviation, Law Enforcement, Emergency Response, Agriculture, Construction.
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose:
The objective of this study is, for a given set demographics, to investigate the effect of knowledge, awareness and perception of consumers on the attitude/preferences of consumers for organic product in Kelantan.
Background:
Organic foods are food products which are free from any chemicals and are safe to be consumed by consumers. The consumers are getting more health conscious an ...
Organic food, Awareness, knowledge, attitude, perception, demographic factor
56 downloads
The commercial unmanned aircraft industry exists in a rapidly evolving and uncertain environment, with a multitude of well-established, well-financed stakeholders in associated industries each vying to influence that environment. Although influence can come in many forms, Congress holds the ultimate power, and gives agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a recurring authorization ...
Drones, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, FAA, Reauthorization Act of 2018, UAS, H.R. 4, S. 1405, H.R. 302
29 downloads
The researcher provides information about Economic Development Zones to assist readers’ understanding of these programs. Then, business leaders would be able to make informed decisions about the merits of these programs and whether it makes sense for them to relocate their businesses to one of Florida’s Economic Development Zones
Rural Enterprise Zone, Enterprise Zone, Economic Development District, Economic Development Strategy, Housing and Urban Development, Rural Development, Smart Rural Development, Rural Incubator, Empowerment Zone, Enterprise community, Entrepreneur, Opportunity Zone and Promise Zone.
45 downloads
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This research paper attempts to assess how the Malaysia rice industry will behave if and when certain changes occur, such as the removal of policies which affect its rice import price (namely the Vietnam rice floor export price and Thailand rice pledging scheme) and which result from the ongoing region economic integration embodied in ASEAN Vision 2020.
Background:
Malaysia rice f ...
Rice trade, Food security, Policy analysis, System Dynamics, Malaysia, ASEAN
106 downloads
Aim/Purpose
Study aimed to examine the impacts of the Bui-Dam Hydroelectric Power (BHP) project resettlement on communities’ livelihoods. The purpose was to understand how the resettlement affected livelihood assets, activities, and capabilities of communities and households.
Background
Induced displacements and livelihoods of households and communities have received enormous scholarly attentio ...
Resettlement, Dams, Community Livelihoods, Ghana
128 downloads
Intangible assets are growing exponentially as a component of company value, but these assets are often unmanaged due to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), which provide no accountability. This research paper reaffirms and expands a proven alternative approach, which utilizes the CoreBrand Index® to measure, value, and manage intangible assets, and their financial impact on the corpo ...
Intangible assets, fair value, brand equity, innovation, brand value, intangible capital,
49 downloads
This research investigates the sociological, psychological, and physiological factors known to affect women’s career advancement opportunities. It examines how awareness and knowledge shared through the #MeToo (hashtag Me Too) movement influenced gender specific perceptions about the factors affecting women’s workplace opportunities. Finally, it recommends measures to alter the divergent gender ...
Equality, Workplace, Gender, Culture, MeToo, #MeToo
37 downloads
Hospitals typically plan and allocate labor from a siloed, department focused perspective. This approach, however, does not align with the system perspective of patient movement through a hospital. This disconnect results in a breakdown of system feedback loops concerning labor planning and allocation resulting in sub-optimized results. A systemic, centralized approach to labor planning and all ...
Labor Staffing, Labor Scheduling, Hospital Labor Management, Performance Metrics
14 downloads
The purpose of this research is to examine the progressive and regressive factors that affect a small business owner’s decision to implement an exit strategy. An exit strategy can be defined as an entrepreneur’s strategic plan to sell his or her investment in a company he or she has controlling interest in. An exit strategy gives a business owner a way to reduce or eliminate his or her stake in th ...
Exit planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, small business, entrepreneurship
40 downloads
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The goal of this study is to advance understanding of ICT utilization by SMMEs by checking access, ability (in terms of technological skills) and usage of ICT among some SMMEs entrepreneurs operating their businesses in an underdeveloped areas to enhance their business activities in order to utilizes the digital opportunities 21st century digital economies present.
Background:
In ...
Information and Communications Technology, Small Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises, 21st century digital economies
55 downloads
Table of Contents: Proceedings of the 2018 InSITE Conference
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
57 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to provide a description of how flipped classroom was designed in the Business Computing (BC) course in order to adapt with the changes in the Vietnamese students’ learning needs, as well as social and technological developments that disrupt student’ behaviours and living styles.
Background: The flipped classroom (FC) model is widely implemented, especially in the Eng ...
flipped classroom, learning styles, design thinking and student centric learning
34 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper introduces DigLit Score, an indicator of the extent to which educational institutions identify, assess, and amplify student digital literacy.
Background: Digital literacy has garnered considerable attention of late among scholars, leaders, and journalists. Nonetheless, institutions of higher education have been slow to define, assess, and amplify digital literacy on par wi ...
digital literacy, technology, curriculum, assessment, student learning
48 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper attempts an inquiry into some Business intelligence (BI) implementation challenges related to human factors, and uses empirical survey data to test how the required BI coverage relates to perceived level of BI culture through such important human factors in BI as information sharing.
Background: Business intelligence adoption already has a formidable body of experience, ye ...
business intelligence, business intelligence culture, information and insight sharing
38 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes an empirical investigation on how consumer behavior is influenced by the volume of content on a commercial landing page -- a stand-alone web page designed to collect user data (in this case the user’s e-mail address), a behavior called “conversion.”
Background: Content is a term commonly used to describe the information made available by a website or other elect ...
content, landing pages, content strategy, impression-management, decision-making, human-computer interaction, engagement, a/b testing, e-commerce, marketing
166 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Explore the benefits of participating in competitive endurance sports. Beyond the obvious health and social benefits, endurance competitions offer significant psycho/social growth that translates into more a more effective professional life.
Background: Utilizes triadic agentic theory to explain the transference of learning from di-vergent experiences.
Methodology: Mixed method usi ...
endurance, competition, agentic learning, work engagement, problem focused coping, emotion focused coping
13 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In our previous paper, we have proposed a methodology to deliver an applied business course to the multicultural audience having in mind embedding into the course cultural sensitivity and create a safe place for multicultural students to use own cultural metaphors in a learning place. We have proposed a fusion of ancient storytelling tradition creating an overall context for the teach ...
digital inclusion, case teaching, visual knowledge transfer, visualization of busi-ness thinking
50 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To investigate anxiety in online courses and its relationship with overall online courses satisfaction as it may vary with online courses experience.
Background: Delivering online courses in higher education institutions continue to increase. Anxieties seem to be persistent. Although there are many technology and internet related anxieties studies, online courses anxieties are relati ...
anxiety, eLearning, satisfaction, online, experience
48 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper, explored features of popular social media in promoting research activities for successful integration of information services on social media platforms.
Background: Leisure, in the early days, was more aligned with reading and research activities and enjoyed a long term monopoly until the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The society milieu is n ...
social media, communication, networking, librarians, research and academic activities
52 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper addressed the topics of sustainable agronomy, aquaculture, hydroponics and soil monitoring methods that show how to move towards a repairing mode and bioremediation in many locations across the globe.
Background: Sixty percent of the world’s major terrestrial ecosystems are being degraded; the human ecological footprint is spreading across the globe. The major human impact ...
biotechnology, agbiotech, bio monitoring, sustainable urban & rural farming methods, hydroponics, aquaponics, endemic & keystone species, biodiversity, Biomonapp, sustainable corporate responsibility, CEA, RAS, emerging technologies, eco-friendly, phytoremediation, green biochemistry
28 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In many OECD countries, emergency response relies on volunteers, and while emergency incidents are increasing, volunteer numbers are declining. Volunteer turnover occurs at various stages of the volunteering life cycle (i.e., recruitment, training, socialisation, performance, and retirement), the socialisation stage has the greatest impact on organisations, as it occurs after the allo ...
volunteer retention, volunteer turnover, volunteering life cycle, socialisation, grounded theory
26 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Contemporary organizations and business models challenge traditional performance measures. Some of these measures may not be relevant, and all of them may not be appropriate for measuring some of the critical factors that organizations should focus on in the current business environment.
Background: This research-in-progress examines the relevance of traditional performance mea ...
performance measurement, management accounting, Theory of Constraints (TOC), attention economy, cost accounting, value creation, financial statement analysis
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This presentation will discuss how mobile devices are used to keep children busy and entertained during child care activities. Mobile devices are considered the 21st “Century Nanny” since parents and caregivers use those tools to engage children’s attention for indefinite periods of time. Research background on touch screen devices and children’s age groups are presented to map age to ...
mobile devices, children age groups, mobile apps, parenting
15 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study intends to find out how the ‘Big Five’ personality factors (openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism) impact on college students’ Facebook use (hedonic, sociability, and compulsive use) and whether GPA has a moderating effect on such use.
Background: For college students, their favorite way of Facebook use may turn out to be predetermined ...
personality trait, Facebook use, hedonic use, sociability, and compulsive use
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on the role of personality in online shopping through analyzing its relationship with customer reported shopping outcomes and their satisfaction.
Background: Customer satisfaction and outcomes in online shopping have been well-documented. From different perspectives, past research has analysed factors related to customer satisfaction, and to outcomes to a lesser e ...
online shopping, consumer interface, personality traits
42 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that may lead to adopting mobile commerce in a developing country in South Asia.
Background: Access to information is key for communication and for controlling our environment to improve our lives. The growth of mobile phones and the internet technologies have greatly improved the access to information and encompassed the social ...
mobile commerce, mobile banking
24 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To provide a summary of Technology vs. Ecology, especially outlining how a "wild animal" (aka hunter-gatherer) became the putative "master of the world"
Background: Schultz is Professor Emeritus of Information Technology and has published numerous books and articles on: ethics and IT; ecology and IT; and database design
Methodology: Standard research techniques utilizing material ...
modern technology, human development, human space, reverse temporalization, origin scenario
22 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
ABSTRACT
Mathematics is fundamental to the study of Computer Science. In Sri Lankan state universities, students have been enrolled only from the Physical Science stream with minimum ‘C’ grade in Mathematics in the advanced level examination to d ...
theoretical Computer Science courses, academic performance, Discrete Mathematics
11 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
The aim of this study was to concept test a novel instructional aid called Virtual Pathology Learning Resource (VPLR), which was used as a vehicle to communicate information, and enhance teaching and learning of basic sciences (Anatom ...
virtual learning, pathology, higher education, allied health science students, tissue specimens, case scenarios, medical radiation
10 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
This paper investigates the new technical skills that are needed for Data Engineering. Past research is compared to new research which creates a list of the 20 top tech-nical skills required by a Data Engineer. The growing availabilit ...
Data Engineering, Technical Skills, Data Science
64 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
Although cassava is one of the crops that can be grown during the dry season in Northeastern Thailand, most farmers in the region do not know whether the crop can grow in their specific areas because the available agriculture planning ...
Geospatial, Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Suitability, Cassava Prediction
17 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
Medical images are very sensitive data that are being transferred here and there either for referral cases or consultation. Since these images are very sensitive, they have to be kept securely. Since the advent of the internet, transferring of the ...
Medical, Quantum, Security, Cryptography
34 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
The objective of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of educational games on learning computer programming. In particular, we are focusing on examining whether allowing the players to manipulate the underlying code of th ...
Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Learning Programming
35 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
In this exploratory study we investigate the influential factors of users' decisions in the dilemma whether to agree to online personalization or to protect their online privacy.
Background: Various factors related to online privacy ...
Online privacy behavior, online personalization, privacy paradox, privacy concern, online privacy literacy, online privacy self-efficacy.
11 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
To monitor Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) established by the United Nations through the hierarchical architecture of informing systems
Background: The paper discusses the case of Poland and its Gdansk region
Methodology: The ...
Sustainability, Globalizing society, Sustainability Development Goals, informing systems, population bomb, ecological bomb, strategic resources depletion bomb.
8 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
This paper describes and information system for the maintenance and management of municipal lighting systems that also serves as a decision support tool for reducing power consumption on urban lighting.
Background: Many municipalitie ...
Energy efficiency, municipal budget, integer programming, optimization
9 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
The proposed Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) for Empowerment (PKM4E) Framework expands on the notions of the Ignorance Map and Matrix for further supporting the educational concept of a PKM system-in-progress.
Background: The acc ...
Personal Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management, Knowledge So-ciety, Creative Class, Knowledge Worker, Ignorance Matrix, Empowerment, Memes, Knowcations.
12 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
The purpose of this article is to establish the different impacts of technological changes in institutions generating irrevocable changes in today's society
Background: Technological changes have had a positive impact on many aspects ...
Technological Changes, Electronic Government, Information and Communication Technology
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
Authentic assessments offer students the opportunity to develop skills that implement the formal learning they receive in the classroom. Although there is a need for accounting graduates to possess a plethora of skills to equip them f ...
Reflective journals, critical thinking, accounting education, graduate-attributes, problem-based learning, work –integrated learning
14 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
The primary objective of this research was to build an enhanced framework for Applied and Computational Math. This framework allows a variety of applied math concepts to be organized into a meaningful whole. The framework can help students grasp n ...
Framework, Applied Math, Computational Math, Data Science, concordance.
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
The objective of this study is to understand how the video lectures of the same length and content as the face-to-face lectures can be designed and implemented to have a positive effect on student performance; probably when the campus ...
Video lectures, organisation and design of the video lecture, quality of the video lecture and content, student performance, quasi-experimental design.
10 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 15]
Student dropout in higher education institutions is a universal problem. This study identifies the characteristics of dropout. In addition, it develops a mathematical model to predict students who may dropout.
Background: This stu ...
Dropouts, Attrition, Persistence, Retention, Higher Education
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 14]
The digital divide and educational inequalities remain a significant societal prob-lem in the United States impacting low income, first-generation, and minority learners. Accordingly, institutions of higher education are challenged to me ...
Digital divide, information literacy, first generation college students, technology readiness, HBCU, minority learners, technology assessment, digital literacy, under prepared students, IC3, computer skills, computer concepts course, computer education, generation z, computer skills assessment, UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, SAM, Cengage, skills assessment management, Certiport, technological competency
323 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 14]
This presentation presents the preliminary findings of a survey that sought to examine the technology uses, needs, interests, career goals, and professional expectations of Generation Z college students
Background: Students entering col ...
Technology skills, career readiness, technological literacy, Generation Z, computer concepts course, computer education, computer skills assessment, UMES, minority learners, career and technology readiness, technology assessment, digital literacy, computer self-efficacy.
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 14]
The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of awareness, perceived benefits, types of data collected and perceived control on the privacy concerns of digital natives living in what is considered the smart city of Cape Town, ...
Smart Cities, Privacy Concerns, Digital Natives, South Africa
14 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, Volume 13]
The wide use of online banking and technological advancement has attracted the interest of malicious and criminal users with more sophisticated form of attacks. Therefore, banks need to adapt their security systems to effectively stem threats ...
Multilevel-Security, Authentication, Soft-token, Cybercrime
13 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, Volume 13]
The main purpose of this paper is to identify ways of consumers’ knowledge sharing with business and public organizations.
Background: Contemporary consumers do not wish to be passive consumers anymore. They want to satisfy thei ...
Knowledge, knowledge sharing, prosumer, prosumption, consumer, customer knowledge sharing
14 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 21]
Provides a theoretical model as to where we should source our information as the environment becomes more complex.
Background: Develops a theoretical model built on extrinsic complexity and offers a conceptual scheme relatin ...
Extrinsic complexity, environment, informing sources, client, informer
8 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, Volume 17]
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between teacher presence and social presence on one hand, and feelings of challenge and threat, self-efficacy, and motivation among students studying in virtual and blended courses on the ot ...
Teacher Presence, Social Presence, Challenge, Threat, Motivation, Self-efficacy, Virtual Course, Blended Course, Learning Community, Trans-actional Distance
30 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [The full paper was previously published in the International Journal of Community Development & Management Studies, 1, 39-47. Available at http://ijcdms.org/Volume01/v1p063-071Fosu3785.pdf]
The main aim of the study is to identify some of the barriers to the integration of technology into the teaching of mathematics in high schools.
Background: Writing on chalkboards as a metho ...
mathematics teachers, technological skills, training
14 downloads
Table of contents for Volume 20 of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2017.
Informing Science, table of contents
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Aim/Purpose: The objective of this paper is to review the vast literature of user-centric in-formation science and inform about the emerging themes in information behaviour science.
Background: The paradigmatic shift from system-centric to user-centric approach facilitates research on the cognitive and individual information processing. Various information behaviour theories/models emerged.
...
user-centric information processing, information behaviour, collaborative information behaviour
322 downloads
Aim/Purpose: With information almost effortlessly created and spontaneously available, current progress in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has led to the complication that information must be scrutinized for trustworthiness and provenance. Information systems must become provenance-aware to be satisfactory in accountability, reproducibility, and trustworthiness of data.
Backgroun ...
conceptual representation, provenance, diagrammatic representation, workflow, data provenance
95 downloads
Aim/Purpose
We establish a conceptually rigorous definition for the widely used but loosely defined term “fitness”. We then tie this definition to complexity, highlighting a number of important implications for the informing science transdiscipline.
Background
As informing science increasingly incorporates concepts of fitness and complexity in its research stream, rigorous discussion and de ...
fitness, complexity, rugged landscapes, punctuated equilibrium, informing
112 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) has been envisaged as a crucial tool for the growing creative class of knowledge workers, but adequate technological solutions have not been forthcoming.
Background: Based on former affordance-related publications (primarily concerned with communication, community-building, collaboration, and social knowledge sharing), the common and differing n ...
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Design Science Research (DSR), Informing Science (IS), Knowledge Worker, Affordances, Path Dependency, Fixations, Digital Ecosystems, Memes, Memex, Knowcations
173 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main aim of the research is to examine the performance of second language English speaking students enrolled in the Business Statistics course and to investigate the academic performance of students when taught under the constructivist and non-constructivist approaches in a classroom environment.
Background: There are different learning theories that are established based on ho ...
business statistics, constructivist approach, second language English speakers, student motivation, academic performance
280 downloads
Aim/Purpose : An important objective of any firm is escalation of its performance and the achievement of competitive advantages. Supply chain agility plays a prominent role to enhance the level of firm’s performance. Moreover, information technology (IT) plays a foundational role in supply chain management practices. Hence, this study proposes the relationship between IT integration as the compete ...
IT integration, supply chain agility, market performance
298 downloads
Aim/Purpose
Information Technology students’ learning outcomes improve when teaching methodology moves away from didactic behaviorist-based pedagogy toward a more heuristic constructivist-based version of andragogy.
Background
There is a distinctive difference, a notable gap, between the academic community and the business community in their views of the level of preparedness of recent info ...
learning outcomes, pedagogy, andragogy, behaviorism, constructivism, learning theory, instructional strategy
416 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how Kuwaiti Academic Libraries (KALs) have responded to the rapidly evolving Smartphone-Apps (SP-Apps) environment, as well as exploring the level of electronic services provided in these libraries.
Background: This study can illustrate whether the governmental, academic libraries in the State of Kuwait have already benefited from the mobile services ...
academic library, smartphone, information communication technology, Kuwait
128 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To develop and introduce a questionnaire that investigates the informing needs, information-seeking behavior, and supplier selection of procurement officers in Israel. The questionnaire’s internal consistency reliability is given. Additionally, we describe the demographic description of the procurement officers in Israel.
Background: Procurement science is an important field that aff ...
procurement, informing needs, e-procurement, Israel
62 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Sharing ideas generated in a Business Intelligence (BI) Applications class to upgrade an Information System in to an Informing System.
Background: Course Registration is the essential university’s business process in a university that follows a liberal-arts education model. Almost all categories of users are involved, including students, individual faculties and departments, and a ...
information systems, informing systems, business intelligence, analytics, course registration
155 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The media and research have made significant noise about young people’s addictions to technology, however the American Psychological Association (APA) has reserved judgment on the clinical diagnosis of technology addiction. Research to understand technology addiction is important to the future of information systems development and behavioral usage understanding.
Background: Addictio ...
addiction, satisfaction with life, social network sites, dependence
2407 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Professional companies selling persuasive-communication services via the World Wide Web need to be exemplars of effective informing practices. Their credibility is at risk if their websites do not excel in marketing message and use of medium. Their unique brands need to be expressed through website technology and content, or they cannot compete successfully.
Background: Compares mark ...
brand reputation, identity differentiation, message clarity, expertise and credibility
288 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the light of the recent attention to the role of social media in the dissemination of fake news, it is important to understand the relationship between the characteristics of the social media content and re-sharing behavior. This study seeks to examine individual level antecedents of information re-sharing behavior including individual beliefs about the quality of information avail ...
social network, fake news, information quality, risk taking propensity, re-sharing
944 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, in which academia and business have a role to play. This research explores ways to develop a freely-available information system that would enable small businesses to identify and reduce their environmental footprint.
Background: While large organizations have the resources to track emissions and other pertinent data, small businesses ...
climate change, small business, wiki, activity theory, design science, green in-formation systems
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to provide a better understanding of individual acceptance of enterprise resource (ERP) systems. Based on the uses and gratifications theory (UGT) and informing science theory, the study developed and empirically tested a research model to explain the effects of ERP characteristics (specifically, informativeness and enjoyment) on ERP acceptance and use.
Background: I ...
enterprise resource system (ERP), uses and gratification theory (UGT), in-formativeness, enjoyment, attitude, satisfaction, intention to use ERP systems
184 downloads
Table of Contents of Volume 16 of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2017.
119 downloads
online teaching, online learning, preservice teachers, online schools, virtual schools
172 downloads
Aim/Purpose The goal of this project was to determine what effects exposure to online K-12 teaching and learning activities had on teacher candidates’ perceptions of K-12 online learning, how the exposure allowed teacher candidates to reach greater understanding of online pedagogy, and what effect such exposure had on teacher candidates’ aspirations to complete virtual field experiences.
Backgr ...
online teaching, online learning, preservice teachers, online schools, virtual schools
508 downloads
Aim/Purpose : To examine the use of a flipped classroom in the English Language subject in secondary classrooms in Hong Kong.
Background: The research questions addressed were: (1) What are teachers’ perceptions towards the flipped classroom pedagogy? (2) How can teachers transfer their flipped classroom experiences to teaching other classes/subjects? (3) What are students’ perceptions towards ...
flipped classroom, English language, pedagogy, secondary, Hong Kong
909 downloads
Aim/Purpose This paper utilizes the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to examine the extent to which acceptance of Remote Virtual Computer Laboratories (RVCLs) is affected by students’ technological backgrounds and the role of collaborative work.
Background RVCLs are widely used in information technology and cyber security education to provide students with hands-on experimentation. However, ...
collaborative learning, technology acceptance, virtual computer laboratories
455 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper provides a review of previously published work related to active learning in information systems (IS) courses.
Background: There are a rising number of strategies in higher education that offer promise in regards to getting students’ attention and helping them learn, such as flipped classrooms and offering courses online. These learning strategies are part of the pedagog ...
active learning, critical thinking, information systems, IS curriculum
678 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To identify and rectify the learning difficulties of online learners.
Background: The major cause of learners’ failure and non-acquisition of knowledge relates to their weaknesses in certain areas necessary for optimal learning. We focus on e-learning because, within this environment, the learner is mostly affected by these vulnerabilities due to the lack of direct contact with th ...
e-Learning, learner performances, optimization, detector agent, rectifier agent
310 downloads
Aim/Purpose: As smartphones proliferate, many different platforms begin to emerge. The challenge to developers as well as IS educators and students is how to learn the skills to design and develop apps to run on cross-platforms.
Background: For developers, the purpose of this paper is to describe an alternative to the complex native app development. For IS educators and students, the paper pr ...
browser-based apps, mobile app usage, app development, cross-platform web app, store-retrieve-display app, WORA, hybrid development framework
317 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study examines the effectiveness of university courses in shaping pre-service teachers’ intention to use 3D multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) when they become practicing teachers.
Background: Four variables (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, and attitude toward use), as well as behavioral intention to use MUVEs, were used to build a research mode ...
MUVEs, pre-service teachers, structural equation modeling, Technology Ac-ceptance Model
226 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To prepare students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of wireless communications.
Background: Teaching wireless communications and networking is not an easy task because it involves broad subjects and abstract content.
Methodology: A pedagogical method that combined lectures, labs, assignments, exams, and readings was applied in a course of wire ...
wireless communications, wireless simulation, wireless network, wireless security, course design
203 downloads
Background: Although Indonesia is one of the world’s most populated countries with a high penetration of internet usage there has been little research on SNS usage in Indonesia, especially involving children. Instead, SNS research in Indonesia has focused on university students and political, marketing, and disaster mitigation issues.
Aim/Purpose: In order to address this gap a theoretical mo ...
attitude, children, Indonesia, parental influences, peer influences, social net-works, TAM
326 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study investigated and compared students’ attention in terms of time-on-task and number of distractors between using a touchscreen and a pen tablet in mathematical problem-solving activities with virtual manipulatives.
Background: Although there is an increasing use of these input devices in educational practice, little research has focused on assessing student attentio ...
attention, touchscreen, pen tablet, mathematical problem solving, virtual manipulatives, human-technology interaction
506 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate how Kuwaiti teachers perceive their own readiness to implement digital curriculum in public schools, and the factors that affect Kuwaiti teachers’ readiness to implement digital curriculum from their perspectives.
Background: In order to shift from the traditional instructional materials to digital and more innovative resources, teachers h ...
digital curriculum, educational technology, Kuwait education, technology readinesss
528 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Electronic examinations have some inherent problems. Students have expressed negative opinions about electronic examinations (e-examinations) due to a fear of, or unfamiliarity with, the technology of assessment, and a lack of knowledge about the methods of e-examinations.
Background: Electronic examinations are now a viable alternative method of assessing student learning. They p ...
e-examination, e-Learning, public-private relationships, open-source software, accreditation authorities, post-paper assessment
225 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore whether a full cost flight training device (FTD) was significantly better for simulator training than a low cost PC-Based Aviation Training Device (PCATD).
Background: A quasi-transfer study was undertaken to ascertain whether a Civil Aviation Authority certified Flight Training Device (FTD) was more effective at improving pilot proficiency in ...
PC-based aviation training device, flight training device, visual flight rules, qua-si-transfer, simulator, pilot training
226 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Improving public schools is a focus of federal legislation in the United States with much of the burden placed on principals. However, preparing principals for this task has proven elusive despite many changes in programming by institutions of higher learning. Emerging technologies that rely on augmented and virtual realities are posited to be powerful pedagogical tools for closing th ...
immersive simulation, principals, self-efficacy, school improvement, action review cycle, situated learning, critical pedagogy
191 downloads
Aim/Purpose: By integrating a motivational perspective into the Technology Acceptance Model, the goal of this study is to empirically test the causal relationship of intrinsic motivational factors on students’ behavioral intention to use (BIU) a mobile application for learning.
Background: Although the Technology Acceptance Model is a significant model, it largely remains incomplete as it does ...
intrinsic motivation, mobile learning, behavioral intention, competence, challenge, choice, interest
391 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to examine what ICT coordinators perceive as the main elements of knowledge needed to implement ICT successfully into school culture.
Background: For the past few years, Israel’s Ministry of Education has been running a national program of adapting the education system to the 21st century skills. Key teachers have been appointed as ICT coordinators. Their ro ...
ICT coordinators, TPACK, leadership knowledge, ICT implementation
317 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Over the past few years, new approaches to introducing young children to computational thinking have grown in popularity. This paper examines the role that user interfaces have on children’s mastery of computational thinking concepts and positive interpersonal behaviors.
Background: There is a growing pressure to begin teaching computational thinking at a young age. This study ex ...
robotics, coding, early childhood, user interfaces, collaboration, computational thinking
633 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The number of students enrolled in online courses that use video lectures is on the rise. However, research shows that the number of students watching video lectures is low, and the number watching videos to completion is even lower.
Background: This paper seeks to understand this problem by looking for correlations between instructional design and student engagement with video lec ...
instructional design, cyber university, video lectures
343 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To examine the early perceptions (acceptability) and usability of EASEL (Education through Application-Supported Experiential Learning), a mobile platform that delivers reflection prompts and content before, during, and after an experiential learning activity.
Background: Experiential learning is an active learning approach in which students learn by doing and by reflecting on the ex ...
experiential learning, mobile devices, smartphones, technology, application supported learning, reflection, metacognition
182 downloads
Aim/Purpose: When learning to program, both text-based and visual-based input methods are common. However, it is unclear which method is more appropriate for first-time learners (first learners).
Background: The differences in the learning effect between text-based and visual-based input methods for first learners are compared the using a questionnaire and problems to assess first learners’ under ...
programming-learning, Minecraft. programming input method, game-based learning
369 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Compared student academic performance on specific course requirements in a C# programming course across three instructional approaches: traditional, online, and flipped.
Background: Addressed the following research question: When compared to the online and traditional instructional approaches, does the flipped instructional approach have a greater impact on student academic performan ...
flipped instructional approach, online instructional approach, traditional instructional approach, C# programming, student performance, information technology education
247 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Teaching and learning is no longer the same and the paradigm shift has not settled yet. Information technology (IT) and its worldwide use impacts student learning methods and associated pedagogical models.
Background: In this study we frame immersive learning as a method that we believe can be designed by pedagogical models such as experiential, constructivist, and collaborative e ...
immersive learning, information technology, learning models, educational evolution
283 downloads
Aim/Purpose: From an idea of lifelong-learning-for-all to a phenomenon affecting higher education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be the next step to a truly universal education. Indeed, MOOC enrolment rates can be astoundingly high; still, their completion rates are frequently disappointingly low. Nevertheless, as courses, the participants’ enrolment and learning within the MOOCs must be ...
distance education, lifelong learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), success factors, framework, content analysis, climate change
313 downloads
Aim/Purpose: IStation is an adaptive computer-based reading program that adapts to the learner’s academic needs. This study investigates if the Istation computer-based reading program promotes reading improvement scores as shown on the STAR Reading test and the IStation test scaled scores for elementary school third-grade learners on different reading levels.
Background: Prior literature provide ...
computer-adaptive learning technologies, reading intervention, early child-hood education, IStation
417 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The traditional method of teaching e-safety by lecturing is not very effective. Despite learners often being equipped with the right knowledge, they reject the need to act accordingly. There is a need to improve the way digital e-safety is taught.
Background: The study compares four different teaching styles, examining how each affected the way students perceive a range of e-safety k ...
e-safety, teaching methods, experience-based learning, lecture, expert’s talk, group learning, semantic differential
127 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study introduced a new teaching and learning approach based on an ADRI (Approach, Deployment, Result, Improvement) model in an introductory programming (IP) course. The effectiveness of the new teaching and learning process was determined by collecting feedback from the IP instructors and by analyzing the final exam grades of the course.
Background: Learning to program is consid ...
introductory programming course, ADRI approach, teaching approach, stu-dents learning outcomes, failure and dropout rates
158 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to examine whether there is a difference between manual feedback and online feedback with regard to feedback quality, respondents’ percentage, reliability and the amount of verbal comments written by students.
Background: The quality of teaching is an important component of academic work. There are various methods for testing the quality of teaching; one of these met ...
teaching quality, manual teaching evaluation, online teaching evaluation
155 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To investigate the effectiveness of incorporating wiki technology in an under-graduate biostatistics course for improving university students’ collaborative learning, approaches to learning, and course performance.
Methodology: During a three year longitudinal study, twenty-one and twenty-four undergraduate students were recruited by convenience sampling and assigned to a wiki group ...
statistics, education, social media, group processes, learning
166 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines how the use of a Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) application influences the learners’ attitudes towards the process of learning, and more specifically in voluntary and mandatory environments.
Background: Mobile devices and applications, which have become an integral part of our lives, are used for different purposes, including educational objectives. Am ...
mobile applications, foreign languages, MALL, mobile assisted language learning, m-learning, gamification
808 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Awareness of eSafety and potential online dangers for children and teenagers.
Background The study examined eSafety among children and teenagers from their own perspectives, through evaluations of their awareness level of eSafety and of potential online dangers.
Methodology: This is a mixed-method study with both quantitative and qualitative elements. The study includes questionna ...
Internet, children, teenagers, eSafety, cyberbullying
510 downloads
Aim/Purpose: As e-Learning 3.0 evolves from a theoretical construct into an actual solution for online learning, it becomes crucial to accompany this progress by scrutinising the elements that are at the origin of its success.
Background: This paper outlines a framework of e-Learning 3.0’s critical success factors and its empirical validation.
Methodology: The framework is the result of an ext ...
e-Learning 3.0, critical success factors, semantic web
307 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the study is to provide foundational research to exemplify how knowledge construction takes place in microblogging-based learning environments, to understand learner interaction representing the knowledge construction process, and to analyze learner perception, thereby suggesting a model of delivery for microblogging.
Background: Up-and-coming digital native learners c ...
knowledge construction, social media, microblogging, Twitter
159 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In this study, the authors examine how an online word processing tool can be used to encourage participation among students of different language back-grounds, including English Language Learners. To be exact, the paper discusses whether student participation in anonymous collaborative writing via Google Docs can lead to more successful products in a linguistically diverse eighth-grad ...
English language learners, writing instruction, technology, middle school, col-laborative writing tools
1917 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article presents a study of ICT use and attitudes related to the computer use of girls and boys from Catalonia in order to detect which gender differences may explain the low presence of women in the ICT field and to design a proposal of actions in schools to help reduce these differences.
Background: Since the number of women in the field of ICT remains very low, this study loo ...
gender differences, attitudes in computer use, self-efficacy, secondary students, stereotypes in ICT
174 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study is an attempt to enhance the existing learning management systems today through the integration of technology, particularly with educational data mining and recommendation systems.
Background: It utilized five-year historical data to find patterns for predicting student performance in Java Programming to generate appropriate course-content recommendations for the student ...
learning management systems, educational data mining, prediction model, per-formance prediction, attribute selection, course-content recommendation, index of learning styles
251 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores the associations between elementary school learners’
m-learning and learner satisfactions based on the technology-mediated learning model.
Background: M-learning (mobile learning) is emerging, but its role in elementary education still needs clarification.
Methodology: Questionnaires were mailed to several different elementary schools, located in different area ...
active course participation, m-technology quality, satisfaction toward course satisfaction toward peers, satisfaction toward school
213 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether the authoring of computer games in a mainstream primary school setting can support the learning of game design and programming concepts.
Background: Despite the benefits for students when they learn how to program and the significant body of research regarding this matter, these benefits are still under debate, and the teaching of prog ...
constructionism, game design, Kodu, primary school students, programming, SOLO taxonomy
179 downloads
Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 14, 2017
IISIT, informing Science, information technology, InSITE
117 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Executive doctoral programs in higher education are under-researched. Scholars, administers, and students should be aware of all common delivery methods for higher education graduate programs.
Background This paper provides a review and analysis of executive doctoral higher education programs in the United States.
Methodology: Executive higher education doctoral programs analyze ...
higher education, executive, graduate programs
144 downloads
Can Learners Become Teachers? Evaluating the Merits of Student Generated Content and Peer Assessment
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this project was to explore student perceptions of the value of both the creation of video content and exposure to other students’ work though peer assessment and inclusion of exemplars as unit material.
Background: The research was in a first year information technology flipped-learning unit, where the assessment involved students developing video presentations that wer ...
student generated, peer review, flipped learning, peer assessment
157 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The uptake of university by regional students has been problematic for various reasons. This paper discusses a program, initiated by a South Australian regional university campus, aimed at attracting regional students into higher education.
Background: A qualitative descriptive approach to study was used to determine the value of the program on participating students and school sta ...
university participation, increasing university aspirations, Year 10 students, regional university experience
85 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Despite millions of apps on the market, it is still challenging to develop a mobile app that can run across platforms using the same code.
Background: This paper explores a potential solution for developing cross platform apps by presenting the hybrid app approach.
Methodology: The paper first describes a brief evolution of the different mobile app development approaches and ...
hybrid apps, mobile app development, cross-platform web app, Ionic framework
366 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In today’s changing economy, economic growth depends on career and technical programs for skill training.
Background: This study discusses the key area in promoting individual learning and skill training and discusses the importance of career education and training as a way of promoting economic growth.
Methodology : This study uses a qualitative study approach to investigate ...
workforce development, technology, unemployment and employment growth, labor force, education and job training, economic growth and instructional technology
483 downloads
Aim/Purpose : Share research finding about ransomware, depict the ransomware work in a format that commonly used by researchers and practitioners and illustrate personal case experience in dealing with ransomware.
Background: Author was hit with Ransomware, suffered a lot from it, and did a lot of research about this topic. Author wants to share findings in his research and his experience in de ...
Ransomware, Malware, Crypto 3, Crypto 4, Computer ransom
849 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of mentor’s work with immigrant children and adolescents at risk, using the Elements Way.
Background: The New Media offers our “screen kids” a lot of information, many behavioral models, and a new type of social communication. The Elements Way is an educational method designed to enhance openness, development, breakthroughs, goa ...
screen kids, empowering, new media, immigrant children, children at risk, mentors, the Elements Way
119 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Assess the affordances and constraints of SimReal+ in teacher education
Background There is a huge interest in visualizations in mathematics education, but there is little empirical support for their use in educational settings
Methodology: Single case study with 22 participants from one class in teacher education. Quantitative and qualitative methods to collect students’ respons ...
pedagogical affordances, technological affordances, SimReal+, visualization tool
123 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To understand the change of entrepreneurial initiatives by analysing some new initiatives that came up the last years based on IT enabled business models
Background: The theme is described from an educational perspective by offering examples of successful entrepreneurship initiatives
Methodology: Description of some cases: Waynabox, Lock up, Uber, Pinterest
Contribution: Thi ...
entrepreneurial initiatives, case study, customer experiences, knowledge society
125 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Governments, private business, and academia have become increasingly aware of the importance of collaboration in multi-stakeholder, multicultural environments. This is due to the globalization and (developing) mutual relationships with other global partners, due to the often varying visions and goals between the respective organizations in managing projects that span those environmen ...
cultural communication, stakeholder theory, cultural competence
300 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to describe how various Kanban elements can help alleviate two prominent types of challenges, communication and collaboration in Global Software Development (GSD).
Background: Iterative and Lean development methodologies like Kanban have gained significance in the software development industry, both in the co-located and globally distributed contexts. However, litt ...
Kanban, lean software development, global software development, communication challenges, collaboration challenges
224 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article examines how learning activities draw on resources in the work context to learn.
Background The background is that if knowledge no longer is seen mainly as objects, but processes, how then to understand boundary objects? Our field study of learning activities reveals the use of pictures, documents and emotions for learning in the geographically distributed Norwegian Lab ...
learning in organizations, network of practice, sense making, learning as prac-tice. boundary objects
73 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate various characteristics from both victims as defaced websites and defacers that linked to a risk of being defaced through a set of descriptive analysis.
Background: The current figures from a spectrum of sources, both academic and non-academic reports, proved a progressive increase of website defacement attacks to numerous organisations.
Methodolog ...
defacement, re-defacement, entertainment and defacer
60 downloads
Table of Contents, IJELL, e-skills, lifelong learning
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: These days educators are expected to integrate technological tools into classes. Although they acquire relevant skills, they are often reluctant to use these tools.
Background: We incorporated online forums for generating a Community of Inquiry (CoI) in a faculty development program. Extending the Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) model with Assessment Knowledge a ...
community of inquiry, online forums, hands-on experience, TPACK, instruc-tional technology, teacher professional development
159 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research work investigated the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university in Nigeria, in the course of a group assignment.
Background: Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (ISP) model is used as lens to reveal how students interact with information in the affective, cognitive and physical realms.
Methodology: Qualitative research methods were ...
information seeking process, information seeking, dialogue journaling, group assignment, analysis of assignment, specialised university
183 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To develop a framework for utilizing Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) to assist non-native English migrant women to acquire English vocabulary in a non-formal learning setting.
Background: The women in this study migrated to Australia with varied backgrounds including voluntary or forced migration, very low to high levels of their first language (L1), low proficiency in Engl ...
MALL, migrant women, vocabulary, tablet, language app
308 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The research investigates the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Iranian refugees’ settlement in Australia.
Background: The study identifies the issues of settlement, such as language, cultural and social differences.
Methodology: The Multi-Sited Ethnography (MSE), which is a qualitative methodology, has been used with a thematic analysis drawing on a seri ...
e-Skills, ICT, settlement, refugees
127 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Students face many challenges improving their soft skills such as critical thinking. This paper offers one possible solution to this problem.
Background: This paper considers one method of enhancing critical thinking through a problem-solving game called the Coffee Shop. Problem-solving is a key component to critical thinking, and game-playing is one method of enhancing this throug ...
lesson delivery, blended learning, digital technology, learning outcomes, entrepreneurship, mixed methods, learning transfer, gamification
571 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The teaching solution presented in this paper was implemented to overcome the common problems encountered by authors during years of practice of applied business studies teaching.
Background: In our school, we have deep multicultural environments where both teachers and students are coming from different countries and cultures. The typical problems encountered with students includ ...
case study visualization, Pacific storytelling tradition, teaching methodology, computers in teaching, knowledge transfer, knowledge representation
155 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Significant urban digital divide exists in Nairobi County where low income households lack digital literacy skills and do not have access to the internet. The study was undertaken as an intervention, designed to close the digital divide among low income households in Nairobi by introducing internet access using the domestication framework.
Background: Information and Communication Te ...
digital divide, internet domestication, low-income households, digital literacy, Mathare slum
291 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This preface presents the papers included in the ninth issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL) special series of selected Chais Conference best papers.
Background: The Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era, is organized by the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Techno ...
Learning technologies, e-learning, technology integration in education, diffusion of innovation, human-computer interaction, lifelong learning, educational technologies research
58 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines the impact of the Israeli National Program on pre-service teachers’ skills in the integration of ICT in teaching and discusses the influential factors of successful implementation of practices in the field.
Background: In the current Information Age, many countries relate to education as an im-portant factor for national growth. Teacher education plays a signific ...
ICT integration in teaching, teacher education, evaluation of systemic changes
136 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study aims to describe existing peer-to-peer, social network-based sharing practices among adult students in teacher colleges.
Background: Ubiquitous social network sites open up a wide array of possibilities for peer-to-peer information and knowledge sharing. College instructors are often unaware of such practices that happen behind the scenes.
Methodology: An interpret ...
social network technology, knowledge sharing, teacher training
93 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study took place in a school with a “paperless classroom” policy. In this school, handwriting and reading on paper were restricted. The purpose of this study was to gain insights from the teachers teaching in a paperless classroom and to learn about the benefits and challenges of teaching and learning in such an environment.
Background: In recent years, many schools are moving ...
paperless classroom, teachers, K-12, BYOD, laptops
528 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Our research focuses on a unique group a students, who study CS: ultra-orthodox Jewish men. Their previous education is based mostly on studying Talmud and hence they lacked a conventional high-school education. Our research goal was to examine whether their prior education is merely a barrier to their CS studies or whether it can be recruited to leverage academic learning.
Backgrou ...
computer science, diversity, prior education, Talmud, logic
62 downloads
Aim/Purpose: As online video lectures rapidly gain popularity in formal and informal learning environments, one of their main challenges is student retention. This study investigates the influence of adding interactivity to online video lectures on students’ attention span.
Background: Interactivity is perceived as increasing the attention span of learners and improving the quality of learning. H ...
online video lectures, interactive video, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), distance learning, students’ attention span, learning analytics, attention economy
945 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The increasingly growing number of virtual high schools around the world has engendered new modes for teaching and learning and a promising area of re-search. While research in this emerging field has mostly taken a comparative lens that highlights differences between traditional modes of teaching and online teaching, research on high school students’ and teachers’ perspectives has re ...
virtual high school, teachers’ perspectives, students’ perspectives, mathematics, physics
89 downloads
Table of Contents for the International Journal of Doctoral Studies, Volume 12, 2017
IJDS, International Journal of Doctoral Studies, PhD
602 downloads
Table of Contents for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, Volume 12, 2017
119 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Violations of Information Systems (IS) security policies continue to generate great anxiety amongst many organizations that use information systems, partly because these violations are carried out by internal employees. This article addresses IS security policy violations in organizational settings, and conceptualizes and problematizes IS security violations by employees of organizati ...
information security, violations, paradox, systematic literature review (SLR), security policies
272 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper considers the role of supervisors’ discipline expertise in doctoral learning from a student perspective.
Background: Doctoral students need to develop expertise in a particular field of study. In this context, developing expertise requires doctoral students to master disciplinary knowledge, conventions and scholarship under the guidance of supervisors.
Methodology : T ...
discipline expertise, research expertise, doctoral students, PhD students, supervisors, doctoral learning support, student-supervisor fit
806 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article offers a conceptual summary and critique of existing literature on doctoral writing and emotion. The article seeks to intervene in current debates about doctoral writing by re-positioning it as an affective-political practice
Background: Over recent decades public interest in the doctorate has expanded as it has become re-framed as a key component of national success ...
affect, affective-politics, doctoral writing, doctoral education, emotion, neoliberalism
775 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study uses a cosmetic virtual community (VC) as the research context and the UTAUT model as the theoretical structure aim to explore factors affecting the re-usage intentions of VC members.
Background: The Internet use rate of VC was up to 50%, thereby implying that VC gained the attention of Internet users. Therefore, operating a VC will be an effective way to communicate w ...
virtual community, cosmetic products, UTAUT model, structural equation modelling approach, effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influ-ence, trust, re-usage intentions
199 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Enrollment in online doctoral programs has grown over the past decade. A sense of community, defined as feelings of closeness within a social group, is vital to retention, but few studies have explored how online doctoral students create community.
Background: In this qualitative case study, I explore how students in one online doctoral program created a learning community.
Me ...
community, online learning, virtual classrooms, cohort, social network, socialization
931 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The topic of this study is the ICT-enabled transformation of car dealerships to regional providers of sustainable mobility (e.g., car sharing).
Background: Car dealerships offer specific conditions that enable a sustainable mobility offer, based on individual motorized transport like car sharing. This is especially useful in small towns or rural areas where people’s mobility is st ...
car dealership, automotive retailer, car sharing, SusCRM, sustainability CRM, sustainable mobility, rural regions
204 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explain how Distance Education women EdD students who are mothers balanced and integrated their multiple identities (e.g., mother, student, professional) to persist.
Background: It is well documented that parenting students experience higher levels of stress and pressure during their degree pursuit than their non-parenting counterparts. It is also ...
doctoral education, persistence, female identity, academic identity, distance education
970 downloads
Background/Aim/Purpose: A commonly implemented software process improvement framework is the capability maturity model integrated (CMMI). Existing literature indicates higher levels of CMMI maturity could result in a loss of agility due to its organizational focus. To maintain agility, research has focussed attention on agile maturity models. The objective of this paper is to find the common resea ...
Agile, Scrum, XP, Maturity Model, Agile Maturity Model, Agile Process Improve-ment
563 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper examined the balance and meaning of two types of experiences in the day-to-day activity of doctoral students that draw them into academia and that move them away from academia: ‘feeling like an academic and belonging to an academic community;’ and ‘not feeling like an academic and feeling excluded from an academic community.’
Background: As students navigate doctoral wo ...
doctoral education, academic culture, workplace learning, doctoral students’ academic activities
1380 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This work aims to present a knowledge modeling technique that supports the representation of the student learning process and that is capable of providing a means for self-assessment and evaluating newly acquired knowledge. The objective is to propose a means to address the pedagogical challenges in m-learning by aiding students’ metacognition through a model of a student with the tar ...
m-learning, pedagogy, mobile device, knowledge modeling
216 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Both the quality and the quantity of doctoral supervision have been identified as central determinants of the doctoral journey. However, there is a gap in our understanding of how supervision activities are associated with lack of wellbeing, such as burnout, and also to completion of the studies among doctoral students.
Background: The study explored doctoral students’ perceptions ...
doctoral education, supervision, supervisory activities, burnout
1407 downloads
Aim/Purpose: A vital business activity within socio-technical enterprises is tacit knowledge externalization, which elicits and explicates tacit knowledge of enterprise employees as external knowledge. The aim of this paper is to integrate diverse aspects of externalization through the Enterprise Ontology model.
Background: Across two decades, researchers have explored various aspects of tacit ...
tacit knowledge, enterprise ontology, socio-technical enterprise, externalization, certainty-factor
182 downloads
Aim/Purpose: We show a new dimension to the process of using design-based research approach in doctoral dissertations.
Background: Design-based research is a long-term and concentrated approach to educational inquiry. It is often a recommendation that doctoral students should not attempt to adopt this approach for their doctoral dissertations. In this paper, we document two doctoral dissertatio ...
design based research, doctoral study, doctoral dissertation
895 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this work is to develop more nuanced understandings of the PhD by publication, particularly raising awareness of the retrospective PhD by publication. The article aims to contribute to contemporary debates about the differing pathways to the attainment of doctoral study completion and the artifacts submitted for that purpose. It also seeks to support prospective graduat ...
PhD by publication, doctoral studies, PhD by published works, PhD by pub-lished papers
813 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This journal paper seeks to understand historical aspects of data management, leading to the current data issues faced by organizational executives in relation to big data and how best to present the information to circumvent big data challenges for executive strategic decision making.
Background: This journal paper seeks to understand what executives value in data visualization, b ...
big data, data analytics, data visualization, cognitive fit theory, Cynefin Frame-work, executive strategic decision making
891 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to explore student perceptions of their own doctoral-level education and quantitative proficiency.
Background: The challenges of preparing doctoral students in education have been discussed in the literature, but largely from the perspective of university faculty and program administrators. The current study directly explores the student voice on t ...
quantitative proficiency, doctoral education, exploratory mixed-methods
654 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The present study investigates the relationship between the five-factor model (FFM) of personality traits and sales performance in Pakistan.
Background: Personality is a well-researched area in which numerous studies have examined the correlation between personality traits and job performance. In this study, a positive effect between the various dimensions of the five-factor mode ...
personality traits, five-factor model (FFM), sales performance, sales force of Pakistan, females, religious and cultural forces
433 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to better understand the individual variations in supervisory and researcher community support among doctoral students by analyzing the social support profiles of Finnish doctoral students. The differences among the profiles, in terms of satisfaction with supervision, experienced burnout, time to candidacy and disciplinary background were also examine ...
doctoral education, supervision, burnout, satisfaction, drop-out intentions
905 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Countries today strategically pursue regional development and economic diversification to compete in the world market. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are at the crux of this political strategy. The paper reviews how HEIs can propel regional socio-economic growth and development by way of research innovation and entrepreneurship.
Background: Offering an academic perspective ab ...
entrepreneurship, HEI, innovation, knowledge economy, Penta Helix
497 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Unified Communications (UC) is touted as a technology that will transform business communication. While positive claims abound, the factors of UC attributable to its success have yet to be identified. By examining how users perceive UC impacts productivity, this study aids organizations in making better decisions regarding investments in and usage of communications technologies.
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Unified Communications (UC), business communications, communications channels, perceived productivity
456 downloads
Aim/Purpose: It aimed at investigating the motives and challenges of 15 mature-aged doctoral students at two education faculties in Australian and Asian contexts.
Background: This cross-border research collaboration investigated the first international higher-research forum between two education faculties in Hong Kong and Australia.
Methodology: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was ...
mature-aged doctoral students, motivation, doctoral program design, cross border research collaboration, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
744 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the factors that affect the post implementation success of a web-based learning management system at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).
Background: UPSA implemented an LMS to blend Web-based learning environment with the traditional methods of education to enable working students to acquire education.
Methodology: An explanatory sequen ...
web-based learning, information system, information technology, IT infrastructure, web-based learning management system, Moodle
157 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study explores PhD students’ transition into graduate school, which can be a challenging experience for many.
Background: Using photographs and in-depth interviews, this study provides nuanced insight into influences on first-year PhD students’ lived experiences, with a specific focus on these students’ perceptions of doctoral student well-being.
Methodology: Twenty-nine first- ...
PhD students, well-being, volunteer employed photography
644 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a descriptive typology to better identify leadership toward creativity in virtual work in different types of companies.
Background: The study empirically explores how leadership toward creativity occurs in virtual work and uses the theoretical lenses of creativity-conducive leadership and heterarchy to generate a typology.
Methodology : A multiple qua ...
virtual work, creativity, leadership, typology, heterarchy
205 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Much has been written in academia about the meaningful relationship between doctoral students and their respective dissertation chairs. However, an often-overlooked benefit of the dissertation research process as a whole is its potential to professionally and personally transform the capacities of all concerned – the doctoral candidate, mentor/major professor, and committee.
Backgrou ...
doctoral education, PhD supervision, scholarly leadership, mentorship, experi-ential learning
646 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the key research foci, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives adopted by researchers when studying E-government accessibility for persons with disabilities (PWDs), particularly in developing countries. The study aims to develop a conceptual framework for designing accessible E-government for PWDs in developing countries.
Background: Stu ...
e-government accessibility, persons with disabilities, developing countries
126 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of our study was to gain a better understanding of the factors that contribute to graduate student sense of belonging and gain insights into differences in sense of belonging for different groups of students.
Background: Sense of belonging, or the feeling that a person is connected to and matters to others in an organization, has been found to influence college student r ...
sense of belonging, graduate education, underrepresented minority students
2120 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Facebook has made it possible for organisation to embrace social and network centric knowledge processes by creating opportunities to connect, interact, and collaborate with stakeholders. We have witnessed a significant increase in the popularity and use of this tool in many organisations, especially in the private sector. But the utilisation of Facebook in public organisations is at ...
social media, Facebook, knowledge sharing
185 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This work aims to understand why a disparity between the popularity of smart phones and the limited adoption of m-banking exists. Accordingly, this study investigates factors that affect a person’s decision to adopt m-banking services. Such an investigation seeks to determine if and to what extent customers’ mobile phone experience as well as their awareness of m-banking services infl ...
mobile banking, mobile commerce, mobile phone experience, awareness of services, behavioral intention to use
201 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationship among the quality measures of information system success, including system quality, information, quality, and service quality, that eventually influence accounting information systems effectiveness.
Background: It is generally believed that investment in an information system offers opportunities to organizations for b ...
accounting information systems effectiveness, system quality, information quality, service quality, Nigeria
798 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to present an example of the application of a Knowledge Man-agement (KM) framework to automotive original component manufacturers (OEMs). The objective is to explore KM according to the four pillars of a selected KM framework.
Background: This research demonstrates how a framework, namely the George Washington University’s Four Pillar Framework, can be used to determi ...
knowledge management, knowledge management system, framework, automotive industry
124 downloads
The current data management systems for the life cycle of scientific models needed an upgrade. What technology platform offered the best option for an Enterprise Data Management system?
analytics, case study, discussion case, information systems, cloud, enterprise data management, models, SWFWMD, water management
273 downloads
Should Syniverse, a company whose principal business involved routing text messages between telecom carriers, re-think its business? Rob Hammond, product executive for enterprise products, wonders if he focus the company on the products it knew, expanding the existing text messaging business into high growth mobile markets, or should he invest in expanding the new product of enabling mobile for bu ...
case study, discussion case, information systems, marketing, enterprise customers, mobile technology, sales, smart phones, SMS
153 downloads
Determining how a corporate real estate organization estimated its project costs was a big decision that impacted budgets, customers, and the bottom line. What recommendations should be made for improvement of cost estimating at our upcoming management meeting?
case study, discussion case, cost estimating, healthcare, make vs. buy, project costing, real estate
140 downloads
Ricardo Lasa, CEO and co-founder of SiteWit Corporation, and his team faced a critical technology challenge in scaling the core database systems to meet rapidly escalating data volumes. Should he stick with well-known relational database technologies? Or should he re-implement core components in newer, highly distributed NoSQL databases in search of competitive advantages?
case study, discussion case, analytics, database, Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL, SQL
95 downloads
Joseph Bromer, Head of IT Solutions Delivery at LifeInsure Emerging Markets, deliberated on a challenge that he had just been given. TIBCO, a vendor supporting ObjectStar, notified LifeInsure that support for the application would cease at the end of 2017. ObjectStar was the Product Administration System (PAS) system used by LifeInsure. The ObjectStar platform was called Alpha and was used in over ...
discussion case, case study, information technology, life insurance, product administration system, South Africa
48 downloads
Mark Dumas, a Systems Specialist at a Telecommunications Company located in South Africa needed to make decisions regarding the current virtualized infrastructure platform. These decisions also involved the renewal of hardware that had reached the end of its maintenance period and the latest virtualization platform software. Dumas further needed to formulate a plan to ensure that there was enough ...
discussion case, case study, information technology, mobile, South Africa, telecommunications, virtualization
57 downloads
South Africa’s largest bank has recently completed a transformation from traditional systems development to the scaled agile framework. The individual leading the transformation is now considering how to keep the momentum going and possible new directions.
Josef Langerman, Head of IT Transformation for Standard Bank, reflected on the extraordinary transformation that his organization’s IT group ...
discussion case, case study, agile programming, banking, organizational transformation, scrum, South Africa
212 downloads
A South African insurance company is considering how to automate the process of handling home insurance repair claims in order to make the process more efficient and improve the customer experience. Should they stick with the status quo, develop their own system, purchase existing technology or employ a hybrid solution?
ABC Insurance was a leading short-term insurer in South Africa. The FSB (Fi ...
discussion case, case study, insurance, make-or-buy, mobile app, South Africa
125 downloads
After the successful launch of a DBA program for working executives, the program’s academic director ponders whether or not there might be an opportunity to create a cybersecurity doctoral program based on the existing program’s research core.
Grandon Gill, Academic Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program (DBA) at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Muma College of Busi ...
business research, cybersecurity, DBA, doctoral education, executive education
88 downloads
A professor in information systems discovers that his personal website has been hacked. Even worse, his ISP has suspended his site because the defacement included a PayPal phishing scheme. This is not the first time this has happened. How should he recover?
Dr. T. Grandon Gill, a Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department at the University of South Florida, was travel ...
cybersecurity, defacement, hacking, malware, PayPal, phishing
50 downloads
A physicist who studies the human brain has adapted dynamic logic, a machine learning algorithm he developed, to run on a test database of network traffic. The algorithm has proven surprisingly adept at identifying malware traffic. Now he ponders how the project might move forward, given that cybersecurity is entirely outside of his domain of expertise (and interest).
Dr. Leonid Perlovsky, dist ...
cybersecurity, detect, dynamic logic, machine learning, malware, unsupervised
80 downloads
A client of a security services firm has received an email from the dark web demanding a ransom or it will start selling data it has stolen from the client. The client as asked for the firm’s assistance in paying the ransom. How should the company proceed?
It was late on a Friday afternoon. The ReliaQuest Security Operations Center was busy as usual, but nothing was out of the ordinary. ReliaQu ...
bitcoin, cybersecurity, dark web, hacking, ransomware, security services
57 downloads
Table of Contents of Journal of Information Technology Education: Discussion Cases, Volume 6, 2017
JITE, discussion cases, table of contents
108 downloads
Table of Contents for Volume 2, 2017, Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education
JSPTE, postsecondary education, tertiary education
66 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to develop a unified methodology inclusive of the three primary areas of faculty responsibility (teaching, research, and service) to calculate departmental productivity that fills the gap in methodological bench-marking tools for overall faculty productivity.
Background: A disproportionate number of departmental and faculty productivity indices in higher ed ...
higher education departmental productivity, faculty productivity, productivity management, methodology, university mission, accurate benchmarking
81 downloads
It was late on a Friday afternoon. The ReliaQuest Security Operations Center was busy as usual, but nothing was out of the ordinary. ReliaQuest Chief Technology Officer, Joe Partlow, was in his office working on a new technology innovation when his cell phone rang. It was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for ABC Company, one of ReliaQuest’s clients–a company with millions of customers ...
bitcoin, cybersecurity, dark web, hacking, ransomware, security services
206 downloads
ABC Insurance was a leading short-term insurer in South Africa. The FSB (Financial Services Board) of South Africa defined short term insurance cover as indemnification secured by the insurance purchaser over their fixed and movable assets (FSB, n.d.). Such insurable assets could be one’s home (the actual building) or motor vehicle (https://www.fsb.co.za). The purchased insurance cover protected t ...
insurance, Make-or-Buy, Mobile App, South Africa
13 downloads
Ricardo Lasa, CEO and co-founder of SiteWit Corporation, was always chastising his technical team that the “biggest risk facing the company is the engine.” SiteWit provided cross-platform services aimed at helping small (or even medium-sized) business customers effectively advertise on search engines like Google (AdWords) and Bing (adCenter), as well as other online social networking or display ad ...
Analytics, database, Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL, SQL
472 downloads
Dr. Leonid Perlovsky, distinguished physicist and cognitive scientist, pondered this question, which could have a significant impact on his research direction in the years to come. Over the past few decades, he had developed and refined algorithms for distinguishing objects in images, an approach that had found its way into various classified U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) applications. Now he w ...
cybersecurity, detect, dynamic logic, machine learning, malware, unsupervised
15 downloads
Dr. T. Grandon Gill, a Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department at the University of South Florida, was traveling with his family in England when he received a strange phone message. Not being able to respond, he ignored it until—a couple of days later—he was notified that access to his personal website had been suspended (see Exhibit 1). Grandon.com had, once again, b ...
cybersecurity, defacement, hacking, malware, PayPal, phishing
10 downloads
Joseph Bromer, Head of IT Solutions Delivery at LifeInsure Emerging Markets, deliberated on a challenge that he had just been given. TIBCO, a vendor supporting ObjectStar, notified LifeInsure that support for the application would cease at the end of 2017. ObjectStar was the Product Administration System (PAS) system used by LifeInsure. The ObjectStar platform was called Alpha and was used in over ...
information technology, life insurance, product administration system, South Africa
5 downloads
After 28 years of public service, the Information Technology Bureau Chief for the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), Dr. Steven Dicks, was still passionate about serving the public. By first focusing on the needs of people in the District, Dr. Dicks was able to objectively observe the many aspects of operations for which he was responsible. His observations led him to believe th ...
cloud, enterprise data management, models, SWFWMD, water management
8 downloads
Josef Langerman, Head of IT Transformation for Standard Bank, reflected on the extraordinary transformation that his organization’s IT group had recently experienced. Over the past three years, Standard Bank’s IT group had changed from the relatively well accepted systems development lifecycle/waterfall model to a revolutionary large scale agile approach. The results had been gratifying. But it le ...
Agile Programming, Banking, Organizational Transformation, Scrum, South Africa
40 downloads
Grandon Gill, Academic Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program (DBA) at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Muma College of Business pondered the email he had just sent to Moez Limayem, the dean of the college (see Exhibit 1). In that email, he had raised the possibility of developing a version of the college’s highly successful DBA program specifically targeting cybersecu ...
business research, cybersecurity, DBA, doctoral education, executive education
14 downloads
Mark Dumas, a Systems Specialist at a Telecommunications Company located in South Africa needed to make decisions regarding the current virtualized infrastructure platform. These decisions also involved the renewal of hardware that had reached the end of its maintenance period and the latest virtualization platform software. Dumas further needed to formulate a plan to ensure that there was enough ...
information technology, mobile, South Africa, telecommunications, virtualization
135 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Appointment systems in today’s universities must now accommodate not only traditional tenured/tenure track faculty (TTTF) but a broad array of other professionals who collectively, are often labeled “contingent faculty” and who share the university’s teaching responsibilities for both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Background: Regardless of appointment type, providing institu ...
tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, contingent faculty, instructional staff appointment systems
77 downloads
Aim/Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of student affairs professionals who teach in a variety of college classroom settings.
Background Increasingly, student affairs professionals are serving in teaching roles inside the college classroom; yet, there are few empirical studies that explore that teaching role or the impacts of that teaching experience. Because there ...
student affairs professionals, teaching, classroom, practitioner, scholarship of teaching, college teaching
105 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To explore how early career faculty in the field of higher education administration develop and enact their personal and professional identities.
Background: Participants sought to understand themselves, to understand their environments and the “rules” of the academic “game,” and to reconcile conflicts between their own values and identities and the expectations and culture of thei ...
early career faculty, graduate students, professional identity development, men-toring, socialization
111 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In the United States, faculty who wish to pursue promotion to the rank of professor do so without clear guidance or structure. Even the timing of such a process is nebulous. As such, an individual engages in agentic action to pursue the rank.
Background: This study examined the experiences of faculty members who chose to pursue the application process to be promoted to professor bu ...
promotion, faculty rank, agency
118 downloads
Aim/Purpose : The role of college presidents has become increasingly critical, yet their tenure as institutional leaders have decreased over the last half century, leading to institutional instability and an expensive search process for new presidents. Scholars have sought to understand this phenomenon by focusing on either presidential characteristics, or institutional characteristics, with few ...
college presidents, turnover, presidential tenure, person-organization fit
74 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how research skills and communities can be promoted in student affairs and/or higher education graduate preparation programs through a peer-led, team-based model.
Background: Numerous scholars emphasized a lack of empirical research being conducted by student affairs professionals, even though integration of scholarship with practice remains ...
Scholar-Practitioner, Student Affairs, Graduate Preparation, Communities of Practice
142 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the present special series is to move conversations about people we treat as “other” within our field from the margins of higher education as a field of study to the center. For this spe-cial series we invited established scholars within the field of higher education to illuminate issues confronting the field that are often left to the margins.
higher education graduate programs
58 downloads
Background: Looking up the terms center and margin, synonyms found for center are “the middle, nucleus, heart, core, hub” and synonyms for margin are “the border, edge, boundary, fringe, periphery.” These terms and their synonyms prompt me to ask questions about the concepts of “margin” and “center” as related to higher education. Questions such as: What are the challenges and benefits of being at ...
faculty of color
54 downloads
Determining how a corporate real estate organization estimates its project costs is a big decision that impacts budgets, customers, and the bottom line. Our next management meeting is only a few days away. What recommendations should we make for improvement of cost estimating?
Troy Montgomery, a consultant at Humana in April of 2015, was tasked with providing leaders of Humana’s corporate real ...
Project Management, Cost Estimating, Healthcare
28 downloads
This case, based on actual events that took place in mobile industry, describes a complex decision about product priority and sales training in a complex landscape. Rob Hammond, product executive at Syniverse Technologies, needed to decide whether to grow revenues by focusing the sales force on selling an existing product, SMS Application to Peer Text Messaging, in new markets or investing in the ...
Sales, Innovation Diffusion, Motivation, Organization Change, Training, Change Management, Management, Practical Innovation
24 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This article reviews the leadership development literature and posits that a learning centered approach will best support the development of community college leaders. But, it is important to recognize that community colleges have differing needs due to size, location, and the communities they serve.
Background: American community colleges have received a great deal of attention o ...
community colleges, leadership, leadership development, leaders, networks
231 downloads
No Longer Junior Colleges: Integrating Institutional Diversity in Graduate Higher Education Programs
Aim/Purpose: This article argues that given the isomorphic pressures on both community colleges and four-year institutions, historic divisions between community college leadership programs and general higher education programs are no longer serving the needs of new scholars and practitioners in the field. Graduate programs of higher education should integrate an understanding of community college ...
community colleges, graduate higher education, curriculum, isomorphism
52 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this article is to outline a pedagogical framework we as trans* educators utilize to center trans* identities and epistemologies in classrooms alongside graduate students.
Background: Little has been written about the experiences of trans* educators in classroom spaces, in particular how gender mediates pedagogical approaches.
Methodology : This article is conc ...
gender, trans* pedagogy, higher education, student affairs, classroom
96 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Doctoral students with disabilities represent 5 to 10 percent of the graduate student population and, yet, research seldom documents their experiences. We propose a research agenda and methodological approaches that circumvent these limitations, including a substantive focus on universal design to measure graduate program’s awareness of disability, experimental methods to minimize re ...
graduate programs, doctoral students, disability, diversity
154 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this manuscript is to bring communities of learners before Solerno, Bologna, and Paris from the margin to the center of history of higher education discourse.
Background: Most history of higher education coursework in the global west begins with institutions of higher learning in western Europe – Solerno, Bologna, and Paris. However, this tradition discounts the histor ...
history of higher education, ancient history, global history
40 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Book review
book review, higher education, social justice, law
39 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The book, Advancing Higher Education as a Field of Study: In Quest of Doctoral Degree Guidelines – Commemorating 120 Years of Excellence by Sydney Freeman, Jr., Linda Serra Hagedorn, Lester F. Goodchild, and Dianne A. Wright (Editors), Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2014, 340 pages, $49.95 (softcover) is reviewed and recommended for faculty and administrators who have a graduate program in hig ...
higher education, doctoral programs, master's programs, accreditation
67 downloads
The Muma Business Review (MBR) is a new peer-reviewed open access journal specifically intended to serve the needs of both the practitioner-researcher. Its mission is to publish empirical findings and conceptual analyses that have been rigorously developed, that are communicated in a manner that is accessible to practicing managers and, most importantly, that address the real world challenges faci ...
Mission, authors, reviewers, editors, readers, policies
27 downloads
Aim/Purpose:This paper seeks to show how University of South Africa (UNISA) is using technology to connect lecturers, tutors and students of [UNISA] in an underdeveloped region in South Africa (SA) to reduce cost and time of travelling to access information, tutorials and help [available] in designated centers, hence making quality and higher education more accessible and less costly.
Background ...
Development, Higher education, Technology,
103 downloads
There is no one best course through a Doctorate of Business Administration program but there are paths that maximize your time and value. Some people will wander through the research wilderness until having an epiphany, while others will treat the program like a journey-man and “do the work”, and still others will panic at the end of the third semester and “have to pick a topic for the dissertatio ...
Executive Education, DBA, Executive Learning, Active Learner, Life-long Learner
68 downloads
Aim/Purpose : This paper is a review of the progress of the Vietnam socio-economic and development plan and an assessment of the extent to which Vietnam is putting in place the critical social and economic development structures that will enable it to reach the status of “developed nation” in the time set (2020) by its national strategic plan. The research will identify and review trade ...
Developing nation, trade, terms, patterns, preferences, development and policy, foreign aid, import substitution, and export-led growth
395 downloads
Chris Kay, Humana’s Chief Innovation Officer, shared insights into the innovation decision-making process. Kay discussed specific strategies employed by Humana to bring consumer insights to action and he shared examples of the development of innovation ideas.
“The first, and most often wrong, question is, ‘How much is this worth?’” Chris Kay, the Chief Innovation Officer at the $50B health and we ...
Humana, Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, Co-creation, Chief Innovation Officer
30 downloads
Firms struggle with transforming sales teams and sometimes resort to replacing sales people to accomplish business objectives. Sustainability theory provides a framework for analyzing the effects of replacing sales people for all stakeholders. By applying sustainability theory to sales transformation, managers can improve understanding of externalities and thus the total cost of the hiring circle.
Sales, Salespeople, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Externalities, Hiring, Firing, Hiring Cycle, Transformation, Organization Change, Change Management
19 downloads
EMERGENT GLOBAL MARKETING CHALLENGES FOR KERALA CARDAMOM PRODUCERS VIS-À-VIS ROLE OF THE SPICE BOARD
Aim/Purpose: This research paper attempts to deeply and rationally probe into the present situation, discussing the expected role of the Spices Board of India, which in 1987 started to function replacing the erstwhile Cardamom Board, where the focus was only on the Cardamom plantation sector and export development.
Background: Cardamom, the “Queen of Spices” is the third most expensive of the s ...
Global marketing, producers, spice board, India
166 downloads
Companies literally spend billions training sales people and yet continue to have problems transforming sales teams. In support of finding new approaches to this problem the following paper applies different theories to the problem and describes the results of a pilot survey conducted with sales teams in the Americas and Asia.
Sales, Innovation Diffusion, Motivation, Organization Change, Training, Change Management, Management
17 downloads
Is Entrepreneurship a skill to be trained, a natural ability, or both? Understanding the source of supply and/or the quantity supplied of entrepreneurs is crucial to encouraging new business creation.
Can a community increase the supply and/or quantity supplied of entrepreneurs through programs, training, stimulus, and regulatory change? It is generally agreed that small and medium sized busines ...
Nature, Nurture, Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Entrepreneurship, Intentions, Startup, Small And Medium Business (SME), Stimulus, Factors of Production, Jobs, Employment, Incubator, Small Business Development Center
38 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The main aim of the study is to identify some of the barriers to the integration of technology into the teaching of mathematics in high schools.
Background: Writing on chalkboards as a method of transferring knowledge is a key fea-ture of traditional approach to teaching may have been successful in the past, but the minds of the current generation vary from those of the previous gen ...
Mathematics teachers, technological skills, training.
64 downloads
Organizations are constantly seeking ways to reinvent themselves through innovation. The process of selecting ideas in the early stages of innovation has a significant impact on the probability for success of new products or services. This paper investigates the critical factors organizations consider in the selection process.
Innovation management in organizations should be viewed in the conte ...
Decision-making, Idea Selection, Innovation, New Product, New Service, Selection Criteria
54 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research seeks to determine the consumer preferences between local and import rice by using theory of knowledge, attitude and perception model (KAP).
Background: Rice industry has received special attention from the government and was put as the most important food crop for ensuring the nation’s food security. This study tries to reveal the preferences of the consumer for import ...
Consumer preference, local rice, imported rice, knowledge, attitude, perception
303 downloads
Using the Risk Analysis for Initial Needs (RAIN) planning model and its resource-based audit (RBA) tool to support the creation of a time zero startup business plan will improve the perceived value of the startup plan to founders and stakeholders by identifying gaps between the needs and availability of the needed resources at time zero.
The case has been made that successful startups are benefic ...
http://pubs.mumabusinessreview.org/2017/MBR-2017-081-095-Gonzalez-RAIN.pdf
81 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the public perception towards Facebook usage in the 2015 political campaigns in Nigeria.
Background: The utilization of online networking in political issues has kept on developing in late time, even though it was not at first recognized as a political apparatus, political aspirants and politicians at large have now understood its capability. Hence, it has tu ...
Campaign; Facebook; politics; senatorial elections; Taraba; Nigeria.
134 downloads
A summary of a qualitative and quantitative investigation into what factors are present at time zero that increase the probability that a startup will achieve long term sustainability. The findings of this study will empower advisors and founders on how to improve startup survival rates.
Survival rates for startups in the United States (U.S.) are disappointingly low and economically inefficient ...
Accelerator., Business Canvas., Business Creation, Business Model, Business Plan, Incubator, Launch, Lean Canvas, Lean Strategy, Startup, Startup Business Plan, Strategy, Sustainability
151 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The general purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the KALAHI-CIDSS project on community development in the East Coastal Area of Lagonoy, Camarines Sur, Philippines after its implementation.
Background: Examining the impact of the KALAHI-CIDSS project on community development helps to determine the program’s priority issues that the government should be able to address.
M ...
KALAHI-CIDSS, community development, poverty reduction program, community participation, Philippines
284 downloads
Open Forest is a provider of online mental health self-help programs and, in this context, it is crucial to understand the needs of potential users. With a high prevalence of ADHD, user needs to establish commitment and loyalty centered on the ability to engage with others online.
Access of care, purported cost savings and convenience for both clients and healthcare professionals are but some ...
Amazon Mechanical Turk, Behavioral Research, Healthcare Management, Self-Help, Social Exchange Theory, Social Penetration Theory, Telemental Health
8 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Since the valuation of a born-global speculative start-up (BGSS) has been a guessing game and there is no framework in the literature from ethical fashion smart wearable (EFSW) venture valuation perspective, this research explores to create a holistic model using multi-stage valuation method to valuate BGSS at its inception and investigates how ethical is ethical fashion?
Background: ...
EFSW, BGSS, Informing Systems, Multi-Stage Valuation
54 downloads
Labor cost is the single highest expense for hospitals. Rather than relying on new technology, this case study seeks to utilize Human Interaction Management to redesign work structure and process to improve labor forecasting and scheduling outcomes.
This study takes a distinctly unique approach to the hospital workforce planning (forecasting and scheduling) problem. The study is differentiated ...
Hospital Labor, Hospital Scheduling, Hospital Staffing, Human Interaction Management, Workload Demand Forecasting.
22 downloads
In a study published in 2015 by Ganesan, Brantley, Pan, and Chen (Ganesan, Brantley, Pan, & Chen, 2015) researchers recognized that there is a problem with the search process when trying to visualize the correlation between a large collections of documents and a given set of topics. Chaney and Blei emphasize in a 2012 study the importance of science, industry, and culture to have the ability to ex ...
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is to determine the preferences of food sellers in Kelantan towards the halal-labeled fish ball.
Background: Fish balls are the popular value-added products in Malaysia. Fish ball production is in second place after fish cracker production for processed fish-based production in Malaysia. Thus, this study tries to expose the preferences of the food sellers ...
Fish ball, halal labeled, knowledge, attitude, practice
118 downloads
During the initial literature review on this research question, areas of focus included the following:
• Current qualitative and quantitative methodologies for technology risk analysis.
• Business applications for expanding the use of qualitative and quantitative technology and security risk models.
• Implementation of qualitative and quantitative technology and security risk analysis methodolo ...
Quantitative Risk Models, Qualitative Risk Models, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Technology Risk Management System.
36 downloads
Facilities management has become increasingly challenging over the years as facilities expand and the cost of construction increases, all while available funds continues to remain volatile. Deferred maintenance is a mounting problem that is insurmountable in some cases. Why is this the case and how did we get here?
Lack of funding, growth cycle, productivity, crisis, asset, facilities management, maintenance budget, priority, communication, knowledge, strategic plan
27 downloads
Academic researchers and practitioners disagree on the value and methodology of creating a startup plan. An analysis of the differences and the motivations of these two district communities gives insight into the challenges of planning a successful launch.
startup, startup plan, business plan, business creation, emerging business, SWOT, auditing, incubator, lean strategy, lean startup, founding, strategic management, early stage business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, accelerator, time zero plan, initial business plan
67 downloads
Facilities management has become increasingly challenging over the years. Given all that history has shown us regarding catastrophic failures due to a lack of maintenance, why do public facilities continue expanding at a rate that surpasses the ability and/or commitment to responsibly maintain them?
Lack of funding, growth cycle, productivity, crisis, asset, facilities management, maintenance budget, priority, communication, knowledge, strategic plan, outsource, technology, training
13 downloads
Based on both historic and current study, the industry of facilities management faces an ever growing challenge that puts our public assets at risk. The outcry for additional funding has become universal. Unfortunately, the federal and state governments delegate responsibility for funding solutions down to the local governments. The result; our public facilities are suffering chronic deferred m ...
Lack of funding, growth cycle, productivity, facilities management, maintenance budget, priority, communication, knowledge, strategic plan, technology, training, outsourcing
16 downloads
This article provides value to hiring managers and academics by positing a conceptual model that could potentially revitalize the methods employed to train, coach, interview and hire new college graduates. The model shows that success (measured as employee productivity) is the summation of education (hard skills) plus experience (time in one’s domain) plus soft skills. Each of the variables (empl ...
Soft Skills, Hard Skills, Employee Productivity, Education, Experience, Cost, Culture
180 downloads
Economic Development Zones were created to reduce unemployment in depressed areas of the country. Different levels of government offer companies’ incentives to relocate to these areas or expand their business by creating Economic/Empowerment/Enterprise Zones. These incentives for relocating, expanding, or starting a business can be very lucrative for a company. Understanding why there is a disconn ...
Rural Enterprise Zone, Enterprise Zone, Economic Development District, Economic Development Strategy, Housing and Urban Development, Rural Development, Smart Rural Development, Rural Incubator, Empowerment Zone, Enterprise community, and Promise Zone.
22 downloads
proceedings, InSITE, conference, informing science, IT education
95 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate various characteristics from both victims as defaced websites and defacers that linked to a risk of being defaced through a set of descriptive analysis.
Background: The current figures from a spectrum of sources, both academic and non-academic reports, proved a progressive increase of website defacement attacks to numerous organisations.
Methodolog ...
defacement, re-defacement, entertainment and defacer
49 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To measure the change in team skills resulting from team projects in professional and graduate school courses, a pilot study was conducted among students in two courses in a graduate school of business and one in the pharmacy school of the same institution of higher learning. This pilot study evaluated (a) students receiving training and practice in working as part of a classroom tea ...
team skills, pharmacy education, business education, multi-disciplinary collaboration
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In adolescents’ cyberethics education, case-based discussion, debate and role-playing are commonly used instructional strategies to engage students in critical dialogues in an open setting. However, the open setting is entirely different from the private and individual environment when adolescents go online. Teachers are in a position of higher power and peers’ observation provokes ...
cyberethics, adolescent, self-presentation, self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-assessment, pressure-free, information ethics, information security, privacy, intellectual property, netiquette
42 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is analysis of applicants for study at the University of Economics, Prague (UEP) that are coming from foreign countries. The second aim is to learn the graduation rate of foreign students.
Background: Knowledge about applicants results are important for changing entrance exams according to the changing situation in high school education systems and according ...
mathematics, English, economic study applicants, Vietnamese students, Russian students, entrance exams
19 downloads
Aim/Purpose: During an evolutionary time for Iran the purpose of this research study was to establish the outsourcing best practices in the area of supply chain by investigating in the construction firms in Iran, which is identified as the most successful industry in outsourcing.
Background: Clarifying outsourcing decisions have been a difficult and challenging task because the outsourcing its ...
outsourcing, decision making, supply chain management, construction, Iran
130 downloads
This paper outlines two different methods of peer assessment used in team projects at Newcastle University. One of them requires team agreement, whilst the other allows students to assess each other anonymously. Our results show that students are not convinced about the validity and fairness of either approach, and this illustrates that we need to do more work on teaching them how to assess fairl ...
software engineering, peer assessment, contribution matrices, team projects
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper proposes to bridge transdisciplinary team characteristics with the study of communication in teams. It proposes the question “”what does the systematic study of transdisciplinary teams tell us about communication?” This paper addresses (1) a typology of transdisciplinary teams for observation and analysis; (2) features of communication within transdisciplinary teams; and (3 ...
transdisciplinarity, teams, features, characteristics, communication
20 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Inconsistent findings on the effect of various determinants of cyber security behaviour emphasise the need for further understanding of the applicability of compliance theories. The paper provides a critical review of determinants of users’ cyber security behaviour and establishes directions for future research.
Background: Cyber security behaviour has been studied using a range of b ...
security compliance, theory of planned behaviour, protection motivation theory, rational choice theory, general deterrence theory
108 downloads
Aim/Purpose: In many public and academic libraries, ebooks are being pushed on users mainly due to budgetary and space needs even though readers are still showing a strong preference for print books.
Background: Many librarians are focusing on how to get readers to use ebooks when they really should be considering how ebooks fit into learning, whether formal or self-learning, and the preferences ...
books, ebooks, textbooks, user preferences
35 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Development of a conceptual model linking early class preparation to improve class participation and performance.
Background: Class preparation and class participation are precursors for the students’ performance.
Methodology: Literature review.
Findings: In a student-centered class environment, class preparation remains essential for the successful collaboration and partic ...
class preparation, class participation, conceptual model, grade performance, active learning, flipped-classroom
54 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This research critically reviews literature examining the prior empirical and case study research studies to help educators and to shape the conceptual framework of what and how to prepare for MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses), especially in Vietnam, SouthEast Asia, and developing countries.
Background: MOOCs are a disruptive trend in education. Several initiatives have emerged r ...
MOOCS, eLearning, online education, constrain of MOOCs, MOOCS frame-work, Vietnam Higher Education
80 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This case study examines the last-mile logistics model as implemented by Lazada Vietnam, as well as the logistics challenges in the local business environment that led the e-commerce company to dually employ the inventory/retail model and the marketplace model for delivering orders to online customers in Vietnam in search of the way to perfect their last-mile logistics.
Background: ...
last-mile logistics, Lazada Vietnam, Lazada Group, retail/inventory model, mar-ketplace model, Vietnam e-commerce, discussion case
190 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The study focuses on how 107 third and fourth year college students use social networking sites to communicate, to coordinate activities, and to collaborate with family members, classmates, and friends.
Background This research study looks at the students’ social networking site usage patterns, their frequency of use, online social behavior as well as awareness of risks relating to ...
social media; social networking site; cyberbullying; online interaction
70 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Using United Nations as the backdrop, this article present a theory-based conceptual model. The results of this empirical study also identify the most influence factors to the success of change management to the United Nations.
Background: In 2000, the issue of management reform started taking center stage in the United Nations, and change efforts were presented to various govern ...
change management, United Nation context, integration, theory of change, integrated management model
29 downloads
Aim/Purpose: To investigate the state of anxiety and associated expected performance in online courses at the undergraduate level.
Background: Online courses continue to increase dramatically. Computer related anxieties remain an important issue, and, in this context, it has evolved to online learning anxieties with deeper psychological states involved. Consequently, performance is compromised ...
anxiety, elearning, performance, online, gender, age
1812 downloads
Aim/Purpose: How to spread an anti-littering message amongst Vietnamese youth.
Background: We outline the design of a mobile game aimed at educating the target audience on the value of not littering.
Methodology : We use key theory from the literature to inform the design of the game.
Contribution: This paper outlines an approach to education that could provide value in re-conceptualizing ...
mobile learning, serious games, Vietnam
32 downloads
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed light on how students learn within an environment tailored to knowledge creation.
Background: We build on Nonaka, Toyama, and Konno’s three key elements: SECI model, Ba, Leadership as well as current knowledge management researchers critiques and improvements.
Methodology: Based on an introductory marketing course, we used an in-house web ...
immersive learning, collaborative learning, marketing
37 downloads
Aim/Purpose: We introduce interactive and collaborative learning tools into a “traditional” finance course and collect feedback from the students concerning satisfaction, engagement, and overall learning. The aim is to show that collaborative learning methods have a place in finance academia.
Background: Finance education still relies on the traditional education model. We implement a collabora ...
peer-to-peer, collaborative learning, online education, hybrid education, finance education, student opinion
23 downloads
Aim/Purpose: A grounded research study to understand ERP implementation failure. This study was done in a United Nations agency.
Background: An organization mid-size ERP system (AGRESSO) was implemented over a period of 6 years in a United Nations agency, under conditions of political pressures and limited budget.
Methodology : Observations and quasi-structured interview method was used to ...
ERP, United Nations, implementation, success factors
87 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates effects of natural catastrophes on the cost of sovereign debt in developing countries and discusses MNC financing strategies.
Background: Over the last decades, natural disasters have increased in both number and severity. The combination of higher event frequency and intensity, coupled with fragile economic conditions in emerging market countries, may affe ...
natural disasters, location choice, multinational corporations, international strategy
26 downloads
Aim/Purpose: It appears that humans can become mal-informed and often consciously or subconsciously resist revising their mal-informed perspectives.
Background: We need to apply behavioral and/or cognitive psychological approaches rather than traditional “educational” approaches.
Methodology: Literature review
Contribution: Suggests revising research focus to affective rather than cognit ...
malinformation, information resistance, decision-making
21 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Awareness of eSafety and potential online dangers for children and teenagers.
Background: The study examined eSafety among children and teenagers from their own perspectives, through evaluations of their awareness level of eSafety and of potential online dangers.
Methodology: This is a mixed-method study with both quantitative and qualitative elements. The study includes questi ...
Internet, children, teenagers, eSafety, cyberbullying
37 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This study examines how the use of a Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) application influences the learners' attitudes towards the process of learning, in voluntary and mandatory environments.
Background: Mobile devices and applications, which have become an integral part of our lives, are used for different purposes, including educational objectives. Among others, they are u ...
Mobile applications, foreign languages, MALL, Mobile Assisted Language Learn-ing, m-learning, gamification
45 downloads
Aim/Purpose: Since the late 1980s the Indian monopoly on the export of Cardamom has suffered a sharp and devastating setback from which India cannot recover. The research is looking into the reasons and suggests remedies.
Background: The main problems are the competition from Guatemala, higher production costs, an increasing domestic demand, the lack of action from the Spices Board of India
...
cardamom, global marketing, Guatemala threat, Spices Board of India, export market
13 downloads
Aim/Purpose: This paper seeks to show how University of South Africa (UNISA) is using technology to connect lecturers, tutors and students of [UNISA] in an underdeveloped region in South Africa (SA) to reduce cost and time of travelling to access information, tutorials and help [available] in designated centers, hence making quality and higher education more accessible and less costly.
Backgro ...
higher education, technology, underdeveloped
12 downloads
This paper is a review of the progress of the Vietnam socio-economic and development plans, and an assessment of the extent to which Vietnam is putting in place the critical social and economic development structures that will enable it to reach the status of “developed nation” in the time set (2020) by its national strategic plan. The research will identify and review trade patterns, trade poli ...
developing nation, trade, terms, patterns, preferences, development and policy, foreign aid, import substitution, export-led growth
54 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose : Executive doctoral programs in higher education are under-researched. Scholars, administers, and students should be aware of all common delivery methods for higher education graduate programs.
Background: This paper provides a review and analysis of executi ...
higher education, executive, graduate programs
14 downloads
Can Learners Become Teachers? Evaluating the Merits of Student Generated Content and Peer Assessment
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose : The aim of this project was to explore student perceptions of the value of both the creation of video content and exposure to other students’ work though peer assessment and inclusion of exemplars as unit materia
Background: The research was in a first year i ...
student generated, peer review, flipped learning, peer assessment
21 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose : The uptake of university by regional students has been problematic for various reasons. This paper discusses a program, initiated by a South Australian regional university campus, aimed at attracting regional students into higher education.
Background: A qual ...
university participation, increasing university aspirations, Year 10 students, regional university experience
15 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose: Despite millions of apps on the market, it is still challenging to develop a mobile app that can run across platforms using the same code.
Background: This paper explores a potential solution for developing cross platform apps by presenting the hybrid app a ...
hybrid apps, mobile app development, cross-platform web app, Ionic framework
46 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose: In today’s changing economy, economic growth depends on career and technical programs for skill training.
Background: This study discusses the key area in promoting individual learning and skill training and discusses the importance of career education and t ...
workforce development, technology, unemployment and employment growth, labor force, education and job training, economic growth and instructional technology
20 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose: Share research finding about ransomware, depict the ransomware work in a format that commonly used by researchers and practitioners and illustrate personal case experience in dealing with ransomware.
Background: Author was hit with Ransomware, suffered a lot ...
Ransomware, Malware, Crypto 3, Crypto 4, Computer ransom
39 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose: This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of mentor’s work with immigrant children and adolescents at risk, using the Elements Way.
Background: The New Media offers our “screen kids” a lot of information, many behavioral models, and a new type of s ...
screen kids, empowering, new media, immigrant children, children at risk, mentors, the Elements Way
15 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose: Assess the affordances and constraints of SimReal+ in teacher education
Background: There is a huge interest in visualizations in mathematics education, but there is little empirical support for their use in educational settings
Methodology: Single case s ...
pedagogical affordances, technological affordances, SimReal+, visualization tool
9 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose : To understand the change of entrepreneurial initiatives by analysing some new initiatives that came up the last years based on IT enabled business models
Background: The theme is described from an educational perspective by offering examples of successful ent ...
entrepreneurial initiatives, case study, customer experiences, knowledge society
13 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose : Governments, private business, and academia have become increasingly aware of the importance of collaboration in multi-stakeholder, multicultural environments. This is due to the globalization and (developing) mutual relationships with other global partners, du ...
cultural communication, stakeholder theory, cultural competence
15 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose : This paper aims to describe how various Kanban elements can help alleviate two prominent types of challenges, communication and collaboration in Global Software Development (GSD).
Background: Iterative and Lean development methodologies like Kanban have gain ...
Kanban, lean software development, global software development, communication challenges, collaboration challenges
26 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]
Aim/Purpose: This article examines how learning activities draw on resources in the work context to learn.
Background: The background is that if knowledge no longer is seen mainly as objects, but processes, how then to understand boundary objects? Our field study of lear ...
learning in organizations, network of practice, sense making, learning as prac-tice. boundary objects
11 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL)]
Aim/Purpose : To develop a framework for utilizing Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) to assist non-native English migrant women to acquire English vocabulary in a non-formal learning setting.
Background: The women in this study migrated to Australia with vari ...
MALL, migrant women, vocabulary, tablet, language app
24 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL)]
Aim/Purpose: The research investigates the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Iranian refugees’ settlement in Australia.
Background: The study identifies the issues of settlement, such as language, cultural and social differences.
Metho ...
e-Skills, ICT, settlement, refugees
16 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL)]
Aim/Purpose: Students face many challenges improving their soft skills such as critical thinking. This paper offers one possible solution to this problem.
Background: This paper considers one method of enhancing critical thinking through a problem-solving game called ...
Games, game based learning, critical thinking, problem solving, learning outcomes
37 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL)]
Aim/Purpose: The teaching solution presented in this paper was implemented to overcome the common problems encountered by authors during years of practice of applied business studies teaching.
Background: In our school, we have deep multicultural environments where b ...
case study visualization, Pacific storytelling tradition, teaching methodology, computers in teaching, knowledge transfer, knowledge representation.
19 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM)]
Aim/Purpose: Unified Communications (UC) is touted as a technology that will transform business communication. While positive claims abound, the factors of UC attributable to its success have yet to be identified. By examining how users perceive UC impacts prod ...
Unified Communications (UC), business communications, communications channels, perceived productivity
9 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
Aim/Purpose: We establish a conceptually rigorous definition for the widely used but loosely defined term “fitness”. We then tie this definition to complexity, highlighting a number of important implications for the informing science transdiscipline.
Bac ...
fitness, complexity, rugged landscapes, punctuated equilibrium, informing
8 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
Aim/Purpose: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) has been envisaged as a crucial tool for the growing creative class of knowledge workers, but adequate technological solutions have not been forthcoming.
Background: Based on former affordance-related pu ...
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Design Science Research (DSR), Informing Science (IS), Knowledge Worker, Affordances, Path Dependency, Fixations, Digital Ecosystems, Memes, Memex, Knowcations
10 downloads
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
To develop and introduce a questionnaire that investigates the informing needs, information-seeking behavior, and supplier selection of procurement officers in Israel. The questionnaire’s internal consistency reliability is given. Additionally, ...
procurement, information needs, e-procurement, Israel
13 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
Aim/Purpose: Sharing ideas generated in a Business Intelligence (BI) Applications class to upgrade an Information System in to an Informing System.
Background: Course Registration is the essential university’s business process in a university that follo ...
information systems, informing systems, business intelligence, analytics, course registration
19 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
Aim/Purpose: The main aim of the research is to examine the performance of second language English speaking students enrolled in the Business Statistics course and to investigate the academic performance of students when taught under the constructivist and ...
business statistics, constructivist approach, second language English speakers, student motivation, academic performance
12 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
Aim/Purpose: An important objective of any firm is escalation of its performance and the achievement of competitive advantages. Supply chain agility plays a prominent role to enhance the level of firm’s performance. Moreover, information technology (IT) pla ...
IT integration, supply chain agility, market performance
51 downloads
[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]
Aim/Purpose: Information Technology students’ learning outcomes improve when teaching methodology moves away from didactic behaviorist-based pedagogy toward a more heuristic constructivist-based version of andragogy.
Background: There is a distinctive di ...
learning outcomes, pedagogy, andragogy, behaviorism, constructivism, learning theory, instructional strategy
22 downloads
InformingScienceJ, Volume 19, 2016 Table of Contents
table of contents, Informing Science
111 downloads
As the complexity of a system grows, the challenge of informing the stakeholders of that system grows correspondingly. Nowhere is that challenge more daunting than in business education, where globalization, technological innovation, and increasingly complicated regulations continuously transform the business environment facing graduates and practitioners. Informing science theory proposes that di ...
informing science, informing system, internships, externships, business education, case studies, research, channel, complexity, rugged landscape, business school, impact
610 downloads
The following definition of “option” is given in Wikipedia - “In finance, an option is a contract, which gives the buyer (the owner or holder) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on or before a specified date, depending on the form of the option” (“Option,” n.d.). Option as a risk management (mitigation) tool is broadly us ...
warranty of malfunctioning, warranty of misinforming, options, asymmetry, utility, risk of misinforming
100 downloads
Group work can provide a valuable learning experience, one that is especially relevant for those preparing to enter the information system workforce. While much has been discussed about effective means of delivering the benefits of collaborative learning in groups, there are some problems that arise due to pragmatic environmental factors such as the part time work commitments of students. This stu ...
action research, group work problems
277 downloads
The main aim of this paper is to provide a theoretically and empirically grounded discussion on IT-based organizational creativity support. This study attempts to answer the following questions: (1) what is the issue of organizational creativity and its IT-based support, (2) what is the demand for IT –based organizational creativity support; (3) what are the main determinants and barriers to IT-ba ...
Organizational creativity, IT-based organizational creativity support, success factors
153 downloads
Non-expert scientists are frequently involved in research requiring data acquisition over large geographic areas. Despite mutual benefits for such “citizen science”, barriers also exist, including 1) difficulty maintaining user engagement with timely feedback, and 2) the challenge of providing non-experts with the means to generate reliable data. We have developed a system that addresses these bar ...
Citizen Science, Cell-phone Spectrometer, Water Contaminant Analysis, Web and Mobile Development, Visualization
134 downloads
This study investigates the skill sets necessary for entry level systems analysts. Towards this end, the study combines two sources of data, namely, a content analysis of 200 systems analysts’ online job advertisements and a survey of 20 senior Information Systems (IS) professionals. Based on Chi-square tests, the results reveal that most employers prefer entry level systems analysts with an under ...
System Analysts, Information Systems, Education, Skills, Content Analysis, Empirical Study
637 downloads
The global Business Intelligence (BI) market grew by 10% in 2013 according to the Gartner Report. Today organizations require better use of data and analytics to support their business decisions. Internet power and business trend changes have provided a broad term for data analytics – Big Data. To be able to handle it and leverage a value of having access to Big Data, organizations have no other c ...
Agile methods, Business Intelligence, efficiency, end-users needs, advanced analytics, sprint, iteration
380 downloads
The all-pervasive Internet has created serious problems, such as Internet overuse, which has triggered considerable debate over its relationship with addiction. To further explore its genetic susceptibilities and alternative explanations for Internet overuse, we proposed and evaluated four hypotheses, each based on existing knowledge of the biological bases of addiction, inattention, novelty-seeki ...
Internet overuse; inattentiveness; dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4); serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR); Internet Addiction Test
146 downloads
In many cases, temporary websites may be simple, accessible solutions for knowledge management and dissemination of information. However, such sites may become outdated as the funding ends, but yet in many cases, still publicly available through the Internet. The issue of website sustainability is a relevant topic for all organizations that have websites. Website lifecycle, knowledge management, a ...
websites, lifecycle, knowledge management, sustainability, case study
98 downloads
Based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory (Rogers, 2003), the uses and gratifications (U&G) theory, and trust theory, this study investigated the factors that influence the use of Twitter among the Kuwaiti community. The study surveyed Twitter users in Kuwait. A structured online questionnaire was used to collect data, and 463 respondents who provided complete answers participated. Multipl ...
social media, microblogging, Kuwait, diffusion of innovation, motivations, trust objects, communication technology
FEATURED
581 downloads
In his “Theses on the Philosophy of History”, Walter Benjamin suggests that all cultural treasures “owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism”. The most obvious and prominent examples of cultural ...
cinematic thinking, monumental architectural works, cultural documents, montage, cultural imaginary geography
78 downloads
This research aims to suggest key design characteristics that are necessary for developing usable e-commerce websites in the Arab world. A comprehensive usability evaluation of four leading Arab e-commerce websites was conducted using the heuristic evaluation method. The results identified major and minor usability problems and major and minor good design characteristics on the selected websites. ...
key design characteristics, usability, e-commerce websites, Arab world, heuristic evaluation, informing
110 downloads
The privacy of personal information is an important area of focus in today’s electronic world, where information can so easily be captured, stored, and shared. In recent years it has regularly featured as a topic in news media and has become the target of legislation around the world. Multidisciplinary privacy research has been conducted for decades, yet privacy remains a complex subject that stil ...
privacy, information privacy, personal information, privacy management, consumers, clients, transdisciplinary, organizations, literature review
556 downloads
In the fast changing global economic landscape, the cultivation of sustainable entrepreneurial ventures is seen as a vital mechanism that will enable businesses to introduce new innovative products to the market faster and more effectively than their competitors.
This research paper investigated phenomena that may play a significant role when entrepreneurs implement creative ideas resulting in s ...
entrepreneurial start-ups, partnerships, education, idea generation, innovation, design thinking, common features for the foundation of a successful company
120 downloads
Certain trends in scientific research have important relevance to bioethics theory and practice. A growing stream of literature relates to increasing transparency and inclusivity of populations (stakeholders) in scientific research, from high volume data collection, synthesis, and analysis to verification and ethical scrutiny. The emergence of this stream of literature has implications for bioethi ...
biomedical ethics, citizen science, informing science, probabilistic innovation, crowdsourcing, transparency, scientific inclusiveness
84 downloads
The article presents Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) as an overdue individualized as well as a collaborative approach for knowledge workers. Designing a PKM-supporting system, however, resembles a so-called “wicked” problem (ill-defined; incomplete, contradictory, changing requirements, complex interdependencies) where the information needed to understand the challenges depends on upon one’s i ...
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Design Science Research (DSR), Informing Science (IS), Popper’s Three Worlds, Knowledge Worker, Organizational Knowledge Man-agement (OKM), Human Capital, Capacity Development, Lifelong learning, Digital Ecosystems, Complexity, Memes, Memex, Knowcations
195 downloads
Web portals have been used as information products to deliver personalized, feature-rich, and flexible information needs to Internet users. However, all portals are not equal. Most of them have relatively a small number of visitors, while a few capture the majority of surfers. This study seeks to uncover the factors that contribute the perceived quality of a general portal. Based on 21 factors der ...
web portal, web portal quality, information quality, information product quality, perceived quality; intention to use
73 downloads
table of contents, JITE, IT education
192 downloads
table of contents, JITE, IT education
89 downloads
The paper describes the development of four learning modules that focus on technical details of how a person’s privacy might be compromised in real-world scenarios. The paper shows how students benefited from the addition of hands-on learning experiences of privacy and data protection to the existing information technology courses. These learning modules raised students’ awareness of potential bre ...
Privacy, Education, Curriculum, Information Security, Information Assurance
260 downloads
The Correlation between Temperament, Technology Preference and Proficiency in Middle School Students
This study examined the relationship between middle school students’ personality type and their academic performance in the technology courses in which they participated. It also explored the differences in technology use by personality. Most participants identified games as a favorite pastime. However, there were some noted temperamental differences. Students with the analytical personality repor ...
technology, temperament, MBTI, True Colors, KTS, differentiation, personality type
491 downloads
The pilot research presented here explores the classroom use of Emerging Literacy in Mathematics (ELM) software, a research-based bilingual interactive multimedia instructional tool, and its potential to develop emerging numeracy skills. At the time of the study, a central theme of early mathematics curricula, Number Concept, was fully developed. It was broken down into five mathematical concepts ...
Interactive online software, early elementary, mathematics instruction, numeracy skills, number concept, dispositions towards mathematics, two-group post-test design
359 downloads
Computers have taken an important place in the training of science students and in the professional life of scientists. It is often taken for granted that most students have mastered basic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills; however, it has been shown that not all students are equally proficient in this regard. Starting from theories of socialization and technology acceptance ...
survey, ICT skills, computer literacy, science students, technology acceptance model, TAM, higher education, structural equation model, confirmatory factor analysis
529 downloads
This paper examines how to leverage the design studio learning environment throughout long-term Digital Design education in order to support students to progress from tactical, well-defined, device-centric routine design, to confidently design sustainable solutions for strategic, complex, problems for a wide range of devices and platforms in the digital space. We present a framework derived from l ...
Education, design studio learning, Human-Computer Interaction, user-centered design, formation and transformation of knowledge
195 downloads
This paper explores and analyses similarities and differences in ICT curricula, policies, and assessment between the Vietnamese and Australian educational systems for the final years of secondary educational level. It was found that while having a common core set of tendencies, the Australian ICT curricula, policies, and assessments differ markedly from the Vietnamese counterparts. These differenc ...
ICT education, comparative studies in ICT education, ICT curriculum, ICT policies, ICT assessment
349 downloads
The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science organized by Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. This study investigated the impact of the Hour of Code on students’ attitudes towards computer programming and their knowledge of programming. A sample of undergraduate students from two universities was selected to participate. Participants ...
computer science education, advocacy, Hour of Code, Code.org, online tutorials, in-troductory computer programming, survey
450 downloads
Two of the most important outcomes of learning analytics are predicting students’ learning and providing effective feedback. Learning Management Systems (LMS), which are widely used to support online and face-to-face learning, provide extensive research opportunities with detailed records of background data regarding users’ behaviors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of und ...
LMS, Learning Analytics, Online Learning, Academic Achievement
566 downloads
Mobile devices are the constant companions of technology users of all ages. Studies show, however, that making calls is a minimal part of our engagement with today’s smart phones and that even texting has fallen off, leaving web browsing, gaming, and social media as top uses. A cross-disciplinary group of faculty at our university came together in the mLearning Scholars group to study the potentia ...
Mobile Learning, GenM, TAM, Activity Theory, Responsive Web Design
375 downloads
Understanding the relationship between social presence and critical thinking is useful for gaining insight into the interaction and discourse of learners online. Further study of how these two presences interact is important because research has shown a wide variety of relationships, both positive and negative, between social presence and critical thinking. The aim of this study is to investigate ...
CMC, CoI, critical thinking, learning communities, online learning, social presence
256 downloads
Immigrant students face a multitude of problems, among which are poor social adaptation and school integration. On the other hand, although digital narrations are widely used in education, they are rarely used for aiding students or for the resolution of complex problems. This study exploits the potential of digital narrations towards this end, by examining how the development and presentation of ...
digital storytelling, autobiographical narration, school integration, immigrant student, intercultural education
209 downloads
Evaluating the Effect of Arabic Engineering Students’ Learning Styles in Blended Programming Courses
This study investigated the complex relationship among learning styles, gender, perceived satisfaction, and academic performance across four programming courses supported by an e-learning platform. A total of 219 undergraduate students from a public Iraqi university who recently experienced e-learning voluntarily took place in the study. The integrated courses adopted a blended learning mode and a ...
learning styles, gender, academic performance, perceived satisfaction, blended learning
238 downloads
Since the advent of the iPhone and rise of mobile technologies, educational apps represent one of the fastest growing markets, and both the mobile technology and educational app markets are predicted to continue experiencing growth into the foreseeable future. The irony, however, is that even with a booming market for educational apps, very little research regarding the quality of them has been co ...
Instructional Technology, Teacher Resources, Educational Apps, and Tablets
316 downloads
Since reading and writing digitally demand partially different competencies, there is a change in some of the premises of related educational practices. This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of educational reading practices by scrutinizing how literacy events evolve in a digital classroom where each student has a personal digital device (1:1), iPads in this study. Our study is grounded in ...
literacy, digital technologies, interaction analysis, reading practices, structural resources
371 downloads
Prior work demonstrates the importance of introducing young children to programming and engineering content before gender stereotypes are fully developed and ingrained in later years. However, very little research on gender and early childhood technology interventions exist. This pilot study looks at N=45 children in kindergarten through second grade who completed an eight-week robotics and progr ...
early childhood, robotics, programming, gender
490 downloads
Using a qualitative content analysis approach, this study reviewed 47 published studies and research on online teaching and learning since 2008, primarily focusing on how theories, practices and assessments apply to the online learning environment. The purpose of this paper is to provide practical suggestions for those who are planning to develop online courses so that they can make informed deci ...
online education, online teaching, online learning community, asynchronous learning, cognitive presence, social presence, teaching presence, online higher education
5362 downloads
The nexus between paid work and study is important. Developing opportunities to facilitate this link is a key part of good course design especially in postgraduate programs. Strong communities of practice can also assist with improving links between research and practice. The online study environment affords some challenges to achieving these goals. The current study proposes that offering formali ...
distance education, community of practice, interactions, online learning, network
175 downloads
This paper reports on the outcomes from a pilot study targeted at mothers of school children in Melbourne, Australia. The aim of the study was to engender a positive view of technology in the participants and to introduce the concept of Information Technology (IT) as a potential career. Mothers were given the opportunity to develop basic IT skills and learn about different IT career pathways for t ...
gender and IT, information technology professionals, mothers, parental influences
131 downloads
Several studies and experiments have been conducted in recent years to examine the value and the advantage of using the Gesture-Based Learning System (GBLS).The investigation of the influence of the GBLS mode on the learning outcomes is still scarce. Most previous studies did not address more than one category of learning outcomes (cognitive, affective outcomes, etc.) at the same time when used to ...
Gesture Based Learning System (GBLS), Computer Simulated Software Learning (CSSL) mode, Kinect sensor, Perceptual User Interface (PUI), learning technology, Technology Mediated Learning (TML), Learning Outcomes
199 downloads
Increasingly, numerous universities have identified benefits of flipped learning environments and have been encouraging instructors to adapt such methodologies in their respective classrooms, at a time when departments are facing significant budget constraints. This article proposes an instructional design framework utilized to strategically enhance traditional flipped methodologies in a first-yea ...
collaborative learning; interactive learning environments; flipped classroom; instructional design
218 downloads
The National Israeli Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Program that called for the “adaption of the educational system to the 21st century”, has been implemented in Israel since 2010. The program’s purpose intended to introduce an ‘ICT culture’ in the educational system – pre-schools and lower-level schools, as well as in higher education institutions, including teachers colleges. Fol ...
ICT integration; educators; innovational change; teacher colleges
268 downloads
Pair programming is a collaborative programming practice that places participants in dyads, working in tandem at one computer to complete programming assignments. Pair programming studies with Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) majors have identified benefits such as technical productivity, program/design quality, academic performance, and increased satisfaction for their particip ...
pair programming, collaborative learning, MIS curriculum, collaborative programming
137 downloads
Researchers and policy makers have been exploring ways to reduce the digital divide. Parameters commonly used to examine the digital divide worldwide, as well as in this study, are: (a) the digital divide in the accessibility and mobility of the ICT infrastructure and of the content infrastructure (e.g., sites used in school); and (b) the digital divide in literacy skills. In the present study we ...
Information and communication technology (ICT), digital divide, disadvantaged populations, desktop computers, hybrid computers, E-Readiness
314 downloads
This study examines factors that determine the attitudes of learners toward a blended e-learning system (BELS) using data collected by questionnaire from a sample of 396 students involved in a BELS environment in Vietnam. A theoretical model is derived from previous studies and is analyzed and developed using structural equation modeling techniques. Several theoretical findings from previous studi ...
blended e-learning, technology acceptance, beliefs, attitude, structural equation modelling
295 downloads
The introduction of computer programming in K-12 has become mainstream in the last years, as countries around the world are making coding part of their curriculum. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical studies that investigate how learning to program at an early age affects other school subjects. In this regard, this paper compares three quasi-experimental research designs conducted in three ...
elementary education, improving classroom teaching, interdisciplinary projects, pro-gramming and programming languages, teaching/learning strategies, computer education, Scratch
954 downloads
There is increasing recognition of the role eHealth will play in the effective and efficient delivery of healthcare. This research challenges the assumption that students enter university as digital natives, able to confidently and competently adapt their use of information and communication technology (ICT) to new contexts. This study explored health sciences students’ preparedness for working, a ...
Allied health, eHealth, Technology, ICT, Health sciences, Higher education, Internet, Survey, Telehealth, Telemedicine
309 downloads
To help students navigate the digital environment, teachers not only need access to the right technology tools but they must also engage in pedagogically sound, high-quality professional development. For teachers, quality professional development can mean the difference between merely using technology tools and creating transformative change in the classroom. For students — especially those with l ...
teacher training, middle school, digital learning, learning disabilities, special education
306 downloads
Professional development of future teachers is based on connecting theory and practice with the aim of supporting and developing critical, independent, responsible decision-making and active teaching. With this aim we designed a blended learning environment with an asynchronous online discussion, enabling collaboration and reflection even when face-to-face communication was not possible. This pape ...
teacher education, reflection, collaboration, blended learning environment, asynchronous online discussion, social and cognitive components of interaction
225 downloads
Instructional technologies can be effective tools to foster student engagement, but university faculty may be reluctant to integrate innovative and evidence-based modern learning technologies into instruction. Based on Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory, this quantitative, nonexperimental, one-shot cross-sectional survey determined what attributes of innovation (relative advantage, compatibil ...
clicker, audience response system, instructional technology adoption
149 downloads
The use of touch-based technologies by young children to improve academic skills has seen growth outpacing empirical evidence of its effectiveness. Due to the educational challenges low-income children face, the stakes for providing instructional technology with demonstrated efficacy are high. The current work presents an empirical study of the use of a touch-based, computer-assisted learning syst ...
computer-assisted, touch-based, instructional technology, literacy, math, preschool, student achievement, low-income
361 downloads
The present study focused on how self-control over pace might help learners successfully extract information from digital learning aids. Past research has indicated that too much control over pace can be overwhelming, but too little control over pace can be ineffective. Within the popular self-testing domain of flashcards, we sought to elucidate the optimal level of user control for digital learni ...
computer, pace, self-control, learning, flashcards
236 downloads
This paper assesses the effectiveness of the adoption of curriculum content developed and supported by a global academic university-industry alliance sponsored by one of the world’s largest information technology software providers. Academic alliances promote practical and future-oriented education while providing access to proprietary software and technology. Specifically, this paper addresses a ...
information technology, point-and-click, academic alliances, IT education, business process integration, pedagogy
138 downloads
In recent years, gloss presentation format or the location where a gloss appears with respect to its related target word has received renewed attention. Research suggested that different gloss presentation formats could have differential effects on reading comprehension and/or vocabulary learning. This study hypothesized that the effectiveness of different computerized gloss presentation formats i ...
gloss presentation format, computerized glosses, reading comprehension, cognitive load, split-attention effect
161 downloads
This qualitative study seeks to understand and resolve the difficulties that teachers encounter when integrating mobile devices in classrooms. To address the issue of teacher receptiveness, three undergraduate researchers collaborated with an education professor in spring 2012 to complete a qualitative study with a two-fold purpose: 1) to investigate how two secondary teachers in an independent sc ...
iPad, educational technology, 1:1, BYOD, teacher efficacy, instructional philosophy, teacher training, professional development, technology support, technology integration
585 downloads
This study explores the impact of electronic portfolios on undergraduate learning in higher education. Based on a descriptive study, it analyses the prospective teacher’s perception of use of these tools (electronic portfolio in Moodle-Mahara, in the institutional environment of a university in southern Europe), examining the variables participation, autonomous learning, and motivation. The result ...
electronic portfolios, higher education, teacher preparation, autonomous learning, student motivations
173 downloads
Digital technologies are an important requirement for curriculum expectations, including general ICT capability and STEM education. These technologies are also positioned as mechanisms for educational reform via transformation of teacher practice. It seems, however, that wide-scale transformation of teacher practice and digital learning remain unrealized. This is commonly attributed to a range of ...
digital technologies, digital learning, transformation, pedagogy, influences, barriers, professional learning, teachers
633 downloads
Integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into teaching and learning is a growing area that has attracted many educators’ attention in recent years. Teachers need to be involved in collaborative projects and development of intervention change strategies, which include teaching partnerships with ICT as a tool. Teacher perceptions are a major predictor of the use of new technologies ...
blended learning, e-course design, ICT integration, in-service teachers, teachers’ perception
1059 downloads
Barriers to effective technology integration come in several different categories, including access to technology tools and resources, technology training and support, administrative support, time to plan and prepare for technology integration, and beliefs about the importance and usefulness of technology tools and resources. This study used survey research to compare reported barriers to technolo ...
technology integration, barriers, school district, rural, access, training, time, beliefs
459 downloads
Developing Business Intelligence (BI) has been a top priority for enterprise executives in recent years. To meet these demands, universities need to prepare students to work with BI in enterprise settings. In this study, we considered a business simulator that offers students opportunities to apply BI and make top-management decisions in a system used by real-world professionals. The simulation-ba ...
motivation, constructivist, simulation, active learning, collaboration, business intelligence
129 downloads
The authors present the results of a study conducted at a comprehensive, urban, coeducational, land-grant university. A quasi-experimental design was chosen for this study to compare student performance in two different classroom environments, traditional versus flipped. The study spanned 3 years, beginning fall 2012 through spring 2015. The participants included 433 declared business majors who s ...
flipped classroom, instructional videos, podcasts, student performance, traditional lecture, video-taped lectures
595 downloads
The study involved student teachers enrolled in early childhood teaching at a teacher training institute in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Seventy-four students participated in flipped classroom activities during their first semester of study. Students were told to learn from online videos related to using image editing software in their own time and pace prior to the next class. When th ...
flipped classroom, generic skills, online videos, photo editing, student teacher
222 downloads
The impact that mobile web-enabled devices have had on the lives and behavior of university students has been immense. Yet, many of the models used in the classrooms have remained unchanged. Although a traditional research approach of examining the literature, developing a methodology, and so on is followed, this paper’s main aim is to inform practitioners on observations and examples from courses ...
Mobile web-enabled devices, Usage, Impact, Unintended consequences, University Students, Social Network Systems (SNS).
204 downloads
This paper reports on the educational aspects of an information systems work-integrated learning (WIL) capstone project for an organization which operates to alleviate homelessness in the Australian non-profit sector. The methodology adopted for the study is Action Design Research (ADR) which draws on action research and design research as a means for framing a project's progress. Reflective insig ...
Work-integrated learning, workplace learning, non-profit, reflection, engagement, IT
113 downloads
CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - is a test with the aim to distinguish between malicious automatic software and real users in the era of Cyber security threats. Various types of CAPTCHA tests were developed, in order to address accessibility while implementing security. This research focuses on the users’ attitudes and experiences related to us ...
CAPTCHA, Cyber Security, User Experience
231 downloads
The most common course delivery model is based on teacher (knowledge provider) - student (knowledge receiver) relationship. The most visible symptom of this situation is over-reliance on textbook’s tutorials. This traditional model of delivery reduces teacher flexibility, causes lack of interest among students, and often makes classes boring. Especially this is visible when teaching Computer Liter ...
Simulation Software, Office Simulation Software, eBook and Simulation Software
132 downloads
This longitudinal, quasi-experimental study investigated students’ cognitive personality type using the Myers-Briggs personality Type Indicator (MBTI) in Internet-based Online and Face-to-Face (F2F) modalities. A total of 1154 students enrolled in 28 Online and 32 F2F sections taught concurrently over a period of fourteen years. The study measured whether the sample is similar to the national av ...
Online learning, Distance Education, Face to face (F2F), Myers Briggs (MBTI), Longi-tudinal, Learning Style.
465 downloads
One of the key attempts towards a collective African vision is the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Barnard and Vonk (2003) report that “53 countries have been urged to implement ICTs in three crucial development arenas: education, health and trade”. While NEPAD and other initiatives have contributed to the provision of ICT infrastructure with positive results as seen in t ...
Economic upliftment, Social development, Digital astuteness, Rural areas
121 downloads
Agile global software development (AGSD) is an increasingly prevalent software development strategy, as organizations hope to realize the benefits of accessing a larger resource pool of skilled labor, at a potentially reduced cost, while at the same time delivering value incrementally and iteratively. However, the distributed nature of AGSD creates geographic, temporal, socio-cultural distances th ...
Cloud Computing, Agile Software Development, Agile Global Software Development, Agile Principles, Scrum
222 downloads
This paper presents a validation research of seven Digital Learning Domains (DLDs) and sixty-five performance statements (PSs) as perceived by students with experience in learning via ICT. The preliminary findings suggest a statistical firmness of the inventory. The seven DLDs identified are Social Responsibility, Team-based Learning, Information Research and Retrieval, Information Management, Inf ...
Digital Learning Literacies, 21st Century Skills, Learning Skills
291 downloads
Project work forms a large part in work undertaken by graduates when they enter the workforce, so projects are used in higher education to prepare students for their working lives and to enable students to apply creativity in their studies as they present a solution to a problem, using technical skills they have learned in different units of study. Projects, both at work and in higher education, m ...
Team project, employability, transferable skills, external client
80 downloads
The field of business intelligence (BI), despite rapid technology advances, continues to feature inadequate levels of adoption. The attention of researchers is shifting towards hu-man factors of BI adoption. The wide set of human factors influencing BI adoption con-tains elements of what we call BI culture – an overarching concept covering key managerial issues that come up in BI implementation. R ...
business intelligence, business intelligence adoption, business intelligence culture
378 downloads
The paper reviewed the emerging roles of the 21st century librarians, charged with the responsibility to manage repository services across libraries in present-day information technology environment. Librarians need to be trained and empowered with requisite skills and knowledge needed for successful management of the ICT driven repository initiatives that the 21st century demands. Literature wa ...
Repository services, Academic libraries, Emerging trends, Role of librarians, Developing countries
167 downloads
The transition from printed to electronic sources of information has resulted in a profound change to the way procurement officers seek information. Furthermore, in the past decade there have been additional technological revolutions that are expected to further affect the procurement process. In this paper, we conduct a survey among forty nine university procurement officers in Israel to examine ...
Public procurement, information seeking behavior, notebooks, smartphones, tablets, information sources
85 downloads
The Open Software movement serves as a landmark and a starting point for many “open-something” initiatives, such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). However, under a pragmatic point-of-view, many of its basic principles are not considered specially when dealing with the above mentioned initiatives: common, industry-standard OER and MOOC lack a considerable s ...
Open Educational Resources, Massive Online Open Courses, 5R Principles, Open Licenses, Open Standards
119 downloads
Many degree courses at technical universities include the subject of control systems engineering. As an addition to conventional approaches Fuzzy Control can be used to easily find control solutions for systems, even if they include nonlinearities. To support further educational training, models which represent a technical system to be controlled are required. These models have to represent the sy ...
Fuzzy Control, FHFCE-Tool, Teaching Models, FC-Debugging, FC-Tracing
66 downloads
This paper describes the employment of a Personal Response System (PRS) during a Decision Analysis course for Management Information Systems (MIS) students. The description shows how the carefully designed PRS-based questions, the delivery, and the follow-up discussions; provided a context for eliciting and exercising central concepts of the course topics as well as central skills required for MIS ...
Personal Response Systems, Clickers, Quantitative methods for decision analysis, Decision Trees, Modeling
59 downloads
Many higher education institutions are moving towards blended learning environments that seek to move towards a student-centred ethos, where students are stakeholders in the learning process. This often involves multi-modal learner-support technologies capable of operating in a range of time and place settings. This article considers the impact of an Audience Response System (ARS) upon the ongoing ...
Blended learning, audience response systems, information systems professionals, ethics
146 downloads
The number of online resources available for teaching and learning in higher education has been growing enormously during the last decade. A recent development is the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and of Open Educational Resources (OER). The result is a huge number of videos that are available on line. Can these videos enrich learning? As a pilot study we added sixteen videos to ...
Distance Education, Video, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Online Resources, Podcasts, Human-Computer Interaction
137 downloads
One effective way of accelerating the commercialization of university innovations (inventions) is to execute a “Technological Entrepreneurship” framework that helps the execution of agreements between universities and industry for commercialization. Academics have been encouraged to commercialize their research and findings yet the level of success of commercialization of inventions (innovations) ...
Technological Entrepreneurship, Venture Capitalist, Incubation Programs
123 downloads
55 downloads
Soft skills are becoming increasingly important and will be critical for success in the Information Systems profession. Employers complain about a lack in soft skills among graduates from tertiary education institutions. No agreement exists about what these skills actually are, which are of importance, and how acquiring these soft skills should be approached in higher education.
The aim of this ...
soft skills, higher education, information technology, industry
230 downloads
Personalization is one of the most expected features in the current educational systems. User modeling is supposed to be the first stage of this process, which may incorporate learning style as an important part of the model. Learning style, which is a non-stable characteristic in the case of children, differentiates students in learning preferences. This paper identifies a new hybrid method to in ...
Automatic detection, children learning style, hybrid method, MBTI, personality type
172 downloads
The purpose of this research is the exploration of the opinions and level of self-efficacy in the usage of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) of teachers in Greek pre-schools in the learning process and administration of nurseries. By using the term “usage and utilisation of ICTs in the learning process” we mean the utilisation of the capabilities that new technologies offer in an educa ...
ICT, educational process, use & development of ICT, self-efficacy
106 downloads
As a result of the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the growing interest in Internet-based tools for language classroom, it has become a pressing need for educators to locate, evaluate and select the most appropriate language-learning digital resources that foster more communicative and meaningful learning processes. Hence, this paper describes a mixed resear ...
Language-learning website, communicative approach, CALL evaluation, checklist, digital competence, knowing-how-to-do skill
547 downloads
In today’s job market, computer skills are part of the prerequisites for many jobs. In this paper, we report on a study of readiness to work with computers (the dependent variable) among unemployed women (N=54) after participating in a unique, web-supported training focused on computer skills and empowerment. Overall, the level of participants’ readiness to work with computers was much higher at t ...
Work readiness; working with computers; log-based variables; decision tree
200 downloads
Learning objects originally developed for use in online learning environments can also be used to enhance face-to-face instruction. This study examined the learning impacts of online learning objects packaged into modules and used in different contexts for undergraduate education offered on campus at three institutions. A multi-case study approach was used, examining learning impacts across a vari ...
learning objects, online learning, instructional context, multimedia instruction, online modules
182 downloads
This paper provides an overview of the impact that social media has on the development of collaborative learning within a cohort environment in a doctoral program. The researchers surveyed doctoral students in an education program to determine how social media use has influenced the doctoral students. The study looked at the following areas: a) the ability of social media use to develop a collabor ...
Social media, Collaborative learning, Learning environment, Doctoral program, Cohort
400 downloads
MOOCs are open, online courses that use information technologies to enhance the learning experience and attract various people from the entire world. The current study uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), as well as personal characteristics such as learning strategies, cognitive appraisal, and Kuhlthau’s (1991) model of information seeking as theoretical bases for defining factors that may ...
MOOC, Technology Acceptance Model, learning strategies, cognitive appraisal
450 downloads
This preface presents the papers included in the eighth issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL) special series of selected Chais Conference best papers. The Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era, is organized annually by the Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open ...
learning technologies, e-learning, technology integration in education, diffusion of innovation, human-computer interaction
56 downloads
This is a five-year study conducted with junior high school students studying in a 1:1-laptop program in order to test the effects of the program on various measures related to the students: their attitudes, motivation, perceived school norms, self-efficacy, and behavioral intention towards learning with laptops, according to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB).
These variables were tested at tw ...
one-to-one classrooms, personal laptops, motivation, self-efficacy, Theory of Planned Behavior
149 downloads
This study examined the phenomenon of academic dishonesty among university students. It was based on Pavela’s (1997) framework of types of academic dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and facilitation) and distinguished between digital and “traditional”- analog dishonesty. The study analyzed cases of academic dishonesty offenses committed by students, as well as the reasons for academic ...
digital academic dishonesty, cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, facilitation, academic integrity in higher education, motivation for academic dishonesty, gender differences in penalties given for academic dishonesty
675 downloads
CAPTCHA is one of the most common solutions to check if the user trying to enter a Website is a real person or an automated piece of software. This challenge-response test, implemented in many Internet Websites, emphasizes the gaps between accessibility and security on the Internet, as it poses an obstacle for the learning-impaired in the reading and comprehension of what is presented in the test. ...
CAPTCHA, cyber security, user experience, learning disabilities, dyslexia
115 downloads
This study examined a professional development program designed to support Civics teachers in their efforts to promote empathy among Israeli Jewish students towards Israeli Arabs. The design rationale for the program is that teachers should experience empathic processes themselves before supporting their students in such an endeavor and that meaningful empathic processes can occur online if activi ...
empathy, minority group, teacher professional development, teachers as designers, online learning community
177 downloads
The characteristics of successful MOOCs were explored in this study. Thousands of student reviews regarding five xMOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) in the fields of software, science, and management were extracted from the Coursetalk website and analyzed by quantitative and qualitative methods using the Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000) Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. The 14 characteristics ...
MOOC, online learning, lifelong learning, Community of Inquiry
100 downloads
Creative computing is one of the rapidly growing educational trends around the world. Previous studies have shown that creative computing can empower disadvantaged children and youth. At-risk youth tend to hold a negative view of self and perceive their abilities as inferior compared to “normative” pupils. The Implicit Theories of Intelligence approach (ITI; Dweck, 1999, 2008) suggests a way of ch ...
creative computing, creative coding, creative programming, scratch application, implicit theories of intelligence, constructionism, at-risk youth, normative high-school students
90 downloads
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in teacher education poses new challenges to faculty and students. This study was carried out to examine factors facilitating and hindering ICT implementation in teacher education institutes in Israel. Findings from our study, administered at two points in time, revealed that providing technological-pedagogical support to teacher educators and their ...
teacher educators, ICT Implementation, facilitating factors, hindering factors, colleges of education
108 downloads
The current rapid technological changes confront researchers of learning technologies with the challenge of evaluating them, predicting trends, and improving their adoption and diffusion. This study utilizes a data-driven discourse analysis approach, namely culturomics, to investigate changes over time in the research of learning technologies. The patterns and changes were examined on a corpus of ...
mapping topics in the domain of learning technologies, academic discourse of learning technologies, culturomics, quantitative text analysis, data-driven discourse analysis, word frequency analysis
70 downloads
Printable Table of Contents for IJDS Volume 11, 2016
IJDS, Table of Contents, International Journal of Doctoral Studies
598 downloads
table of contents, IJIKM, Information, Knowledge, Management
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This article draws on findings from a broad study on the influences of globalization on the experiences of international doctoral students at a large, research intensive Canadian university. It focuses specifically on these students’ lived experiences of change in their national identities and senses of belonging in a globalizing world. Using a qualitative, multiple case narrative approach, stud ...
international doctoral students, transnationalism, graduate education, globalization, identity, belonging
811 downloads
Helping a company organize and capture the knowledge used by its employees and business processes is a daunting task. In this work we examine several proposed methodologies and synthesize them into a new methodology that we demonstrate through a case study of an electric power distribution company. This is a practical research study. First, the research approach for creating the knowledge map is p ...
Knowledge mapping, knowledge breakdown structure, knowledge levelling, business-process oriented knowledge management, knowledge meta-model
393 downloads
Studies of doctoral education have included an interest not only in processes, structures, and outcomes, but also in students’ experiences. There are often useful recommendations for practice within individual examinations of the doctoral experience, yet there remains a need to strengthen the application of lessons from research to the behaviors of students and others engaged in the doctoral proce ...
doctoral education, doctoral student experiences, faculty members, administrators, challenges, strategies for success
1490 downloads
Recently ERP implementation has seen increasing significance in different sectors. The research related to the implementation issues of ERP has also increased during the past decade. Particularly the behavioral aspects of ERP implementations have been researched in terms of identifying appropriate frameworks, critical success factors, perception and attitude of users and managers, the role of chan ...
ERP Implementation, critical success factors, perception of users, leadership
370 downloads
A central premise for the creation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) is ensuring the portability of patient health records across various clinical, insurance, and regulatory entities. From portability standards such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to data sharing across institutions, a lack of portability of health data can jeopardize optimal care and reduce meaningful use. This ...
Design Theory, Data Availability, Data Portability, Satisfaction, Stakeholders, Patient Care Processes
171 downloads
The primary aim of this study was to better understand the antecedents of doctoral students’ emotional well-being, and their plans to leave academia. Based on past research, antecedents included departmental support, the quality of the supervisory relationship, and characteristics of the supervisory relationship. We used a mixed-methods study, and surveyed 186 doctoral students from nine countries ...
doctoral students, emotional exhaustion, attrition, support, supervision
1346 downloads
This paper reports on research with a broad objective to examine the relationship between two organizational entities, the formally structured organization and informal organizational structures, in a changing operational environment, more specifically during military deployments. The paper draws on organizational and complexity paradigms; based on empirical evidence obtained through qualitative t ...
organizational studies, formal and informal organizational structures – symbiotic re-lationship, organizational adaptation, organizational agility, organizations and institutions, complexity, frameworks, case studies
734 downloads
Workshops and seminars are widely-used forms of doctoral training. However, research with a particular focus on these forms of doctoral training is sporadic in the literature. There is little, if any, such research concerning the international context and participants’ own voices. Mindful of these lacunae in the literature, we write the current paper as a group of participants in one of a series o ...
International doctoral forum, Bourdieu, capital, field, power relations, autobiography
609 downloads
Several studies extended the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by examining the antecedents of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use; the present study looks at demographic aspect of external variables in virtual library use among undergraduate students. The purpose of this study is to identify the demographic factors sex, level of study, cumulative grade point average, and computer knowl ...
Technology acceptance model, Theory of reasoned action, demographic variables, users’ perception, virtual library usage
150 downloads
A key aspect of the effective supervision of PhD research is the supervisor-student relationship. This interaction is affected by the characteristics and needs of students and institutional conditions, as well as the skills, attitudes, and roles of supervisors and their supervisory styles. When supervision is carried out at a distance, it entails an additional challenge, mainly concerning interact ...
postgraduate research supervision, distance supervision, PhD supervision, supervisory styles, supervisor attitudes and roles, supervisor-student relationship
1071 downloads
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) encompassing computer and network hardware and software, and so on, as well as various services and applications associated with them, are assuming a growing presence within the modern homestead and have an indelible impact on the professional and everyday life of people. This research aims to explore factors influencing the successful adoption and ...
ICTs, households, ICT adoption, ICT usage, success factors, Poland
235 downloads
This paper presents quantitative results of a comparative study evaluating the management skills of doctoral candidates working toward a PhD and additional information related to their lifestyles. We conducted a survey among enrolled doctoral candidates at five universities in Israel and three technological universities in Western Europe. 1013 Israeli candidates and 457 Western European candidates ...
Doctoral research management, Adviser-candidate relationship, Doctoral education
806 downloads
A general belief is that Mobile Money (mMoney) has the catalytic effect of spurring mCommerce growth and driving financial inclusion in developing nations like Nigeria. In Nigeria, mMoney service is certainly a new financial service innovation in the country, and as a result critical issues surrounding its early critical mass adoption, including its perceived usefulness, remain largely opaque. In ...
BoP, consumer behaviour, financial inclusion, mMoney, mCommerce, Nigeria, SSA, sub-Saharan Africa
173 downloads
Currently the study of higher education has been referred to as a multidisciplinary field. Consensus is continuing to evolve regarding both what is considered the appropriate coursework and the foundational knowledgebase of this field. The study of higher education is maturing and has the potential to transition from being seen as a field to being respected as an academic discipline. The purpose o ...
Academic Curriculum, Doctoral Education, Higher Education as a Field of Study
741 downloads
For more than two decades, knowledge management (KM) has been examined in the literature and considered a basic factor in business management. The purpose of this article is to explore the ability of knowledge management to achieve small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation and business performance. Data analysis procedures of PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data based on responses from th ...
Knowledge management (KM), innovation, performance, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), information and communication technology (ICT)
513 downloads
Today’s educational practitioners are expected to know how to gather, analyze, and report on data for accountability purposes and to use that information to improve student outcomes. However, there is little understanding of how to support practitioners’ learning of and engagement with research and few studies on the research experiences of students enrolled in Doctorate of Education (EdD) program ...
Doctoral students, practitioner-researcher, research skills, self-efficacy
745 downloads
An Instructional Management and Leadership doctoral program (IML) incorporated the use of Twitter to examine what this looked like in practice. Did students actually use Twitter, and if so, how frequently, for what purpose(s), and were there differences between students on the pattern of use? Additionally, we sought to determine if Twitter is a legitimate instructional tool and if the use of Twitt ...
Higher Education, Case Study, Social Media, Twitter, Doctoral Cohort, Accelerated program
604 downloads
Knowledge management research applied to the development of real-time research capability, or capability to solve societal problems in hours and days instead of years and decades, is perhaps increasingly important, given persistent global problems such as the Zika virus and rapidly developing antibiotic resistance. Drawing on swarm intelligence theory, this paper presents an approach to real-time ...
Knowledge management, crowdsourcing, swarm solving, theory development, complex problem solving
204 downloads
Provision of both high standards of thesis supervision and high quality research environments are required for doctoral candidates to flourish. An important component of ensuring quality provision of research resources is the soliciting of feedback from research students and the provision from research supervisors and institutions of timely and constructive responses to such feedback. In this manu ...
supervision; surveys; feedback; resource allocation; student evaluation
711 downloads
Analogical thinking is one of the most effective tools to generate innovative ideas. It enables us to develop new ideas by transferring information from well-known domains and utilizing them in a novel domain. However, using analogical thinking does not always yield appropriate ideas, and there is a lack of consensus among researchers regarding the evaluation methods for assessing new ideas. Here, ...
analogical thinking, idea generation, innovation workshops, thinking processes in idea generation, assessment of new ideas
242 downloads
Selecting the most appropriate methodology for research as a doctoral student is one of the most important yet difficult decisions. Not only should the methodology suit the research question, it is important that it resonates with the philosophy of one’s discipline and produces needed results that will contribute to knowledge. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an approach to qualit ...
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), doctoral studies, qualitative research, midwifery, individualized care, exclusive breastfeeding
1138 downloads
In order to reduce cost, improve functionality and gain competitive advantages, organizations resort to reengineering projects by developing and making changes to organizational processes. The absence of a unified methodology and appropriate analytic approaches prior to the implementation of reengineering projects has made authorities not to adopt correct decision making approaches in this respect ...
Business Process Reengineering, Redesigning Processes, Improvement Process, Multiple-criteria decision-making, Analytical Hierarchy Process
107 downloads
Is the Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A) a viable degree option for those wishing a career in academe? The D.B.A. degree is often considered to be a professional degree, in-tended for business practitioners, while the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree is por-trayed as the degree for preparing college or university faculty. Conversely, many academic programs market their D.B.A. programs t ...
Doctor of Business Administration, doctoral degrees, faculty credentials, regional accredita-tion, programmatic accreditation, teaching
771 downloads
There is a need for research exploring postgraduate research students’ expectations from research supervisors, the characteristics of effective student-supervisor relationships, and the opinions of students and supervisors about research supervision. We also need instruments to explore the student-supervisor relationship. The present study investigated postgraduate research students’ and research ...
supervision; effective supervisor; research students’ expectation; supervisors’ expectation; PhD supervision; opinion
1130 downloads
Purpose: Innovation capability is a growing and significant area of academic research. However, there is little attempt to provide a cumulative overview of this phenomenon. The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesize peer reviewed articles published in the area to develop a conceptual framework and to aid future research.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper adopted a systematic revi ...
innovation capability, collaboration, creativity, innovation, systematic review
485 downloads
This is a report on a qualitative investigation into the challenges and solutions for Information Systems PhD candidature in Australia by conducting a three-phase research process. Information Systems doctoral theses approved within the past 10 years in Australia were identified in three areas of research, using structured evidence-based search and review methods. This was followed by two focus gr ...
PhD candidature, doctoral students, research pathway, information systems, SWOT analysis
720 downloads
According to the different behavior characteristics of knowledge contribution of enterprise employees, a multi-task principal-agent relationship of knowledge contribution between enterprise and employees is established based on principal-agent theory, analyzing staff’s knowledge contribution behavior of knowledge creation and knowledge participation. Based on this, a multi-task principal agent mod ...
multi-task principal-agent model, knowledge contribution, knowledge creation and participation, Incentive measures
91 downloads
Doctoral student retention remains a challenge in higher education with an average attrition rate of 50%. This study focuses on analyzing pre-entry variables of admission for 81 doctoral students admitted to a doctoral program in psychology to determine whether significant associations existed between specific variables in the graduated and withdrawn groups in this cohort with over 48% Hispanic do ...
Doctoral Student Retention, Hispanic Doctoral Students, Retention, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Attrition, Doctoral Completion, Quantitative, Pre-Entry Variables
595 downloads
This paper explores the issues facing digital forensics in South Africa. It examines particular cyber threats and cyber threat levels for South Africa and the challenges in addressing the cybercrimes in the country through digital forensics. The paper paints a picture of the cybercrime threats facing South Africa and argues for the need to develop a skill base in digital forensics in order to coun ...
digital forensics, cybercrime, legislation, skills development, South Africa
189 downloads
In spite of tremendous efforts, women are still under-represented in the field of science. Post-graduate education and early tenure track employment are part of the academic career establishment in research and development during periods that usually overlap with family formation. Though women tend to leave science mainly after obtaining their PhD, and the timing of motherhood plays a vital role i ...
PhD, timing of motherhood childbearing, women, uncertainty, life course, engineering
661 downloads
Efficient knowledge and information management is essential for companies to prosper in the rapidly changing global environment. This article presents challenges of a large Finnish multinational company relating to their current knowledge and information management practices and systems. The focus is on New Product Introduction (NPI) process. The study is based on interviews and facilitated worksh ...
knowledge management, information management, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, information sharing, information flows, case study
182 downloads
Among the typical dissertation research designs, one particular design that is slowly gaining acceptance is that of the Delphi Method. Using a panel of experts to achieve consensus in solving a problem, deciding the most appropriate course of action, or establishing causation where none previously existed, particularly in areas of business or education research, are uniquely ideal to employment of ...
Delphi, consensus, dissertation research, problem-solving, expert panel, critique
1458 downloads
Though the field of management information systems, as a sector and a discipline, is the inventor of many guidelines and models, it appears to be a slow runner on practical implications of interface usability. This usability can influence end users’ attitude and behavior to use IT. The purpose of this paper was to examine the interface usability of a popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) soft ...
Enterprise Resource Planning, Interface usability, ERP usability, Technology Acceptance Model, Partial Least Squares
265 downloads
New qualitative research methods continue to emerge in response to factors such as renewed interest in mixed methods, better understanding of the importance of a researcher’s philosophical stance, as well as the increased use of technology in data collection and analysis, to name a few. As a result, those facilitating research methods courses must revisit content and instructional strategies in or ...
qualitative research methods, pragmatism, researcher worldviews, conceptual frameworks, research model
1153 downloads
Universities have traditionally been leaders in the field of knowledge production, research, and societal development. They are expected to be drivers of innovation, thereby contributing to the development of a learning society. The array of challenges facing universities in Nigeria and other developing countries forces one to question their levels of innovation. While knowledge management has bee ...
knowledge management, higher education, innovation, university, Nigeria
250 downloads
In South Africa four key policy discourses underpin doctoral education: growth, capacity, efficiency, and quality discourses. This article contributes to the discourse on quality by engaging with quality assurance from the perspective of the decision makers and implementers of macro policy (national), meso (institutional), and micro (faculty/departmental) levels. We explore the perceptions that me ...
higher degree committee members, quality assurance, doctoral education, academic freedom, mode 3 knowledge production, higher education, South Africa
563 downloads
Together, the fields of education and information technology have identified the need for an online solution to training. The introduction of e-learning has optimised the learning process, allowing organisations to realise the many advantages that e-learning offers. The importance of user involvement in the success of e-learning makes it imperative that the forces driving intention to use e-learni ...
e-learning, intention, satisfaction, survey, self-efficacy, enjoyment, computer anxiety
257 downloads
This article describes the experiences and outcomes for 761 doctoral students enrolled at the University of Canterbury who had their research disrupted by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake on 22nd February 2011. We describe the measures that were put in place to assist the students to continue their studies through continued disruption from aftershocks, dislocation, building demolition and remediation, e ...
doctoral studies, doctoral completion, attrition, disasters, supervision
553 downloads
Many PhD candidates bring with them a wealth of knowledge and skills; however, these may not sufficiently prepare candidates to work with high autonomy on a project with often limited interaction with the wider research community. A peer-mentor program model, in which a mentor delivers dyadic and group support to higher degree by research students from different disciplines and backgrounds, has th ...
autoethnography, peer-mentor, reflective practice, teaching as learning, HDR experience
795 downloads
American society faces complex educational issues which impact many facets of its national interests. Institutions of higher education are granting doctoral degrees to educational leaders, but it is not known to what extent their dissertation topics are aligned with both longstanding and critical issues in education. Using a theoretical framework synthesizing Paul and Elder’s critical thinking mo ...
dissertation topics, EdD and PhD dissertations, critical issues in education, doctoral supervision, selection of dissertation topics
878 downloads
Doctoral attrition consistently hovers around 50% with relevant literature identifying several mediating factors, including departmental culture, student demographics, and funding. To advance this literature, we interviewed 38 graduate faculty advisors in science, engineering, or mathematics disciplines at a research-extensive university to capture their perceptions of factors supporting graduate ...
faculty mentorship, graduate student development, graduate student motivation
755 downloads
Community-based research (CBR) is an advanced form of academic service-learning through which university students, faculty, and community organizations collaborate to conduct inquiry projects aimed at producing social change. Despite its potential for advancing learning in graduate studies, little research exists on CBR implementations or outcomes in doctoral programs. This study examined the effe ...
community-based research, academic service-learning, doctoral student development, education doctorate, educational leadership, cooperative learning, experiential learning, pro-ject-based learning
584 downloads
The purpose of the present study is to explore the “misfits” occurring between doctoral students and their supervisors. More precisely, we investigate the types of incongruences that occur, whether and how they are regulated and their consequences on students’ outcomes. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 21 former PhD students (8 completers and 13 non-completers). Results show that, when f ...
PhD students, doctoral attrition, supervisor support, fit, coping
706 downloads
case study, discussion case
74 downloads
The investment decision was made last year, and after a time-consuming selection process and intensive negotiations, the contract with the general contractor was signed. The business segment Fixing systems of the fischer group of companies faced a significant investment in its logistics – the development of automation technology in the Global Distribution Center (GDC). According to the project sch ...
change management, communication concept, order picking technology, warehouse logistics
97 downloads
How do you balance flexibility and security in deploying a new online journal? Is WordPress the best solution? An information security case that was developed during the launch of the MCR and MBR journals and was also used in a cybersecurity program.
case study, discussion case, on-line security, information systems
34 downloads
Does it make sense for the University of South Florida to acquire cyber insurance? This case study explores the issues involved and the nature of the cyber insurance product.
case, education, information systems, non profit, discussion case
59 downloads
A small consulting business has the opportunity to work with a new age company interested in moving its proprietary psychological software to the cloud. But if the security of that software is compromised, it could seriously damage the client. Should he proceed?
case, information systems, small business, discussion case
72 downloads
A supplier of marketing and logistics web sites has been approached by a customer wanting to incorporate multifactor authentication. What approach should be taken and how should it be configured so as not to disrupt existing customers?
case, information systems, marketing, discussion case, 2016
55 downloads
JVAB, an elite small business that specializes in cybersecurity penetration testing has more demand for its services than it can handle. The skill set required for its activities is very specialized, however. It is also hard to find. How should it go about seeking new employees?
2016, case, information systems, small business, discussion case
35 downloads
Should Mission Critical Solutions (MCS) stay converged in a functional organization strategy with capability-based teams, or organize into separate standalone entities with unique identities and separate overheads, focusing more on the individual capability-based technology specialization?
2016, case, information systems, management, small business, discussion case
31 downloads
The Chief Information Office at Moffitt Cancer Center worries that his physicians may not be ready for the shift to electronic medical records (EMR). Could he get the organization to change its view from an IT driven project to an institutional change in clinical and operational workflows?
2016, case, information systems, non profit, discussion case
32 downloads
Justin Hurd, a regional manager for Marten Transport, Ltd. (Marten), knows that Marten’s data gathering initiative had produced a wealth of information related to these issues, but how could this data be transformed into useful, actionable metrics that could reduce inefficiencies and protect Marten’s bottom line?
2016, analytics, case, information systems, operations, small business, discussion case
99 downloads
Mike, the head manager of Mellow Mushroom Tampa, is considering replacing his manual employee scheduling system with an automated system named Schedulefly. As he considers the complexities of the system and its potential implications for employees, he wonders if he should really go forward with the project.
2016, case, information systems, management, small business, discussion case
32 downloads
Chris Milan, Managing Director of Southeastern Region at Tribridge, Inc., is considering the installation and implementation of the Enterprise Social Network (ESN) Yammer. He has to decide whether to go forward and, if he does, how to implement it and what it can be expected to achieve.
2016, analytics, case, information systems, small business, discussion case
39 downloads
A firm that specializes in setting up computer systems is asked by a potential client to guarantee 100% security. Knowing that is an impossible request, the owner considers what he might offer as a counter proposal that would make sense.
2016, case, information systems, small business, discussion case
43 downloads
Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education, Volume 1, Table of Contents
JSPTE, postsecondary education, tertiary education
95 downloads
Introduction to the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education (JPSTE). Pages 1-71 comprise the inaugural series of papers.
introduction, JSPTE, postsecondary education, tertiary education
111 downloads
David Rohret, the founder of the Joint Vulnerability Assessment Branch (JVAB) pondered this difficult question. Since 2003, he had been involved in building a team that was uniquely positioned to identify a wide range of vulnerabilities in military and commercial communications and web-based systems. He could cite numerous examples of past situations where the early use of JVAB’s services led to, ...
cybersecurity, information systems
36 downloads
Jeffrey Stiles pondered these seemingly straightforward questions. As IT Director of Jagged Peak, Inc., a developer of e-commerce solutions located in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, it would be his responsibility to oversee the implementation of security measures that went beyond the existing user name and password currently required for each user. Recent events suggested that a move towards inc ...
cybersecurity, authentication, logistics
99 downloads
“Now what?” Ken pondered as he stared out the window on his flight back from Phoenix having just closed on the acquisition of a 20-unit restaurant company: The Good Egg. Ken Pendery, the CEO of the First Watch restaurant chain for the last 30 years, had just recently grown the company by 20% in one fell swoop. But what was he to do with these Arizona restaurants located more than 1,000 miles from ...
resturant, acquisition, branding, franchising
146 downloads
Justin Hurd, a regional manager for Marten Transport, Ltd. (Marten), hung up the phone feeling frustrated following a call with his Division VP. The mandate he received was simple--improve operational efficiencies and reduce operational costs. Justin saw his company do amazing things. He saw the company thrive by delivering loads quickly, efficiently and accurately to its customers. They always ma ...
Analytics, Case, Information Systems, Operations, Small Business, big data, logistics, operations, trucking
539 downloads
One night in 2014, Mike, the head manager of Mellow Mushroom Tampa, paused from his exhausting evening to stare at the paper schedule posted on the wall. The schedule was covered in a mess of writing from employees drawing arrows to swap shifts, or asking others to pick up shifts. He had always tried to accommodate people’s schedules, but the task was becoming stressful and exasperating. That nigh ...
Information Systems, Management, Small Business, franchise, restaurant, scheduling, service business
82 downloads
Grandon Gill, Professor and Academic Director of the Doctor of Business Administration program at the Muma College of Business (MCOB) of the University of South Florida, pondered the question. A few months before, he had volunteered to take on the creation of two open access journals, to be called the Muma Case Review (MCR) and the Muma Business Review (MBR). The first of these would publish busin ...
cybersecurity, open access
7 downloads
The sun set on another long day at the headquarters of ReliaQuest where Brian Murphy leaned back in his chair and exhaled deeply as he considered the cyber security breaches that had consumed the media in recent weeks. Retail giants like Target, Lowe’s and Home Depot had fallen victim to serious data breaches. He pondered how his company, ReliaQuest, could make a difference in a world saturated wi ...
cybersecurity
46 downloads
In this essay, I touch upon three themes. First, I discuss the field of higher education and my views on the scholarship that we are producing within the field. Second, I discuss higher education graduate education and what contributes to sound training of doctoral students. And third, I provide commentary on how I’d like to see the field move forward.
Higher education, doctoral students, activism, writing, postsecondary education, tertiary education
130 downloads
Ethics content within higher education graduate programs can help higher education students as emerging leaders become more thoughtful about the decision making process. The purpose of the present manuscript is to explore one vehicle through which current and future higher education leaders can actively contemplate their values and how their values influence their actions when faced with an ethica ...
Ethics, Graduate Education, Professional Programs, Leadership
189 downloads
Prior research exploring professional socialization in student affairs has been grounded in models that do not fully capture the distinct features of the field. Moreover, these studies have primarily focused on the transition into full-time work positions, and they have captured what happens to new professionals rather than how individuals understand their socialization experiences. With these g ...
Professional socialization, graduate students, graduate education, student affairs, new professionals
210 downloads
This quantitative descriptive study examined the job placement success and challenges of graduate students in a higher education and student affairs professional preparation program at a mid-size public institution in the U.S. Specifically, this study investigated the impact of curricular standards in the form of supervised practice (i.e., internships and graduate assistantships) on the job place ...
graduate students, professional preparation, job placement, student affairs, higher education administration
128 downloads
Book Review for Inaugural Series
Higher Education Administration, Inventory, Worldwide, Book Review
82 downloads
In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 agenda including sustainable development goals, for the first time addressing access to all levels of education. This essay has two aims. Firstly, it will illustrate why access to post-secondary education is emerging as a major global concern and provide examples of access gaps. The second is to describe a young global initiative for access to ...
Access, Access to Post-Secondary Education, Access to Higher Education, GAPS, Education Policy, Social Movement, Global Access to Higher Education, Widening Higher Education Access for Underrepresented Groups, Diversity & Inclusion in Higher Education
76 downloads
In her book, Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice, and Liberation, author, educator, and Fetzer Institute Fellowship alumnus Laura I. Rendón lays the framework and provides the rationalization for the need for higher education professionals to embrace and integrate the concepts of “wholeness, consonance, social justice, and liberation” in teaching and ...
JSPTE, postsecondary education, tertiary education, book review
103 downloads
Intercollegiate athletic departments are complex organizations in need of individuals with specialized training and experience—credentials that aspiring practitioners have increasingly sought through graduate education. Despite the growing prevalence of graduate credentials, little is known about the motivations or choice processes of those seeking an advanced degree. Focusing on individuals enrol ...
College choice, graduate students, graduate education, intercollegiate athletics, Social Cognitive Career Theory
87 downloads
Using Feminist Phase Theory (FPT) as our analytical framework, we studied the status of gender awareness and influence in higher education leadership development trends in four premier higher education journals for the years 2008, 2011, and 2014. Our analysis was accomplished through the review of articles and book reviews published in two US and two international journals: Higher Education (Nethe ...
Feminist Phase Theory, gender, higher education administration, higher education leadership, leadership
123 downloads
Calvin T. Jones, DMD slammed the door to his office, walked to his desk, and glared at the diplomas on his wall. UNC at Chapel Hill (Magna Cum Laude), University of Florida (Doctor of Dentistry), all those awards for service and achievement. So perfect, and yet he thought.....how could my career have fallen into total chaos? As Calvin reached for his bottle of Tums, he reflected on the events t ...
partner dispute, conflict resolution, employee loyalty, equity opportunity
6 downloads
Mark Hulse, Chief Information Officer at Moffitt Cancer Center wondered out loud as he stared at the results of the survey used to determine organizational readiness for change. Much about this implementation seemed to be different from his prior experiences: the academic setting, the physician led leadership structure, the regulatory requirements driving change, and the government incentives to r ...
Information Systems, Non Profit, emr, implementation, medicine, project management
5 downloads
This research examines contingent faculty’s perception of organizational support, workplace attitudes, and Student Ratings of Teaching (SRT) in a large public research university to investigate their employee-organization relationship. According to t-tests and regression analyses for samples of 2,229 faculty and instructional staff who answered the survey and had SRT data (tenured and tenure-track ...
contingent faculty, public research university, employee-organization relationship, perceived organizational support, workplace attitudes, student ratings of teaching
91 downloads
Chris Milan, Managing Director of Southeastern Region at Tribridge, Inc., was drumming away at the annual “Connect” conference with the company band called “The Bridge.” He enjoyed seeing everyone dancing, laughing, and jamming out to the music and making new friends with coworkers. Tribridge had quickly grown over fifteen years to more than 600 employees with most deployed to customer sites aroun ...
Analytics, Information Systems, Small Business, big data, enterprise social networks, social networking
9 downloads
Shane Collier, founder of Consolidated Reality, LLC (CReal) considered this proposition as he contemplated a potential venture with Beyond the Psy (BtP) which involved moving high-value, sensitive content to the cloud. With an extensive technical and business background, he grew to appreciate the value of cloud computing, along with its impact on business. To be leveraged correctly, you had to do ...
cybersecurity, cloud, small business
3 downloads
Gilbert Gonzalez, founder and CEO of Mission Critical Solutions (MCS), was reflecting on the path forward for his company. MCS maintained and updated a five-year strategic plan each year since its inception in 1990. In the early years, the strategic plan focused on the key strategic factors (KSFs) and resulted in a narrow mission. Year after year, that focus on the KSFs was rewarded by the market. ...
Information Systems, Management, Small Business
10 downloads
Alex Campoe, Director for Information Security at the University of South Florida, had just come out from a meeting with the CIO of the University, and this thought summed up the CIO’s opinion. While Alex had heard of the term cyber insurance, this was the first time he had actually been compelled to think seriously about it. Until now, he had not considered the possibility that he might actually ...
cybersecurity, insurance
7 downloads
Many higher education administrators and researchers have considered certain “good practices” of institutions as an instrumental way to improve student outcomes. Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) seven principles of good practice has been particularly salient in defining these practices. Often, prior studies only select some of the seven principles for their analysis. Even studies that consider sever ...
good practices, learning outcomes, student experiences, liberal arts colleges, liberal arts education, Wabash National Study
94 downloads
Book Review
Academic Leadership, Book Review
116 downloads
Technology permeates higher education, yet less is known about the use of established technologies, such as email and other electronic communication mediums (e.g., discussion boards, listservs) for instructional purposes on important student outcomes such as cognitive development. In this study, we use data from the Wabash National Study to estimate the effects of email and other electronic mediu ...
Effective college teaching, pedagogy, technology, cognitive development, critical thinking
150 downloads
Although internationalization is often touted as a priority in higher education, little attention is given to infusing international perspectives into the formalities of doctoral education. Further, limited attention is given towards doctoral student training for conducting international research. This qualitative study provides insight on how 21 U.S. doctoral students in higher education programs ...
Doctoral preparation, international higher education, researcher development, international research, graduate education
144 downloads
In this duoethnography, we interrogate our roles as critical pedagogues in designing and teaching a graduate level course focused on the history of U.S. higher education. Throughout this dialogue, we surface tensions around what it means to enact critical pedagogy. Rather than just espousing a critical stance, we wrestle with how external pressures such as limited time, the need and desire to con ...
Critical pedagogy, history of higher education, graduate education
168 downloads
The academic department remains understudied as a context of faculty work, particularly in institutional settings beyond the research university. In this article, we report findings from a study of faculty experiences within academic departments in liberal arts colleges, through analysis of interviews with 55 faculty members representing a 13-member consortium of liberal arts institutions in the m ...
liberal arts colleges, academic departments, faculty careers, professoriate
47 downloads
This paper explains the development of a system of academic ranking across the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) colleges and universities. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHE) at KRG has embarked on a project to develop a system for ranking the universities under their jurisdiction. The MHE wanted their ranking system to be modeled on other established university ranki ...
Academic Ranking System, Kurdistan Academic Ranking System, Kurdistan University Ranking
81 downloads
The expanding role of English as an international lingua franca has had considerable effects on higher education (HE) provision around the world. English has become the medium of choice for African HE, and its position as a medium of instruction in the Europe and Asia is strengthening (Coleman, 2006; HU, 2009). English-medium tertiary education is also commonplace in the Middle East including the ...
IT Education, English-medium university courses, English-medium teaching in higher education, multilingual language policy, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), STEM courses, English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
32 downloads
Marketing communication agencies are in the business of branding other companies. In the current media landscape, ad agencies need to demonstrate their communication expertise through the Internet including their homepages. This pilot study collected data and user impressions on the websites of 42 randomly selected small advertising agencies. Companies with 10 or fewer employees were of specific i ...
branding, branding elements, corporate image, credibility, digital branding, differentiation, message clarity, small advertising agencies, unique selling personality, unique selling proposition, USP
30 downloads
In this paper I examine both philosophical and operational aspects of cultivating a peer review of teaching process that embraces online learning as an integral, unique part of university teaching and learning endeavors. Reflecting on my own experiences as both a candidate and reviewer, my analysis seeks to disrupts presumptions about observation, interaction, teaching and assessment, which are ex ...
online learning, peer review, evaluation of teaching, quality
24 downloads
We develop a two-stage model for identifying IT system modules with high security risks. In the first phase, we identify the subsystems that pose the highest risk and which require further investigation. In the next phase, we identify the high-security-risk modules using a more detailed approach. The output of this model helps managers decide on how to invest efficiently in improving the security ...
Information security, risk management, academic institutions, composite risk factor, information technology systems
23 downloads
Many organisations around the world are beginning to move towards a position of increased diversity in their numbers. There are many ways to look at the issue and achieve satisfactory outcomes. This paper explores an approach which offers strong advantages and benefits for the functional integration of minority groups. Operating on the theoretical principles of Diversity Acceptance and Organisatio ...
Diversity, Inclusion, Volunteering
22 downloads
In this study we combine an immersive learning environment, an evidence based management method and the knowledge management SECI mindset to investigate students’ learning from scientific journal articles. The study entailed the use of a web-based peer to peer system (P2PS) that, gives an identified subject matter, engages students in extracting knowledge from a source, processes that knowledge t ...
Evidence Based Management, Immersive Learning, Information Technology, Learning Models, Educational Evolution
36 downloads
This contribution identifies challenges in information literacy didactics in contemporary higher education all over the world:
• Heterogeneity among organizations for higher education hinders co-operation.
• Information literacy is competing with media literacy.
• Leadership and responsibility are needed in information literacy education.
• Developing information literacy training materials re ...
Information literacy, didactics, information centers, co-operation, Internet, higher education
33 downloads
This study proposes the use of case study in teaching an undergraduate course of Introduction to Business Information Systems Development in class, based on the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. According to the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills, it includes six levels which are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and creation. The lower level of skill is required to be ...
Incremental Learning, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, Case-based Learning, Cognitive Skill
367 downloads
In this study, we adapted the agile approach to teaching. Students took an idea from inception, through the first and second agile project management iterations, and incorporated feedback from their classmates in between. The goal was to demonstrate through a flexible process how products/services can be improved. We started with the practice and followed up with the theory. The results and metric ...
Agile, Project Management, Teaching, Informing
54 downloads
Knowledge Management (KM) is governed by an ill-structured mishmash of complementing as well as conflicting interdisciplinary methodologies and based on physical and social technologies, which too often struggle to achieve their stakeholders’ objectives due to diverse scholarly contributions, repetitive polemic discourses, and misguided organizational KM system generations.
A novel Personal Know ...
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Design Science Research (DSR), Informing Science (IS), Popper’s Three Worlds, Knowledge Worker, Organizational Knowledge Man-agement (OKM), Human Capital, Capacity Development, Lifelong learning, Memes, Memex, Knowcations
34 downloads
The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain a central property of modern technology that makes it an important potential contributor to human extinction. This view may seem strange to those who regard technology as an instrument of human growth. After discussing modern technology and two important candidates for extinction, other technological candidates for serious contribution to huma ...
technology, classical technology, modern technology, information technology, gradual extinction, sudden extinction
53 downloads
The flipped classroom is one of the recent innovations applied in teaching science concepts to nursing students. It is thought that a more engaging and meaningful learning environment is created, but how exactly this is achieved in flipped classroom is unclear.
The aims of this paper are to describe how a flipped classroom was effectively created for beginning off-campus nursing students studyin ...
Flipped classroom, Off-campus, Nursing students, Teaching sciences
55 downloads
The free flow of unfiltered information, as facilitated by current IT, poses great challenges for a conservative community that strives to retain its members, and especially its youngsters, within a traditional lifestyle. The study explores the ways by which the Israeli ultra-orthodox community, a conservative minority one, upholding a unique subculture, copes with the challenges of unrestricted i ...
ultra-orthodox community, Israel, information flow, barriers, conservative societies, Internet filtering
10 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning.]
Soft skills are becoming increasingly important and will be critical for success in the Information Systems profession. Employers complain about a lack in soft skills among graduates from tertiary education institutions. No agreement exists about what these skills actually are ...
soft skills, higher education, information technology, industry
46 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] The authors present the results of a study conducted at a comprehensive, urban, coeducational, land-grant university. A causal-comparative design was chosen for this study to compare student performance in two different classroom environments, traditional versus flipped. The study ...
flipped classroom, instructional videos, podcasts, student performance, traditional lecture, video-taped lectures
49 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] The study involved student teachers enrolled in early childhood teaching at a teacher training institute in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Seventy-four students participated in flipped classroom activities during their first semester of study. Students were told to learn fr ...
flipped classroom, generic skills, online videos, photo editing, student teacher
16 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
The impact that mobile web-enabled devices have had on the lives and behavior of university students has been immense. Yet, many of the models used in the classrooms have remained unchanged. Although a traditional research approach of examining the literature, developing a methodol ...
Mobile web-enabled devices, Usage, Impact, University Students, Social Network Systems (SNS).
12 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
This paper reports on the educational aspects of an information systems work-integrated learning (WIL) capstone project for an organization which operates to alleviate homelessness in the Australian non-profit sector. The methodology adopted for the study is Action Design Research ( ...
Work-integrated learning, workplace learning, non-profit, reflection, engagement, IT
10 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - is a test with the aim to distinguish between malicious automatic software and real users in the era of Cyber security threats. Various types of CAPTCHA tests were developed, in order to address a ...
CAPTCHA, Cyber Security, User Experience
23 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
The most common course delivery model is based on teacher (knowledge provider) - student (knowledge receiver) relationship. The most visible symptom of this situation is over-reliance on textbook’s tutorials. This traditional model of delivery reduces teacher flexibility, causes lac ...
Simulation Software, Office Simulation Software, eBook and Simulation Software
21 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
This longitudinal, quasi-experimental study investigated students’ cognitive personality type using the Myers-Briggs personality Type Indicator (MBTI) in Internet-based Online and Face-to-Face (F2F) modalities. A total of 1154 students enrolled in 28 Online and 32 F2F sections tau ...
Online learning, Distance Education, Face to face (F2F), Myers Briggs (MBTI), Longi-tudinal, Learning Style.
36 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
One of the key attempts towards a collective African vision is the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Barnard and Vonk (2003) report that “53 countries have been urged to implement ICTs in three crucial development arenas: education, health and trade”. While N ...
Economic upliftment, Social development, Digital astuteness, Rural areas
19 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
Agile global software development (AGSD) is an increasing prevalent software development strategy, as organisations hope to realise the benefits of accessing a larger resource pool of skilled labour, at a potentially reduced cost, while at the same time delivering value incremental- ...
Cloud Computing, Agile Software Development, Agile Global Software Development, Agile Principles, Scrum
21 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
This paper presents a validation research of seven Digital Learning Domains (DLDs) and sixty-five performance statements (PSs) as perceived by students with experience in learning via ICT. The preliminary findings suggest a statistical firmness of the inventory. The seven DLDs ident ...
Digital Learning Literacies, 21st Century Skills, Learning Skills
63 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
Project work forms a large part in work undertaken by graduates when they enter the workforce, so projects are used in higher education to prepare students for their working lives and to enable students to apply creativity in their studies as they present a solution to a problem, us ...
Team project, employability, transferable skills, external client
11 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
The field of business intelligence (BI), despite rapid technology advances, continues to feature inadequate levels of adoption. The attention of researchers is shifting towards hu-man factors of BI adoption. The wide set of human factors influencing BI adoption con-tains elements of ...
business intelligence, business intelligence adoption, business intelligence culture
17 downloads
[This paper is published in the Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, Volume 15.]
This paper explores and analyses similarities and differences in ICT curricula, policies, and assessment between the Vietnamese and Australian educational systems for the final years of secondary educational level. It was found that while having a common core set of tendencies, the Australian ICT cu ...
ICT education, comparative studies in ICT education, ICT curriculum, ICT policies
15 downloads
[This paper is published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, Volume 11.]
This paper reports on research with a broad objective to examine the relationship between two organizational entities, the formally structured organization and informal organizational structures, in a changing operational environment, more specifically during military deployments. Th ...
organizational studies, formal and informal organizational structures – symbiotic re-lationship, organizational adaptation, organizational agility, organizations and institutions, complexity, frameworks, case studies.
15 downloads
[This paper is published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 19.]
As the complexity of a system grows, the challenge of informing the stakeholders of that system grows correspondingly. Nowhere is that challenge more daunting than in business education, where globalization, technological innovation, and increasingly complicated regulations conti ...
informing science, informing system, internships, externships, business education, case studies, research, channel, complexity, rugged landscape, business school, impact
13 downloads
[This paper is published in the Journal of Information Technology Education: Discussion Cases, Volume 5]
The investment decision was made last year, and after a time-consuming selection process and intensive negotiations, the contract with the general contractor was signed. The business segment Fixing systems of the fischer group of companies faced a significant investment in its logistics – th ...
change management, communication concept, order picking technology, warehouse logistics
12 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
The paper reviewed the emerging roles of the 21st century librarians, charged with the responsibility to manage repository services across libraries in present-day information technology environment. Librarians need to be trained and empowered with requisite skills and knowledge n ...
Repository services, Academic libraries, Emerging trends, Role of librarians, Developing countries
26 downloads
The transition from printed to electronic sources of information has resulted in a profound change to the way procurement officers seek information. Furthermore, in the past decade there have been additional technological revolutions that are expected to further affect the procurement process. In this paper, we conduct a survey among forty nine university procurement officers in Israel to examine ...
Public procurement, information seeking behavior, notebooks, smartphones, tablets, information sources
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Group work can provide a valuable learning experience, one that is especially relevant for those preparing to enter the information system workforce. While much has been discussed about effective means of delivering the benefits of collaborative learning in groups, there are some problems that arise due to pragmatic environmental factors such as the part time work commitments of students. This stu ...
action research, group work problems
10 downloads
Many degree courses at technical universities include the subject of control systems engineering. As an addition to conventional approaches Fuzzy Control can be used to easily find control solutions for systems, even if they include nonlinearities. To support further educational training, models which represent a technical system to be controlled are required. These models have to represent the sy ...
Fuzzy Control, FHFCE-Tool, Teaching Models, FC-Debugging, FC-Tracing
10 downloads
This paper describes the employment of a Personal Response System (PRS) during a Decision Analysis course for Management Information Systems (MIS) students. The description shows how the carefully designed PRS-based questions, the delivery, and the follow-up discussions; provided a context for eliciting and exercising central concepts of the course topics as well as central skills required for MIS ...
Personal Response Systems, Clickers, Quantitative methods for decision analysis, Decision Trees, Modeling
9 downloads
Many higher education institutions are moving towards blended learning environments that seek to move towards a student-centred ethos, where students are stakeholders in the learning process. This often involves multi-modal learner-support technologies capable of operating in a range of time and place settings. This article considers the impact of an Audience Response System (ARS) upon the ongoing ...
Blended learning, audience response systems, information systems professionals, ethics
13 downloads
The following definition of “option” is given in Wikipedia - “In finance, an option is a contract which gives the buyer (the owner or holder) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on or before a specified date, depending on the form of the option.”. Option as a risk management (mitigation) tool is broadly used in finance and ...
warranty of malfunctioning, warranty of misinforming, options, asymmetry, utility, risk of misinforming
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The Open Software movement serves as a landmark and a starting point for many “open-something” initiatives, such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). However, under a pragmatic point-of-view, many of its basic principles are not considered specially when dealing with the above mentioned initiatives: common, industry-standard OER and MOOC lack a considerable s ...
Open Educational Resources, Massive Online Open Courses, 5R Principles, Open Licenses, Open Standards
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The number of online resources available for teaching and learning in higher education has been growing enormously during the last decade. A recent development is the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and of Open Educational Resources (OER). The result is a huge number of videos that are available on line. Can these videos enrich learning? As a pilot study we added sixteen videos to ...
Distance Education, Video, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Online Resources, Podcasts, Human-Computer Interaction
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) encompassing computer and network hardware and software, and so on, as well as various services and applications associated with them, are assuming a growing presence within the modern homestead and have an indelible impact on the professional and everyday life of people. This research aims to explore factors influencing the successful adoption and ...
ICTs, households, ICT adoption, ICT usage, success factors, Poland
12 downloads
The main aim of this paper is to provide a theoretically and empirically grounded discussion on IT-based organizational creativity support. This study attempts to answer the following questions: (1) what is the issue of organizational creativity and its IT-based support, (2) what is the demand for IT –based organizational creativity support; (3) what are the main determinants and barriers to IT-ba ...
Organizational creativity, IT-based organizational creativity support, success factors
15 downloads
This study investigates the skill sets necessary for entry level systems analysts. Towards this end, the study combines two sources of data, namely, a content analysis of 200 systems analysts’ online job advertisements and a survey of 20 senior Information Systems (IS) professionals. Based on Chi-square tests, the results reveal that most employers prefer entry level systems analysts with an under ...
System Analysts, Information Systems, Education, Skills, Content Analysis, Empirical Study
23 downloads
The global Business Intelligence (BI) market grew by 10% in 2013 according to the Gartner Report. BI has been the top implementation priority for organizations for many years now. Today organizations require better use of data and analytics to support their business decisions. Internet power and business trend changes have provided a broad term - Big Data. To be able to handle it and leverage a va ...
Agile methods, Business Intelligence, efficiency, end-users needs, advanced analytics, sprint, and iteration
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Non-expert scientists are frequently involved in research requiring data acquisition over large geographic areas. Despite mutual benefits for such “citizen science”, barriers also exist, including 1) difficulty maintaining user engagement with timely feedback, and 2) the challenge of providing non-experts with the means to generate reliable data. We have developed a system that addresses these bar ...
Citizen Science, Cell-phone Spectrometer, Water Contaminant Analysis, Web and Mobile Development, Visualization
15 downloads
In the fast changing global economic landscape, the cultivation of sustainable entrepreneurial ventures is seen as a vital mechanism that will enable businesses to introduce new innovative products to the market faster and more effectively than their competitors.
This research paper investigated phenomena that may play a significant role when entrepreneurs implement creative ideas resulting in s ...
entrepreneurial start-ups, partnerships, education, idea generation, innovation, design thinking, common features for the foundation of a successful company
43 downloads
Table of Contents
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The impact that Facebook and Twitter usage has on the creation and maintenance of university student’s cognitive social capital was investigated on students in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Facebook and Twitter were selected as part of the research context because both are popular online social network systems (SNSs), and few studies were found that investigated the impact that both F ...
Facebook, Twitter, Cognitive Social Capital, Bridging Social Capital, Bonding Social Capital, Maintained Social Capital, Usage, University Students
359 downloads
This paper identifies areas in the design science research (DSR) subfield of the information systems (IS) discipline where a more detailed consideration of practitioner audiences of socio-technical design artifacts could improve current IS DSR research practice and proposes an initial conceptualization of these audiences. The consequences of not considering artifact audiences are identified throug ...
design science, informing science, artifacts, artifact audiences, relevance, fitness, utility
FEATURED
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This paper discusses applications of the measures of the risk of misinforming and the role of the warranty of misinforming in the context of the informing component of Customer Related Management (CRM) issues. This study consists of two parts. Firstly, we propose an approach for customers’ grouping based on their attitude toward assessing product's properties and their expertise on the terminology ...
measures of the risk of misinforming, warranty of misinforming, customer related management, customer’s purchase attitude, customers expertize
102 downloads
The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) event, organized by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), is conducted 3-4 times a year at various locations. The four day event can be characterized as an informing system specifically designed to facilitate structured and unstructured communications between a variety of parties—e.g., software developers, inventors, military and civilian users of ...
JIFX, informing system, complexity, disaster management, ad hoc experimentation, collaboration, military
85 downloads
Technology has transformed education, perhaps most evidently in course delivery options. However, compelling questions remain about how technology impacts learning. Adaptive learning tools are technology-based artifacts that interact with learners and vary presentation based upon that interaction. This paper compares adaptive learning with a conventional teaching approach implemented in a digital ...
Adaptive learning, adaptive learning system, personalized learning systems, iron triangle, informing science
553 downloads
In today’s knowledge environment, individuals and groups who gather relevant information about the organization’s external environment and distribute that information for use by their colleagues receive increasing attention and are viewed with great importance. These individuals have been named Information Gatekeepers. Thus far, researchers have not established a unanimous and interdisciplinary de ...
Information environment, gatekeeper, organizational knowledge, organizational learning
186 downloads
The paper introduces a novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) concept and prototype system. The system’s objective is to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of individuals throughout their academic and professional life and as contributors and beneficiaries of organizational and societal performance. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeh ...
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Organizational Knowledge Management (OKM), PKM for Development (PKM4D), Informing Science Framework, Human Capital, Capacity Development, Lifelong learning, Memes, Memex, Knowcations, Disruptive Innovations, Kuhn’s Scientific Revolutions
152 downloads
The purpose of this investigation is to define the central contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the Virtual Civilization’s elements of development and their interdependency. Among the findings are: Virtual Civilization has infrastructural characteristics, a wo ...
Informing systems, Informing science, Information Wave, Virtual Wave, Civilization, Global Civilization, Virtual Civilization, Virtuality, Cyberspace, Cognitive space, e-Nation
176 downloads
Understanding of social network structure and user behavior has important implications for site design, applications (e.g., ad placement policies), accurate modeling for social studies, and design of next-generation infrastructure and content distribution systems. Currently, characterizations of social networks have been dominated by topological studies in which graph representations are analyzed ...
Social network, network structure, user behaviors, node interior, conceptual representation
120 downloads
Tensions are a ubiquitous feature of social life and are manifested in a number of particular forms: contradictory logics, competing demands, clashes of ideas, contradictions, dialectics, irony, paradoxes, and/or dilemmas. This essay aims to explore in detail tensions surrounding seven common findings of the information seeking literature relating to: interpersonal communication, accessibility, le ...
Human information behavior; health information seeking; tensions; paradoxes, dilemmas
126 downloads
The purpose of this investigation is to define the architecture of computer informing systems. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary, big-picture view of the cognition units which provide the foundation for informing systems. Among the findings are the following: informing systems should be designed for rigor and relevance with respect to the cognitive units (information), integrating ...
cognition units, informing systems, information systems, information rigor, information relevance, informing resonance, resonant change, informing purpose, reasoning richness, informing quality, informing security, informing space, wise civilization, cognitive space, real space, cyberspace, data, information, concept, knowledge, wisdom, information perspective, information image
78 downloads
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An online Moodle Workshop was evaluated for peer assessment effectiveness. A quasi-experiment was designed using a Seminar in Professionalism course taught in face-to-face mode to undergraduate students across two campuses. The first goal was to determine if Moodle Workshop awarded a fair peer grader grade. The second objective was to estimate if students were consistent and reliable in performing ...
Moodle Workshop, learning management system, peer assessment, reliability
350 downloads
Distance education learning environments provide tremendous convenience and flexibility, allowing busy, mobile adult learners to engage in education while coping with their limited resources in terms of time, energy and finances. Following a student-centered approach this study investigates adult students’ subjective perceptions while using distance education systems based on a videoconferencing p ...
Quality of Experience, adult students, distance education, lifelong learning, videoconferencing, structural equation modeling
521 downloads
Electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) have a positive impact on the learning process in a broad range of educational sectors and on learners of all ages. Yet because most e-portfolio-related studies are about their implementation in higher education, this type of research is less usual in the early childhood context, and there is no available research for Greek schools. This study aims to investiga ...
e-portfolio, Greek primary school, learning, PowerPoint, qualitative method
921 downloads
There is a pressing need for an evaluation rubric that examines all aspects of educational apps designed for instructional purposes. In past decades, many rubrics have been developed for evaluating educational computer-based programs; however, rubrics designed for evaluating the instructional implications of educational apps are scarce. When an Internet search for existing rubrics was conducted, o ...
evaluation rubric, tablet technology, instructional apps, tablet devices, apps, public education, blended learning
1659 downloads
The ways people connect, interact, share, and communicate have changed due to recent developments in information technology. These developments, categorized as social media, have captured the attention of business executives, technologists, and education professionals alike, and have altered many business models. Additionally, the concept of social media impacts numerous sub-disciplines within bus ...
social media, teaching, higher education, business education, course development
732 downloads
The efforts of educators in the last three decades have, among other things, focused on the use of information technology (IT) in education. It has become commonplace to view information systems both as an effective carrier of course content as well as a cost-effective tool to improve student learning outcomes. One of such technologies is the e-book. Decision-makers in the education field need mak ...
technology acceptance model, instructional technology, e-book, IT education, technology innovativeness, technology exposure, e-book adoption, e-textbook acceptance
641 downloads
This research study explores peer teaching and learning without a domain expert teacher, within the context of an activity where teams of second level students (~16 years old) are required to create a learning experience for their peers. The study looks at how participants would like to be taught and how they would teach their peers if given the opportunity and examines the support they require, t ...
Collaborative Learning, Technology, Teamwork, Peer learning, Peer teaching, Project-based, Bridge21
326 downloads
Universities have experienced increases in technology ownership and usage amongst students entering undergraduate programs. Almost all students report owning a mobile phone and many students view laptops and tablets as educational tools, though they also report using them for non-academic activities during lectures. We explored the relationship between student course engagement and the use of smar ...
pedagogical issues; post-secondary education; improving classroom teaching; media in education; interactive learning environments; laptops; smartphones; cell phones; tablets; student course engagement; unstructured mobile device use
871 downloads
As both the frequency and the severity of network breaches have increased in recent years, it is essential that cybersecurity is incorporated into the core of business operations. Evidence from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012) indicates that there is, and will continue to be, a severe shortage of cybersecurity professionals nationwide throughout the next decad ...
Cybersecurity, Curriculum Development, Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, Computer Networking
573 downloads
Technology training in the classroom is critical in preparing students for upper level classes as well as professional careers, especially in fields such as technology. One of the key enablers to this process is computer self-efficacy (CSE), which has an extensive stream of empirical research. Despite this, one of the missing pieces is how CSE actually changes during training, and how such change ...
Computer self-efficacy, general computer self-efficacy, technology training, computer anxiety, gender, latent growth modeling
241 downloads
Technology skills are assumed to be a necessity for college and career success, but technology is constantly evolving. Thus, development of students’ technology skills is an on-going and persistent issue. Standards from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the International Society for Technology in Education encourage educators to teach skills that help students adapt to changing working e ...
Educational technology, gifted, qualitative study, elementary education
879 downloads
The present study is a post-hoc analysis of data automatically recorded by an online teaching platform in a graduate course in research methods. The course is part of a sequence that is delivered completely online in a program preparing students to become Board Certified Behavior Analysts. Data analyzed included frequency of access to video lectures and PowerPoint slides (PPTs) across each week ...
online class, video lecture, PowerPoint, student outcomes, student choice
346 downloads
The purpose of this study was to examine factors predicting lower secondary school students’ digital competence and to explore differences between students when it comes to digital competence. Results from a digital competence test and survey in lower secondary school will be presented. It is important to learn more about and investigate what characterizes students’ digital competence. A sample of ...
digital competence, structural equation modelling, family background, mastery orientation, average grades, lower secondary school
954 downloads
New web technologies have enabled online education to take on a massive scale, prompting many universities to create massively open online courses (MOOCs) that take advantage of these technologies in a seemingly effortless manner. Designing a MOOC, however, is anything but trivial. It involves developing content, learning activities, and assessments to accommodate both the massiveness and openne ...
Online education, theory development, instructional design, MOOC, case study
791 downloads
Digital technologies are increasingly implemented in Swedish schools, which impact on education in the contemporary classroom. Screen-based practice opens up for new forms and multiplicity of representations, taking into account that language in a globalized society is more than reading and writing skills.
This paper presents a case study of technology-mediated instruction at the primary-school l ...
Multimodality, digital resources, available designs, primary education, collaboration
851 downloads
As mobile devices become prevalent, there is always a need for apps. How hard is it to develop an app especially a cross-platform app? The paper shares an experience in a project involved the development of a student services web app that can be run on cross-platform mobile devices. The paper first describes the background of the project, the clients, and the proposed solution. Then, it focuses ...
Web-app, mobile-friendly web app, open-source software, web database, cross platform app, HTML5, PHP, CSS, JavaScript
290 downloads
Previous studies indicated that the technology integration practices of teachers in the classroom often did not match their teaching styles. Researchers concluded that this was due, at least partially, to external barriers that prevented teachers from using technology in ways that matched their practiced teaching style. Many of these barriers, such as professional support and access to hardware an ...
technology use, technology integration, in-service teacher, professional development
1045 downloads
Teaching advanced programming can be a challenge, especially when the students are pursuing different majors with diverse analytical and problem-solving capabilities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the efficacy of using a particular problem as a vehicle for imparting a broad set of programming concepts and problem-solving techniques. We present a classic brain teaser that is used to commu ...
Information technology education, object-oriented programming, software engineering, design techniques, algorithm complexity
155 downloads
This paper provides an in-depth analysis into two case studies aimed at addressing the digital divide in two developing countries. A detailed description is provided for each case study along with an analysis of how successful the two projects were at addressing the digital divide in Siyabuswa, South Africa and Ennis, Ireland. The two case studies were both community-based ICT projects in rural ar ...
digital inclusion projects, digital divide, digital empowerment, scalability, Information Age Town, Siyabuswa Educational Improvement and Development Trust Project
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A capstone course is normally offered at the end of a program of study with the goal of helping students synthesize what they have learned in the courses preceding it. The paper describes such a course—an undergraduate capstone course for MIS majors—that was built around case discussions and projects and originally offered in a face-to-face format. Over the course of the study, an asynchronous onl ...
Information systems, capstone, case pedagogy, distance learning, online learning, evaluation, IS curriculum, critical thinking, education
207 downloads
Many parents, educators, and policy makers see great potential for leveraging tools like laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones in the classrooms of the world. Although increasing students’ technology access may be associated with increased student achievement, there is little research directly investigating objective measures of student achievement. This study addresses the short-term and lon ...
tablet computers, iPads, early education, Kindergarten, student achievement, randomized control trial, early literacy, 1:1 computing
1063 downloads
The use of blended learning is well suited for classes that involve a high level of experiential inquiry such as internship courses. These courses allow students to combine applied, face-to-face fieldwork activities with a reflective academic component delivered online. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to describe the pedagogical design and implementation of a pilot blended learning for ...
blended learning, internship, Communication, assessment, community
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This paper describes the flipped classroom approach followed in two second year Information Systems courses. The various techniques employed through this approach are described. These techniques were underpinned by a theory of coherent practice, which is a pedagogy that provides a framework for the design of highly structured interventions to guide students in their learning experiences. The paper ...
Flipped Classroom Approach, Inverted Classroom, Active Learning, Teaching & Learning, Problem-Solving
330 downloads
In this paper we discuss the use of automated assessment in a variety of computer science courses that have been taught at Israel Academic College by the authors. The course assignments were assessed entirely automatically using Checkpoint, a web-based automated assessment framework. The assignments all used free-text questions (where the students type in their own answers). Students were allowed ...
automated assessment, self-paced learning, ‘little and often’ assessment, feedback, multiple attempts, plagiarism, survey analysis
147 downloads
There is a dearth of research into teaching strategies and learning approaches for units involving sensitive topics that can provoke an emotional response in students. In a business ethics unit, attempts to strike a balance between conceptual knowledge and theory and skills training can be challenging because the unit can involve personal, sensitive or controversial topics. When engaging in deep ...
Sensitive topics, student participation, student engagement, online role play, simulation, anonymity.
244 downloads
While many institutions provide centralized technology support for faculty, there is a lack of centralized professional development opportunities that focus on simultaneously developing instructors’ technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) in higher education. Additionally, there are few professional development opportunities for faculty that continue throughout the practice of te ...
professional development, higher education, technology integration, TPACK
540 downloads
E-learning is an important trend globally that is believed to enhance the acquisition of knowledge by students within and outside the classroom to improve their academic pursuit. The Online Discussion Forum (ODF) is one of the tools that are used for e-learning in Nigerian universities. It facilitates interaction among postgraduate students as they can communicate and share information sources wit ...
Online discussion forum, E-learning, TAM 3, Postgraduate students, Nigeria
280 downloads
Texting, or text messaging, refers to the use of mobile phones to type and send brief, electronic messages over a telephone network. Because such messages are limited to 160 characters and are typed on a small phone keypad, texters tend to employ a great many abbreviations in conveying their messages. This has led to widespread spelling adaptations, for example, “BRB” (be right back), “LOL” (laugh ...
texting, mobile phones, literacy, teachers
533 downloads
In an educational setting, the use of online learning tools impacts student performance. Motivation and beliefs play an important role in predicting student decisions to use these learning tools. However, IT-personality entailing playfulness on the web, perceived personal innovativeness, and enjoyment may have an impact on motivations. In this study, we investigate the influence of IT-personality ...
Online, learning, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, playfulness on web, enjoyment, personal innovativeness
244 downloads
This paper investigates students’ assessment of on-line vs face-to-face delivery of lecture-based information technology courses. The study used end-of-course surveys to examine students’ ratings of five course quality indicators: Course Organization, Assessment and Grading Procedures, Instructor Performance, Positive Learning Experience, and Perceived Success. The study analyzed five semesters of ...
Information technology, curriculum, online vs face-to-face, students’ assessment, students’ success factors
344 downloads
This study was designed to investigate the effects of two instructional approaches (4C-ID versus conventional) on learners’ knowledge-acquisition and learning transfer of the electrical circuits content in Physics. Participants were 129 9th graders from a secondary school in Lisbon, M = 14.3 years, SD = 0.54. The participants were divided in two groups: an experimental group constituted three inta ...
4C-ID model, complex learning, electrical circuits, learning tasks, learning transfer
344 downloads
This article investigates students’ perceptions of the relationship between Problem-Solving and the activities and resources used in a Web-based course on the fundamentals of Information Technology at a university in Montreal, Canada. We assess for the different learning components of the course, the extent of perceived problem-solving skills acquisition including research, creativity and critical ...
critical thinking skills, information technology, problem-solving, web-based learning
FEATURED
433 downloads
Research demonstrates the positive impact of parental involvement on students, families and schools. Studies also indicate a close connection between effective school-home communication and increased parental involvement and engagement in learning. Effective selection and use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) invites more effective school-home communication, increasing parental invol ...
Diffusion, ICT, parent/school communication, communication efficacy
550 downloads
There is no questioning that the way people live, interact, communicate, and conduct business is undergoing a profound, rapid change. This change is often referred to as the “digital revolution,” which is the advancement of technology from analog, electronic and mechanical tools to the digital tools available today. Moreover, technology has begun to change education, affecting how students acquire ...
K-12, digital learning, devices, one-to-one, technology, literature review
1766 downloads
Although most universities and educators are relying on implementing various technological tools in the curriculum, acceptance of such tools among students is still not sufficient. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been widely used by researchers to test user’s acceptance of technology in business, education and other domains. This research study is an attempt that tests the integration of ...
TAM, MyMathLab, university, students, math, self-satisfaction
252 downloads
This study was undertaken to design, evaluate and refine an eBook-feature that supports students’ decoding of unfamiliar text. The feature supports students’ independent reading of eBooks with text-to-speech, graded support in the form of syllabification and rhyme analogy, and by dividing the word material into different categories based on the frequency and regularity of the word or its constitue ...
eBooks, scaffolding, text-to-speech, literacy acquisition, decoding, connectionism, Design-Based Research
111 downloads
Internship courses, unlike others, are multi-pronged because they require coordination at different levels. Typically, a faculty member coordinates the communication and implementation at each level to achieve the desired outcomes. We call the position that this faculty holds the “internship coordinator”. For the work of the internship coordinator to be successful, he/she may need to synchronize t ...
Internship program, internship courses, internship at computer science programs
91 downloads
This paper compares the effect of social isolation on students enrolled in online courses versus students enrolled in on campus courses (called in this paper Face-to-Face or F2F). Grade data was collected from one online section and two F2F sections of a computer literacy course that was recently taught by one of the authors of this study. The same instructor taught all sections thereby providing ...
Online course withdrawal, social isolation in online courses, attrition in online courses
517 downloads
An algorithm learning tool was developed for an introductory computer science class in a specialized science and technology high school in Japan. The tool presents lessons and simple visualizations that aim to facilitate teaching and learning of fundamental algorithms. Written tests and an evaluation questionnaire were designed and implemented along with the learning tool among the participants. T ...
K12-Computer Science Education, Fundamental Algorithms, Algorithm Visualization, Learning Tool Evaluation, Questionnaire Validation
91 downloads
This paper will shed light on the lack of the development of appropriate monitoring systems in the field of education. Test banks can be easily purchased. Smart phones can take and share pictures of exams. A video of an exam given through Blackboard can easily be made. A survey to determine the extent of cheating using technology was given to several university students. Evidence is provided that ...
education, security, testing, cheating, monitoring
140 downloads
This paper presents the success story of the intuitive vision of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) high school educator in South Africa. The growth and evolution of a Community of Practice towards a full-fledged living lab is investigated. A grounded theory study analyses the living lab concept and highlights some of the current challenges secondary high school ICT education face w ...
Collaboration, Community of Practice, ICT Education, Living Labs, TechTeachers
132 downloads
Requirements elicitation is the process through which analysts determine the software requirements of stakeholders. Requirements elicitation is seldom well done, and an inaccurate or incomplete understanding of user requirements has led to the downfall of many software projects. This paper proposes a classification of problem types that occur in requirements elicitation. The classification has be ...
requirements elicitation, requirements gathering, software development, systems development, software failure
519 downloads
This study examines diverse information media in order to identify those formats that are most suitable for consumption via handheld mobile devices, namely, smartphones and tablets. The preferences of the users are measured objectively by analyzing actual data of their relative use of handheld mobile devices and personal computing (PC) desktop devices, including laptops and notebooks, for consumpt ...
mobile applications acceptance, information format, information media, instructional media, mobile learning (m-learning), diffusion of innovation, human computer interaction
95 downloads
Simulations have been shown to be an effective tool in traditional learning environments; however, as distance learning grows in popularity, the need to examine simulation effectiveness in this environment has become paramount. A casual-comparative design was chosen for this study to determine whether students using a computer-based instructional simulation in hybrid and fully online environments ...
computer simulation, traditional classroom, distance learning, hybrid, face-to-face teaching, lectures and demonstrations, student performance
143 downloads
The significance of ICTs in supporting socio-economic development in developing countries is inevitable. As academics of information systems in developing countries, we cannot ignore the need for teaching and building the capacity of our students to become knowledgeable and skilled in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) practice and discourse. Furthermore, it is vital ...
Curriculum, Higher Education, Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), Outcome Based Education, Developing Countries
150 downloads
Information Technology (IT) high school learners are constantly struggling to cope with the challenges of succeeding in the subject. IT teachers, therefore, need to be empowered to utilize appropriate teaching–learning strategies to improve IT learners’ success in the subject. By promoting critical thinking skills, IT learners have the opportunity to achieve greater success in the most difficult p ...
Critical thinking, Information Technology education, Pair programming, Teaching–learning strategies, Programming
124 downloads
Courses on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) largely differ in the conception of the role of the course in the program, in the topics to be included, in emphases, in the instructional strategies that are employed, and more. This paper describes the design and implementation of a HCI course for students of the Management Information Systems department in our college. Students’ intermediate and final ...
Human computer interaction, User centered design, Studio-based learning, Alternative designs, Design tradeoffs, Prototyping
91 downloads
Big data management is a reality for an increasing number of organizations in many areas and represents a set of challenges involving big data modeling, storage and retrieval, analysis and visualization. However, technological resources, people and processes are crucial to facilitate the management of big data in any kind of organization, allowing information and knowledge from a large volume of d ...
Big Data, Big Data Management, Big Data Challenges, Big Data Analytics, Decision-Making
357 downloads
IT graduates need a suite of technical competencies and soft skills married with an understanding of the social and business contexts of the systems that they build. To instill in students an awareness of current IT industry practice coupled with the broader impact of their discipline in society, academics from Victoria University and Federation University initiated an across-institutional collabo ...
information technology (IT), across-institution assessment, professional skills development, survey
68 downloads
An E-Portfolio Assessment Management System (EAMS) can be an innovative tool that provides students with flexible opportunities to demonstrate the acquisition of skills and abilities in an outcome-based institution. The system has been developed and used for the past ten years to create, reflect, revise, and structure students’ work. It is a repository management system that facilitates collecting ...
E-portfolio, IT Career, Learning Curriculum, Student Perspectives, Outcome-Based Higher Education.
157 downloads
In the digital technology era, mobile devices have an important rule to deploy a copy of data and information through the network. An electronic reader (eReader) allows readers to read written materials in an electronic manner that is available in many models. The objective of this study is to evaluate the usage of eReader by higher education students. We firstly identified the most frequently use ...
eReader, evaluation, usefulness metric
77 downloads
94 downloads
Campus discovery is an important feature of a university student induction process. Approaches towards campus discovery differ from course to course and can comprise guided tours that are often lengthy and uninspiring, or self-guided tours that run the risk of students failing to complete them. This paper describes a campus self-discovery induction game (Geospatial Crypto Reconnaissance) which aim ...
Integration; orientation; retention; campus discovery; induction games; induction
109 downloads
Digital solutions have substantially contributed to the growth and dissemination of education. The distance education modality has been presented as an opportunity for worldwide students in many types of courses. However, projects of digital educational platforms require different expertise including knowledge areas such as pedagogy, psychology, computing, and digital technologies associated with ...
Online Education, Digital Educational Solution, Quality Models, eQETIC Model
126 downloads
This paper reports on a case study of a group of six non-native English speaking migrant women’s experiences learning English vocabulary in a mobile assisted language learning (MALL) environment at a small community centre in Western Australia. A sociocultural approach to learning vocabulary was adopted in designing the MALL lessons that the women undertook. The women provided demographic informat ...
MALL, sociocultural approach, migrant women, vocabulary
281 downloads
Empowered by and tethered to ubiquitous technologies, the current generation of youth yearns for opportunities to engage in self-expression and information sharing online with personal disclosure no longer governed by concepts of propriety and privacy. This raises issues about the unsafe online activities of teens and young adults. The following paper presents the findings of a study examining the ...
Cyber awareness, Cyber Safety, Facebook, Internet Safety, Negative Consequences of Social Media, Oversharing, Privacy, Social Media, Social Media Safety, Web-Safety
416 downloads
This study attempts to present the variety of possible uses for iPads, in the learning process. The objective is to evaluate a unique implementation model that was tried out at a teacher training college in Israel. The methodology is based on a qualitative research paradigm. The findings show that students’ use the iPads in various contexts: (a) for ongoing personal use; (b) for planning lessons; ...
iPads in education, integrating tablets in classroom, iPads in Teacher Training, Taxonomy
207 downloads
Teaching object-oriented programming to students in an in-classroom environment demands well-thought didactic and pedagogical strategies in order to guarantee a good level of apprenticeship. To teach it on a completely distance learning environment (e-learning) imposes possibly other strategies, besides those that the e-learning model of Open University of Portugal dictates. This article analyses ...
eLearning, student’s behavior, distance learning of programming language
119 downloads
Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of distance learning courses for the purpose of interdisciplinary continuing education in Speech Pathology and Dentistry. Methods: The online course was made available on the Moodle platform. A total of 30 undergraduates participated in the study (15 from the Dentistry course and 15 from the Speech Pathology course). Their knowledge was evaluated before and a ...
Distance Learning, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Dentistry, Interdisciplinary Research
106 downloads
In recent years, schools (as well as universities) have added cyber security to their computer science curricula. This topic is still new for most of the current teachers, who would normally have a standard computer science background. Therefore the teachers are trained and then teaching their students what they have just learned. In order to explore differences in both populations’ learning, we c ...
cyber security, code metrics, software quality, software security, teachers’ learning, data mining
107 downloads
The seventh issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL- formerly Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects - IJELLO) special series includes a selection of best papers presented at the 10th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era. The Chais conference 2015 was held at The Open ...
learning technologies, e-learning, information and communication technology (ICT) integration in education, diffusion of innovation, human-computer interaction, digital competencies, e-skills, lifelong learning
64 downloads
Self-efficacy is essential to learning but what happens when learning is done as a result of a collective process? What is the role of individual self-efficacy in collective problem solving? This research examines the manifestation of self-efficacy in prediction markets that are configured as collective problem-solving platforms and whether self-efficacy of traders affects the collective outcome ...
collective problem-solving, self-efficacy, prediction markets, social influence
129 downloads
There is a growing interest in the assessment of tangible skills and competence. Specifically, there is an increase in the offerings of competency-based assessments, and some academic institutions are offering college credits for individuals who can demonstrate adequate level of competency on such assessments. An increased interest has been placed on competency-based computer simulations that can ...
competency-based projects in e-learning, simulations in e-learning, managerial skills enhancements, management skills in e-learning, self-reported skills
71 downloads
This study seeks to explore what factors influence students’ ICT use and web technology competence. The objectives of this study are the following: (a) To what extent do certain elements of Rogers’ (2003) Diffusion of Innovations Theory (DOI) explain students’ ICT use, (b) To what extent do personality characteristics derived from the Big Five approach explain students’ ICT use, and (c) To what ex ...
ICT use, Educational Technology students, Library and Information Science students, Exploratory study
103 downloads
Implementing inquiry in the outdoors introduces many challenges for teachers, some of which can be dealt with using mobile technologies. For productive use of these technologies, teachers should be provided with the opportunity to develop relevant knowledge and practices. In a professional development (PD) program in this design-based research, 24 teachers were involved in adaptation of a learning ...
Teachers as Designers (TaD), mobile learning, teacher professional development (PD), TPACK, outdoor inquiry
107 downloads
Since the development of Open Educational Resources (OERs), different models regarding the usage of these resources in education have appeared in the literature. Wiley’s 4-Rs model is considered to be one of the leading models. Research based on Wiley’s model shows that using materials without making changes is the most common use. Compared to the extensive literature regarding OER usage in educat ...
OER, Open Educational Resources, instructional designers, training managers, corporate
86 downloads
Transforming a school from traditional teaching and learning to a one-to-one (1:1) classroom, in which a teacher and students have personal digital devices, inevitably requires changes in the way the teacher addresses her role. This study examined the implications of integrating 1:1 computing on teachers’ pedagogical perceptions and the classroom’s educational discourse. A change in pedagogical pe ...
one-to-one computing, 1:1, laptop integration in school, teachers’ pedagogical perceptions, teacher “folk psychology” and “folk pedagogy”, “the new learning ecology” framework, educational discourse in the classroom
158 downloads
Teacher-student relationships are vital for academic and social development of students, for teachers’ professional and personal development, and for having a supportive learning environment. In the digital age, these relationships can extend beyond bricks and mortar and beyond school hours. Specifically, these relationships are extended today while teachers and students communicate via social net ...
teacher-student relationship, social networking sites, SNS-mediated communication, Facebook
148 downloads
Students of Ethiopian origin belong to one of the weakest sectors in the Jewish population of Israel. During their studies they have to deal with social alienation, cultural gaps, economic hardships, and racial stereotypes which reduce their chances to successfully complete their academic degree. In this respect, the present research asks whether online social media could provide those youngsters ...
students of Ethiopian origin, immigrant’ social integration, social media, online learning groups, peripheral participation, Israel
88 downloads
Can questions sent to Open-Educational-Resource (OER) websites such as Ask-An-Expert serve as indicators for students’ interest in science? This issue was examined using an online questionnaire which included an equal number of questions about the topics “space” and “nutrition” randomly selected from three different sources: a 5th-grade science textbook, the “Ask-An-Expert” website, and questions ...
Ask-A-Scientist, elementary school, Interest, Open Educational Resource, Science curriculum, Students’ questions, Student voice
69 downloads
Nowadays, we are surrounded by artifacts that are capable of adaptive behavior, such as electric pots, boiler timers, automatic doors, and robots. The literature concerning human beings’ conceptions of “traditional” artifacts is vast, however, little is known about our conceptions of behaving artifacts, nor of the influence of the interaction with such artifacts on cognitive development, especiall ...
Theory of Mind (ToM), Theory of Artificial Mind (ToAM), Cognitive Development, Behaving artifacts, Robots
75 downloads
This table of contents will be updated throughout the year as new papers are published.
128 downloads
Printable table of contents for the International Journal of Doctoral Studies, Volume 10, 2015
646 downloads
This study explores the attitudinal and motivational factors underlying graduate students’ attitudes towards team research. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior, we hypothesize that attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control are three major determinants of graduate students’ intentions to conduct team research. An instrument was developed to measure the influences of these f ...
graduate student, team research, scholarly productivity, the theory of planned behavior, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, intention
1008 downloads
The purpose of the study is to identify influential factors in the use of collaborative networks within the context of manufacturing. The study aims to investigate factors that influence employees’ learning, and to bridge the gap between theory and praxis in collaborative networks in manufacturing. The study further extends the boundary of a collaborative network beyond enterprises to include supp ...
Employees’ learning, collaborative networked learning, collaborative networks, socio-technical systems theory
282 downloads
What predicts academic success during graduate school? What are the experiences of graduate students in terms of happiness, stress level, relationships in the program, and feelings of autonomy/competence? Responses from 3,311 graduate students from all psychological disciplines in the US and Canada were collected to answer questions involving (1) the relationship between student-level variables an ...
department rankings, students, publications, happiness, life satisfaction
739 downloads
This project shows a creative approach to the familiar scavenger hunt game. It involved the implementation of an iPhone application, HUNT, with Augmented Reality (AR) capability for the users to play the game as well as an administrative website that game organizers can use to create and make available games for users to play. Using the HUNT mobile app, users will first make a selection from a lis ...
Software Engineering, Augmented Reality, iOS Application, Scavenger Hunt
467 downloads
Health Data collection is one of the major components of public health systems. Decision makers, policy makers, and medical service providers need accurate and timely data in order to improve the quality of health services. The rapid growth and use of mobile technologies has exerted pressure on the demand for mobile-based data collection solutions to bridge the information gaps in the health secto ...
Health Data collection, Short Message Service, Open Source data frameworks, Mobile Technologies, Vaccination, Kenya
190 downloads
In many Western countries, higher education has experienced a cultural change as a result of increased budgetary constraints, calls for greater accountability, and the greater competition for students. This development has had a profound influence on the working conditions of academic staff and on knowledge production in general at universities. The education of PhD students is no exception. Howev ...
PhD supervision, Practice of PhD supervisors, Knowledge production, Doctoral student education, Working conditions for academic staff
1303 downloads
It can be argued that public organizations, in order to provide the public with sufficient services in the current, highly competitive and continuously evolving environment, require changes. The changes that become necessary are often related to the implementation of information systems (IS). Moreover, when organizations are faced with changes, a change management (CM) process needs to be put in p ...
project management, change management, public organizations, information systems, IS, critical success factors, CSF
385 downloads
Gaps between expectations and actual educational experience may influence motivation, learning and performance. The graduate college experience (GCE) is shrouded in myth and legend that may create unrealistic expectations, while its reality includes elements of politics, economics and organizational psychology. This study examined 1,629 present and former graduate students’ perceptions of what the ...
Graduate education, graduate school expectations, attrition, graduate student satisfaction, program improvement
815 downloads
This research seeks to analyse the project success factors related to project managers’ traits. The context of the research entails a ‘United Nations’ type of organization. Critical success factors from previous recent studies were adopted for this research. Nineteen factors were adopted and a survey methodology approach was followed. Sixty six participants completed the survey. Exploratory factor ...
Project Manager, United Nations, Critical Success Factors.
514 downloads
As Internet usage becomes more commonplace, researchers are beginning to explore the use of email interviews. Email interviews have a unique set of tools, advantages, and limitations, and are not meant to be blind reproductions of traditional face-to-face interview techniques. Email interviews should be implemented when: 1) researchers can justify email interviews are useful to a research project; ...
Millennials, email interviewing, Gadamerian Hermeneutical Phenomenology, mixed-use communities
1206 downloads
The purpose of this paper was to explore the current and potential use of Facebook for learning purposes by Jordanian university students. The paper attempted to compare such use with other uses of Facebook. Further, the paper investigated Jordanian university students’ attitudes towards using Facebook as a formal academic tool, through the use of course-specific Facebook groups. To that end, quan ...
Facebook, social networks, academic context, purposes, uses, universities, Jordan
203 downloads
Instruction in research methods, particularly statistical training, is an essential requirement for most higher education advanced-degree students. However, results from the institutional survey reported here demonstrate that many faculty in schools of education still do not require or offer a variety of research and analysis courses to provide this training. This article will explore graduate-lev ...
research courses; statistics courses; requirements in doctoral programs; requirements in Master’s programs
764 downloads
Knowledge management and knowledge assets have gained much prominence in recent years and are said to improve organizational performance. Knowledge capture and acquisition mechanisms enhance organizational memory and performance. However, knowledge capture and acquisition mechanisms in higher education institutions are not well known. The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge capture ...
Knowledge Management, Mechanisms, Knowledge Capture and Acquisition mechanisms, knowledge capture and acquisition
224 downloads
Doctoral students have often been described as apprentices engaged in workplace learning. Further, assumptions are frequently made in the literature about the common nature of such learning experiences, e.g., in the sciences, research-related practices are learned in a lab within the supervisor’s program and team. A few recent studies of the science doctoral experience have challenged this view ar ...
Science doctoral experience, research-related practices, workplace learning, PhD workplaces
818 downloads
Power differences affect implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) in a way that creates differences in ICT use. Involuntary non-use of new ICT at work occurs when employees want to use the new technology, but are unable to due to factors beyond their control. Findings from an in-depth qualitative study show how involuntary non-use of new ICT can be attributed to power diffe ...
ICT implementation, power, organizational change, involuntary non-use, working conditions, learn-ing, ICT resistance
126 downloads
With doctoral completion rates hovering around 50%, students, faculty and institutions are seeking methods for improvement. This narrative inquiry examined the impact of collaboration and peer to peer experiences on doctoral completion of three peers in a part-time doctoral program. Prior to this inquiry, minimal research existed on the impact of peer to peer support and collaboration on doctoral ...
Peer to peer support, part-time doctoral completion, organic collaboration, intentional relational learning, narrative inquiry, group dynamics
1074 downloads
Grounded theory is a powerful and rigorous theory building methodology that has attracted considerable interest in business research; however, it is a challenging endeavour especially for novice researchers and in particular at the doctoral level. Although several researchers have attempted to clarify the cannons of various grounded theory approaches, still there is a shortage in guidance for doct ...
Research methodology, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, corporate governance, Doctoral research
1041 downloads
This study aims to examine the impact of organizational environment (top management support, company-wide support, business process reengineering, effective project management, and organizational culture) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor environment (ERP vendor support) on ERP perceived benefits. In order to achieve the study’s aim, a questionnaire was developed based on the extant li ...
top management support, business process reengineering, effective project management, company-wide support, organizational culture, vendor support, SMEs, ERP benefits
228 downloads
Increasingly doctoral candidates are attempting to complete a thesis by publication. This format varies between universities but there are common issues particularly in terms of progression, planning and timing. There are both advantages and difficulties involved in undertaking a thesis in this format. Our discussion of the supervisor/candidate partnership is framed within the requirements of a ti ...
Doctoral supervision, thesis with publication, cognitive apprenticeship, mentoring, building trust, shared autophenomenography
1006 downloads
Collaboration technologies enable people to communicate and use information to make organizational decisions. The United States Navy refers to this concept as information dominance. Various collaboration technologies are used by the Navy to achieve this mission. This qualitative descriptive study objectively examined how a matrix oriented Navy activity perceived an implemented collaboration tec ...
Government, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Information Technology, E-collaboration
95 downloads
There are relentless calls for innovation in higher education programs in response to media and policy-makers attention to such concerns as instructional quality, relevance to employment, costs, and time-to-degree. At the same time, the individual course remains the primary unit of instruction and there is little evidence of faculty development strategies to assist with changing core instructional ...
Faculty development, doctoral programs, reform, innovation, leadership
704 downloads
This paper contributes to the limited research on roles ICT can play in impression-management strategies and is based on case studies done in the Swedish Police. It also gives a theoretical contribution by adopting a holistic approach to explain how ICT can contribute to giving a misleading picture of conditions. Output generated by ICT has nowadays a central role in follow-up activities and decis ...
ICT, information quality, output, impression-management, misleading, decision-making
FEATURED
248 downloads
While researchers, institutional leaders, and policymakers have made significant progress towards increasing undergraduate student diversity in the United States, diversity in graduate education has been less often studied and a more challenging goal on which to make progress. This qualitative study explores the roles and work of graduate diversity officers (GDOs) in student recruitment activitie ...
diversity, recruitment, administration, graduate education, United States
730 downloads
Return on Investment (ROI) is one of the most popular performance measurement and evaluation metrics. ROI analysis (when applied correctly) is a powerful tool in comparing solutions and making informed decisions on the acquisitions of information systems. The purpose of this study is to provide a systematic research of the accuracy of the ROI evaluations in the context of information systems imple ...
Return on Investment, ROI, evaluation, costs, benefits, accuracy, estimation error, error propagation, uncertainty, information system, performance measure, business value
216 downloads
PhD trajectories are important to universities, as these contribute to the increase in knowledge and output. Therefore, they aim to decrease the completion time and dropout.
This article reports on our survey amongst PhD candidates and supervisors of the Graduate School CAPHRI, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. We investigated interpersonal aspects of coaching and (implicit) assumptions on ...
Quality of PhD supervision, Hurdles and success factors related to PhD supervision, Supervision of PhD candidates, Exploratory qualitative study, Communication in PhD supervision
1071 downloads
Drawing on developmental networks theory, this qualitative research study explores the professional preparation and career decision-making processes of doctoral students in the sciences. The study is based on 95 semi-structured interviews with informants at three research universities in the United States. Though many students were interested in non-academic career tracks, they were largely unawa ...
Ph.D. students, career preparation, decision-making processes, doctoral students, science students
1336 downloads
The emerging body of research on business professional doctoral programs has focused primarily on the programs’ composition and management, offering limited insight into students’ motivations and the impact the degree has on graduates and their careers. However, understanding these student motivations and career impacts is valuable for several reasons. In addition to helping future candidates asse ...
Professional doctorates, careers of professional doctoral graduates, motivations of professional doctoral students, doctoral education process
793 downloads
Using Social Media and Targeted Snowball Sampling to Survey a Hard-to-reach Population: A Case Study
Response rates to the academic surveys used in quantitative research are decreasing and have been for several decades among both individuals and organizations. Given this trend, providing doctoral students an opportunity to complete their dissertations in a timely and cost effective manner may necessitate identifying more innovative and relevant ways to collect data while maintaining appropriate ...
sampling hard-to-reach populations, snowball sampling, sampling from social media, response rate, LinkedIn
1114 downloads
This study examines the ways that part-time Ph.D. students develop community within the academic department and how a sense of community is related to persistence. This study included 12 participants (ten students and two program chairs) in two academic departments at one urban research institution. This qualitative study followed a descriptive case study design and provided three levels of data: ...
doctoral education, part-time Ph.D. students, community, graduate study, persistence
2509 downloads
The study explored features of an educational doctoral program that enhances doctoral student success. Doctoral student success is defined broadly to include not only completion and retention rates, but also the ability of the program to produce effective scholars in the field. The study utilized a mixed-method approach, incorporating quantitative and qualitative data from both alumni and current ...
mentorship, doctoral programs, research engagement, doctoral student success, formation of scholars, retention rates
1098 downloads
Unlike the doctoral programs in places where students are paired with advisors at the time of admission itself, most US programs require the students to choose their advisors, and the advisors to formally accept the students as advisees. Little research has been done to understand how students and faculty approach this mutual selection and pairing process. This paper examines this process in STEM ...
Doctoral education, advisor/advisee selection, gender, nationality, career stage
594 downloads
Graduate students considering constructivist grounded theory as a qualitative methodological approach may benefit from recognizing the many challenges they could face when embarking in thesis work. These challenges include great diversity in approaches to grounded theory, lack of congruity in how grounded theory methodology is described and understood within the literature, and a dearth of experti ...
qualitative research, constructivist grounded theory, graduate students, methodology, grounded theory
985 downloads
This article examines the questions of professional identity formulation and the possibilities of young scholars to reflect on these processes. Relying on insights of collaborative autoethnography, this article is based on a four year long process of exploring our ways of participating in the community of academic practice. This process is studied through discussing various metaphors related to ac ...
professional identity, metaphors, collaborative autoethnography, participation, young re-searchers, doctoral students
697 downloads
This study examined the relationship between graduate students’ research training environment, course experience, and research self-efficacy beliefs. The findings of the descriptive and regression analyses suggest that graduate students’ (n = 161) general research, quantitative, and qualitative research self-efficacy beliefs varied and that these beliefs were related to different aspects of the r ...
graduate student, professional development, research, self-efficacy, training
684 downloads
International forums for doctoral students offer a fertile context for developing strategic partnerships between higher education institutions, as well as for building the intercultural capacity of early career academics. However, there is limited research investigating the benefits of international doctoral forum partnerships. This paper presents learnings from a recent international doctoral for ...
Australia, China, international, doctoral forum, boundary crossing, collaboration, university, case study
555 downloads
The purpose of the present study was twofold. First, we used the three types of support depicted in Self-Determination Theory (SDT) (structure, involvement and autonomy support) to examine supervision practices in the doctoral context. Conversely, we used this material to discuss the theory and suggest new developments to it.
To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 former Ph ...
Doctoral students, PhD, supervision, supervisor, self-determination theory, qualitative
795 downloads
This article explores the value of attending to the emotional side of the doctoral journey by focusing on the use of a ‘secret’ Facebook group amongst a cohort of EdD (Professional Doctorate in Education) students at one English university. Presented as a piece of action research in which the participants created an intervention to address a perceived problem and then reflected on its effectivene ...
Reflection, cohort, emotion, social, Facebook, support, secret, professional doctorate, education
669 downloads
Formal structures that support doctoral student socialization are limited, while formal programs for Black women doctoral students specifically are even more scarce. The purpose of this research was to examine an early career professional development program for Black women doctoral students and its influence on the mentoring relationships developed by participants. We conducted individual intervi ...
doctoral student socialization, Black women, mentoring, professional development
653 downloads
While a lack of support has been identified as a contributing factor to non-persistence in graduate studies, there is an absence of literature that matches the provision of specific types of support services with outcomes at the doctoral level. The following questions were addressed in this study: (1) What is the role of institutional support in the persistence and success of graduate students? (2 ...
doctoral students, student development, persistence, student services
843 downloads
The purpose of the doctoral education process is to create and legitimize scholarly researchers. This transformation, from student to scholar, is widely discussed in the literature. However, recent rapid changes in university culture have resulted in less time for supervision, stricter completion deadlines, and a greater focus on efficiency and productivity. This has had an impact on this transiti ...
Legitimate scholar, independence, interdependence, international PhD students, knowledge production
FEATURED
807 downloads
The use of the case study method has gained mainstream acceptance in both entrepreneurship and information systems research to develop conceptual and theoretical models that are novel, yet grounded in the literature. In spite of many texts on the case study method and the growing acceptance and use of thereof, there are relatively few examples that discuss how to apply the case study method. The p ...
case study method, qualitative methods, interpretive research paradigm, exploratory research, theory building, semi-structured interviews, information systems, IS, entrepreneurship, small and medium enterprises, SMEs
1363 downloads
Table of Contents for the Journal of Information Technology Education: Discussion Cases, Volume 04, 2015
86 downloads
John Burger, the founding member of house4hack, despite his passion for social good using practical innovation, was fully aware of the cost of getting people and organizations actively involved in social enterprises. The successful electrical and electronics engineer with a number of academic (PhD and Masters – cum laude) and corporate accolades (executive in a top firm) had already been at the to ...
case study, discussion case
128 downloads
Dr. J. K. Suresh, Vice President and Principal Knowledge Manager at Infosys Limited (Infosys), pondered a question that continually needed to be addressed, but never could be truly answered. For a number of years, he had been responsible for overseeing the internal knowledge management (KM) activities of the large, global IT-services company, headquartered in Bangalore, India. The existing system ...
case study, discussion case
339 downloads
In the scorching and sultry heat of a Mumbai summer Prem Yadav, the Director of Pratham Info Tech Foundation (referred to as the Foundation), Mumbai, India and his team were busy teaching basic computer skills to students attending a school for children raised in poor households. These children were stumbling at every stage. Classrooms were very small and congested. Electricity supply was erratic. ...
case study, discussion case, ICT in school education, India
146 downloads
Papers accepted for the Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE) 2015 were published as the proceedings papers listed below or in one of the ISI journals. A complete listing of papers published as the full Proceedings of the Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE) 2015 can be found at http://proceedings.informingscience.org/
286 downloads
Cyber security is generally an extension of the traditional information technology (IT) security that is aimed at protecting systems, applications and data that exposed to a variety of forms of attack via the internet, ranging from data theft and espionage to corruption of data and denial of service attacks. There is a need for an increase in cyber security research due to losses from sabotage bei ...
digital watermarking, cyber security
158 downloads
This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study of web based marketing (WBM) usage predictor variables in the context of micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs). By means of a cross-sectional field study, a structured questionnaire was used to elicit responses from 267 enterprises situated in the South East Region of Nigeria. The main rationale for this study is to provide a vivid descri ...
decision tree classification technique, developing country, Internet, micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs), Nigeria, social media, web based marketing (WBM)
96 downloads
The most common way of ensuring confidentiality of data or documents by individuals, governments, and institutions such as banks, hospitals, and other commercial enterprises is by consigning their secrets to a computer system. But this has not solved the problems of upholding security, instead they are more compounded due to the fact that secrets sharing is generally desired but only in a tightly ...
Cryptography, Shared Processing, Parallel Computing, Elgamal Principle
56 downloads
Cryptography is the science of writing in secret codes which can be achieved either by using software encrypter or hardware encrypter. This study presents the development of a pair of circuit system-based (hardware) cryptographic processor. The hardware encryption in this study was achieved using the bitwise logic operations in the registers of the microcontroller and messages are streamed as seri ...
Cryptology, Cryptography, Encrypter, Communication, Protocol, Microcontroller
81 downloads
The arrival of Internet has turned the world into a global village where geographical location or distance has to some extent ceased to be a major obstacle to communication and movement of goods and services. This development has also brought with it cybercrime and its level of sophistication. A lot of measures and institutions are being put in place to minimize the incidence of cybercrime in diff ...
Cybercrime, factor analysis, contributory indices, security, fraud, criminal
81 downloads
Security is the degree of resistance to, or protection from harm. It applies to any vulnerable and valuable asset, such as person, community, nation, or organization. Thus, the determination of a user being allowed access to a resource(s) is done cautiously. Alphanumeric password has been used for authentication, however, it is inherently limited. Graphical password is a possible alternative. Cons ...
Security, Graphical password, Textual password, Authentication,
88 downloads
As network continue to grow it is increasingly important that network administrators are aware of the different types of traffic that is traversing their networks as well as provides sufficient means for decision making process. Traffic monitoring and analysis is essential in order to more effectively troubleshoot and resolve issues when they occur, so as not to bring network services to a stand s ...
Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Tools, Sniffer Traffic Flow, snoop, tcpdump, Ngrep, Wireshark
139 downloads
This quantitative exploratory study, a continuation of the university’s four year research initiative that addresses the high national rate of doctoral student attrition, investigates whether a private online workspace for doctoral students and their dissertation committee will enhance communication and reduce learner’s feelings of isolation during the dissertation phase. Private doctoral workspac ...
attrition, communication, dissertation, dissertation committee, doctoral community, network, isolation, private doctoral workspace, retention
96 downloads
Electronic health records (EHR) are the digitized longitudinal health records of an individual that is shared across agencies and providers. The low use rate of EHR system is partially attributed to the lack of interconnectedness with other data sources and limited patient health information availability. A survey of health professionals was conducted to investigate the relationships between avail ...
Electronic Health Records, User Satisfaction, Availability, Portability, Stakeholders
55 downloads
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the status of the core curriculum in higher education doctoral programs from the perspective of program directors. We used online survey analytic techniques to query program directors about their EdD and PhD programs in higher education, credit hours, and curricular content. Our study confirms previous work finding that there is common agreement i ...
Academic Discipline, Doctoral Education, Higher Education as a Field of Study
56 downloads
The concept of Anonymous Internet is getting traction in the wake of recent privacy related NSA (National Security Agency) privacy allegations. Based on our initial findings, Tor appears to be a solution for this and taking control of the Internet and the User’s privacy. Our study reveals that Tor’s power and future ability to thrive revolves around its expansion. Tor needs to grow in size specifi ...
Anonymous Internet, Tor Browser, Torrent, Information Privacy
54 downloads
Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is among the highest health diagnosis and therefore an economic drain, which puts substantial pressure on a huge number of patients, communities, and health systems. These chronic conditions are presently incurable but their symptoms can be controlled through quality health care, appropriate medications, and good self-management skills. Many ...
mHealth, smart-health, asthma, COPD, chronic disease, self-management, big data analysis
75 downloads
Purpose- The purpose of this paper was to review related literature on community service initiatives, benefits and the involvement of librarians in Community service programme with a focus on the University of Port Harcourt Community Service programme. This review was also undertaken to establish a link between the Community Service programme and purposeful librarianship.
Methodology- Related li ...
Community Service, Impact, University of Port Harcourt, Sustainable growth
51 downloads
The idea of innovation, while not new, has taken on a whole new meaning in the 21st century. With his introduction of the ideas of disruptive innovations in the 1990s, Clayton Christensen has quickly become a leader in the field of innovation education. Christensen expanded his theory to encompass not only industry, but also healthcare and education. It is in this field of education that much work ...
Clayton Christensen, innovation education, vocational, curriculum
67 downloads
Since their initial introduction in the early 90’s, the popularity of web based online social networking sites has been growing exponentially, encompassing millions of users. As these social networks continue to grow and become more popular, users’ different social circles (friends, family, and colleagues) are very likely to collide, as they all coexist under the same infrastructure. Considering t ...
Online Social Networks, Privacy, User Data, FOAF
69 downloads
School informatics is a relatively new subject in comparison to mathematics and science. As a result, there is much less research on the area of informatics didactics. Likewise, there is lack of theoretical grounding of the field and associated teaching methods and learning processes. The lack of research in the field of school informatics makes it difficult to identify which methods are effective ...
Interaction, learning theories, learning pyramid, school informatics, teaching methods
144 downloads
There is much known about logical ways of implementing security measures in an organization. Anecdotal evidence shows that few organizations implement a full suite of measures. This study used a single case to identify problems with a logical implementation. A framework was developed using the literature and these identified problems. The framework was then tested through interviews of experienced ...
security, security framework, university culture, security creation, policy creation
42 downloads
The problem addressed in this paper is the ambiguity that exists in the usage of the terms “enable” and “transform” and their related forms in the Green IS literature. This ambiguity creates uncertainty, both conceptual and practical, about the precise role of Green IS in these research and use contexts. Consequently, the exact relationship between Green IS and environmental sustainability can be ...
Enabling, Environmental sustainability, Green computing, Green Information Systems (Green IS), Green Information Technology (Green IT), Transforming
58 downloads
The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) resulted in transforming the traditional hierarchical organizations into networking flexible ones. In the circumstances of identifying a new type of organizations, the notions as ‘organization’ and ‘synergy’ should be revised. The organizations with individual elements that build up a network have altered their attitude towards th ...
management, Information and Communication Technology, traditional organization, networking organization, synergy, global optimum, local optimum
39 downloads
NoSQL databases are an important component of Big Data for storing and retrieving large volumes of data. Traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) use the ACID theorem for data consistency, whereas NoSQL Databases use a non-transactional approach called BASE. RDBMS scale vertically and NoSQL Databases can scale both horizontally (sharding) and vertically. Four types of NoSQL da ...
NoSQL Databases, NoSQL Data Modeling, Database Technologies
347 downloads
Algorithm performance coverage in textbooks emphasizes patterns of growth in execution times, relative to the size of the problem. Variability in execution times for a given problem size is usually ignored. In this research study, our primary focus is on the empirical distribution of execution times for a given algorithm and problem size. We examine CPU times for Java implementations of five sorti ...
algorithm, sorting, performance, distribution, variation, Java
106 downloads
Cloud computing has brought many to the world of computers. Unfortunately it also created new opportunities for criminal activities. This paper used a descriptive literature review to determine the issues that are currently influencing digital investigations. The results show that there are many unaddressed issues affecting the identification, preservation and acquisition of evidence in the cloud. ...
Cloud Forensics, Digital Forensics, Cybercrime, Cloud Computing
154 downloads
Business Intelligence is important tools to improve business processes. More and more companies, government units use BI. But there are not still so many solutions which can be applied in local government units. From this reason the paper has been devoted to the supporting managerial decision-making processes in the Polkowice commune, Poland using BI technology. It consists of the following part ...
information and communications technology, local government units, business intelligence (BI), business processes
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The focus of the paper is information and communications technology (ICT) solutions in hybrid information systems in a local government unit. As the exemplary local government unit, the social welfare center (Ośrodek Pomocy Społecznej, or “OPS”) in Polkowice, Poland, was chosen. After a brief introduction, problem statement, goal of study, research questions and methodology, the issue of how ICT s ...
information and communications technology (ICT), local government units, hybrid systems, business processes, cloud computing
119 downloads
The “information age” as often referred to the modern society, has become heavily dependent on information systems. As this dependency increases, the threat to information security has also gained ground. Societies need to cater for the security of information, and this has led to the development of different information security techniques most notable of which is cryptography. Cryptographic Hash ...
Cryptography, Attack, SHA, Steganography, Information Security, Authentication.
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Software technology has high impact on the global economy as in many sectors of contemporary society. As a product enabling the most varied daily activities, the software product has to be produced reflecting high quality. Software quality is dependent on its development that is based in a large set of software development processes. However, the implementation and continuous improvement of softwa ...
Software Technology, Software Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Strategic Drivers for Software Process Improvement
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Computer anxiety especially in first-year university students is common and continues to be a significant issue as it manifests itself in a number of negative emotions with significant detrimental impact to students. This is especially true in the context where students use computers for course work – online learning. Research work addressing the effect of computer/Internet experience on anxiety a ...
Anxiety, Computer Use, Computer Experience, Culture, Middle East, Online Learning
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Diversity is a relative concept, which has been applied to a number of domains, such as culture and biology. A simple measure of diversity is derived by drawing from the domains of biological and cultural diversity, as well as, information retrieval for its measurement capabilities. This domain independent diversity measure can be used to determine diversity between entities in any collection that ...
Biological Diversity, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Information Retrieval, Measurement
54 downloads
The Information Systems (IS) profession is known as one of the most dynamic fields in our current day and age. Rapid advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) increase the dependence of organizations on these ICTs and create a greater need for IS competence. This demand constitutes serious challenges to academia to provide graduates with the necessary skill set to fulfil their ...
flipped classroom approach, coherent practice, deep approaches to learning, integrated and interactive environment, three stages of behavior
50 downloads
Teaching and learning is no longer the same and the paradigm shift has not settled yet. In this study we frame immersive learning as a method which we believe can be designed by experiential, constructivist, and collaborative elements. We then present a peer to peer interactive web-based learning tool, which was designed, and implemented in-house and piloted in a PhD course on ‘Pedagogical Methods ...
Immersive Learning, Information Technology, Learning Models, Item Response Theory
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Among developments in the field of business intelligence (BI), the notion of maturity has gained considerable interest for defining the directions to expected value, for summarizing the experience available, and for defining the possible avenues of BI development. There is considerable experience in creating and implementing BI systems, and many gaps separating the declared goals from the achieved ...
business intelligence, business intelligence maturity models, dimensions of business intelligence
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Data breach is the act of accessing a central data repository without the consent of the data owner. Data breaches are occurring frequently and involve millions of records. Major breaches have been reported since 2005. Often data breaches occur due to someone with malicious intent accessing the stored data. In this paper we look at the types of data breaches and how they impact people’s privacy, w ...
Data breach, identity theft, global, security, privacy, social network, protection model
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The objective of this paper was to determine the perceived barriers and motivators of mobile ICT adoption by South African micro entrepreneurs. Current research shows that mobile ICT can help ensure the success of micro enterprises. However, there are barriers and motivating factors, which influence the mobile ICT adoption rate of micro enterprises and they seem to differ between countries. Sem ...
Entrepreneurs, Micro-enterprises, ICT, Mobile, adoption, Motivators, Barriers
88 downloads
In business school, students must learn essential communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. In this study, we examine whether the prototyping project in our computer-based information system (CBIS) course enhances these three essential skills. The prototyping process, taught with an information system approach, is the focus of our project-centered teaching method. The pedagogy uses a ...
Computer-based information system, Prototyping, Communication Skills, Analytical skills, Problem-solving skills
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The digital divide between those more and those less technologically skilled is a reality and has been for many years. This divide is especially prominent in developing countries such as South Africa and in societies that suffer from socio-economic disadvantage. There are many reasons for the continued presence of this divide and these are briefly described in this paper. The negative consequences ...
digital divide, tablet distribution, higher education, developing countries, multi-disciplinary
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The world is an interconnected global village due to the increasing adoption and reliance on technology, but an ugly side of the increased usage of technology has come to light. The issue of harassment and abuse on the internet has led to relatively new issues such as cyber harassment, cyber incivility and cyberbullying.
A case study was conducted within two faculties at the University of Cape T ...
Cyber incivility, online harassment, organizational policy
152 downloads
This paper proposes the innovative methodologies for the robust and stable design of optimal stable digital infinite impulse response (IIR) filters using different mutation variants of hybrid differential evolution (HDE). A multivariable optimization is employed as the design criterion to obtain the optimal stable IIR filter that satisfies the different performance requirements like minimizing the ...
Digital IIR filters, Hybrid Differential Evolution, Exploratory search, Opposition based learning Multi parameter optimization
62 downloads
In Zimbabwe the health care delivery system is hierarchical and patient transfer from the lower level to the next higher level health care facility involves patients carrying their physical medical record card. A medical record card holds information pertaining to the patient’s medical history, pre-existing allergies, medical health conditions, prescribed medication the patient is currently taking ...
QR code(s), medical health records, mobile phone, patient, medical health card
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This paper is basically a case study and an attempt has been made to highlight the information literacy skills among the health science professionals i.e. teachers and postgraduate students of Guru Gobind Singh Medical College (constitute college of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences), Faridkot. The information literacy has various parts such as Computer Literacy, Library Literacy, Media Lit ...
Information Literacy, Digital Information Literacy, Health Science Professionals
88 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the Journal of Information Technology Education: Research]
This paper describes the flipped classroom approach followed in two second year Information Systems courses. The various techniques employed through this approach are described. These techniques were underpinned by a theory of coherent practice, which is a pedagogy that provides a framewo ...
Flipped Classroom Approach, Inverted Classroom, Active Learning, Teaching & Learning, Problem-Solving
223 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
An E-Portfolio Assessment Management System (EAMS) can be an innovative tool that provides students with flexible opportunities to demonstrate the acquisition of skills and abilities in an outcome-based institution. The system has been developed and used for the past ten years ...
E-portfolio, IT Career, Learning Curriculum, Student Perspectives, Outcome-Based Higher Education.
88 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] This paper will shed light on the lack of the development of appropriate monitoring systems in the field of education. Test banks can be easily purchased. Smart phones can take and share pictures of exams. A video of an exam given through Blackboard can easily be made. A survey to ...
education, security, testing, cheating, monitoring
107 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] Simulations have been shown to be an effective tool in traditional learning environments; however, as distance learning grows in popularity, the need to examine simulation effectiveness in this environment has become paramount. A casual-comparative design was chosen for this study ...
computer simulation, traditional classroom, distance learning, hybrid, face-to-face teaching, lectures and demonstrations, student performance
210 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.]
IT graduates need a suite of technical competencies and soft skills married with an understanding of the social and business contexts of the systems that they build. To instill in students an awareness of current IT industry practice coupled with the broader impact of their disci ...
information technology (IT), across-institution assessment, professional skills development, survey
35 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] Information Technology (IT) high school learners are constantly struggling to cope with the challenges of succeeding in the subject. IT teachers therefore need to be empowered to utilize appropriate teaching-learning strategies to improve IT learners’ success in the subject. By pro ...
Critical thinking, Information Technology education, Pair programming, Teaching-learning strategies, Programming
167 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] Considering that big data is a reality for an increasing number of organizations in many areas, its management represents a set of challenges involving big data modeling, storage and retrieval, analysis and visualization. However, technological resources, people and processes are c ...
Big Data, Big Data Management, Big Data Challenges, Big Data Analytics, Decision-Making
856 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] An algorithm learning tool was developed for an introductory computer science class in a specialized science and technology high school in Japan. The tool presents lessons and simple visualizations that aim to facilitate teaching and learning of fundamental algorithms. Written test ...
K12-Computer Science Education, Fundamental Algorithms, Algorithm Visualization, Learning Tool Evaluation, Questionnaire Validation
118 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] This paper compares the effect of social isolation on students enrolled in online courses versus students enrolled on campus courses (called in this paper Face-to-Face or F2F). The paper uses grade data collected from a computer literacy course that was recently taught by the autho ...
course withdrawal, social isolation in online courses, attrition in online courses
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[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] This paper presents the success story of the intuitive vision of an ICT high school educator in South Africa. The growth and evolution of a Community of Practice, towards a full-fledged living lab is investigated. A grounded theory study analyses the living lab concept and highligh ...
Collaboration, Community of Practice, ICT Education, Living Labs, TechTeachers
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[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] Requirements elicitation is the process through which analysts determine the software requirements of stakeholders. Requirements elicitation is seldom well done, and an inaccurate or incomplete understanding of user requirements has led to the downfall of many software projects. T ...
requirements elicitation, systems analysis
364 downloads
[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] The significance of ICTs in supporting socio-economic development in developing countries is inevitable. As academics of information systems in developing countries, we cannot ignore the need for teaching and building the capacity of our students to become knowledgeable and skilled ...
Curriculum, Higher Education, Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), Outcome Based Education, Developing Countries
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[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] In the digital technology era, mobile devices have an important rule to deploy a copy of data and information through the network. An electronic reader (eReader) allows readers to read written materials in an electronic manner that is available in many models. The objective of this ...
eReader, evaluation, usefulness metric
96 downloads
This research seeks to analyze the project success factors related to project managers' traits. The context of the research entails a 'united nations' type of organization. Critical success factors from previous recent studies were adopted for this research. Nineteen factors were adopted and a survey methodology approach was followed. Sixty six participants completed the survey. Exploratory factor ...
Project Manager, United Nations, Critical Success Factors.
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Quyen Le, Deputy Director at ABC Textile and Dyeing Joint Venture Company (JVC), returned from a meeting with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) service provider. Quyen was wondering which options of ERP implementation would be best suited to gain staff support and pre-pared the company for long term development.
ABC had undergone considerable growth in recent years. Having become one of lead ...
IT investment, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), organisational change management
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The impact that Facebook and Twitter usage has on the creation and maintenance of university student’s cognitive social capital was investigated on students in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Facebook and Twitter were selected as part of the research context because both are popular online social network systems (SNSs), and few studies were found that investigated the impact that both F ...
Facebook, Twitter, Cognitive Social Capital, Bridging Social Capital, Bonding Social Capital, Maintained Social Capital, Usage, University Students
428 downloads
As mobile devices become prevalent, there is always a need for apps. How hard is it to develop an app especially a cross-platform app? The paper shares an experience in a project involved the development of a student services web app that can be run on cross-platform mobile devices. The paper first describes the background of the project, the clients, and the proposed solution. Then, it focuses ...
Web-app, mobile-friendly web app, open-source software, web database, cross platform app.
191 downloads
It can be argued, that public organization, in order to provide sufficient service for the public in a present highly competitive and continuously evolving environment, requires changes. The changes are often related to the implementation of information systems (IS) and they should be the result of change management (CM). However, theories and approaches to CM currently available to practitioners ...
project management, change management, public organizations, information systems, IS, critical success factors, CSF
497 downloads
Digital solutions have substantially contributed to the growth and dissemination of education. The distance education modality has been presented as an opportunity for worldwide students in many types of courses. However, the development of digital educational platforms requires different expertise to its development including knowledge areas such as pedagogy, psychology, computing and digital tec ...
Online Education, Digital Educational Solution, Quality Models, eQETIC Model
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In today's knowledge environment, individuals and groups who gather relevant information about the organization's external environment and distribute that information for use by their colleagues, receive increasing attention and are viewed with great importance. These individuals have been named Information Gatekeepers. Thus far, researchers have not established a unanimous and interdisciplinary d ...
Informaion environment, gatekeeper, Organizational Knowledge.
151 downloads
This paper identifies areas in the design science research (DSR) subfield of the information systems (IS) discipline where a more detailed consideration of practitioner audiences of socio-technical design artifacts could improve current IS DSR research practice and proposes an initial conceptualization of these audiences. The consequences of not considering artifact audiences are identified throug ...
design science, informing science, artifacts, artifact audiences, relevance, fitness, utility
131 downloads
This paper discusses applications of the measures of the risk of misinforming and the role of the warranty of misinforming in the context of the informing component of Customer Related Management (CRM) issues. This study consists of two parts. Firstly, we propose an approach for customers’ grouping based on their attitude toward assessing product's properties and their expertise on the terminology ...
measures of the risk of misinforming, warranty of misinforming, customer related management, customer’s purchase attitude, customers expertize
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This paper reports on a case study of a group of six non-native English speaking migrant women’s experiences learning English vocabulary in a mobile assisted language learning (MALL) environment at a small community centre in Western Australia. A sociocultural approach to learning vocabulary was adopted in designing the MALL lessons that the women undertook. The women provided demographic informa ...
MALL, sociocultural approach, migrant women, vocabulary
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E-learning is an important trend globally accepted to enhance the acquisition of knowledge by students within and outside the classroom to improve their academic pursuit. Online Discussion Forum (ODF) is one of the tools that are used for e-learning in Nigerian universities. It facilitates interaction among postgraduate students as they can communicate and share information sources with one anothe ...
Online discussion forum, E-learning, TAM 3, Postgraduate students, Nigeria
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Technology has transformed education, perhaps most evidently in course delivery options. However, compelling questions remain about how technology impacts learning. Adaptive learning tools are technology-based artifacts that interact with learners and vary presentation based upon that interaction. This paper compares adaptive learning with a conventional teaching approach implemented in a digital ...
Adaptive learning, adaptive learning system, personalized learning systems, iron triangle, informing science
536 downloads
Courses on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) largely differ in the conception of the role of the course in the program, in the topics to be included, in emphases, in the instructional strategies that are employed and more. This paper describes the design and implementation of an HCI course for students of the Management Information Systems department in our college. Students’ intermediate and final ...
Human computer interaction, User centered design, Studio-based learning, Alternative designs, Design tradeoffs, Prototyping
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This study examines diverse information media in order to identify those formats that are most suitable for consumption via handheld mobile devices, namely smartphones and tablets. The preferences of the users were measured objectively, by analyzing actual data of their relative use of handheld mobile devices and personal computing (PC) desktop devices, including laptops and notebooks, for consump ...
mobile applications acceptance, information format, information media, instructional media, mobile learning (m-learning), diffusion of innovation, human computer interaction
135 downloads
This project shows a creative approach to the familiar scavenger hunt game. It involved the implementation of an iPhone application, HUNT, with Augmented Reality capability for the users to play the game as well as an administrative website that game organizers can use to create and make available games for users to play. Using the HUNT mobile app, users will first make a selection from a list of ...
Software Engineering, Augmented Reality, iOS Application, Scavenger Hunt.
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Visuals and graphics have been used for communicating complex ideas since 1786 when William Playfair first invented the line graph and bar chart. Graphs and charts are useful for interpretation and making sense of data. For instance, John Snow’s scatter plot helped pinpoint the source of a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 and also changed understandings of how germs were spread. While popular ...
Visualizations, visual representations, descriptive quantitative data, longitudinal survey data
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Internship courses, unlike others, are multi-pronged because they require coordination at different levels. Typically, a faculty coordinates the communication and implementation at these multiple levels to lead the completion of internship courses. We call the position that this faculty holds and does all this communication/coordination the “internship coordinator”. For the work of the internship ...
Internship program, internship courses, internship at computer science programs
118 downloads
A capstone course is normally offered at the end of a program of study with the goal of helping students synthesize what they have learned in the courses preceding it. The paper describes such a course, —the undergraduate capstone course for MIS majors, —that was built around the case discussions and projects and originally offered in a face-to-face format. Over the course of the study, an async ...
Information systems, capstone, case pedagogy, distance learning, online learning, evaluation, IS curriculum, critical thinking, education
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There is a dearth of research in teaching strategies and learning approaches for units involving sensitive topics. Sensitive topics could provoke an emotional response in students. In a business ethics unit, the attempt at striking a balance between conceptual knowledge and theory with that of skills training can be challenging because such unit can involve personal, sensitive or controversial t ...
Sensitive topics, student participation, student engagement, online role play, simulation, anonymity.
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The paper introduces a novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) Concept and prototype system. Their objective is to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of individuals throughout their academic and professional life and as contributors and beneficiaries of organizational and societal performance. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeholders ...
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Organizational Knowledge Management, Personal Knowledge Management for Development (PKM4D), Informing Science Framework, Human Capital, Capacity Development, Lifelong learning, Memes, Memex.
345 downloads
The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) event, organized by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), is conducted 3-4 times a year at various locations. The four day event can be characterized as an informing system specifically designed to facilitate structured and unstructured communications between a variety of parties—e.g., software developers, inventors, military and civilian users of ...
JIFX, informing system, complexity, disaster management, ad hoc experimentation, collaboration, military
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Empowered by, and tethered to, ubiquitous technologies, the current generation of youth yearns for opportunities to engage in self-expression and information sharing online with personal disclosure no longer governed by concepts of propriety and privacy. This raises issues about the unsafe activities of teens and young adults. The following paper presents the findings of a study examining the soci ...
Social Media, Social Media Safety, Web-Safety, Internet Safety, Negative Consequences of Social Media, Oversharing, Privacy, Cyber safety, Cyber awareness, Facebook
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Digital technologies are increasingly implemented in Swedish schools, which impact on educa-tion in the contemporary classroom. Screen-based practice opens up for new forms and multi-plicity of representations, taking into account that language in a globalized society is more than reading and writing skills.
This paper presents a case study of technology-mediated instruction at the primary-school ...
Multimodality, digital resources, available designs, primary education, collaboration
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Papers accepted for the Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE) 2014 were published as the proceedings papers listed below or in one of the ISI journals. A complete listing of papers published as the full Proceedings of the Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE) 2014 can be found at http://proceedings.informingscience.org/
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This work investigated the suitability of a new tool for decision support in training programs of high performance athletes. The aim of this study was to find a reliable and robust measure of the fitness of an athlete for use as a tool for adjusting training schedules. We examined the use of heart rate recovery percentage (HRr%) for this purpose, using a two-phased approach. Phase 1 consisted of t ...
heart rate recovery, decision support, training schedule, high performance sport, aerobic fitness
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These are the Proceedings of the 2014 e-Skills for Knowledge Production and Innovation Conference held at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Nov. 17 - 21, 2014
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This paper discusses a collaborative service-learning approach to a software engineering course that involved partnering with local non-profit organizations and collaborating with a technical communication class. The main goals of the collaboration with the technical communication class were to provide the students with a real-world project that gave them experience with a crossdepartmental team c ...
Software Engineering, Agile Software Development, User documentation, Active Learning, Service-learning, Real-world project, Technical Communication.
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The objective of this student project was for the students to develop, conduct, and supervise a training course for basic work place applications (word processing and business graphics). Students were responsible for the planning, organizing and the teaching of the course. As participants, underprivileged adolescents took part in order to learn the handling of IT applications and therefore, improv ...
Student project, underprivileged adolescents, user training
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This study of media use and knowledge sharing within distributed organizations addresses two questions: (1) How do people combine different ICTs (information and communication technologies) when they engage in a professional knowledge-sharing network? (2) How are combinations of ICTs used when people engage in frequent as opposed to infrequent relations? Existing research exploring the role of ICT ...
ICT, professional network, knowledge sharing, multiple media use, GoToMeeting, Outlook groups.
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Constructivist learning mechanisms such as collaborative writing have emerged as a result of the development of Web 2.0 technologies. We define the term mandatory collaborative writing to describe a writing activity where the group has a firm deadline. Our study focuses on how a wiki can fully support mandatory group writing. The motivation of this design science research study emerges from a grad ...
awareness, collaborative writing, constructivist learning, design science research, discussion, evaluation, MediaWiki, project management, Web 2.0
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The need to divide attention in order to deal with information flowing in from a number of sources is observable in many work settings. Although most people can perform several simple activities concurrently, such as eating and watching television (Sharon, 1997), making simultaneous decisions is difficult (Pashler & Johnston, 1998). For the majority, task overload causes errors in performance (Gir ...
Computerized learning, Performance, Cooperation
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To survive and thrive in the challenging context of the 21st century, education must keep abreast of global trends, including the priority of developing in learners the capability of lifelong learning for enhanced cooperation, care, reflective abilities, critical capacities and creativity. As a potential approach to achieve this goal, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is receiving i ...
CSCL, peer assessment, technology-enhanced assessment, lifelong learning
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The scarcity of readily usable instruments to research learning in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments has posed a great challenge to devise appropriate analytical tools to investigate how individuals change their understanding or create a new personal construction of knowledge as a result of social interaction and negotiation within the group. Given this scenario, the Ac ...
CSCL, higher order thinking skills, textile studies
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This document presents the analysis of a discussion forum used as a learning component in a ‘management information systems’ university course. By reporting on two macro level measures namely, participation and interaction, we seek to understand the occurrence of any collaborative knowledge-building activities/processes and at the same time work towards discourse analysis. Our analysis is based on ...
Online discussion forums, discourse, participation, interaction, elearning, online, asynchronous
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Student team project work in higher education is one of the best ways to develop team working skills at the same time as learning about the subject matter. As today’s students require the freedom to learn at times and places that better match their lifestyles, there is a need for any support for team project work to be also available online. Team working requires that the task roles as well as the ...
ground rules, student team project, information systems, case study
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In this paper, we present a way to bring information to students by leveraging the availability of phones (with SMS capability), especially cell phones. We review the use of mobile phones for delivering examination results via Short Messaging Service (SMS) in a university, where student who have written examinations and anxious to see their results need to get their grades in a convenient and acce ...
Short Message Services, SMS, GSM, Result Checking, Mobile Phone, ColdFusion
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In Taiwan, instant messenger usage has become the third most frequently engaged online activity following web cyberspace’s web surfing and e-mail. Among different kinds of instant messengers, Windows Live Messenger (WLM) is the most popular software program. The purpose of this study is to explore users’ name-display behaviors on WLM from a self-disclosure perspective. The study employs phenomenol ...
Instant messenger, Self-disclosure, Phenomenological study, Online social support
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In this descriptive study, the authors examined the online interactions of 45 teams of American International Schools (AIS) middle school students conducting science fair investigations with their distance mentors. Forty-five preservice teachers in a methods of teaching science college course served as “eMentors” using Blackboard™ and the 2.0 Learning Tools (wiki and blog) as their individually as ...
Web 2.0, distance mentoring, preservice teachers, science inquiry
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This paper mainly focuses on the controlling of home appliances remotely and providing security when the user is away from the place. The system is SMS based and uses wireless technology to revolutionize the standards of living. This system provides ideal solution to the problems faced by home owners in daily life. The system is wireless therefore more adaptable and cost-effective. The HACS system ...
Short Message Service (SMS), Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), Radio Frequency (RF), AT Commands, ubiquitous access and Automation.
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Everyday millions of containers circle the globe and 250, 000, 000 container movements are performed around the globe yearly through 220 ports. Approximately 2% of in-transit containers are physically inspected, while empty containers are rarely inspected. A serious container event could trigger a worldwide massive port shutdown. Government security officials recognize container shipments as one o ...
Radio Frequency Identification, Tracking System, SWOT Analysis
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Human-technology interaction is an essential issue to the field of Information Systems. The fast growing quantity of available data shifts emphasize to data presentation in a way to increase informing effectiveness and efficiency. To build such information services, the designers have to obtain broad understanding on the concepts, models and processes of informing science. The paper shares the exp ...
Information; Information Systems; Informing; Informing Systems
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While there is a huge research literature on the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) as a tool in teaching and learning, there is much less research on the area of ICT as a subject or similar designations such as school informatics. As a result, there is a lack of theoretical grounding of the didactics of ICT and associated teaching and learning processes. One of the main reaso ...
Conceptual framework, design-based research, didactics of ICT, learning theory, school informatics, trainee teacher.
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This paper reports on a qualitative pilot study which explores the attitudes and aspirations of international students in the Master of Information Systems (MIS) program at an Australian university. The findings are preliminary but suggest that the MIS program is an extrinsic motivator since it is used by students as a catalyst to change their future careers and lives. Furthermore, the students ar ...
Education, information systems, skills gap, alignment, Australia.
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Victoria University will introduce a generic Science Degree in 2009. Students in the degree will share a common first year and then choose a specialization, for instance biotechnology, chemistry, computing, food science, or environmental science. This paper reflects on the need for the development of enabling information technology (IT) skills among first-year students in the Degree. Many students ...
IT skills, generic science degree, digital literacy, computer science.
Database technologies are a core component of computing technology curricula. Their importance will only continue to expand as more and more data are retained in database systems. An effective database system is predicated on a good data model. Database design is the conceptualization of an underlying data model that progresses from identifying user requirements to graphically depicting those requ ...
database, database design, entity relationship diagrams, normalization, database software animations.
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The paper examines worldwide patterns of operations of IT education using 31 countries’ data on IT education focusing on contexts, inputs, processes and outcomes of IT education with the end-in-view of deriving sets of national policies for IT education in the Philippines. In all, 13 variables were used as multivariate inputs to a cluster analysis algorithm which aim to cluster countries in terms ...
IT education, context, inputs, process, outcomes, policy framework, cluster analysis, hierarchical method
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The article refers to issues related to creating the information society in a region. The most important results of research carried out to analyze the information society development in Silesia are presented in the background of the information society idea and all activities that are undertaken with reference to the information society in the European Union and Poland. Methodology and obtained r ...
information society, information society strategy, Silesian Voivodeship, Electronic Public Services Platform (PeUP)
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Making sense of the exponentially expanding sources of structured electronic data collected by organizations is increasingly difficult. Data mining is the extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from large volumes of such data to support decisionmaking in organizations and has led to an increase in demand for students who have an understanding of data mining ...
data mining, education, curriculum, curriculum development, graduate, postgraduate.
This paper is an assessment of the topical coverage of current Managing Information Systems (MIS) textbooks. The MIS course is normally required of all undergraduate and graduate business majors , and therefore is their primary education in the use of IS/IT in the modern technology-oriented organization. However, the MIS textbooks researched do not attempt IS/IT management fluency. They do not eve ...
MIS textbooks, enterprise information systems, operational information systems, transaction processing systems, justification of IS/IT systems
Most computing programs still devote little time to software life cycle development, software processes, quality issues, team skills, and other areas of software engineering essential to effective commercial software development. A teaching project was developed and implemented by accommodating knowledge and practices that are applicable to most projects in the area of project management and in th ...
IS2002 Model Curricula, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Software Engineering Best Practices, Rational Suite Enterprise.
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The development of Information Security as a discipline has only occurred in recent years. Currently Information Security topics are widely taught at tertiary institutions but these topics are taught from a technical perspective and in other cases from a business perspective. This paper discusses the development of a new security curriculum within Australia and how Australian tertiary institutions ...
Information Security, Framework, Curriculum Development and Australia.
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Neural Network (NN) has emerged over the years and has made remarkable contribution to the advancement of various fields of endeavor. The purpose of this work is to examine neural networks and their emerging applications in the field of engineering, focusing more on Controls. In this work, we have examined the various architectures of NN and the learning process. The needs for neural networks, tra ...
. Neural Network, Artificial Neural Network
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The proliferation of e-leaming systems in both learning institutions and companies has contributed a lot to the acquisition and application of new skills. With the growth in technology, especially the internet, e-learning systems are only getting better and having more impact on the users. This paper suggests an approach to e-learning that emphasizes active and open collaboration, and also the int ...
Social Networking, Integration, eLearning, Learning, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Universities
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Faculty today are challenged to meet the individualized learning needs of what is frequently a disparate student population while engaging in meaningful assessment of student learning outcomes. Learning styles and levels of preparation vary among students especially in the area of mathematics and the ability to diagnosis deficiencies and remedy needs can increase student success. Computerized home ...
Web-based learning, elearning, web-based mathematics instruction, online homework remediation homework management systems, computerized assessment, e-assessment, interactive tutorials, hybrid instruction
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This presentation will discuss some of the current statistics regarding distance education in the United States. It will also address how student disabilities (and their associated accommodations) are and should be impacting these online course offerings. According to a recent government study, 66% of US colleges currently offer some form of for-credit distance education (National Center for Educa ...
distance education, accessibility, quality assurance
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This paper presents a learner-centered model for designing e-leaming assignments/activities within e-learning environments. The model is based on constructivism learning theory. The model includes two categories - the learning design elements (comprised of fundamental design elements and collaborative elements) and the learning assessment elements (self-assessment, team assessment, and facilitator ...
E-learning, constructivism, e-learning design, collaborative learning, assessment
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In this paper, we give an overview of an interactive e-leaming tool which we have developed for kids aged from eight to eleven years old in Mauritius. By developing this software, we aim at promoting self learning and developing information and communication technology skills among the youngsters in Mauritius. The e-learning tool developed is based mainly on the science curricula covered at upper ...
e-learning, information and communication technology.
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There is much debate regarding the value and utility of grading discussions to ensure and assess full participation in the online classroom. Proponents of threaded discussions view it as an integral part of the learning process, where students seek knowledge and express understanding. Consequently, they deem it essential to assess participation. On the other hand, opponents of assessing or grading ...
asynchronous, communication technologies, discourse, e-learning, exchange structure analysis, grading rubrics, online discussions.
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To remain globally competitive, there is increasing pressure for universities to incorporate a greater use of technology and innovation into their curriculum. In response, many higher education institutions have adopted a blended learning approach, which combines traditional face-to-face delivery with online teaching resources, to deliver course content. This paper documents the implementation of ...
action research, blended learning, innovation, introductory accounting, learning outcomes.
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The novice researcher, such as the graduate student, can be overwhelmed by the intricacies of the research methods employed in conducting a scholarly inquiry. As both a consumer and producer of research, it is essential to have a firm grasp on just what is entailed in producing legitimate, valid results and conclusions. The very large and growing number of diverse research approaches in current pr ...
Research methodology, reliability, validity, research questions, problem directed research
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Although growing in popularity in other countries, the business professional doctorate has yet to gain traction in the U.S. Such programs, intended to offer advanced disciplinary and research training to individuals who later plan to apply that training to employment in industry, are frequently seen to be inferior to their academically-focused Ph.D. program counterparts. Furthermore, if the sole p ...
doctorate, professional doctorate, DBA, complex informing, diffusion, action research, research ecology.
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Much has been written in recent years on the subject of mentoring and many universities, organizations, and individuals have rushed to embrace the concept without thinking through what it means for the university, organization, mentor, and, most importantly, the mentee. This article is an examination of the various factors involved in the mentoring process. Knowledge gained, collaboration, situati ...
Mentoring, Mentor, Mentee, Neophyte, Practitioner
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In recent years there has been considerable interest in the development of electronic money schemes. Electronic money has the potential to take over from cash as the primary means of making small-value payments and could make such transactions easier and cheaper for both consumers and merchants. Electronic money is a record of the funds or "value" available to a consumer stored on an electronic de ...
Electronic purse, Monetary aggregate, Money laundering, Open market sales, Smart card, Electronic money.
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This paper extends previous studies on quantifying the risk of misinforming by introducing models, which allow measuring the risk of misinforming in case of competing messages. These models are realistic representation of the market situation, where purchasing decisions are made based on the assessment of all available offers and selecting the one that meets at most the buyer's needs. The paper em ...
information asymmetry, misinforming, warranty, risk, competition.
The growing phenomenon of competitors that use a common interorganizational system (IOS) raises challenging strategic and organizational issues. Sometimes organizations join IOS initiatives although it seems to weaken their competitive position. This paper analyzes, in retrospect, the fully automated Tel-Aviv Continuous Trading system (TACT) implemented by the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and it ...
Interorganizational system (IOS), information systems adoption, information systems implementation, organizational feasibility, strategic value, electronic stock exchange, Theory of Constraints (TOC).
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The phenomenal success and popularity of a new Polish social networking portal Nasza-klasa.pl (Our Class) is discussed. Essentials information on the portal, its functions and usability features are presented, together with an overview of technological platform employed. Statistical data is provided where appropriate to illustrate the phenomenon under study. The study attempts to provide a model m ...
social network site, virtual community, model of e-business
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This study tested the attributes of the theory of diffusion of innovation empirically, using Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) as the target innovation. The study was situated in Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. The population comprised banks customers in Jos who used ATMs. The sampling frame technique was applied, and 14 banks that had deployed ATMs were selected. Cluster sampling was employed to sele ...
Adoption, Automatic Teller Machine (ATM), Banks, Diffusion of Innovation, Nigeria
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The number of Internet purchases continues to increase, making customer relationship management even more critical in today’s Internet marketplace. Keeping existing customers satisfied is much more cost effective than acquiring new customers. However, the Internet has been plagued by inaccurate color representation since the advent of e-commerce. Color inaccuracy has many negative consequences, th ...
Customer relationship management (CRM), e-CRM, online customer retention, e-satisfaction, online customer satisfaction, visual merchandising, product presentation, e-tailing.
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Numerous studies have examined and predicted the usage of e-commerce Web sites using the Technology Acceptance Model and its primary constructs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Smith (2008) conducted an empirical study of four e-commerce Web sites with participation from a unique and often understudied segment of the population - the senior generation. In addition, he called for ...
Technology Acceptance Model, Web site usability, E-commerce, Senior generation, Net generation
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Adverts are used to make services and products known to its likely users or consumers in a very easy and dynamic way. These have become one major medium which business, organization or establishment could function effectively in a competitive environment. Manufacturers and organizations use adverts as a means of reaching their intending customers, as regards the goods and services they make availa ...
Static Agents, Advert Placement, Broadcasting Station, E-commerce and Mobile Agents.
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A vertical electronic marketplace (EM) is an inter-organizational intermediary within a single industry that enables participating buyers and sellers to exchange information about price and product offerings and to cooperate on commodity exchange. Using a Relational View (RV) perspective, this paper develops theoretical arguments that explain the impact of ownership on the likelihood of vEM surviv ...
B2B electronic marketplace, ownership model, relational view
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The study examines the nature and impact of ICT trainings received by teacher educators in Southwestern Nigeria teacher training institutions. Four hundred and sixty nine teacher educators participated in the study by responding to three research instruments. The instruments enquired information on ICT training background, competence and use level of teacher educators. Data were analyzed using des ...
ICT , Assessment /Training
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In this paper, we report on a longitudinal study into instruction in a technology based course directed at the creation of multimedia applications. Students come from both the Computing and Media Arts areas and group project work has been the main assessment strategy employed. A metric referred to as the Difficulty was arrived at through a factor analysis of questionnaire data. This metric has bee ...
Instruction, instructional methodologies, constructivist environments, project based learning, peer assessment, peer review.
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A Living Lab is a new way to deal with community-driven innovation in real-life contexts. The Living Lab concept is fuelled by knowledge sharing, collaboration and experimenting in open real environments. This research explores the sustainable development of community Living Labs within a South African context. The members of rural communities need sustainable development support in order to creat ...
Living labs, Value Chains, Collaboration, Systems Thinking
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The paper presents a rubric to be used in evaluating student’s efforts in a course whose subject matter is four framing conceptions: global, economic, social cultural, and ethical. The course is a requirement for an ABET accredited program. These are given as the grounds for constructing the rubric. The paper also reports on the course’s practices: reports.
assessment, rubric, global, economic, social cultural, and ethical framing conceptions, critical thinking.
Currently colleges and universities are facing a number of problems, including ill designed curricula that do not address demands from the job market. There is also tremendous pressure from society on academic institutions to provide an education that results in guaranteed employment, especially given the soaring price of higher education. Currently, a number of academic institutions are facing th ...
e-portfolios, e-portfolio assessment system, outcome-based educational model, IT curriculum.
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E-portfolios have been widely used in the education community. Currently, e-portfolios are viewed mostly as a tool of assessment and showcase, but less as a tool of active learning. This paper proposes an ontological model that specifies a generic organizational structure of e-portfolios in the integrated reflection context. An example of design artifact of ontology of e-portfolios is used to illu ...
E-portfolios, integrated reflection, learning object, ontology, design research.
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It has been argued that culture effects how individuals implement, understand, live, and do business within a defined political, organizational, and ethnic environment. This essay presents a context for analyzing possible cultural shifts based on Hofstede and Hofstede’s conception that a society’s culture constituted in and presented in individuals’ views and routines determines an identifiable cu ...
globalization and change, global education, organizational cultural, Hofstede, cultural patterns, business education
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This research paper assesses the impact of ICTs (which includes the Internet, mobile phone, pager, personal computer, and telephone) on Gross National Income (GNI) per capita in developing countries in 2005. It found a significant relationship between GNI per capita (in PPP international dollar) and adoption of each ICT (mobile phone, personal computer, and telephone) but not for Internet technolo ...
Economic growth, economic development, Internet, mobile phone, personal computer, telephone, and challenges.
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This paper presents disaggregated survey data on ICT ownership, access to public ICT facilities, capabilities and actual use of ICTs in two locations in a Nigerian municipality. The study analysed socio-demographic differences in access and use of ICTs using Sen’s capability approach. Survey research approach was adopted. The locations were a rural and an urban community. The population of the stu ...
Access, Capability Approach, Digital divide Information and Communication Technologies, Socio-demographic differences, Use, Nigeria
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There are relatively few empirical studies that examine cultural differences in students’ beliefs and use of web-based learning systems. Asian and Western countries have different systems of thought which are rooted in their respective national culture. Although there are a number of theories to explain individuals’ behavior within different cultures, there are few that focused on web-based learni ...
Web-based Learning System, Extrinsic Motivation, Intentions, China, Intrinsic Motivation, Enjoyment, Moderating, Mediating
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Since antiquity names have been very important to people. Naming from the past to the present has been continuously developed and has evolved into a variety of patterns. Each pattern has its own rules depending on local belief and language that has been developed until the present. In many cultures naming is not only important because every individual needs to have a name but have helpful names or ...
Thai naming system, statistical ontology, rule based system, phonetic algorithm
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This paper reports on an exploratory investigation of the perceptions of information and communication technology (ICT) as a field of study and work in German secondary schools. A total of 160 students from five secondary schools in Lower Saxony participated in the study in February 2007, and four teachers of the students were interviewed. The investigation is part of the research carried out by t ...
Information and communication technology (ICT) education, perceptions of ICT careers, secondary school students, secondary school teachers, gender in ICT education, crosscultural comparison, German schools, Australian schools.
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With the repaid advancement of computer technology, the use of computer-based technologies is increasing in different fields of life. Image segmentation is an important problem in different fields of image processing and computer vision. Image segmentation is the process of dividing images according to its characteristic e.g., color and objects present in the images. Different methods are presente ...
image processing, segmentation, watershed transformation.
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This paper proposes and evaluates a new framework for website image manipulation and its protection using ASP.NET framework in watermarking technique. The proposed framework shows how to protect the valuable website images from the unauthorized users and to preserve web server’s bandwidth by preventing other unauthorized websites from directly linking to the images of the authorized web server. Th ...
Watermarking, Authentication, Image manipulation, Meta data
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Image edge detection is a process of locating the edge of an image which is important in finding the approximate absolute gradient magnitude at each point I of an input grayscale image. The problem of getting an appropriate absolute gradient magnitude for edges lies in the method used. The Sobel operator performs a 2-D spatial gradient measurement on images. Transferring a 2-D pixel array into sta ...
Image Processing, Edge Detection, Sobel Operator, Data Communication and Absolute Gradient Magnitude.
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model for learning to program in entry level programming courses. The intended model is aimed at providing a framework to simplify learning to program at beginner or entry level programming courses. Learning to program is considered to be a difficult task to many students and it has been attributed to the continuous decline in enrollment in tech ...
Introduction to Programming, Programming Conceptual Model, difficulty learning programming, entry level programming, beginner programming courses.
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Computer simulations have implications across disciplines and with learners at all levels. By requiring learners to develop and apply knowledge and skills in interactive changing environments, they encourage deeper levels of learning. Additionally, simulations have been shown to be particularly effective at teaching complicated concepts that depend on the ability to understand interrelationships, ...
Simulations, project-based learning, capstone, minority learners
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This study investigated the relationships among perceived course value, student engagement, deep learning strategies, and surface learning strategies. The study relied on constructs from previous studies to measure course value, engagement, surface learning strategy, and deep learning strategy. Statistically significant findings were observed between perceived course value, student engagement, and ...
learning styles, deep learning, surface learning, student engagement, course value, education (relevance)
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The main purpose of this paper is to assess the role of management games in mapping students’ preferable learning styles to elements of business know-how acquisition in a specific environment. A management game is developed to cover five functional areas of a manufacturing company: marketing, research and development, human resources, production and inventory, and finance. Elements that advance th ...
Management Games; Business Simulation; Business Know-How Acquisition; Learning Styles; Business Education.
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Pedagogic research has found that motivation, self-efficacy and value-expectancy are the most influencing factors on student academic behaviour (Bandura, 1997; Linnenbrink & Pintrich, 2002), which again are heavily influenced by how students experience success, confidence and well-being, lecturers motivation and enthusiasm, and how theory and practice is tied together. Universities will increase, ...
academic behavior, motivation, self-efficacy, expected-value, learning.
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Software Engineering capstone projects have been running successfully since 2002 for the final year software engineering (SE) students of the Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) Program at Monash University, accredited by Engineers Australia and Australian Computer Society. Agile methods are being increasingly adopted in the industry. In this paper, we describe the objectives of SE capstone pro ...
software engineering, capstone projects, agile practices
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Online learning continues to be among the fastest-growing sectors of higher education. K-12 teachers and education professionals outside of the K-12 classroom are among the consumers taking interest in online learning. With many opportunities for technology-enriched learning, educators are becoming more interested in educational technology programs that will provide them with credentials necessary ...
Blended Learning, ELearning, Online learning, Web-based learning, Learner satisfaction, Student Perceptions, Faculty Effort.
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Higher education programs need to prepare their graduates for the practical challenges they can expect to face upon entering the workforce. Students can be better prepared if their academic learning is reinforced through authentic workplace experience, where the link between theory and professional practice can be realized. Increasingly, such learning in the workplace is being seen as an integral ...
IT education, computing education, learning in the workplace, internship
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In this article, we describe the development of a classification system providing a framework for analysis of, and communication about, a subgroup of learning objects. The objects we consider are highly visual, animated, interactive, and mathematics-related, and we call them VaniMaps. Secondly, we discuss the use of the system. In the first phase, the development was based on literature studies an ...
classification, discussion, evaluation, learning object, mathematics, mathematics education, statements, taxonomy, teacher education, VaniMaps.
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Learning objects were to bring a seismic shift to the field of computer-based instruction by introducing transportability and reusability. Supposedly outfitted with the concepts taken from object-oriented (OO) design, learning objects have long promised dramatic savings of time and money in course and curricula development. However, they have failed to deliver the return on investment that seems a ...
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Harman & Koohang (2005) stated that a learning object “ .. is not merely a chunk of information packaged to be used in instructional settings. A learning object, therefore, can include anything that has pedagogical value - digital or non-digital such as a case study, a film, a simulation, an audio, a video, an animation, a graphic image, a map, a book, or a discussion board so long as the object c ...
informing objects, learning objects, Informing objects situations, dense Informing object, sparse informing object
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In this article the author argues that LIS has suffered from lack of theoretical foundation. Recently many experts have tried to find a theoretical basis for the subject. Nevertheless they are not satisfied yet and they have not achieved to a consensus. The author argues that it is because they stood on a wrong foot. Content analysis is the main approach to this paper. The author believes that the ...
library and information science, information retrieval, theoretical foundation, meta science, information studies
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One of the greatest challenges that academic and research libraries face today is to prepare the staff working in these organizations for the future. Preparation of library staff requires serious attention to the human resource programmes in libraries and consideration of the development needs and interests of staff at all levels, from at the top the University Librarian to the lowest level the Li ...
library, staff development
842 downloads
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Health informatics is becoming increasingly important for healthcare professionals and strategies to promote health informatics development are becoming increasingly popular in undergraduate professional programmes. With this in mind, a blended or hybrid learning approach was piloted with an undergraduate BSc nursing module in the university. The aim of this pilot was to design, develop, implement ...
Blended, Learning, Technology Enhanced Learning, Perception, LMS, V ideo Recording, Teaching
447 downloads
Information Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the world communication order. People can be informed in more effective, efficient and convenient ways. Access to media has percolated to the grassroots. In spite of all such remarkable developments, whether ICT facilitates Science communication is a billion dollar question. Though information is freely and widely available by virtue of ...
health information, patient information needs, science communication, user preferences
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Risk assessment is a structured and systematic procedure, which is dependent upon the correct identification of hazards and an appropriate assessment of risks arising from them, with a view to making inter-risk comparisons for purposes of their control and avoidance. There are differences in the methodology used to conduct risk assessments. This paper presents some methodologies of risk management ...
risk assessment, information technology, risk management.
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As configuration of network services is faced with wide-spread deployment problems requiring considerable human efforts and involvement, Mobile Agent based Network Management System become a central concern. Moreover, the recent developments in the area of mobile agent based network management and ever improving Java Programming language have provided important tools for designing Secure Mobile Ag ...
Mobile Agent, Security, Protocol, Network Management, Aglet, SNMP
Ignoring security threats can have serious consequences; therefore host machines in network must continually be monitored for intrusions since they are the final endpoint of any network. As a result, this paper presents an Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IIDPS), which monitors a single host system from three different layers; files analyzer, system resource and connection la ...
Intrusion, anomaly, signature, TCP/IP, ICMP
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Control signaling messages in Mobile IPv6 are mainly used to inform the home agent (HA) and the correspondent node (CN) about the mobile node’s (MN’s) new address when its network attachment point is changed. In order to prevent various security attacks, these messages must be protected. In the current standard, the control signaling messages between a HA and a MN are authenticated using IPSec, of ...
mobile IPv6, mobile networking, network security, identity based encryption, elliptic curve cryptography, key agreement protocol, Internet Key Exchange protocol, EAP, routing.
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is defined as a component that analyses system and user operations in computer and network systems in search of activities considered undesirable from security perspectives. Applying mobile agent (MA) to intrusion detection design is a recent development and it is aimed at effective intrusion detection in distributed environment. From the literature, it is clear t ...
IDS, Mobile Agents, Data Mining
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Since the information-communications systems lay on three interactive portions of infrastructure (network, information bases, devices/interfaces), the current Internet domination of Web 2.x will be finished very soon. The Internet as we are using today has to be changed. In particular, the next generation of Internet has to be more user friendly, information oriented and computerless interfaced. I ...
Information-Communications Systems, Internet, Web, Social Networks, Unified Communications
Ensuring adequate security of information has been a growing concern of individuals and organizations. There is then the need to provide suitable access control mechanism for preventing insider abuses and ensuring appropriate use of resources. This paper presents an access control scheme that adopts the techniques of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Purpose-Based Access Control (PBAC), Time-Based ...
Security, Access Control, Resource Sensitivity, Insider Abuses, Privileges
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This paper explores whether students are customers, students, or both students and customers. The following are discussed: How do administrative members (deans, assistant deans, chairs, assistant chairs), full-time faculty, and adjunct faculty members within an online post-secondary learning institution perceive their students’ status within the organization? Are the students purely students, or a ...
student, customer
527 downloads
Common technical problems can overwhelm managers who lack basic technical experience. Many managers eschew technology projects due to their self-efficacy, or intrinsic beliefs about their ability to successfully solve specific tasks. Competitive organizations require managers who can not only take charge of problem situations involving technology without wasting limited resources, but also leverag ...
Efficacy beliefs; self-efficacy; business competencies; skills; career; technology; knowledge management; organizational learning; technical knowledge; individual learning; OTIS
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As the field of research surrounding project management continues to grow, it is becoming more evident that success in the role of project manager cannot be attained with a technical skill set only. Project managers functioning within a matrix organizational structure and championing large-scale initiatives are in a communication paradigm unparalleled by any other management position. Excellent in ...
soft skills, project management, leadership.
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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) has shown significant prospects in rapid production of large software systems with enhanced quality, and emphasis on decomposition of the engineered systems into functional or logical components with well-defined interfaces used for communication across the components. In this paper, a series of metrics proposed by various researchers have been analyzed, ...
CBSE metrics, software integration, software reusability, software maintenance.
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Concurrent engineering or overlapping activities is a business strategy for schedule compression on large development projects. Design parameters and tasks from every aspect of a product’s development process and their interdependencies are overlapped and worked on in parallel. Concurrent engineering suffers from negative effects such as excessive rework and increased social and communication comp ...
architecture, concurrent engineering, software engineering, teamwork.
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The effectiveness of an informing system is based upon several factors that include the perceptual limitations of the person receiving the information. This paper examines the perceptual limitation of the amount of information that may be processed by the human cognitive system when this information is displayed in parallel through multiple windows. The experiments show that a sequential presentat ...
working memory limits, multimedia system design, computer based learning, perceptual limitations, student modeling
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After a short overview of the results obtained by the use of information systems for teaching and research in paleography, the problem of the students’ access to information on the web is discussed. The difficulty students have in finding the “right” documents, among the ones freely available in the site of the “Materials for Latin paleography”, can be considered a particular branch of the broader ...
constructivist learning environment, online information system, socio-technical approach, teaching paradigm, web technologies
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Usability is one of the characteristics that compose the multi-dimension concept of information systems' quality. Technology improvements enable the building of information systems to be used "any place, any time", through mobile handheld devices and wireless networks. Usability is threatened by the use of mobile-wireless information systems, especially because of the use of small devices with tin ...
usability, information systems, mobile, wireless, quality.
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The study examined ICT attitude, competence, and use pattern of teacher educators. It also examined the effect of age of educators on time used in interacting with ICT. Four hundred and sixty seven teacher educators from 10 teacher education institutions (5 colleges of education and 5 universities) participated in the study. Data were collected with the aid of four research instruments. Resulting ...
Age, Behaviour, ICT attitude, use pattern, Nigeria
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An emotion-aware method KALEIDOSCOPE is presented in the paper. It consists of a visualization approach, a method for information transfer-by-sense and applied approaches to maintain a natural-style dialog. The combination is purposed to provoke and keep positive emotions in the user and to maintain his interest in the problem. The main goal of this paper is to show how different machine-done visu ...
Education Systems, Information Technologies, Emotion-Aware Systems, Emerging User Informing Technologies, Intelligent System, Computational Discovery, Learning Formal Descriptions, Cognitive Psychology.
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It has been reported that as many as fifty percent of adults, including first-year University students, have some sort of computer-related phobia. This report demonstrates that the use of computers still has some unpleasant side effects despite the Internet boom in the past decade. Past research shows that computer anxiety influences how users perceive ease of use of an information system. However ...
Online learning; Anxiety; Computer Self-Efficacy; Perceived ease of use
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Energy consumption, the associated green house emissions has now caught the attention of mainstream organizations. Soon organizations will be required by legislation in many modern economies to report their contribution to green house emissions through their energy consumption. Office computing is a significant contributor to greenhouse emissions through electricity energy consumption. Until recen ...
Green IT, carbon footprint, greenhouse emissions, energy/power consumption, smart power blocks, instant-on systems.
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This paper details the experience of a particular department in integrating digital video games into a service learning project. The department of Technology Support and Training program (TST) within the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology (ECOBIT) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) has taken the initiative to integrate service learning projects into their courses. Vario ...
Service learning, technology service projects, video game service projects
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Information technology and communications have now become the main elements that move forward and help Oman in its national development process. Internet penetration in most developing countries like Oman is still low as oppose to mobiles dissemination, despite the government plans and strategies to enhance internet diffusion. Internet subscribers comprised about 2.5% of the general population of ...
Oman, e-government, m-government, technology adoption, success factors
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In a virtual memory system using demand paging, the page fault rate of a process varies with the number of memory frames allocated to the process. When an increase in the number of frames allocated leads to an increase in the number of page faults, Belady's anomaly is said to occur. In this study we used computer simulation to examine four conditions that affect the incidence of Belady's anomaly: ...
virtual memory, demand paging, Belady's anomaly, page fault, reference string, FIFO, Random Page.
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In our world, where most systems become embedded systems, the approach of designing embedded systems is still frequently similar to the approach of designing organic systems (or not embedded systems). An organic system, like a personal computer or a work station, must be able to run any task submitted to it at any time (with certain constrains depending on the machine). Consequently, it must have ...
Computer architecture, Operating systems, Embedded systems, Scheduling.
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This paper proposes a method of assessing hotel web sites in a way that may allow prediction of first impressions of those web sites. A model is presented that combines the ideas of media frames as defined by Matthes and Kohring and work on first impressions by Kim and Fesenmaier. To obtain information regarding the utility of this model a small sample of older travelers’ first impressions was gat ...
web page evaluation, models of e-commerce, media frames, first impressions
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Results of own research and other studies on Polish women’s web portals are presented. The scope of research included primarily content analysis and the range of usability functions available on websites addressed to Polish women. A large part of the research covers women’s preference analysis in relation to content offered on websites. Statistical data illustrated the results. The results of this ...
women’s web portals, content analysis, usability functions.
The purpose of this discussion paper is to examine approaches for extending the ADL SCORM standard with additional metadata based on ADL approved methods. An introduction to the ADL SCORM standard is presented followed by a description of the SCORM components. Examples of how SCORM is lacking LOM in the areas pedagogy, adaptive learning and learning assessment data are then discussed. According to ...
SCORM, Learning Objects (LO), Learning Object Metadata (LOM), XML
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The transdiscipline Informing Science was first theorized just a decade ago. So what is Informing Science.The Foundations of Informing Science provides a number of answer. But the question is not simple and so there are simple answers. The book consists of 23 chapters that explore this question and provides a fascinating read.
informing Science, Theory
FEATURED
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Highs and Lows of Implementing a Management Strategy Eliminating 'Free Passengers' in Group Projects
In attempting to give students the opportunity to work on group projects with other students, yet ensuring students receive the marks that they each deserve, a management strategy for dealing with group work initially proposed by Ford and Morice (2003) was implemented. The present paper discusses the implementation of this strategy with its positive and negative outcomes. While good students were, ...
group projects, assessment
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This article describes the emergence of collaborative work between researchers and information professionals through the presentation oftwo tools developed within Cemagref. The first tool is a traditional database and the second a Wiki; they were both implemented by information professionals with the contribution of information technology (IT) experts. The role of Cemagref information professional ...
scientific and technical information, scientific publishing, monitoring, database, wiki.
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Pedagogically-driven support for groups is a continuing challenge as we move forward in embracing technology in an ever changing educational environment. SecondLife (www. SecondLife.com) is a virtual environment that is receiving global attention and recognition. In this paper, we compare SecondLife to other group support technologies through an extended T echnology Acceptance Model (TAM) lens. Th ...
virtual worlds, technology acceptance, TAM, group support, pedagogy, Second Life
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The continuous growth of cyber security threats and attacks including the increasing sophistication of malware is impacting the security of critical infrastructure, industrial control systems, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) control systems. The reliable operation of modern infrastructures depends on computerized systems and SCADA systems. Since the emergence of Internet and W ...
industrial control system, SCADA control system, cyber security, critical infrastructure, requirements, risk management, security framework
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This paper deals with the basic aspects of Honeypots, their use in modem computer networks and their implementation in educational environments. Initially, the implementation of Honeypots solves a common problem of Information Security and Forensics: The dissection of the elements that make up an attack against a computer system. Next, the paper explains the different types and functions of Honeyp ...
Honeypot, honeynet, intrusion detection system, computer forensics, virtualization.
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This paper presents the proposed IT Control objectives for implementing the Public Finance Management Act of 1999 (PFMA) for the Republic of South Africa. The aspects covered in this paper show the main concerns of accounting officers in implementing the PFMA. The ability of IT Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) to enable the participation of IT in the design and imp ...
PFMA, Internal control; COBIT; Control objectives; implementation
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Despite government oversight, consumers continue to be concerned about the security of personal information used by corporations. Consumer concerns give rise to the necessity for corporations to manage information security. Navigating the multitude of existing security standards, including dedicated standards for information security and frameworks for controlling the implementation of information ...
information security, security standards, security policy, strategic information security management, IT management.
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Academic computing programs often want to keep pace with technological changes by frequently updating their program contents. These program changes are often reactionary and lack uniform standards. Thus some of the changes are often rolled back and, as a result, face additional changes shortly after their implementation. A helpful strategy in computer program updates is to utilize a standard curri ...
Comparing two computer programs with IT2005, Computer programs and standard curriculum, Computer programs, technology curriculum IT2005, AIS, AITP, and ABET-CAC
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Despite the availability of numerous methods and publications concerning the proper conduct of information security risk analyses, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face serious organizational challenges managing the deployment and use of these tools and methods to assist them in selecting and implementing security safeguards to prevent IS security compromises. This paper builds a case for ...
information security, information assurance, risk management, risk assessment, open source, open content
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This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture cofinanced project PBP-VC, Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses, which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the implementation of virtual campuses. The paper outlines a tentative model of issues underpinning best practice in virtual campuses deri ...
Virtual Campuses, eLearning, Best Practice, Constructivist Learning Environments, Problem-Based Learning
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The paper shares experience accumulated in launching and implementing a curriculum model for bachelor level training of professionals - Information Brokers - to serve as mediators and consultants to different kind of clients. This requires that professional possess knowledge and skills in several areas as information technology, mathematics and statistics, business and economics, and consulting sk ...
Information Brokerage, curriculum model, baccalaureate level
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This panel will inform the audience about an undergraduate IT program's preparation and process for ABET accreditation. The School of Information Technology at Macon State College is seeking accreditation from the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). ABET accredits academic programs that prepare graduates for entry into the following professional disciplines: 1) applied scienc ...
. Accreditation, ABET, IT curriculum, educational objectives, program outcome, continuous improvement
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This paper reflects on the skills required by university graduates to participate successfully in today’s global economy. The development of these skills in students throughout Australian universities has been guided by Core Graduate Attributes (CGA) policies. While information literacy skills have been recognised in most policies, more advanced information technology and communication (ICT) skill ...
ICT skills, graduate attributes, digital technology, communication skills
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In an ideal world, review and changes to computing curricula should be driven solely by academic concerns for the needs of students. The process should be informed by industry accreditation processes and international best practice (Hurst et al., 2001). However, Australian computing curricular review is often driven by the need for financial viability of programs with declining student numbers as ...
computing education, IT education, academic review, curriculum development
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E-business courses were introduced in many universities around the world about ten years ago. Sometimes they were introduced at the undergraduate level, sometimes at postgraduate level and sometimes at both. This paper will present a case study examining the postgraduate e-business courses in two Australian universities and how they have changed over the last few years. The paper describes factors ...
E-business, e-commerce, university postgraduate curriculum, curriculum change.
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The numbers of Computer Science professionals are rapidly increasing in Pakistan. Earlier revisions ofthe CS curriculum made by Higher Education Commission (EEC), Pakistan were based upon the critical skills needed for the professionals according to the demands of market. Unfortunately no effort was made to determine the critical skills needed for computer academicians. As part of the course devel ...
curriculum development, computer academician, programming instructors, database instructors, networks instructors, teaching assistants.
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This paper highlights the rationale for all IT degrees being focused on Information Assurance holistically throughout the entire degree. It takes a look at the failure of industry to produce an operating system that provides user control of system activities and primarily serves the user rather than other special interest groups (Microsoft, Digital Rights Management, other applications vendors, et ...
cryptography, forensics, information assurance, education.
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Most universities where students study informational technologies and computer science have an introductory course dealing with the development and design of databases. These courses often include usage of database design tools. In this paper, the #EER tool is presented, the task of which is to make the process of relational databases design easier for the students and partially automatize it. The ...
Database design, educational tool, EER, conceptual data modeling
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We describe a project to evaluate an image database within an educational context. The partners in the EURIDICE project were educational institutions in a number of countries, together with other agencies and one commercial partner. Input to the database was provided by the commercial partner, a public library, and state archives. Evaluation was guided through a workshop in which all institutions ...
learning objects, evaluation, EURIDICE, information users, image database
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Electronic Data Capture (EDC) is increasingly being used in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries to gather research data worldwide from doctors, hospitals and universities participating in clinical trials. In this highly regulated environment, all systems and software must be thoroughly tested and validated, a task that is burdensome in terms of time and cost. Starting with da ...
electonic data capture, object orientation, prototyping, clinical research
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This paper presents a virtual learning environment for HIP (Host Identity Protocol). HIP is a potential future Internet protocol currently under research. The main idea with HIP is the separation between the location and identity information by introducing a new cryptographic name space, called Host Identity (HI). This feature provides enhanced network security as well as easy management of mobili ...
animation, didactical, learning environment, HIP, security, mobility
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This study surveyed how students’ backgrounds prepare them for online education. The study compared learning outcome between traditional and non-traditional (adult) undergraduate students in online and face-to-face sessions; the difference in learning over time; and the effect of prior online experience. Student learning measurements included: pre-test, final examination (post-test), and final let ...
Distance learning, Online education, learning outcomes, e-learning, Internet Based Learning. effectiveness of online education, f2f.
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Learning that is facilitated by electronic technologies, otherwise known as e-Leaming, can be either fully online, mixed mode (also known as hybrid), or web assisted; however, regardless of the delivery method, there are numerous tools and features at the disposal of students and instructors, and it is important for the e-learning community to examine both preferences and usage of these features. ...
e-learning, asynchronous instruction, web-based instruction, minority education, hybrid learning, online learning, assessment, online examinations
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The extensive introduction of online technologies to support teaching and learning is impacting how teachers teach and students learn. It is also affecting both teaching staff s and students’ perceptions of what each others’ roles are. The research reported here is part of a larger study that explored different aspects of teaching and learning in online environments. This study was undertaken with ...
Online learning, E-learning, online teaching, role of online teacher, role of online learner
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Providing students in an asynchronous learning network (ALN) a rich learning environment is not easy, especially in terms of promoting higher cognitive functioning such as analysis and evaluation. The use of project-based, collaborative assignments has been demonstrated to foster greater depth of learning in traditional classroom settings, but this type of assignment is very difficult to plan, dev ...
project-based learning, collaborative learning, distance education, asynchronous learning networks.
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How, where, when, and what we teach has been significantly influenced by technological innovation. Radio, television, and computers have all altered how information is presented and how students interact with that information. This paper describes how virtual worlds provide a mechanism to incorporate constructivist, experiential, and student-centered learning practices into the classroom. The auth ...
virtual worlds, Second life, constructivist learning, authentic learning, metaverse, Sloodle
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The review of literature pertaining to systems analysis and design and the design of systems for online teaching and learning has identified some “gaps” and has shown the need for a more specialised and specific method for the design of such systems. This paper presents research that was conducted to collect information to assist in the filling of the gaps of the systems analysis and design knowle ...
Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), Method for Educational Analysis and Design (MEAD), Online learning.
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The aim of the project is the development of an innovative, Open Source-based eLearning portal, which provides high scalability and versatility, as well as it is easy to upgrade; it aims at meeting some changeable requirement in the field of distance learning (yearly or even monthly innovation). The modular structure and flexibility provided by the portal makes this system adaptable to any kind of ...
LMS, e-learning, open-source, distance learning, web technologies.
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Based on recent proliferation of online education and ongoing technological revolution, this research focuses on interaction of students and faculty as a main contributor to the success of online education. A survey of 22 items was distributed to faculty members and students from the Midwest of the U.S. and 3 Eastern European countries during the period of 2002-2003. The data collected reflects st ...
online interaction, library role, use of computer labs, state of technology
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In modem learning environments, the lecturer or educational designer is often confronted with multi-national student cohorts, requiring special consideration regarding language, cultural norms and taboos, religion, and ethics. Through a somewhat provocative example we demonstrate that taking such factors into account can be essential to avoid embarrassment and harm to individual learners’ cultural ...
cross-cultural education, adaptive learning paths, learner profile, dynamic content selection, concept analysis, Normalised Word Vector algorithm
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This study is one of the few empirical studies to examine students’ acceptance of a web-based learning system (WLS). By incorporating intrinsic motivator into the technology acceptance model, our model attempts to explain students’ behavioral intention in using the system from a motivational perspective. Unlike most studies using subjects from developed countries, this study aims to extend knowled ...
Technology Acceptance Model, Web-based learning system, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, Developing country, China
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This document presents a five year development initiative that sought to implement a learning management system clearly differentiated from the CMS domain. The present article reports on our research work showing our effort towards a design of a true learning management system which entails pedagogical strategies embedded into the system design and the online learning environment. This is characte ...
Learning management systems, learning objects, collaboration, AJAX, OOD, online
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As more and more colleges and universities offer courses designed in the e-leaming format, quality of instruction and student performance are becoming, progressively more, issues that need to be addressed. This study is an attempt to add to the literature on student performance in traditional and e-learning environments as well as exploring student-centered and learner-centered as an instructional ...
e-learning, student performance, instructor-centered, student-centered, instructional strategy, traditional environment.
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Lean manufacturing has been widely adopted by many production companies. Apart from the operational difficulty associated with conversion from a traditional, functional based operation, adoption of Lean manufacturing involves significant organizational transformations. It requires formation of work teams, comprised of multi-skilled workers. The work teams are preferably self directed and need to c ...
Lean manufacturing, Just-in-time, cellular manufacturing, Organizational Behaviour.
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The idea of the paper is to investigate how much the online user privacy is respected by website owners, and how online privacy can be improved. We first focus ourselves on issues like possibilities of misusing personal data, data collecting and user-tracking. Then we give a short report about legislation in the EU concerning user privacy. Some facts about user confidence are given as well. They a ...
privacy, website, misuse, web design, user.
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This study looks at web use in hotels using a set of dimensions developed by Hashim, Murphy & Law (2007). The study investigates future directions of web use by looking at trends in one of the most established web communities. We found that the web features in the Hashim et al. dimensions model were universal across all types of hotel accommodation. We also found that directions such as disinterme ...
Web site evaluation; Web site design; Web site strategy; e-Tourism; ICTs in Tourism; Hotel web sites
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This study surveys forty four project leaders of recently completed e-commerce sites regarding customer participation in e-commerce development activities. Throughout the literature for four decades, a commonly cited factor pertaining to system success has been user participation in the systems development process. The business need for a rewarding customer experience on an e-commerce site would s ...
User participation, project management, electronic commerce, systems development
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The current research aims to explore and analyze the application and use of a wiki, in a knowledge-management academic course. The research will focus on the level of collaboration among students and on the kind of interaction that takes take place during the learning process. The population of this study was comprised of wiki pages which were gathered from a knowledge-management wiki course in Is ...
wiki, collaboration, interaction, web 2.0, knowledge-management.
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This paper discusses the pedagogical considerations and the steps that have been taken by faculty members within a technology program to update their web design courses. The department of T echnology Support and Training (TST) - Eberly College of Business and Information Technology (ECOBIT) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) has been updating their courses in response to technological cha ...
Web design course content; Web design curriculum, Courses in web design, Pedagogy of web design course, Content of web design courses
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The first documented day-long program to encourage girls to consider computing as a career was held in 1987 in the U.K. Over the last 20 years these one-day events, labeled Girls into Computing days, have been conducted by academics and professionals to foster female-student interest in information technology (IT) degrees and careers. This paper charts the growth and popularity of these types of e ...
Gender, female, computing, under-representation, recruitment
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The paper examines the presence of knowledge-related wisdom in student assignments by applying the constructs of wisdom developed by researchers at the Max Plank Institute for Human Development in Berlin. They are factual knowledge, procedural knowledge, contextualisation, relativism, and uncertainty. Reciprocal instructor wisdom was operationalised as intellectual excellence, inter-personal skill ...
knowledge-related wisdom, manifestations of wisdom, student assignments, student wisdom
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This paper reports on the findings from a quantitative research study into the use of a software tool that was built to support a part-complete solution method (PCSM) for the learning of computer programming. The use of part-complete solutions to programming problems is one of the methods that can be used to reduce the cognitive load that students experience during their learning. The tool that wa ...
learning, programming, cognition.
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The rapid evolvement of the computing domain has posed challenges in attempting to bridge the gap between school and the contemporary world of computing, which is related to content, learning culture, and professional norms. We believe that the interaction of high-school students who major in computer science or software engineering with leading representatives ofthe computing community of practic ...
self-learning, out-of-school learning, project-based learning, mentoring, role models
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Despite the importance of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) as a school subject in secondary education, there is a lack of an integrated ICT pedagogy that is elucidated within a broad framework of educational practice. The focus is still on technicalities and reproduction of knowledge rather than conceptual understanding of ICT. To realize the potential inherent in ICT, there is a nee ...
Design-based research, digital literacy, ICT pedagogy, learner-centered ICT teaching, learning cycle
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The study investigates the nature of relationship between ICT attitudinal constructs and use level of Nigerian teachers. A total of 467 teachers randomly drawn from teacher-training institutions participated in the study. Two research instruments; Teachers ICT Attitudinal Scales and Teachers’ Use of ICT Checklist were employed in collecting relevant information. Data collected were analysed using ...
Key Words ICT Attitude, Use Level, Constructs, Perceived usefulness
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Both industry and education struggle to foster the development of human resources who can manage and design information systems at an advanced level. Human resources, particularly within the field of business modeling, must develop the competency to conduct business in the real world. Determining how to foster competent human resources is an urgent and important issue for all educational programs ...
information systems, requirement, architect, learning process, conceptual data modeling, competency, team learning, instructional design
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The concept of pedagogical content knowledge has been explored in the context of several disciplines, such as mathematics, medicine and chemistry. In this paper the concept is explored and applied to the subject matter of computer science, in particular to the subdomain of building UML class diagrams. It is argued that the identification and analysis of problems that students experience with impor ...
Pedagogy, computer science education, UML class diagrams, exercises.
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Abstract Debugging skill is an essential part of the programming skills. It is also highly related with program comprehension skills. In this paper we present a novel tool, called ViLLE, which supports learning debugging by promoting students' understanding of target program. ViLLE combines visual debugging features with the support for roles of variables. These roles promote activating schemas of ...
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The Open Assignment Submission (OAS) is an innovative regime whereby students submit homework assignments of an appropriate nature into a designated open forum provided by the Learning Management System (LMS). Our previous research, carried out with a cohort of Education graduates, indicated possible benefits and challenges of OAS as a means of supporting assignment submission through learning fro ...
Open Assignment submission, LMS, peer examples, learning support, viewing patterns, assignment submission patterns
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The problems encountered by students in first year computer programming units are a common concern in many universities, including Victoria University. As a fundamental component of a computer science curriculum computer programming is a mandatory unit. It is also one of the most challenging units for many commencing students who often drop out from a computing course as a consequence of having fa ...
analogy, automated assessment, collaboration, introductory computer programming, programming support, student mentors.
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The paper examines the moderating influence of the “Big Five” model of personality, emotional intelligence, and the impact of multiple intelligences, on the use of soft skills among final year students. The present work investigates the variables which affect students in the elaboration of their research projects during their final year of study. 187students reading for their final years were aske ...
Personality, soft skills, intelligence, big five model, research project, multiple intelligences.
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T eacher education, which encompasses teaching, teaching effectiveness, the factors that determine teachers' thought processes and performances, and the social policies that affect teachers in all aspects and stages of their careers, is the fundamental groundwork and primary foundation, for attemptingto undertake various innovative and model learning and teaching approaches. However, a number of s ...
blended learning, cooperative learning, information technology, online learning, peer learning, pedagogy, student teachers
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The article aims at presenting a Web learning portal that allows for improving employees’ competencies in implementation of the Internet related technologies in business. Such a portal is dedicated to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The starting point for considerations is in suggesting initiatives that are necessary to undertake in the SME sector in the context of the knowledge based e ...
a Web learning portal, e-learning, internet technologies in business
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The paper draws on a didactic experiment conducted in a secondary school mathematics classroom in Greece which aimed to explore a) ways in which students develop problem representations, reasoning and problem-solving, making decisions and receiving feedback about their ideas and strategies in a DGS-supported environment b) ways in which students develop rigourous proof through building linking vis ...
DGS, van Hiele model, mental schemes, Linking Visual Active Representations, Reflective Visual Reaction, rigourous proof
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Courses on Operating Systems (OS) are essential in computer science education. The topic provides the students with an excellent opportunity to experience the interplay between theory and practice. Specifically, a project-based-learning (PBL) instructional design for an OS course can provide the students with opportunities to engage in practical projects. The PBL approach enables students to take ...
Operating systems, project-based learning, system-level perspective, professional practice.
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Program visualization is one of the various methods developed over the years to aid novices with their difficulties in learning to program. It consists of different graphical - often animated - and textual objects, visualizing the execution of programs. The aim of program visualization is to enhance students’ understanding of different areas of program execution. Typical program visualization tech ...
program visualization, novice programmers, effectiveness of visualization, programming, programming learning, programming teaching.
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This paper proposes the Active Learning for Classroom Management Model as a method to structure active learning experiences. The model was devised and tested in an Introductory Computer Programming course. Stages in the model are explained with examples of classroom activities. The model was evaluated twice in series of quasi-experiments and limited support was provided for improved student perfor ...
Active Learning, Learning Model, Innovation, Programming
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Technology education faces multiple challenges in the new millennium. In light of an increasing, overlapping and widening spectrum of technological fields of study, it has become imperative for students to be able to articulate their course of study and for technology departments to be able to assess the intended outcome of their program of study. The traditional approach of teaching one course at ...
Electronic portfolio, E-Portfolio, Digital Portfolio, Student digital portfolio.
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Electronic portfolios are a student-centered outcomes-based assessment regime involving learners in the gathering, selection, and organization of artifacts synthesized into a compilation purposed to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and/or achievements supported by reflections that articulate the relevance, credibility, and meaning of the artifacts being presented. Electronic portfolios have been fou ...
Electronic Portfolios, Electronic portfolios, Assessment, Student Learning Outcomes
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It is widely accepted that assessment determines learning: what is learnt, how the learning takes place, the extent to which the learning is retained, and the extent to which that learning can be further developed or applied (Biggs, 2003; Boud, Cohen, & Sampson, 1999; Entwistle & Entwistle, 1997; Rowntree, 1992). This paper examines an assessment intervention undertaken independently by two South ...
assessment, large classes, academic literacy, student engagement, newspaper
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This paper describes research experiences in student learning assessment in information systems programs. These research experiences resulted from research implemented at two Connecticut State universities during the past six years. The paper provides an overview of the expanding research in Information Systems education assessment and links assessment work at the program level with the use of sta ...
program assessment, action research, assessment, information systems education.
The paper discusses an evaluative technique or rubric for judging students’ responses to and observations on issues of computing. The paper discusses the frames of globalization, economics, social-cultural, and ethical as dimensions structuring the observations as well as the rubric.
Globalization, economic, social, cultural, ethical, frames, rubric
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The question to be examined in the intended research is whether and to what degree access to previous files gives students an advantage during a practical IT test , i.e. does it produce higher results on tests and if so how much? The hypothesis is that viewing previous files will make little or no difference to student performance. This was validated by the results.
. access to files, open book, mid-eastern, IT, foreign language instruction
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The paper reports on the features of the framework for digital literacy support and documentation, developed within a research project the author is working on, with some colleagues in other Italian universities. First a short introduction on the features of today society often called “knowledge society” is reported, and the problems of digital divide and digital literacy are discussed. Soon after ...
digital competence, digital divide, digital literacy, information literacy, information system, web technology.
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Blogs are a new and intriguing form of communication and personal expression. Researchers are only just beginning to realise the value that these media present as sources of data for research. This paper begins to unveil the untapped potential that the blogosphere provides for research. The paper begins by introducing blogs, explaining their evolution and the important role they play in society. A ...
Blogs, Blogosphere, Qualitative Research, Research Methods, Data Analysis.
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This paper explores factors such as socio-demographics, income and wealth and e-skills that may influence the adoption of the ICTs at the individual level. We examine to what extent these factors contribute to the digital divide between different social groups in Serbia. We use the panel data from the survey “ICT usage in Republic of Serbia” in 2006 and 2007, covering over 3000 individuals/househo ...
ICT adoption, digital divide, Internet usage, gender, education, income, Serbia, classification tree, logistic regression.
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Previous research conducted by the author investigated the socio-political backgrounds of two groups of female students studying computer-related university programmes. They came from distinctly different backgrounds and were enrolled at two institutions with very different legacies. The author found that socio-political factors, in particular the role of a dominant female household head and aggre ...
Computer self-efficacy, gender and computing, computer programming, gender stereotyping
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The applications of the Information, Education and Communication approaches to all sectors have brought unexpected changes in the attitudes and behaviours of people of all ages. The overwhelming amount of theoretical and empirical work done regarding the impact of ICT on educational processes has highlighted the benefits of ICT to students, teachers, and parents. Mauritius is faced with a double d ...
Social cost, Information, Education and Communication, Information and Communication Technologies, social change, digital opportunity index
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Globalization, the coalescence of the economies and cultures of this planet, has raised new ethical issues. Information Technology (IT) is an enabler of globalization, but IT also produces new ethical problems. There is already a substantial literature in philosophy and political theory on globalized ethics, but not much on IT’s special impact on globalized ethics. This paper is a sketch of the ma ...
Information Technology, Globalization, Ethics, Justice, Social Contract, Rawls, Utilitarianism, Global Institutions
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The discovery, development or invention of new objects and phenomena by humankind, requires a new set of words to be coined or adopted to describe it. This is also true of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) world. Words are not neutral, regardless of which dialect or language they occur in. They carry with them associations and connotations based on their previous applications and alli ...
connotation, denotation, nomenclature, lexis, coining, subtext, portmanteau, neologism, phonetic, alliteration, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, ICT, lexicon
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Mobile phones in Australia record one of the world’s highest rates of ownership among children under 18. This paper examines issues of mobile phones and Australian children and the various discourses (systematic frames) used in discussing their effects. These are the optimistic (gains); pessimistic (losses, costs or harms); pluralistic (technology per se is neutral but how it is used matters); his ...
Mobile phones, technology and discourses, technology and framing, framing, discourses, children and mobile phones, parental power and mobile phones, Australia, digital leash, digital umbilical cord.
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Higher Education is increasingly relying on e-leaming as a means of providing students with teaching and learning resources. Almost inevitably, this means that students interact with these learning resources through the medium of the computer screen. Although there have been significant advances in the design and implementation of on-line resources, exactly how students interact with these resourc ...
Eye tracking, Internet self-efficacy, visual search, e-learning
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Though the number of collaborative websites, or wikis, continues to grow, few studies have examined the role of graphics in a successful wiki design. This study examines the development of graphic organizers within an academic wiki over a period of 8 months. Wikis traditionally rely on a text-only approach to allow for user flexibility. However, this study found that the ability to easily add link ...
Web Based Learning, Collaborative Publishing, Graphic Organizers.
This paper presents the birth of an open source learning object repository (OSLOR) from design to implementation. Critical design issues such as user interface, type of LOR, standards, metadata, and the programming language were considered in the process. These issues revolve around the essential characteristics of LOR, i.e., interoperability, reusability, and accessibility. Conclusion and recomme ...
Learning object repository, LOR, open source, OS, OSLOR, LOR design, accessibility, reusability, interoperability, sustainability
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Learning objects have long promised dramatic savings of time and money in course and curricula development, but they have failed to deliver the return on investment that seems a natural extension of their existence - reusability. Because a single hour of online instruction can take up to 300 hours to develop (Kapp 2003), reusability is the core value message offered by learning object promoters, f ...
Learning Object, Reusability, Learning Style, Learning Pod, XSL, XML, XHTML
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Worked-out examples serve an important role in the educational process. In order to take advantage of such carefully designed examples, students have to "make sense" of the examples and retrieve them whenever it is appropriate. This calls for a knowledge management process to be conducted by the students; a process we implemented as a learning task during a Knowledge-Based Systems course. Students ...
Knowledge management, metadata creation, metadata scheme, worked-out examples, community of practice.
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The present paper offers that most of the advocates of discipline of library and information science believe that there is a lack of theoretical foundation and rational identity. The author maintains that there has been an error in defining the subject by confusing library with librarianship. That is many researchers have derived the concept of librarianship from library. Therefore they came to de ...
Library, Librarianship, Information science, Information studies, Meta science, Theoretical foundation, Classification, Retrieval.
In order to realize the objective of expanding library services to provide knowledge management support for small businesses, a series of requirements must be met. This particular phase of a larger research project focuses on one of the requirements: the need for a document classification system to rapidly determine the content of digital documents. Document classification techniques are examined ...
Knowledge management, Competitive intelligence, Digital libraries, Document classification, Normalized Word Vector, Library as Knowledge Management Center, Small enterprises
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This paper presents an assessment of School Information Systems (SIS) Utilization in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) primary schools through a holistic descriptive approach that involves explaining, studying and analyzing the current technical status of the schools’ SIS. To do so, the researchers used a series of case studies (documents analysis, questionnaires and interviews) of a number of prima ...
Information Technology in Education Management (ITEM), Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), School Information Systems (SIS), The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Information Systems Utilisation and Primary Schools.
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In this paper we show that interviews between IT consultants and clients are considered best practice in terms of methods for eliciting IS requirements as part of IS development projects. The process of conducting successful conversations with clients as part of requirements elicitation interviews is not well understood. The paper reports a literature survey which established current understanding ...
information systems, requirements elicitation
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Developing information systems (IS) strategies and choosing the right IS portfolio for an organization require, among other things, identifying the most appropriate IS projects, determining how best to organize the IS staff, and arranging for IS procurement. All of these actions involve decision-making. This paper analyzes IS strategic decision-making in organizations, with the Garbage Can Model ( ...
IS strategy, IS strategic decision-making, Garbage Can Model (GCM)
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Understanding the factors that affect continued use or discontinuance of an information system beyond initial adoption is one of the most challenging issues in information systems research. This paper combines information economics, the technology acceptance model (TAM), and diffusion of innovation theory, and analyzes barriers with respect to the continued use of information systems. The suggeste ...
information systems continued use, continuance, technology acceptance model (TAM), diffusion of innovation, human computer interaction, value of information systems, distance learning.
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Knowledge Management exploded into visibility as a management topic in the mid-1990s with a significant impact in the IT applications area. It has had high visibility for the last decade and, in recent years, has come under some critical scrutiny - - questioning the success of many of the attempts to manage knowledge, especially those with an IT focus, as well as some suggestion that it was merely ...
Next Generation Knowledge Management, Knowledge Models, IT, Communicating Meaning, Philosophy
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The paper describes the initiative of the management of a higher education institution to design and realize an Information System (IS) in order to implement new study rules for new study programmes that are in agreement with the Bologna Declaration. The authors based their work on the common theory about projecting ISs, but with focus on expected practical results. The goal is to achieve better o ...
projecting, information system, study rules.
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While much of the prior information system (IS) research has employed technology acceptance model (TAM) and theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain user’s technology acceptance behavior, most of them use self-reported use intention to develop their investigation. The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the validity of behavioral intention’s prediction on actual system usage under a ...
TAM, Planned Behavior, Multimedia, Intentions, Usage
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The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an end-of-project impact assessment (IA) of a Social Enterprise Development Center (SEDC) (created in Pakistan 7 years ago). The SEDC was created in 2000 to provide mainly training to non-government organizations (NGOs) and be a central recourse for their communication, resource sharing and support. The IA entailed the measurement of a large n ...
Portal, NGO, Pakistan, Evaluation, Impact
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Many companies now actively use the Web as a key marketing and sales vehicle for their goods or services. To be successful, e-commerce Web sites must be useful, easy to use, easy to navigate, and easy to understand - measures of the Technology Acceptance Model’s (TAM) variables Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use. Although many studies have used the model to better understand e-commerce ...
Technology Acceptance Model; Web site usability; E-commerce
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This paper presents a model to measure and to explain knowledge and sustainable competitive advantages generation within the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) framework. Some specific goals are: a) identification, selection and validation of intellectual capital and of sustainable competitive advantages, b) study of what we name associate concepts: facilitators, implantation drivers and critical s ...
efficient consumer response, ECR, cooperation strategies, best practices, intellectual capital, sustainable competitive advantages, structural equations model
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This article explores the possibility of integrating some of the most referenced ICT Management Frameworks in managing ICT infrastructure in the banking sector. This was done by identifying core components that it should address and the related frameworks that need to be applied at each component. In this context, this article is also prompting further research in managing ICT infrastructure throu ...
ICT management framework, ICT management, banking organisation, ITIL, COBIT, CMM, ISO 17799.
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Conventionally, enterprise services that can be utilized by mobile devices such as E - mail, instant messaging, data transfer, news and event notification have been typically achieved using GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) connections to access internet servers that provide these services. Thus, even in a local area, disadvantages such as full dependence on GPRS service providers, incurred GPRS ...
Bluetooth LAN, Bluetooth Programming, JSR 82 API, Mobile computing, J2ME MIDlet
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Mobile and wireless devices and networks enable "any place, any time" use of information systems, providing advantages, such as productivity enhancement, flexibility, service improvements and information accuracy. These benefits can be nullified by using systems of insufficient quality. Mobile-wireless information systems face new kinds of problems: narrow bands, small devices, tiny screens, and d ...
information systems, mobile, wireless, quality, software engineering.
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The functional approach to software development has been used for years and new methodologies have evolved, including, object-oriented approach. Objects are sharing an important part in the software business. They have become the building blocks of many systems whether commercial applications, real-time applications or embedded systems applications. As objects represent an abstraction of the real ...
Software Development, design patterns, one-function structure design pattern
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The objective of connection admission control (CAC) is to keep the network load moderate to achieve a performance objective associated with Quality of Service (QoS). Cell Loss Ratio (CLR), a key QoS parameter in ATM networks, is essential for proper network resources dimensioning, congestion control, bandwidth allocation and routing. In this research, we employed fuzzy logic technique in Statistic ...
ATM, Fuzzy Logic, Connection Admission Control (CAC), B-ISDN, QoS.
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This paper presents a logical, mathematical and geometrical interpretation of the previously presented term, infoledge. There is a strong relationship between the infoledge concept and complex numbers, which is utilized by the researchers in the mathematical interpretation of the infoledge concept. Autopoietic theory skeleton is the starting point in the current paper. Further more, the physical c ...
autopoietic theory, imaginary numbers, complex numbers, cognition, infoledge, knowledge transfer.
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What is normally described as bias? A possible definition comprises attempts to distort or mislead to achieve a certain perspective, i.e. subjective descriptions intended to mislead. If designers were able to exclude bias from informing systems, then this would maximize their effectiveness. This implicit conjecture appears to underpin much of the research in our field. However, in our efforts to s ...
bias, misinformation, phenomenology, multi-valued logic, informing systems, analysis.
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Nowadays the product warranty plays increasingly important role in any business transaction. It is a valuable attribute of the product and it is used extensively in marketing and advertising. It is a tool to enforce the competing power of the producer on the market place. There is a vast literature on the product warranty related to the product malfunctioning. In this study we address another type ...
information asymmetry, misinforming, warranty, risk, degree of acceptance. 1 This research is partially supported by NFSI-BG, Grant No VU-MI-105/2005
Worldview as a kind of man's look towards the world of reality has a severe influence on his classification of knowledge. In other words one may see in classification of knowledge the unity as well as plurality. This article deals with the fact that how classification takes place in man's epistemological process. Perception and epistemology are mentioned as the key points here. Philosophers are us ...
Worldview. Classification. Categorization. Human perception. Epistemology.
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For more than 25 years, the framework of Ives, Hamilton, and Davis (1980) for research in computer-based (C-B) management information systems served hundreds of doctoral dissertations without yielding results of lasting validity. This paper summarizes the more lasting results from prior studies about the nature of informing for operations (whether human or robotic) as seen through the lens of deci ...
Informing, information, operation factors, model, framework, examination priorities, principia of informing.
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This study suggests an attention economy perspective on incomplete information, asserting that people use partial information as basis for action, hence an effective information system should provide them just with the most useful partial information, and should avoid redundant information that wastes their limited attention resources. These assertions were empirically examined via simulation of a ...
attention economy, information economics, speech-reading, lip-reading, linguistics, human computer interaction, effectiveness of incomplete information, value of information
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In this article the subject of Informing through user-centered Exploratory Search and Information Retrieval utilizing human-computer interaction strategies is analyzed. Exploratory Search is a new field that has sprung from the more general Information Retrieval. Informing Science is a trans-discipline which transcends a large variety of fields and seeks how to best inform all the clients of inter ...
Information Retrieval Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Exploratory Search.
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The ongoing migration of mobile lifestyles and the increasing capabilities of portable systems will continue to drive demand for more flexible and portable battery charging systems (Brown, 2006). The use of computers has been limited due to lack of constant availability of power -issues such as data loss, transaction breakages, data compromise have become major challenges in areas (especially thir ...
Network power sharing device (NPSD), DC-DC step-up voltage/current regulator, battery sensing, constant voltage supply, oscillator, driver, female power connector
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It has been argued that culture effects how individuals implement, understand, and teach the curriculum of business courses within a society’s educational institutions (Burcik, Kohun, & Skovira, 2007; DeLorenzo, Kohun, & Skovira, 2006; Hofstede & Hofstede, 2005). The curricula and their subject matter of business faculties reflect the societies in which the curricula are developed and in which the ...
. cultural, organizational learning, business, curriculum
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We present the initial study based on the development of an online tool for sales representatives of cosmetic products in Mauritius. The management tool to be developed is expected to help the sales representatives to better manage their business. Virtually all the sales representatives in Mauritius are currently using a manual system and hereby face lots difficulties to optimize their business. W ...
sales representative, cosmetic products, web-based stock management tool.
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The present research aims to evaluate digital learning objects architecture and build metrics -based on analyze of the financial, administrative and software engineering aspects - to define a prevision of the necessary investment to develop digital learning object. To develop some metrics it was necessary an online survey research with professionals that works with digital learning objects develop ...
learning objects, metrics, software engineering, methodology, measure investments.
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This study examines the relationship between students overall result in a midterm grade in Excel and their ability to predict how well they will perform on specific topics in three Excel tests. The metacognitive skill of predicting performance on specific topics permits appropriate focus in preparing for tests. The hypothesis is that very good students will have significantly more success calibrat ...
student prediction of performance, mid-eastern, IT, Meta cognition
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This paper introduces the importance of a well-articulated, research-worthy problem statement as the centerpiece for any viable research. The aim of this work is to help novice researchers understand the value of problem-based research by providing a practical guide on the development of a well articulated and viable statement of a research-worthy problem as the starting point for all research. Ad ...
Research methodology, research problem, problem-based research, research questions, theory-based research, doctoral education.
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Building upon previously published articles from 18 different disciplines, this research delves into the area of how academics inform one another, addressing the issue of how academic scholars can determine the optimum journal for submission of their research. A comprehensive model of the journal selection process is developed, including 39 detailed considerations spread over three major categorie ...
Journal, research, outlet, journal selection, journal publication, journal submission, publishing, manuscript.
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Web-based application development is a difficult task, since these applications include various features, like graphical interfaces, navigational structures, business models, and wireless communications, as well as other issues, such as serving a multitude of users, and the need for shorter development time. To overcome these complexities, it is indispensable to use web-based application designs a ...
object-oriented hypermedia design, navigation, decomposition, component-based architecture, multithreading.
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With the development of the World Wide Web, conference management can be further elevated by using a powerful and intelligent tool that provides a borderless communication. This can be realized with a conference management tool using ontology functionality. Ontology provides diverse capabilities in terms of functionalities and flexibility. Defining a detailed conference specification via ontology ...
Semantic, Ontology, Conference Tool, Conference Organiser
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publishing, journals, books, Informing Science Institute The Informing Science Institute published eight journals as well as books. All Informing Science Institute journals and books are available to everyone online without charge as well as in print. All ISI journals use a review process that provides authors with mentoring, a positive and constructive experience, regardless of whether or not their papers are accepted for publication.
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Open Education Resources (OERs) are defined as “technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes. They are typically made freely available over the Web or the Internet. Their principal use is by teachers and educational institutions to support course development, but they can also be used directly by ...
open education resources, learning resources
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After a short introduction on socio-technical theory, the experiences the author made in the planning and carrying out of web sites and information systems for research and teaching are reported. The results from those experiences are analyzed with a special attention to knowledge development at three different levels: individuals, communities, and organizations (society), and the author’s hypothe ...
. Socio-technical theory, communities of practice, communities of learners, learning organization, cognitive apprenticeship teaching strategies
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Collaboration is a learning strategy used in various domains such as e-health, e-business, e-education, e-government and e-research. In e-learning and under a constructivist approach, collaboration is expected to increase the performance of students. Although it can be used without digital media, given the pervasiveness of technology, their systematic application by educational institutions as ins ...
Knowledge Society, Information Society, ICT in Education, Collaborative learning, e-learning
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The present project “Technological diagnosis for Firms” offers a practical experience for the transfer pf knowledge between the university and business firms. It implies an agreement between the University and a group of firms operating near the University locations. The main objective of this project is to develop business consultancy in a group of 15 firms established in the south of Madrid, nex ...
centre for technological transfer, researchers, synergies
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This paper describes a model for studying collaborative knowledge building (CKB) as a group activity. We integrate the model described by Stahl (2000a) with an analysis based on the principles of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), using the analysis of a self reflective case study to guide the description. The concept of the CKB activity system is developed, and the role of contradictions ...
collaboration, knowledge building, reflective thinking, activity theory, zone of proximal development
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The limitations of each security technology combined with the growth of cyber attacks impact the efficiency of information security management and increase the activities to be performed by network administrators and security staff. Therefore, there is a need for the increase of automated auditing and intelligent reporting mechanisms for the cyber trust. Intelligent systems are emerging computing ...
information security management, cyber security, intelligent system, architecture, agent-based control.
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Security and information systems are intertwined. The costs of secure systems are in the billions of dollars. In the digital world, security vulnerabilities and threats work contrary to the security goals of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems. The essay describes a view of organizations and their policies, network systems, operating systems, software applications, ...
Security, Information security, Secure programming, Secure computing, Ecology
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Threat modeling, which is the process of identifying, quantifying and analyzing potential threats of computer-based systems, has become a significant consideration towards designing secure software systems. Despite the previous methods adopted for threat modeling, there are still many systems that are probable to attack. In this work, a fuzzy logic-based threat modeling technique is designed. The ...
Fuzzy logic, threat, threat modelling
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This paper aims to investigate the need for and contents of a course in forensic Information Systems and Computer Science at UCT. In order to do this, the reader is introduced to computer crime and shown how the forensic process of identifying, preserving, recovering, analyzing, and documenting computer data supposedly used in crimes committed using computers is helping in investigating and solvin ...
Forensics, Information Systems
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It is common to find final or near final year undergraduate Information Technology students undertaking a substantial development project; a project where the students have the opportunity to be fully involved in the analysis, design, and development of an information technology service or product. This involvement has been catalyzed and prepared for during their previous studies where the student ...
capstone projects, team projects, Information Technology, education, information systems
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Engineering programs in Australian Universities are accredited by Engineers Australia (EA) based on certain strict guidelines. This paper discusses the undergraduate SE curriculum and accreditation effort undertaken over the last ten years at Monash University in order to achieve a successful outcome. The paper describes how the SE curriculum has evolved over this period at Monash and maintained i ...
accreditation, curriculum, software engineering, teaching/learning outcomes, quality system process
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As information resources of all types and disciplines are being stored and retrieved in digital form, libraries are responding to the demands for more effective retrieval of such documents and to provide even more digital access to scholarly and recreational library materials. This has led schools of library and information science to develop special programs, degrees, and certificates in digital ...
Digital libraries, Library education, Library science curriculum, Libraries and technology.
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Bauxite is mined and transported by conveyor to a processing plant, screened and washed, then placed into blended stockpiles to feed the alumina refinery. While being stacked to the stockpile, the ore is sampled. Completed stockpiles must be acceptably close to target grade (composition), not only in alumina, but also in residual silica, carbon and sodium carbonate. The mine is an open-cut pit. Ea ...
MIS, DSS, Mining, Quality Control, Continuous Stockpile Management System, Exponential Smoothing
This research concerns a practical on-line analytic processing (OLAP) project given to 2nd year information systems major students. They were required to analyse two sets of sales data with two different OLAP software tools, and report both on their findings and on their experiences of working with the two products. Students then completed a validated instrument with questions about each OLAP tool ...
OLAP, business intelligence, technology acceptance, student project
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The article aims at describing processes of building Business Intelligence (BI) systems. Taking the BI systems specifics into consideration, the authors present a suggested methodology of the systems creation and implementation in organisations. The considerations are focused on objectives and functional areas of the BI in organisations. Hence, in this context the approach to be used while buildin ...
Business Intelligence, methodology of BI construction, designing BI, business decision-making, knowledge management
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This research explores prisoners’ attitudes for undertaking distance-learning courses whilst in prison, and considers both the benefits and the difficulties experienced by prisoners as a result of their academic work. It is based on over 35 questionnaires completed by 300 current prisoners. The research was conducted in three prisons throughout the country in three different provinces. In addition ...
distance education, attitude toward distance education, prisoners, motivating factors, inhibiting factors.
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This article presents a virtual course with the topic mobile and wireless communication systems. The structure of the tree sections of the course material content, the generic technology section, the wireless technology section, and the mobility management section, is presented. The main didactical approach of the virtual course is a guided excursion to which students enroll. The task sets, consis ...
didactical approach, e-learning, graphical design, mobile, platform, wireless.
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TECH 621 is a graduate level course in Automatic Identification and Data Capture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Typically, it is offered to a cohort of students in a weekend masters program. The course meets on campus three times a semester for two four-hour periods; the course is updated each semester. In the fall of 2006, the instructor decided to incorporate a project componen ...
distance learning, collaboration
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Academic institutions invest considerable resources in improving the website quality of their MBA courses, in the hope of increasing student retention and willingness to recommend the programs to others. Despite this investment, it seems that the old "keep it simple" rule is also true for e-learning. Data collected from students enrolled in a blended distance learning MBA program at the Open Unive ...
Value of Online Learning Systems, Blended Learning, E-Learning, Distance Learning, Bounded Rationality, Attention Economy, Student Retention.
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In this paper will be present a snapshot of the situation of teaching and learning Mathematics in Portugal, as well as some statistics which pose the reality of this subject in the school rooms and homes of this country. Further will be present some applications of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve the teaching and learning activities of Mathematics, in the school roo ...
e-learning; applied information and communications technologies in the school room; Mathematics; effective teaching and learning
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E-Learning provides a potentially powerful tool for implementing educational requirements rooted in learning theories. But still, much of the development of e-Learning is carried out without a true understanding of how learning theories can be translated into pedagogical requirements that can be implemented using learning technologies. This is because e-Learning lacks a systematic approach to the ...
Educational requirements, e-Learning, learning cycle, learning theories, LMS, software engineering, system development.
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In this paper the background, the context and the main challenges of introducing e-leaming at vocational college for business secretaries will be examined. The presented data were gathered from surveys considering all phases of experimental project that took place in the academic year 2005/06 at vocational college Leila in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This article begins with a brief description of circum ...
vocational college, adult education, e-learning strategy, e-education, e-learning environment, open source software, SCORM, key elements of success.
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This paper presents the practical issues involved in introducing e-leaming for the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (FMF) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It begins with a short history of e-learning at FMF and is followed by a discussion about the choice of the open source software (Moodle, svn, wiki platform) as the foundation for the web based learning; its advantages and disadvantag ...
e-learning, learning management system, LMS, Moodle, MediaWiki, open source, elearning standards.
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With rapid expansion of the transnational education market, more and more universities join the ranks of transnational education providers, or expand their transnational education offerings. Many of those providers regard online provision of their programs as an economic alternative to face-to-face teaching. Do the transnational students support this view? This paper discusses the prospects of ful ...
Key Words computing education, cultural differences, face-to-face interaction, learning environment, online learning, transnational education.
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The execution of academic researches - such as Undergraduate work, Master’s or PhD Thesis - is often supervised by a research advisor. The development process of such works could be characterized as face-to-face, remote or blended orientation, which combines both of former ones. The construction of a proposal for blended academic orientation involves mapping and analysis of elements, as well as di ...
blended orientation, face-to-face orientation, online orientation, advisor-advisee relationship, digital communication tools.
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Web-based courses are being introduced by higher education institutions at an increasing rate, such that a systematic shift from face-to-face teaching to web-based teaching has become evident. This enthusiasm in web-based education is primarily driven by cost savings and bottom line net profits to institutions. However, research work in the field still has a long way to demonstrate the effectivene ...
eLearning, Computer skills, Internet skills, Advisory, Personality, Culture, Anxiety, Trust
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In recent years, more and more higher education institutions have interests of integrating internet-based technologies in the classroom as part of the learning environment. Compared to studies on other information technologies, users’ behavior towards this type of systems, however, has not been assessed and understood thoroughly. In order to get more experience about human behaviors on multimedia ...
Multimedia Learning System, TAM, eLearning, Information Technology
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In the paper we tried to present online tutoring as a solution to quality issues of e-leaming that e-leaming providers from all over the world are facing. We also briefly presented different roles of online tutors and the skills needed to perform these roles successfully. The online tutoring system was introduced to support students of e-learning courses at our faculty. Through various researches ...
e-learning, online tutors, tutorial learning, higher education, blended learning.
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The detrimental health and economic impacts due to the growth of chronic condition sufferers worldwide is well documented. The practical application of electronic information systems is expected to provide valuable support to this predicament. The purpose of this study is to develop an information systems implementation framework for the management and prevention of chronic diseases (CD) in genera ...
Information Systems Implementation, Health Information Systems, Chronic Diseases, Information Systems Adoption, General Practice, Practice Champions and Change Management.
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An interoperability gap exists between Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Ob ject Repositories (LOR). LORs are responsible for the storage and management of Learning Objects and the associated Learning Object Metadata (LOM). LOR(s) adhere to various LOM standards depending up the requirements established by user groups and LOR administrators. Two common LOM standards found in LORs are ...
Learning Object Metadata, XML, SCORM, CanCore, Learning Object Repository, Learning Object Interoperability, Learning Management System, and Learning Assessment Metadata.
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The research problem that this study will address is the limited CRM success of Web-based customer support systems. The first goal of this research will be to develop the Information Systems Hierarchy of Needs Actualization (ISHNA) framework based on Maslow’s general theory of Hierarchy of Needs. The second goal of this research will be to empirically assess and validate the End User Perceived Inf ...
ordered needs theory, system actualization, system perceived success.
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Technological advances and the increasing popularity of the Internet have enabled post-secondary institutions to implement e-learning technologies as a teaching environment. Students’ enrollment in e-learning courses has proliferated over the past decade. However, ethical issues with students’ conduct in e-learning courses have been raised by several scholars and were noted as a major concern. Mor ...
Ethical decision making, Ethics in online learning, Academic misconduct, Students’ code of conduct.
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The purpose of this paper is to create a study model or framework for dealing with social isolation in doctoral programs. Previous studies have focused on the issue of attrition among doctoral students and the factors that cause doctoral students to drop out prior to completing their degrees. Among the factors that affect students’ decisions to leave doctoral programs is the feeling of social isol ...
Model for Doctoral Isolation, Isolation & Doctoral Attrition, Social Isolation in doctoral programs.
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As universities become increasingly research driven and funded on a research-basis, there is an increased need to attract graduate research students. The easiest way of doing this is to draft highly-talented undergraduate students into the research programmes. However, in a booming industrial job market, this is no easy task for Information Systems and Information Technology programmes. Recognizin ...
Graduate studies, Student retention, Research degree, Talent fostering
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In this paper we will relate some of our experiences in building and using simple Decision Support Systems (DSS) for use in two postgraduate subjects at Victoria University in Melbourne. These subjects are not about Decision Support Systems, but are Information Systems (IS) subjects that introduce, amongst other things, concepts of decision support and DSS. It has been our experience that the comp ...
Decision support, university courses, postgraduate studies, business students, programming.
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According to the Euronet mobile Banking Guide, there are currently close to 400 Mobile Operators in over 133 countries who are signing up 4 to 6 new customers every second. This implies that more people are going mobile like never before. The novel method presented in this paper is an Interactive SMS Banking Agent that is incrementally scalable for banking operations. Hence, a mobile banking solut ...
Banking services, Agent, SMS, Network, GSM
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Nowadays the product warranty is considered to be a valuable attribute of the product. It is a tool to enforce the competing power of the producer on the market place. There are two types of problems the product warranty addresses. Firstly, warranty deals with the malfunctioning of the product and, secondly, it addresses the information asymmetry, i.e., the misunderstanding and misinterpretation o ...
information asymmetry, misinforming, warranty, risk.
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America has been, historically, the leading edge of much of the world’s engineering and IT innovations. However, with the current trends of Offshore Outsourcing high tech and high paying employment, the questions arise: why go into these fields at all. Why involve yourself with the rigorous academic requirements demanded of these disciplines; especially when one considers the real possibility of b ...
OffShore Outsourcing, Economic Effect
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This article describes a study that examined the lifelong learning of information systems academics in relation to their normal work. It begins by considering the concept of lifelong learning, its relationship to real-life learning and that lifelong learning should encompass the whole spectrum of formal, non-formal and informal learning. Most world governments had recognised the importance of supp ...
Lifelong learning, information systems academics, informal learning, academic policy.
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This study concerns the teaching/leaming experience of Data Analysis at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), Technical University of Lisbon, first in Sociology course, and next in Social Communication course. In both cases, Data Analysis subject was teaching/leaming of the discipline of Mathematics and Statistics for the Social Sciences. This study aims to find the effect ...
Kewords Teaching/Learning Paradigm, Information and Knowledge Society, Latent Class Models, Information Criteria, Hypotheses Tests.
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The paper introduces the concept of engagement as a way of modeling and implementing flexible learning processes. The paper particularly addresses new learning demands, such as personalized learning, and defines ways of defining learning processes to support such new demands. It then shows how engagements can be used to provide guidelines for selecting information technology services that meet suc ...
Learning Process, Collaboration, Learning Object
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With the current development of the Internet and its growing use it is necessary to satisfy the needs of all users including those with disabilities causing accessibility problems. The paper deals with these categories of users and how much web designers take care of their abilities to access web locations they create. The W3C organization has created a list of checkpoints regarding accessibility, ...
accessibility, website, checkpoint, web design, user.
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This paper presents an Academic Literacy course designed for first year students in our department. The course is based on a set of relevant reading materials and covers knowledge levels and classification systems, logical and physical library organization principles, physical and virtual search for publications, bibliographic citations and referencing methods and purposes. The paper describes two ...
Academic literacy, out-of-class activity, library, knowledge classification, librarian, information age.
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In Australia, the national initiative known as Learning in an Online World, focuses school jurisdictions across the country meet the challenge of achieving the national vision of all schools “... confidently using ICT in their everyday practices to improve learning, teaching and administration” (MCEETYA, 2005, p. 3). One strategy in reaching this goal is the effective preparation of pre-service te ...
ICT education in teacher preparation, survey research, technology usage
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There are many initiatives to train people in using Information and Communication Technology but several international studies have shown that despite adequate computing experience, many users do not make efficient use of computer applications. This may be caused by a lack of strategic knowledge that is difficult to acquire just by knowing how to use commands. Research by Bhavnani and others indic ...
Computer training, ICT literacy, Strategic knowledge, Innovative instruction
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The problems encountered by students in first year computer programming units are a common concern in many universities including Victoria University. A fundamental component of a computer science curriculum, computer programming is a mandatory unit in a computing course. It is also one of the most feared and hated units by many novice computing students who, having failed or performed poorly in a ...
automated assessment, introductory computer programming, programming support, student mentors
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The present work is a follow-up of the papers presented at the Northern Arizona University, USA - “Accommodating soft skills in Software project Management” and the one presented at Salford University, Manchester, UK - “ The ontogeny of memory of learning: Natural Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence in Information Technology Education”. Several interrogations cropped up during and after th ...
Intelligence, multiple Intelligences, soft skills, project write-up, IT and Non-IT students. Information Technology Education
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Students often find that learning to program is hard. Introductory programming courses have high drop-out rates and students do not learn to program well. This paper presents experiences from three educational institutions where introductory programming courses were improved by adopting Python as the first programming language and roles of variables as an aid in understanding program behavior. As ...
computer science education, programming, CS1, roles of variables, Python
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This paper explores the cognitive difficulty of assessment tasks in six first year computing courses within an Information Technology (IT) degree. Bloom’s taxonomy is used as an analytical framework. A Bloom rating is calculated for each of the courses involved in the study and the results are presented and analysed. A wide variation in the cognitive level and style of assessment is revealed. Thes ...
Blooms Taxonomy, First year, IT, education, evaluation
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This paper is about the challenges IT instructors face due to the rapid development of the information technology. IT instructors need to continuously update their own skills and knowledge through self-education. They also need to frequently update course syllabuses and make major changes in the course textbooks if they write them. In order to understand and evaluate these challenges, we conducted ...
IT instructor self-education, introductory IT courses, IT development, IT education
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Expert programmers possess schemas, abstractions of concrete experiences, which help them solve programming problems. Stereotypes of variable use in computer programs can be characterized using roles of variables, which can be taught to novices in order to support schema formation. This paper describes the ’lightweight’ adoption of roles of variables in our teaching of introductory programming. We ...
roles of variables, teaching, CS1, CS2, lightweight introduction.
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In order to develop computer competence, users need to understand principles of its operation in addition to memorizing where a particular operation is located in menus. Understanding a principle ease transfer of learning, hence the understanding helps learning a new application. These principles, e.g. functional dependency, are based in computer science, and are thereby precise and general. Two c ...
learning, user training, transfer, abstraction, concepts, computer programs, applications.
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An alarming number of learners in Accounting at a large distance teaching university fail an introductory course in computer literacy. The lecturers proposed over a period of three years various methods of studying and preparing for the examination in the subject, but with limited success. The problem seems to start at school level even as early on as primary school education. Distance-teaching in ...
Computer literacy, Content literacy, Second language, Problem frames, Patterns
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Much research has been published which attests to desire felt by educators to improve the quality of student reflection, and engagement with learning, through processes of assessment. This paper describes how research in Systems Analysis is being transformed and applied to educational practice. Staff considered that methods were needed to stimulate students to reflect and engage in higher orders o ...
Contextual Inquiry; Double-loop Learning; student engagement; creative technologies.
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This paper summarizes findings of teaching eight sections of the same information systems college course in the same format with one major exception. Five sections had notes available for reference during the final exam whereas three sections did not. The author’s primary hypothesis that students in the five sections using notes would perform significantly better than the other sections on the exa ...
IS Education, IT Education, CIS Education, Informatics Education, Exam Techniques
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In tertiary institutions in Australia, and no doubt elsewhere, there is increasing pressure for accountability. No longer are academics assumed a priori to be responsible and capable of self management in teaching and assessing the subjects they run. Procedures are being dictated more from the ‘top down’. Although academics may not always appreciate ‘top down’ policies on teaching and learning, th ...
criterion referenced assessment, accountability, student outcomes
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Over recent decades, the process of teaching/leaming has become ever more complex. The increasing school population, and the advent of new IT applications and of networking, together with the requirement for continuous training, have comprehensively overturned the simplistic approach to the process that had previously been pursued. As a result, the evaluation of the process has also been overhaule ...
concept maps, evaluation, e-learning, assessment.
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It is unquestionably essential for students to gather their previous knowledge of specific subjects when they are about to learn new and more complex ones. The gaps left by the absence of well-defined learning prerequisites not only contribute to the increase in the learning difficulties, but also lead many students to fail in school. This situation gets even more serious when students are not awa ...
Interactive Learning Environment, Assessment, Knowledge Acquisition Level.
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Assessment of student learning outcomes plays an important role in educational effectiveness, improvement, and sustainability that is increasingly being recognized and required by accrediting bodies (Buzzetto-More, 2006; Haken, 2006). A form of performance-based assessment that is growing in popularity and is heralded for its purposeful, dynamic, and integrated nature is the portfolio (Cooper, 199 ...
electronic portfolios, authentic assessment
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Norm-based assessment is under fire from some quarters because it is often unfair and is out of touch with the demands of the job market. Criterion-referenced assessment is touted as the answer by others but problems remain, in particular with regards to the maintenance of standards. This study examines the use of competency-based assessment in an undergraduate database course. The findings sugges ...
grade inflation, criterion-based assessment, academic standards, competence, norm-based assessment.
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Starting with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET) application developers can write programs that may be used for different languages listed in VS .NET globalization. However, the list of languages is incomplete and is missing many. One of these missing languages from VS .NET globalization is the Kurdish: a language written and spoken by millions of Kurds around the world. Previous res ...
VB Globalizations, VB New languages, VB Kurdish, VS Kurdish
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Print-media needs of Hispanics in non-metropolitan areas of America are often overlooked. One newspaper editor in Idaho found Hispanics to be invisible in her small community and its newspaper, except in crime reports. So she began publishing the bilingual Idaho Unido. This study addresses the publisher’s business model and motivation for publication. It is based on two research streams: theories ...
communication, entrepreneurship, ethnic media, Hispanic newspapers, journalism, minority press, theories of the press
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A research conception is developed to enable qualitative and quantitative research on the affect of culture on the curricular content of business and information systems degree programs. The frame raises the interconnected issue of globalizing business and information systems education (theories of organization, management, and employees’ motivation, and the use of information systems) and the aff ...
Global business education, global information systems education, cultural impact, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, organizational theory, management theory, management style
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In a world of expanding information and technological resources, there is increasingly a need for a citizenry that is able to access and use information and technology effectively (American Library Association, 2000). An information and technologically literate person should have access to, and be able to use, a host of available resources that include libraries, databases, and the internet in ord ...
Technological Literacy, Information Literacy, Technology Ownership by Minority Students, HBCU Freshmen
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When an information systems (IS) development project exceeds time, budget and functional constraints a point is reached where the decision has to be made to abandon it or attempt to save it. Some systems are of such value that management is prepared to take extraordinary measures to save them. This paper examines a case study of one such system whose development was saved from likely failure by a ...
Information systems’ success, information systems’ failure, organizational culture, project management.
Organizations attempting to attract more women to the Information Technology field often focus on convincing young women that the computer field is not composed primarily of geeks and loners. However, relatively little prior research focuses on whether the geek or loner image is in fact a reality in the minds of young women. This research reports on the results of a study of 412 girls, ages sixtee ...
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With the increasing levels of multiculturalism in today’s business and the proliferation and essentiality of information systems, development and management of IS needs to be considered in light of the cultural factors which impact upon its utility. Hofstede’s work on culture is the most widely cited in existence. His observations and analysis provide scholars and practitioners a valuable insight ...
Culture, Information Systems, Hofstede, Cultural Dimensions, Cross-Cultural Research.
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While there has been a great deal of research on the application and implementation of Information Technology (IT), there is less research on the variables which can contribute to the successful diffusion and implementation of IT within an organization. This paper looks at the relationship between the cultural/work values of the people involved and IT adoption. Three cultures and the correlation o ...
culture, technology acceptance
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From a business perspective, the political and economic effectiveness of the United States in the global market-place will depend on individual abilities to communicate with people from other cultures. Most multinational corporations have one individual from one culture managing employees from other cultures. This has led to conflict, law-suits, and reduced productivity. To date, US business peopl ...
cultural values, work values
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This paper explores tacit knowledge sharing. This case demonstrates the significance of knowledge sharing to organizational performance, by exploring the contribution of tacit knowledge sharing to the success of projects in the Australian Film Industry (AFI). The differences between knowledge sharing, collaboration and communication, and their interrelations are addressed. We also explore the conc ...
Knowledge Sharing, Film Industry, Tacit Knowledge, Qualitative, Collaboration.
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Information technology has led to the fact that much of the information that earlier was produced on paper is now being produced in electronic form. E-government services, where the whole idea is to exchange information electronically, will radically redirect paperbound information towards electronically generated and managed information and documents. Earlier on, long-term preservation was all ab ...
long-term preservation, digital information, integrated systems, e-services, hidden Web, inter-organizations, anticipation
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Knowledge recognition as an organizational asset of strategic importance has generated growing interest on absorptive capacity. Surprisingly enough, research on the factors that originate this capacity has been rather scarce. Thus, existing knowledge on the matter suffers relevant omissions. One significant factor that has been excluded from the identified set of antecedents is the collection of r ...
Knowledge management, absorptive capacity, absorptive capacity antecedents, IS/IT resources and capabilities.
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A recently established university in the United Arab Emirates has shifted from an input-based teaching model to an outcome-based learning model. The outcome based academic model is new in the Gulf region and is designed to allow students and faculty members to work together to foster learning. This model is a dramatic departure from the traditional input model where students in the Gulf have learn ...
Outcome-based learning environment, e-learning, synchronous and asynchronous learning, learning management systems.
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Management of the cognitive context—understood as the reconstruction of the fabric of concepts and relations, representation in the form of a concept map and management of interactive functions that are inherent to or can be situated within the context itself—is a significant exigency both within the learning environment, and in particular for e-learning, as well as within the corporate environmen ...
concept maps, knowledge management, e-learning, context structure, knowledge sharing.
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Organizational learning is a scientific field of growing importance. It has developed from classic and foundational works to the two disparate perspectives today: the acquisition and the participation perspective. The first understands knowledge as a substance, mind as a container, and learning as a transfer of a substance from one mind to another. The second perspective focuses on communities of ...
organizational learning, acquisition perspective, participation perspective, network perspective, social network analysis, descriptive claims.
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This paper describes the use the Information Orientation (IO) Maturity Model as the basis of a MBA course-based project. The IO model explicitly draws the relationship between business performance and several information and technology management concepts. More importantly, the IO Model is accompanied by a specific method of gathering and analyzing data, and includes general recommendations on how ...
IT alignment, MBA core course, information culture
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ICT training courses have recently undergone some important changes. These changes are made possible by new pedagogical approaches to ICT training. As a result, the focus has changed from memorizing, recall and reproduction of knowledge to conceptual understanding of the underlying software. One of these approaches is the Herskin’s understanding-oriented ICT training method. This paper assesses st ...
Constructivism, Hands-on, ICT training method, instruction sheet, learning theory teacher education.
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This paper reports on the findings from a qualitative research study into the use of a technology-facilitated part-complete solution method (PCSM) that was used to support the learning of computer programming. The use of part-complete solutions to programming problems is one way in which the cognitive load that students experience during learning can be reduced. A code restructuring tool, CORT, wa ...
learning, programming, cognition.
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This paper describes the potential use of a SMS crossword puzzle system to promote interaction and learning activities in a large classroom environment. While personal response systems (PRS) have been used in the classroom environment to foster interaction, it is not an ideal tool with respect to cost and functionality. These limitations prompted the need for an alternative solution. A SMS crosswo ...
short message service (SMS); mobile phones; interactive learning; crossword puzzle
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In this paper, we describe the characteristics of Project Based Learning, a derivative of problem based learning and report on a multimedia course where this methodology was pursued. The instructional materials are reported on and the artefacts/documentation developed by students discussed. A factor analysis was performed on questionnaire data that was collected at the end of the semester to evalu ...
Personalised Learning Environment, learning objects, instruction, project based learning, course metadata.
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As the popularity of video game playing has increased, educators have sought to co-opt video games as an instructional tool. However, educational games have made little impact in either the commercial market place or the average game player’s home library. The modification, or modding, of video games using in-game editors may be used by instructors to introduce educational content to professionall ...
Computer-Based Learning, Ludic Learning, Modification
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Wikis are one of many Web 2.0 components that can be used to enhance the learning process. A wiki is a web communication and collaboration tool that can be used to engage students in learning with others within a collaborative environment. This paper explains wiki usage, investigates its contribution to various learning paradigms, examines the current literature on wiki use in education, and sugge ...
wiki, Web 2.0, collaborative learning, information and communication technologies, computer-mediated communication, e-learning, pedagogy, education, constructivism.
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Genetic algorithms (GAs) are a problem solving strategy that uses stochastic search. Since their introduction (Holland, 1975), GAs have proven to be particularly useful for solving problems that are ‘intractable’ using classical methods. The language of genetic algorithms (GAs) is heavily laced with biological metaphors from evolutionary literature, such as population, chromosome, crossover, cloni ...
Genetic Algorithms, Experiential learning, Analogical model, Constructivism
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During the course Implementation of Information Systems in Organizational Context we experimented with a reflexive and participative teaching method called eXtreme Teaching. This method proposes a consideration for values, such as respect, communication, feedback, courage, and simplicity, in teaching. We wanted to experiment with an informal teaching method to gain more interaction. During the cou ...
Implementation of information systems, teaching in computer science, eXtreme Teaching, assessing teaching, teaching interaction
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The emergence of learning objects for teachers as a focus of educational concentration is relatively new and much of the discussion has not been based on the actual development of objects, but different definitions, learning theories, properties and standards or decorative packages of learning objects (LOs). Also, in many teacher education programs, prospective teachers take a computer literacy cl ...
Learning object, prospective teachers, development, evaluation
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This paper discusses the concept of Open Educational Resources (OERs). The discussion then shift to OER sustainability, a fundamental element essential for the success of OER. Special attention is given to the following as they relate to the OER sustainability: instructional design & presentation; cost of production and maintenance; support; and OER communities of practice as relate to scalability ...
Open Educational Resources (OERs), sustainability, scalability, decentralization, communities of practice
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The changes that computers have introduced to society include the way and speed in which humans acquire knowledge and process information. The use of computers has been driven by academic research, and it is within academic settings where the use of computers has been felt stronger by society. This paper identifies the different types of learning objects and determines the factors that should be t ...
learning, objects, creation, types, metadata, cost
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Learning objects-driven approaches for the development of instructional content have been widely used to structure entire courses and repositories for distinct learning contexts. Nonetheless, their use is still done in a static, non-adaptive manner, since students are presented to prebuilt compilations of learning object having few or none relationship with its learning current conditions, history ...
Learning Objects, Instructional Design, Multiple Intelligences, RIA, Design Patterns.
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This paper presents an adaptation scenario for tailoring instructional content towards individual learner characteristics taking into consideration his/her learning style type and subject matter motivation level. Learning resources are organized through shareable content objects (SCOs) - a small digital chunks of knowledge, independent and self described pieces of instructional material delivered ...
adaptive learning environments, learning objects, learner models, learning styles, SCORM.
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Learning objects-based architectures often allows the creation of coarse-granular learning resources by aggregating learning objects retrieved mainly from well-structured public repositories. Nonetheless, the learning resource building process is not exactly trivial, since proper selecting and sequencing strategies must be applied in order to make it useful for learning purposes, as well as to mak ...
learning objects, narratives, hypertext patterns, learning resources, collaborative learning
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In order to detect plagiarism, comparisons must be made between a target document (the suspect) and reference documents. Numerous automated systems exist which check at the text-string level. If the scope is kept constrained, as for example in within-cohort plagiarism checking, then performance is very reasonable. On the other hand if one extends the focus to a very large corpus such as the WWW th ...
academic malpractice, conceptual analysis, conceptual footprint, semantic footprint, Normalised Word Vector, NWV, plagiarism.
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Software piracy or ‘softlifting’, the unauthorized use or illegal copying of computer software seems to be a persistent and truly global phenomenon, in spite of international efforts to reduce it. Could the battle against it be won by just merely accepting international standards for the protection of intellectual property rights? The answer to this question is the main focus of this research. Thi ...
Software piracy, national culture, economic factors, law enforcement, intellectual property rights
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Different studies in the context of information systems and information technologies (IS/IT) support the idea that these resources may contribute to develop competitive advantages and to improve organizational performance. To accomplish such benefits, IS/IT resources must be combined with some other organizational elements. Although the necessary relationships are recognized in literature, integra ...
Resources and capabilities, information systems, information technologies.
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Modeling multimedia traffic is an important issue in performance analysis and design of communication networks. With introduction of new applications, the characteristics of data traffic changes. In this paper, a measurement study of ATM Network traffic has been carried out and it is shown that the recorded data exhibit self-similar features. The conclusions are supported by a comprehensive analys ...
ATM, Modeling, Self-similar traffic, Indices of Dispersion, Hurst parameter, Performance Testing.
This research is an exploratory study of students’ approaches to studying histology and pathology. With the introduction of virtual microscopes in Health Science at Murdoch University, Australia, in 2006, it was crucial to investigate how this new technology impacted on students’ approaches to learning. The ASSIST survey was implemented at the beginning and end of the semester to identify any chan ...
virtual microscopes, histology, study approaches, deep learning, e-learning.
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The cardiovascular disease is one of the serious and life-threatening diseases in the developed world. One aspect of medical treatment is using drugs with blood pressure reducing or cholesterol lowering functions. Importantly, such treatment needs to be individually tailored and is significantly correlated to the particular conditions of individual patients. However, such pathologies and mechanism ...
Key Words Meta-analysis, Cardiovascular life cycle management (cardiac clinic), Data mining
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Staying competitive in today’s fast changing markets and business environments has become a big issue in organizations these days. To be able to foresee the future of the industry and have insight into customer’s articulated and unarticulated needs are critical capabilities that organizations need to acquire in order to stay competitive. The objective of this research project is to provide a conce ...
Business Capabilities, Business Strategy, Innovation, Agile Organization, Information Modeling
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This study adds to the body of knowledge in research of ICTs in organizations by exploring the relevance of alignment between ICT users and managers responsible for the ICT strategy and ICT project processes. Alignment research is usually conducted at an organizational analytical level, but this study explores alignment between individuals by addressing ICT managers and ICT users, considering both ...
ICT strategy, ICT projects, alignment, user participation, user satisfaction, user initiatives
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The extensive literature on business process management suggests that organizations can enhance their overall performance by adopting a process view of business. It has been shown in previous studies that the companies which have reached higher business process maturity level consistently outperform those that have not reached them. The paper presents the results of the empirical research that con ...
business process orientation, organizational performance, non-financial performance, business process management, structural equation modeling
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The paper provides a survey of some of the international journal publishers that can be found in internet. Provided also is a survey of some of the free and commercial publishers in internet.
Publishing, Journal, International Publishers.
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This paper presents an inquiry and a proposal of a structured way of thinking about informing as a separate field of scientific inquiry and practical endeavors and possibly a separate academic discipline. Informing is the science and art of practical endeavors to increase its effectiveness and efficiency; it is an interdisciplinary applied science with some components of universal validity, which ...
Informing, informing science, informing discipline, field of inquiry
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The essential elements of an informing system are a sender, a communications pathway, and a client. Academic informing systems, however, are best viewed as two interacting informing systems, one that informs clients of a discipline, one that informs clients of the institution. The paper proposes that the greater the degree of overlap between the clients of these two systems, the stronger the posit ...
informing sciences, informing systems, client, sender, MIS, institutional priorities, transdiscipline.
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There are identified within the discourse a number of notions regarding the term information. This paper sets out to explore these sometimes-conflicting notions of information. The reason why conflicting notions occur is the result of different perspectives and understanding of the term information. Within the discourse two camps are identified, firstly, those who identify information as a resourc ...
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The diversity and interdisciplinarity of computer science and the multiplicity of its uses in other sciences make it hard to define computer science and to prescribe how computer science should be carried out. The diversity of computer science also causes friction between computer scientists from different branches. Computer science curricula, as they stand, have been criticized for being unable t ...
philosophy of computer science, foundations of computer science, computer science education, course description
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Non-profit organizations such as public sector organizations have some specifics, which make renovation projects significantly different. It is clear that radical changes in the execution of business processes and in the organizational structures are not suitable for the public sector because they are not possible for many, also political, reasons. A business process change in public sector mostly ...
business process management, methodology, business process maturity, public sector, business process modeling, business process change, case study
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Despite various research efforts originating from both academia and industry, software projects have a high rate of failure, more specific, software projects often do not comply with the traditional standard measurements of success, namely time, cost and requirements specification. Thus, there is a need for new methods and measures to support the software project management process. Globalisation ...
Software Project Management, Software Agent Technology, Project Scope Management, Project Time management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management, Project Risk Management, Project Communication Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Procurement Management,
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Software project management is a relatively recent discipline that emerged during the second half of the 20th century (Kwak, 2003). Many of the software project management methodologies available today were developed in Western/European countries and research showed that there was a need to formalise a software project management framework for developing countries, in particular Africa (Muriithi & ...
software project management, software development, maturity model, evolutionary process, project management methodology
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Several studies have suggested a significant relationship between finger length and aspects of personality. In this study the ratio between second and fourth digit lengths, known as digit ratio, was correlated with sensation seeking and Internet self-efficacy. In addition the relationship between the fourth and fifth digits, i.e. the little finger and ring finger, and these two constructs was also ...
Self-efficacy, Internet use, Digit Ratio, Gender differences, Sensation seeking
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Literature relating to personality and entrepreneurship has focused primarily on personality characteristics of traditional entrepreneurs. The focus of this study was on personality characteristics and temperaments of potential ICT entrepreneurs. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of personality characteristics as identifiers of potential ICT entrepreneurship. In order to m ...
Key Words Temperament, personality, entrepreneurial tests, entrepreneurs.
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With the damaging influence of systems implementation failure, it is vital to distinguish the issues surrounding large-scale software selection, construction and operations. Using the work by Markus (1983) as a touchstone, this paper spotlights the question of resistance towards a new system and the impact policy has on minimising confrontation. A case study delving into the lines of conflict asso ...
Resistance, Policy, Power, Discourse, Systems Implementation
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The paper presents results of studies among computer users, demonstrating a remarkable relation between history of computer use (computer experience) and readiness to access Internet resources (Internet access). The observed relation, referred to as ‘Internet entry delay syndrome’, may be described as follows: the greater the user’s computer experience, the longer it takes him/her to decide on acc ...
computer users, Internet users, Internet (users) entry delay syndrome.
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In this article a human centered approach for Information Retrieval IR systems is offered. The focus of this article is on human users of IR systems, who are given the opportunity to offer enhanced relevance feedback. A novel approach is offered to capture the back-propagated feedback of human users during IR sessions. According to this approach the IR system is developed to accept human bidirecti ...
Information Retrieval Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Bidirectional Relevance Feedback.
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The success or otherwise of Software Engineering (SE) activities depends on the interactions among software engineers. Consequently, effective interactions depend largely on personality traits, which is a consistent and long-lasting tendency in behaviour. In psychology, five major trait factors (The Big Five Factors) have been generally used to assess personality of people. But, these might not be ...
Software Engineering, Software Engineers, Personality Trait, Psychology
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The ICT profession is characterised by constant change, uncertainty and innovation. It is widely postulated that ICT professionals should be adaptable and enjoy new challenges and opportunities. This exploratory study uses an appropriate scale to examine the adaptability of several cohorts of undergraduate ICT students. The findings suggest that ICT students are less adaptable than might be expect ...
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Government organizations and universities are traditional and bureaucratic institutions. One government-sponsored graduate-level college undertook a transformation to develop agility in spite of academic traditions and a risk-averse culture to take advantage of Information Age concepts, opportunities, and tools. As a result, the college, dedicated to developing information leaders who can leverage ...
Agility, sense-and-respond, transformation, netcentricity, information age
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The main focus of this paper is to evaluate the provision of ICT in three rural communities in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) in South Africa to determine how the needs of these communities can be addressed. Both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were applied to address this focus. Results are compared and recommendations are presented that may best meet the needs of the rural communities.
Rural communities, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, ICT provision
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The deployment of new technologies such as the Internet is often understood to positively change the way that business works. However it is important to realise that success is not automatic and a number of other factors must also be considered. In this paper it is argued that a wider range of skills is needed than just technical skills, and a wider vision is needed than just the vision of one bus ...
Partnership management, small business, ICT, social impact, community informatics, business development
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The objective of this paper is to report findings from simulating and testing local area network (LAN) connectivity using Windows XP operating system and Cisco Networking Academy network devices. In this study, a simple routing protocol, RIP, is used as routing protocol. Two different techniques, Cisco Networking Academy hardware lab and Cisco Packet Tracer 4, were used to compare their performanc ...
Cisco Networking Academy, Windows XP Firewall, Network Simulation, ICMP.
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This paper focuses on a process of simulation software packages selection in the context of business process change projects. The paper presents discrete event simulation, its relation to business process modelling and examples of its practical applications in business process change projects. Features of business process simulation tools are examined, the most important simulation features are id ...
Business process simulation, discrete event simulation, business process change, business process modelling tools, guidelines for the evaluation of business process simulation tools
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This paper presents an approach for analysing and prototyping urban road network routes based on multiple criteria, such as spatial quality, transportation cost and aesthetics, in order to evaluate the quality of people’s use of road networks. A prototype is developed to analyse routes and accessibility in road layouts from a number of design and user related perspectives. A case study is used to ...
road networks, multi-criteria, simulation.
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In most cases today information systems development involves the use of multiple development tools. The developer has the choice of many competing vendor tools to choose from, and the choices to be made are complex. Will the various tools work together, and which tool should be chosen for which task? This paper describes the development of a business simulation game, and the role various developme ...
Software development tools, business simulation games.
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The aim of this paper is to define the architecture of the information analysis towards a proposal of methodology on systematic information analysis. First, the author shows the dimensions that state the architecture of information management. Second, the work explores the concept of indicator, as the measurement of the relation between data, and presents the results of a theoretical study of the ...
Information analysis, indicators, knowledge management, scientometrics, datamet-rics.
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This paper seeks to address a problem ubiquitous in many software development environments today, namely, building software from requirements that are incomplete and not fully understood, thereby creating products that are either faulty or ultimately not being used at all. This gap that exists between software engineers and clients is highlighted in this paper and suggestions on how to overcome th ...
Software Engineering, Requirements/Specification, Elicitation methods, Rapid prototyping, Human factors, Software Psychology, Domain knowledge, Domain expert, Tacit knowledge.
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Persistence is the term used in computer science to describe a capability to store data structures in non-volatile storage such as a file system or a relational database (Wikipedia, 2003). There is a growing need to simplify the interactions among separate systems and to build complex software systems that are made out of components with well-defined services. At the base-level of such complex sys ...
transparent persistence framework, design patterns, Java, relational to object model mapping
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This paper proposes a multi-criteria based approach for the analysis of building layouts, from space quality and cost related perspectives. A computational prototype is developed to analyse a building layout from various accessibility related measures in order to evaluate the quality of the building special layout. A case study is used to demonstrate the assessment of a building layout based on a ...
Space analysis, building layouts, multi-criteria.
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An unstructured book is defined as a set of digital multimedia files called items, together with ordered subsets of them presented to its readers. Thus different readings of the same set of items are possible. Additionally, items may be shown in different versions and languages. The functionality of the software package SPRP used to publish and read such books is described with an overview of what ...
e-book, publishing, unstructured, reading privileges.
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The growing popularity of mobile devices, coupled with the ever-increasing number of high-quality e-books available for free download is causing a re-examination of core curriculum and instructional philosophies. Perhaps the most - making “great books” programs available and accessible - newly interesting, despite misgivings and political correctness of the last few decades. Distance learning via ...
m-learning, mobile learning, podcasts, video casts, great books, humanities education
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Video as a tool for teaching and learning in higher education is a multimedia application with considerable promise. Including video within the online support material for a module can help students to gain an understanding of the material and prepare for assessment. We have experimented with using short videos that summarise the lectures given, as an aid for students to use when revising. An inte ...
Video, learning, revision, assessment.
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There have been many attempts to define Information Systems (IS) success but they have mostly been in the private sector. This paper reviews existing IS success models and then takes into account stakeholders as well as public sector perspectives in conducting qualitative case studies of 3 major Western Australian government agencies. Findings of the study identified key IS success variables relev ...
IS success, IS success models, IS in public sector, IS case studies, Public sector
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The teaching and learning of a complex section in Theoretical Computer Science 1 in a distance-education context has been enhanced by a supplementary interactive e-learning system with tutorial and practice functionality in a classic computer-aided instruction (CAI) style. A participative action research process was used to develop, evaluate and refine the application over a longitudinal period. C ...
Action research, computer-aided instruction, e-learning, human-computer interaction, theoretical computer science, triangulated evaluation methods, usability evaluation
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This paper describes the experience of the authors with the development of scoring rubrics for projects in the core subjects of an Information Systems program. It presents an overview of student learning assessment issues in professional courses and the role of educational projects for that purpose. Then the steps of deriving project rubrics in different subjects across the Information Systems pro ...
Project Assessment, Program Assessment, Information Systems Education
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Automated Essay Grading (AEG) technology has been maturing over the final decades of the last century to the point where it is now poised to permit a transition in ‘assessment-thinking’. The administrative convenience of using objective testing to attempt to assess deep learning, learning at the conceptual level, has now been obviated by efficient and effective automated means to assess student le ...
AEG; Automated Essay Grading; automated formative assessment; conceptual learning; deep learning; formative evaluation; interactive assessment feedback; Latent Semantic Analysis, MarkIT; Normalised Word Vector; NWV.
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Computers, digitalization and the Internet have transformed modem society. Commerce, education, communication and socialization will never be the same. Surprisingly, many universities do not require a computing course in the core curriculum. Critical information technology (IT) competencies are often taken for granted, to the detriment of students who lack computing and Internet skills. This paper ...
assessment, curriculum, education, computer skills, information systems, computer science, Internet.
Today’s market continues to introduce many and different information communications technologies. As a result, end users are faced with a variety of interfaces which they need to learn and use in a short period of time. The motivation to learn a new interface is subject to many variables most importantly is level of computer competencies, and openness to experience. The aim of this study was to ex ...
User Interfaces, computer competencies, openness to experience, performance
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Computer-phobic university students are easy to find today especially when it come to taking online courses. Affect has been shown to influence users’ perceptions of computers. Although self-reported computer anxiety has declined in the past decade, it continues to be a significant issue in higher education and online courses. More importantly, anxiety seems to be a critical variable in relation t ...
Affect; Anxiety; TAM; Perceived Usefulness; Ease of Use; Online Learning
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Collaborative Learning in group settings currently occurs across a substantial portion of the UK Higher Education curriculum. This style of learning has many roots including: Enterprise in Higher Education, Action Learning and Action Research, Problem Based Learning, and Practice Based Learning. As such our focus on Collaborative Learning development can be viewed as an evolutionary. This collabor ...
Learning, collaborative learning, learning communities, VLE, connectivity, groups, action learning, learning environment, coaching, mentors, team work, learning technology, knowledge management
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In 2005 an undergraduate course in project management was converted from face-to-face mode to wholly online mode. The online course was designed with an underlying problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy and used a simulated, fictitious telecommunications company, United Enterprises (UE), as a case study learning resource. The students worked in virtual teams to complete online learning activities a ...
Virtual Teams, E-Learning, Drupal, Problem-based Learning.
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During the past decade the globally networked digital technologies that operate within the realm of the internet have encouraged academicians and educators the world over to communicate, collaborate, and share knowledge. They have stimulated the creation of transgeographic educational initiatives which broaden the opportunities of learners and are an effective means of eradicating ethnocentrism, x ...
Information Communication, e-Learning, Co-operative Learning, Global Education, Distance Education, Global Networking, Instructional Technology
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This paper investigates a pedagogic model appropriate to the integration of the industrial practices in software development into the learning activities of our undergraduate students, especially in the context of group-based project work. Specifically, we are interested in the potentialities of this model enhanced from the problem-based learning context, such that people collaborating in the pecu ...
Collaboration, design scenarios, problem-based learning, software engineering education.
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The paper deals with business renovation, effective utilization of information technology and the role of business process modeling in supply chain integration projects. The main idea is to show how the performance of the supply chain can be improved with the integration of various tiers in the chain. Integration is prerequisite for effective sharing and utilization of information between differen ...
supply chain management, business process renovation, simulations, information transfer
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Embracing inapt infrastructure technology is a major threat in developing extensive and efficient Web-based systems. The architectural strength of all business models demands an effective integration of various technological components. And middleware, the center of all applications, becomes the driver—everything works if middleware does. In the recent times, the client/server environment has expe ...
E-commerce Infrastructure, middleware
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Proponents of e-commerce have known for some time that limited participation by consumers partially reflects their concern over the privacy of personal information. To address consumer concerns, web site operators have employed security mechanisms, including privacy policy statements to increase their perceived trustworthiness. While empirical evidence is limited, there is some question regarding ...
e-commerce privacy electronic commerce trust; Internet privacy; Internet trust; online privacy; privacy policy statements
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The global society is living in the electronic age where electronic transactions such as e-mail, e-banking, e-commerce and e-learning are becoming more and more prominent. This paper primarily focuses on e-learning and how important it is to ensure that proper Information Security measures are put in place to ensure that all information within the e-learning environment is properly protected. This ...
electronic learning, e-learning, information security, countermeasures
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In the ACM guidelines for curricula at educational institutions, the recommendations for Information Security Assurance (ISA) education do not specify the topics, courses, or sequence of courses. As a consequence, there are numerous ISA education models and curricula in existence at educational institutions around the world. Therefore, it is appropriate to evaluate the quality of academic informat ...
information security assurance, education, curriculum.
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This paper discusses on the development of the Honeyd@WEB. Honeyd@WEB is a system that can deploy low-interaction, production, dynamic and manageable virtual honeypots via a web interface. It runs open source programs, such as P0f (a passive fingerprinting tool) and Honeyd (a low-interaction honeypot). Honeyd@WEB can automatically determine; how many honeypots to deploy, how to deploy them, and wh ...
Honeypot, honeynet, open source, network security, Honeyd@WEB
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Information security and privacy on the Internet are critical issues in our society. Importantly, children and adolescents need to understand the potential risk of using the Internet. In this research, we examine factors that motivate students’ Information Security Behavior on the Internet. A pilot survey of middle and junior high school students is the source of the data. This study provides a mo ...
Information Security, Self-efficacy, Internet, Perceived Importance, Information Security Behavior.
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Software security breaches are now very extremely common and a larger percentage is caused by software design defects. Since individuals and organizations now completely depend on software systems for their day-to-day operations, it is then important to produce secure software products. This paper discusses the problems of producing secure software products and provides a model for improving softw ...
Security breaches, Software system, Software security, Software design, Design defects
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A holistic approach to security education is important to providing practitioners the scope of learning necessary for integration of their skills into the enterprise. Specifically domains of knowledge can easily be identified that allow for this holistic approach to be implemented into a new program of study or curriculum for information assurance and security. Within the Purdue Calumet CIT Depart ...
Information Assurance, Security, Curriculum, SIGITE, ACM
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This paper presents a critical look at the likely demise of Computer Science (CS) as a discipline, in the light of various mishaps that academics in Universities have met with due to trial and error. We trace the issues of the past and present and, identify the reasons why computer science as a discipline in many Universities has not moved with time - in particular why it is not kept up with the p ...
Academic morality, Relationship management in CS, Multi-disciplinary approach, Change management and Downturn in CS education
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This paper will examine the various predictions about how technology will transform society. We live in an era of rapid technological development and deployment. Teachers are expected to prepare student for this onslaught on biomedical breakthroughs automation and communica-tion/computer tools. In light of these advances, students need to be anticipatory and congruent with rapidly changing technol ...
Future, human behavior, scenario, students, technology
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The Advanced Technical School from Novi Sad set up a completely new study group for web design in 2004. The paper explains its organization and gives course descriptions. When it was established, there were not many similar groups in the world exclusively dealing with web design, whose programs could serve as role models, hence the curriculum and syllabus had to be based on our own experience. The ...
web design, curriculum, syllabus, web issues, accessibility, privacy, security, students' prior knowledge.
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The selection of a programming language for introductory courses has long been an informal process involving faculty evaluation, discussion, and consensus. As the number of faculty, students, and language options grows, this process becomes increasingly unwieldy. As it stands, the process currently lacks structure and replicability. Establishing a structured approach to the selection of a programm ...
Programming language selection, introduction to programming, teaching programming, programming language evaluation, multicriteria decision analysis, analytic hierarchy process.
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Current demand for Information System (IS) graduates requires that they master specific technical skills needed by industry and government institutions. Revising the IS curriculum to keep it up to date while meeting demands of the Information Technology (IT) labor market continues to be a challenging task. In order to graduate students that are competitive, post-secondary educational institutions ...
Information Systems, IT certifications, Curriculum design, IS courses.
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The information systems marketplace is changing rapidly requiring students to be well versed in skills that go beyond traditional IT skills. To achieve this, management information systems (MIS) instructors in MIS programs across the country need to design courses that reflect these changes. Failure to incorporate these changes in the MIS program will lead to graduating MIS students who are not co ...
Capstone MIS course, student learning, systems approach, assessment, integrated learning
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Database tuning practice is mainly conducted as a consequence of user’s complaints on the performance. There is a need for a reactive monitoring and tuning tool enabling a real-time overview of the main resource consumers in order to detect and solve performance bottlenecks. With an assessment of the Oracle’s high-availability database, in terms of the main architectural components and their impac ...
database management systems, tuning, workload performance
The aim of this paper is to evaluate, propose and improve the use of advanced web data clustering techniques, allowing data analysts to conduct more efficient execution of large-scale web data searches. Increasing the efficiency of this search process requires a detailed knowledge of abstract categories, pattern matching techniques, and their relationship to search engine speed. In this paper we c ...
Web mining, database, data clustering, algorithms, web documents.
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Recently the role and importance of database application in supporting the decision making process has been still increasing. Data warehouse can be an answer for this challenge. Data collected in a warehouse deliver different information e.g. about market, demand, selling goods, trends, anomalies on market. The paper presents data warehouse as a potential source of business information.
data warehouse, economic information, OLAP
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Content management can be viewed as the concepts, processes, technologies and practices that deal with the development, management and publishing of information. Traditionally, a Content Management System (CMS) does not offer the means for content classification, management and retrieval of data based on dynamically defined information models. Furthermore, Content Management Systems usually rely o ...
Content Management, Semantic enablers, Classification, Ontology, Metadata, OWL, Relational Database
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This paper examines the theoretical linkage between ICT and advances within a business in a rural community in the North West Province of South Africa. Various aspects are addressed like services and service delivery mechanism, locally adapted content and context, realistic approach to technologies and financial sustainability. A rural community centre in Itsoseng was investigated regarding the ab ...
. digital divide, CT hub model, rural areas, South Africa
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Proponents of hybrid learning proclaim it to be an effective and efficient way of expanding course content that supports in-depth delivery and analysis of knowledge (Young, 2002) and increases students satisfaction (Campos & Harasim, 1999; Dziuban & Moskal, 2001; Rivera, McAlister, & Rice, 2002; Wu & Hiltz, 2004). In the years to come, hybrid learning is poised to cause a paradigm shift in higher ...
Digital divide, minority education, hybrid learning, e-learning, asynchronous learning
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Research indicates that to effectively participate in today’s global digital information age, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) familiarity is essential for individuals and communities. There is concern, especially amongst developed nations that advances in, and the rapid growth of, ICTs has the possibility of creating a new form of inequality among individuals. The New Zealand gov ...
ICTs adoption, digital divide, refugees, immigrants, social inclusion, Rogers’ DOI.
558 downloads
The World Wide Web provides a wealth of information - indeed, perhaps more than can comfortably be processed. But how does all that Web content get there? And how can users assess the accuracy and authenticity of what they find? This paper will look at some of the problems of using the Internet as a resource and suggest criteria both for researching and for systematic and critical evaluation of wh ...
critical thinking, www, unprincipled surfing, principled surfing, accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, coverage
6 downloads
Delivering course content via portable/mobile audio players can be a part of an effective selfregulatory strategy that also accommodates multiple learning styles while overcoming intrusive thoughts and the anxiety that accompanies them. As a result, academic performance can improve, while increasing self-concept and self-efficacy. Preliminary results of a literature search tracing the impact of in ...
e-learning, instructional strategies, mp3, podcasts, cognitive interference, intrusive thoughts, multiple intelligences, attention principle, online courses, learning outcomes, new technologies, new content delivery methodologies, RSS, iPod, media player, e-learning in extreme conditions, anxiety, self-regulation, self-efficacy
3363 downloads
Mobile learning (M-Leaming) integrates the current mobile and wireless computing technology with education primarily to enhance the effectiveness of the traditional learning process. One of the difficulties in implementing M-Learning is to deliver the content efficiently. This paper focuses on the development of M-Learning management tool in campus-wide environment using the Microsoft .NET infrast ...
M-Learning, E-Learning, Management Tool, Application Development, User Acceptance
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The author describes his experience with students interacting with some websites he made for didactics and research and how this led him to an appreciation for the need for better searching tools and strategies for education. The students’ difficulties emerging from the above observations were a special case of the more general problem evidenced from people while searching information on the web. ...
information system, knowledge construction, learning objects, ontology, semantic web, units of learning
5 downloads
eLearning has profoundly changed many aspects of society and, inevitably, it is having a significant impact on Higher Education, where it has now evolved from a marginal form of education to a commonly accepted alternative to traditional face-to-face education. The term can cover different delivery models ranging from courses that are delivered fully online (no face-to-face meetings) to courses th ...
eLearning, interactive technologies, games-based eLearning, motivation, information systems.
979 downloads
This study investigated the students attitudes toward the use of World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT) and its influence on learning taking a course Introduction to Computers in Business offered at the College of Commerce and Economics in Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. Sultan Qaboos University is a co-educational institution where in most computer classes the male and female students are equally ...
WebCT, learning, Information Technology, student attitudes
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This paper discusses the feeling of isolation among doctoral students; its’ origin and the effect it has on the decision of the students to leave doctoral programs. The paper explains the development of isolation feeling within four stages of completing the program. It explains how each stage contributes to increasing the feeling of isolation among the students and then suggests counter measures t ...
Information System Doctorates, Isolation feelings, Doctoral attrition
1085 downloads
The Professional Doctorate (ProfDoc) is attracting increasing attention because of its perceived greater than the Doctor of Philosophy’s (PhD’s) focus on meeting the needs of the knowledge economy. The paper examines the nature of the ProfDoc vis-a-vis the PhD and identifies significant characteristics of the ProfDoc, especially in respect of relevance and performativity. It then analyses these ch ...
Professional Doctorate, Doctorate of Business Administration, Information Systems, Doctoral Education, Knowledge Economy
1490 downloads
This paper introduces an initial effort towards developing a framework for writing an effective literature review. The target audience for the framework are novice IS researchers or other researchers who are constantly struggling with the development of an effective literature-based foundation for the proposed research. The proposed framework follows the systematic data processing approach compris ...
Literature review, effective literature review, literature search, literature categorization, literature classification, literature analysis, literature synthesis
6459 downloads
In the past, Information Systems Research (ISR) mainly has focused on developing, designing, and implementing computerized parts of informing systems. Even studies from a "user" perspective relate to information and communication technology (ICT), often on an abstract level. Since the advent of the ICT industry there has been a tendency to describe professionals in their practice, or people in the ...
Information Systems Research, Systems Analysis, Hermeneutic Dialectics, Phenomenology, Critical Systems Thinking.
273 downloads
The predecessors of this research project were the efforts to classify the Information Systems (IS) research along paradigmatic lines. While the paradigmatic classifications are very useful philosophically, examination of an issue such as the use of Information Systems and the related socioorganizational issues require a classification that is centered around the social phenomenon of the use and e ...
288 downloads
This paper explores how the engineering design process might balance conflicting constraints of technical product design and the social demands of users. Some insights from Buddhism, cybernetics, phenomenology and neurophysiology set the scene to help illustrate how Designers and Users build or access their respective ‘experienced-' and ‘expected world’ and achieve their aims. A prototype 3D ‘diam ...
Innovation, co-evolution, non-dualism, Buddhism, phenomenology, cybernetics, VSM, Team Syntegrity
480 downloads
This paper outlines a case study in which a management development learning process was tightly coupled to organisational change and development objectives. The case discusses how a research and consulting team came together to develop highly reflexive pedagogy to support the work of internal managers who were organised into teams (‘learning sets’ of sorts, but which came to be known as 'ThinkTank ...
Innovation, co-evolution, non-dualism, Buddhism, phenomenology, cybernetics, VSM, Team Syntegrity
474 downloads
Communicating with friends, family, peers and colleagues has always underpinned work and social behaviour. However, the devices that act as conduits to this communication have changed over time, and differ across the globe. People in industralised corners of the world are more and more frequently using advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) to assist both the senders and rec ...
information and communication technologies, information systems, skill development, curriculum
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The under-representation and poor retention of women in computing courses at Victoria University is a concern that has continued to defy all attempts to resolve it. Despite a range of initiatives created to encourage participation and improve retention of females in the courses, the percentage of female enrolments has declined significantly in recent years, from 32% in 1994 to 18% in 2004, while a ...
gender bias, computing education, female participation, female under-representation, learning environment, retention
490 downloads
Educational programme for lab-lectures of Business Information Systems module is presented. There, first year undergraduate business students of Faculty of Economics Ljubljana University Business School acquire important hands-on knowledge, which is expected from them by future employers in business practice and by lecturers during their studies. The programme evolved over a course of years of ins ...
IT, Skills, Education, Business Students, Information Technology
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Data from the national databases about the population and education shows that about 283 693 under 5-year old children stepped into the Finnish educational system in 2004. Their future learning, a lifelong interaction amid developing and decision-making people, is supported with the education that promotes understanding the decisions and knowledge related to them. In Europe, the demand for a high ...
education, educational technology, learning, e-learning, e-learning business.
1581 downloads
For the past several years, the authors have been studying the impact of prior experience on performance in introductory Information Technology (IT) courses. Since 2002, data has been collected on all incoming freshmen and performance has been measured by the grade received in initial courses. The grades are expressed in the traditional four-point scale used at most US colleges and universities. P ...
Computers, Education, Information Technology (IT), Information Science Education, Computer Science Education, Curriculum, Information Systems Education
3 downloads
At a time when the IT industry in general and the IT academy in particular face major challenges, some accuse universities of producing graduates with poor or inappropriate skills. This qualitative study, based on interviews with fifteen senior IT executives and managers in the Australian financial services industry, examines what employers seek when they recruit new graduates. We find that employ ...
IT Education; skills crisis; graduate employment; outsourcing; graduate attributes
4 downloads
Communication is one of the fundamental elements required for facilitating learning. It is present in the work of (Vygotsky 1978) and more recently (Wenger 1998). These authors are concerned with understanding learning and explaining it. Others have focused their attention on the development of frameworks to facilitate learning. In particular, work related to the introduction of information techno ...
Communication, Blended Learning, Communities of Practice, E-Learning
381 downloads
Managed Learning Environment (MLE) uses technology to enhance and make more effective the network of relationships between learners, teachers and organizers of learning, through integrated support for richer communications and activities”. Educational institutions are faced with the challenge of setting up of a hi-tech infrastructure and preparing a new generation of teachers to effectively use th ...
Managed Learning Environment, knowledge, education, resources, planning and technology
870 downloads
Starting with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET) application developers can write programs that may be used for different languages listed in VB .NET globalization. However, this globalization list is incomplete and is missing many languages. Among the languages that are missing from VB globalization is the Kurdish language. This paper makes a case for adding the Kurdish language to ...
VB Globalizations, VB New languages, VB Kurdish, VS Kurdish
6 downloads
Support for personalized learning requires further assistance than currently available with most learning management system. Software agents have been proposed as one way of providing such assistance. The paper identifies three kinds of software agents, pedagogical, function and process agents. The paper then concentrates on process agents, which guide learners to develop personalized preferred le ...
Learning process, software agents, modelling
Latent Semantic Analysis, when used for automated essay grading, makes use of document word count vectors for scoring the essays against domain knowledge. Words in the domain knowledge documents and essays are counted, and Singular Value Decomposition is undertaken to reduce the dimensions of the semantic space. Near neighbour vector cosines and other variables are used to calculate an essay score ...
Automated Essay Grading, Latent Semantic Analysis, Singular Value Decomposition, Normalised Word Vectors, Electronic Thesaurus, Multiple Regression Analysis.
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Being a distance education institution, our current infrastructure does not allow group or collaborative work on undergraduate level. Although students are allowed to work together and assist each other, each student is required to submit individual attempts for assignments and/or projects. Assignments that are so similar that we could not accept them as individual attempts are considered cheating ...
cheating, assignments, examination results, programming education
3 downloads
In order to become a crucial resource for learners, Web-based learning must take into consideration that education has triggered a shift from the teaching paradigm to the learning paradigm. As a result, students are becoming more independent from the teacher. Besides the evolution of the learning paradigm, educational technologies are evolving constantly. Moreover, changes caused by academic insti ...
Evaluation framework, evolutionary process model, learning theories, pedagogical principles, software development, Web-based learning.
2653 downloads
This paper is designed to help identify specific behaviors that present challenging decisions for faculty in terms of questionable ethical behavior or conflicts of interest and ways to deal with the various situations. The behaviors are divided into five sections: 1) Dishonest or unethical behavior in teaching 2) Dishonest or unethical behavior in research 3) Sexual Harassment 4) Neglect of Univer ...
Ethics, Professional Behavior, Interactive, Guidelines
1910 downloads
A practical IT education is a combination of lectures and exercises, as well as learning and putting into practice the theory of a fundamental system technology. The following is presumed. It is important to execute such education by directing the accumulation of knowledge and the expansion of knowledge through the spiral model, making it more educationally effective. The present treatise consider ...
Education, Spiral model, Skill, Measurement, Graduate research, Headwaters
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This paper details the development and implementation of an adventure game based assignment exploring the use of ciphers as part of a final year undergraduate data communications course. Students were presented with a document that contained a narrative to help them along the journey to the solution, one section of which required decipherment of a key instruction. The author reflects on the (pre-i ...
education, adventure game, data communications, discovery learning, programmed learning
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This paper describes the design and use of a simple method for comparative website evaluation that has been used for the purposes of teaching web design to University students. The method can be learnt within two hours by a novice user or typical customer. The method is not dependant upon the environment being used by the tester and can be adjusted according to the subjective preferences they may ...
Website evaluation, user evaluation, web metrics, usability
289 downloads
Learning styles are relatively-stable characteristic behaviors that indicate how students prefer to leam. To maximize student learning, it is important for instructors to address learning styles when designing their lessons. What does the research say about learning styles? What should instructors do to factor learning styles into traditional lessons? What should be done differently with respect t ...
learning styles, cognitive styles, learning preferences, computer-based training, instructional design
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The emerging field of Information Technology is one of several fields that require students to leam computer programming. A large proportion of the students were having difficulty getting through the programming sequence and ultimately changed majors or dropped out of college. To deal with this problem, curricular reforms were implemented and active learning techniques were added to the classroom. ...
Active learning, introductory programming, student retention, curricular reform
749 downloads
Professionals in the information technology field are bombarded with an incessant stream of innovations in hardware and software as well as practices, methods, and techniques. IT educators are among the first targets in the market and must decide if and when to adopt these innovations in their instruction of students and professional endeavors. The risks are not small: educators must weigh the imp ...
Information technology, IT innovations, technology adoption, IT educators, early adopters
345 downloads
Names are important in many societies, even in technologically oriented ones which use e.g. ID systems to identify individual people. There are many elements of personal names which vary in different cultures. Names such as surnames are the most important as they are used in many processes, such as identifying of people and genealogical research. On the other hand variation of names can be a major ...
personal names, name variations, name matching, ontology, rule based system
23 downloads
Traditional information systems design and development methodologies tend to overly focus on the technical details of the system such as memory management, system internals, algorithms and modules. It is not unusual for system designers and developers to often completely omit from the thought process the human element. This article offers a new information systems perspective particularly for info ...
Information retrieval, human computer interaction, relevance feedback
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This article discusses the relationship between the informing science and information view of organization. Both approaches are described, similarities and differences between them demonstrated, and the contribution of the latter to the former discussed.
Informing science, information view of organization, information, communication, information technology, organization theory, cognitive theory
For the last few years school teachers in Malaysia have access to ICT tools in their schools. However, these tools are used mostly for record keeping and word processing purposes. An in-depth study to identify the problems of using ICT in the classroom is currently being done to elicit information concerning the needs of secondary school teachers in the Northern region of Malaysia. This research-i ...
Keyword Diffusion of Innovation, ICT, ICT Integration, Instructional Design, Learning Objects, Teacher Education
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Nowadays, the amount of information grows in an exponential way, mainly because of technological advances in media. This scenario claims for the development of different skills in order to increase learning abilities, making them personal and customizable. Such factor is significant in a changing society, which implies in a range of mechanisms which would allow to identify, in a non-intrusive way, ...
learning styles, learning objects, repositories, Learning Management Systems (LMS), adaptative systems
442 downloads
This paper presents an advanced an innovative Video Learning Object (VLO) application model for optimal dynamic VLO reusability. The model contains three essential elements - the metadata, the links, and a learning center. Each element of VLO application system is configured for a specific assignment. The model allows for dynamic reconfigurability of VLO metadata based on usage profile. This leads ...
Video learning objects, video learning object application system, reusability, reconfigurability, dynamic reusability
5 downloads
The paper aims at analysing Business Intelligence Systems (BI) in the context of opportunities for improving decision-making in a contemporary organisation. The authors - taking specifics of a decision-making process together with heterogeneity and dispersion of information sources into consideration - present Business Intelligence Systems as some holistic infrastructure of decisionmaking. It has ...
Business Intelligence, data mining, OLAP, ETL, business decision-making, knowledge management
947 downloads
The Teaching and Learning Group, in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Australia, has successfully implemented Stage One of a Teaching and Learning Database. The database is unique in Deakin, and aims to integrate the core functions of curriculum, unit chair and assessment panel maintenance, academic workloads and quality assurance reporting for the Faculty of Arts. Stage One developments hav ...
Systems Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Curriculum Issues, Database Issues, Information Management
358 downloads
Despite the fact that money has been and always will be a hot topic, research has ignored it especially when it comes to payment issues in online commerce. It seems that people in the money business are busy making and spending it and have no time to study it and publish their findings. Come to think of it, why would one publish a methodology to save money when he/she can use it solely for themsel ...
Fraud management, e-commerce, online payment, virtual organizations
539 downloads
This is an inquiry into the background and the origins of bias and disinformation as viewed from the philosophical perspective. This paper demonstrates the undeniable analogy between the philosophical framework defined by Schopenhauer and the informational model of decision situations as viewed today in operations research, management sciences, and decision sciences. Bias, and disinformation—the m ...
Informing, bias, misinformation, disinformation, theoretical foundations, entity informed
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The problem of enhancing success in e-Commerce requires reducing or sharing the risk of misinforming. The objectives of this paper is to raise and discuss the difficulties in quantifying the risk of misunderstanding caused by information asymmetry in a communication process; and to propose a mathematical model, developed to measure the risk of misinforming. Usage of warranty, as the most popular t ...
information asymmetry, misinforming, warranty, risk
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This paper explores the design and application of information communication technologies and human computer interaction for people recovering from severe mental illness wishing to gain employment. It is argued bias, misinformation and disinformation limit opportunities for people recovering from mental illness who are seeking employment. Issues of bias are explored in relation to systems design as ...
bias, misinformation, disinformation, mental health, employment
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This is an inquiry into the “actionable credibility” of information values in informing and how it depends on other attributes of data and information quality. Empirical survey-based research by Wang and Strong (1996) ignores the multidimensional aspects of credibility. Studies that ignore them may produce unreliable results. Most publications discuss these attributes as independent quality factor ...
Operations quality of data/information, actionable credibility of informing
878 downloads
There are many ways to present information to visitors and users of 2D and 3D interface environments. In these virtual environments we can provide visitors with simulations of real environments, including simulations of presenters in such environments (a lecturer, a sales agent, a receptionist, a museum guide) and including audience participation in these environments. Our research aims at generat ...
information presentation, virtual presenters, virtual agents, embodied agents
368 downloads
Annotation of video content has been commonplace in the entertainment industry for many years and is now becoming a valuable tool within the business world. Unfortunately its use in education has to date been limited. Although research and development is being undertaken to apply video annotation techniques to assessment and both software and hardware exists to facilitate this process, it must be ...
video annotation, multimedia, transient events, Macromedia Director
705 downloads