Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806647
J. Stoltenkamp, C. Kies
This paper aims to engage in the discourse of the transformation of the higher education sector through institutional restructuring and operational strategy. This entails the deliberation of six key elements and challenges during the development of a new integrated strategic and operational plan. The integrated professional management and support of these elements will ensure that the institution has a shared vision and a structured implementation approach to policy design and development. This operational strategy will reach across faculty boundaries and focus on the relationship to and use of educational technologies within teaching-and-learning. Moreover it is envisaged that such an integrated implementation approach can help position the institution to establish partnerships and penetrate new markets.
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Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806645
V. Di Lecce, A. Giove, M. Calabrese
The blended learning can be defined as integration between the traditional training and E-learning. In a context where the student is at the centre of the training process, the tools used to bring the knowledge and professional competence must be most appropriate for every kind of learning path. The mere summation of both traditional and up-to-date approaches however is not sufficient to face with the compelling demand of continuous learning that today's society asks for. This is the reason why E-learning platforms need to be revised in the view of new emerging technologies. In this framework our aim is to present the guidance E-learning platform developed within the project called "Ariann@" and activated at the polytechnic of Bari. This platform has been designed to meet the needs of effective guidance actions for prospective, current and graduate students providing support by means of a Web 2.0 enhanced interactive learning environment.
{"title":"Customizing Blended Learning Platforms: Ariann@ Project Experience","authors":"V. Di Lecce, A. Giove, M. Calabrese","doi":"10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806645","url":null,"abstract":"The blended learning can be defined as integration between the traditional training and E-learning. In a context where the student is at the centre of the training process, the tools used to bring the knowledge and professional competence must be most appropriate for every kind of learning path. The mere summation of both traditional and up-to-date approaches however is not sufficient to face with the compelling demand of continuous learning that today's society asks for. This is the reason why E-learning platforms need to be revised in the view of new emerging technologies. In this framework our aim is to present the guidance E-learning platform developed within the project called \"Ariann@\" and activated at the polytechnic of Bari. This platform has been designed to meet the needs of effective guidance actions for prospective, current and graduate students providing support by means of a Web 2.0 enhanced interactive learning environment.","PeriodicalId":429437,"journal":{"name":"2008 ITI 6th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133219791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806633
F. Davenport
During the earlier period of the 20th century, following a brief flirtation with laissez-faire economic policies in the 1920's, there was a decisive shift towards economic nationalism and protectionism based on "infant-industry" arguments. This was in line with much conventional economic theory at the time. At the time those working in agriculture accounted for over 50% of the labour-force and agricultural based exports accounted for almost 90% of all exports. Over 90% of these exports went to the U.K. and Ireland was heavily dependent on imports from the U.K. for industrial products. From the 1930's determined efforts were made to build up an indigenous industrial capability by the introduction of duties, ranging from 15% to 75%, on a wide variety of imported goods and the parallel promotion of industrial enterprises in Ireland. At the same time legislation was introduced to provide that Irish nationals must hold a majority of the nominal share capital and voting rights in new manufacturing enterprises. Political and economic decisions taken in the middle part of the century, like the negotiation of the Anglo/Irish free trade agreement; the relaxing of company ownership rules; the establishment of the Industrial Development Authority to promote foreign direct investment, had a significant impact on the development of the economy over the following 50 years and changed Ireland from an agricultural economy to one where most of the top 10 companies worldwide in the pharmaceutical, electronic, medical devices, finance and software sectors now have significant and strategic operations in Ireland. Economic and industrial policy was used as a tool to create jobs and employment. The requirement that projects must be internationally trading helped to diversify the economy away from its dependence on UK markets and was also used as a way of encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit and the development of the indigenous industry sector. How has Ireland changed from an agricultural to an industrial economy and what have been the challenges for education and vocational training to meet the changing needs of industry in the first instance and the services sector in latter years. As the economy now moves from a cost competitive mode to a high cost mode how does Ireland prepare to adjust and what are the challenges. What is the next stage of FDI - Ireland must move from being the producer to being the creator of solutions to other people's challenges providing solutions that are superior to those provided by competing economies.
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Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806642
M.J. Wang, R. Shen
Large classrooms, whether on school grounds or online, have long suffered from a lack of interactivity. Many online classes simply provide recorded instructor lectures, which only reinforces the negative effects of passive non-participatory learning. The E-Learning Lab of Shanghai Jiaotong University developed a cutting-edge mobile learning system that can deliver live broadcasts of real-time classroom teaching or training to learners with mobile devices. Their system allows learners to customize means of content-reception, based on when and where they tune into the broadcast. The system also supports short text-messaging and instant polls. Through these venues, learners can interact with the instructor and class mates in real time. This paper describes this system in detail, and also report results from a test implementation of the system with two blended classrooms of more than 1000 learners.
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Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806646
Magdy El Hussainy, Raoul Weiler
The knowledge society progresses at high pace and societies remaining aside of this evolution, face to be left behind for decades. The information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed dramatically in establishing the information and yet the knowledge society. The continuous decreasing investments costs facilitates individuals, businesses, administrations their inclusion in the world wide knowledge society. The advent of low-cost infrastructure, in particular for PCs and laptops as well as for other communication equipment like the mobile phone, offer unique opportunities for joining the main evolution especially for learning and education.
{"title":"Low-cost ICT for Education and Capacity Building","authors":"Magdy El Hussainy, Raoul Weiler","doi":"10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806646","url":null,"abstract":"The knowledge society progresses at high pace and societies remaining aside of this evolution, face to be left behind for decades. The information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed dramatically in establishing the information and yet the knowledge society. The continuous decreasing investments costs facilitates individuals, businesses, administrations their inclusion in the world wide knowledge society. The advent of low-cost infrastructure, in particular for PCs and laptops as well as for other communication equipment like the mobile phone, offer unique opportunities for joining the main evolution especially for learning and education.","PeriodicalId":429437,"journal":{"name":"2008 ITI 6th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116540221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806639
R. Al-Maghraby
This paper focuses on the human resources related aspects in the project management area. It presents mainly the human related issues faced by project managers through out the project lifecycle, by highlighting best practices and addressing common painful points. An applied case study is presented at the end.
{"title":"Project Human Resources Management; itSMF Egypt Chapter Establishment Project Case Study","authors":"R. Al-Maghraby","doi":"10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806639","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the human resources related aspects in the project management area. It presents mainly the human related issues faced by project managers through out the project lifecycle, by highlighting best practices and addressing common painful points. An applied case study is presented at the end.","PeriodicalId":429437,"journal":{"name":"2008 ITI 6th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132386790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806643
Farhad Daneshgar, C. V. Toorn, Sau Chuen Edwin Chan
In the new digital age, the ever changing economy has posed many challenges to organisations and individuals. The ability to adapt to changes has become more and more important. Lifelong learning has been introduced and emphasised in the new millennium and the potential of e-learning has been widely recognised. Many organisations and higher education institutions are adopting e-learning worldwide as a means for knowledge acquisition and sharing. This paper investigates recent developments of e-learning in workplace and higher education, both at individual and organisational levels, in order to provide guidelines for development of appropriate e-learning systems for these entities. It was found that the e-learning systems in both workplace and higher education environments possess certain common attributes. However, because these environments adopt different perspective towards e-learning as a medium for various knowledge management activities, some differences were identified and explicated. Such difference in the perspective, in turn, mandates a need for different research focus on the e-learning development.
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Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806641
F. Klett
This paper focuses on recent directions for the alignment of human performance, e-learning and standards developments and their rising impact for research, growth and societal change. It examines the main building blocks required to implement a proper human capital management system in an organization, the need for interoperability of learning content and systems, with an eye toward maximizing an organization's investment in people and technology.
{"title":"Active Competition and Efficiency of Labor: Significance of Modern Web-Based E-Learning and Training Services and Recent Standards Developments","authors":"F. Klett","doi":"10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806641","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on recent directions for the alignment of human performance, e-learning and standards developments and their rising impact for research, growth and societal change. It examines the main building blocks required to implement a proper human capital management system in an organization, the need for interoperability of learning content and systems, with an eye toward maximizing an organization's investment in people and technology.","PeriodicalId":429437,"journal":{"name":"2008 ITI 6th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125364028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806648
A. Gamal
Although human capital is one of many factors affecting the quality of different industries, human capital is considered the most essential factor in the quality of software industry. Considering that software development is a pure intellectual activity, the quality of workforce potentially affects the quality of the final product. This paper tries to identify the need for workforce empowerment process, efforts and approaches implemented by some companies to empower IT workforce. Provides overview on IT workforce empowerment standards, provides blueprint on how to implement workforce empowerment framework.
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Pub Date : 2008-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806638
hassan hadi saleh, H. Nabil
Core academic subjects such as reading, writing, science, math, languages, social studies and arts remain the foundation of a comprehensive education and are more important than ever. However, leaders in education and business agree that the 21st century skills and content in areas such as productivity, teamwork, cultural competence, interactive communication, critical thinking, technology, language and systems thinking are needed to succeed in school, work and life. Today's challenging business environment implies that it is no longer sufficient for a new graduate to be a "walking-encyclopedia", stuffed with facts, figures, definitions and formulas but require being a knowledgeable student (learner) who can know how to learn, how to organize information and how to distinguish between important and less important pieces of information. This paper introduces this problem and how EDUEGYPT pilot program adopt these thinking approaches in the Egyptian universities within allowed timeframe and regulations of universities. The paper describes the methodology that followed at five faculties of Cairo and Ain Shams universities to incorporate these skills. Finally, the paper illustrates the results of this pilot which are represented in having a talent pool of students acquiring new skills beside their academic knowledge ready to cope with a rapidly changing world and labor market needs. Finally, we will discuss the lessons learned and the future work of EDUEgypt program.
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