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System Testing of Desktop and Web Applications
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Slack, James M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
We want our students to experience system testing of both desktop and web applications, but the cost of professional system-testing tools is far too high. We evaluate several free tools and find that AutoIt makes an ideal educational system-testing tool. We show several examples of desktop and web testing with AutoIt, starting with simple…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Oriented Programs, Evaluation Methods, Information Storage
Researching, Evaluating, and Choosing a Backup Service in the Cloud
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Hastings, Robin – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Backups are a modern fact of life. Every organization that has any kind of computing technology (and that is all of them these days) needs to back up its data in case of technological or user errors. Traditionally, large-scale backups have been done via an internal or external tape drive that takes magnetic tapes (minicassettes, essentially) and…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Storage Devices, Information Storage, Computer Software Evaluation
A Review of Cloud Application Assessment Practices at the University of Ballarat
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Wilmott, Deirdre; Knox, Ian – Education for Information, 2012
It has been suggested that traditional assessment practices in tertiary institutions tend not to equip students well for the processes of effective learning in a learning society [1]. This paper reviews alternative Internet based assessment practices used in Library, Business and Education courses at the University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Information Management
Statistical Profiles of Highly-Rated Learning Objects
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Cechinel, Cristian; Sanchez-Alonso, Salvador; Garcia-Barriocanal, Elena – Computers & Education, 2011
The continuously growth of learning resources available in on-line repositories has raised the concern for the development of automated methods for quality assessment. The current existence of on-line evaluations in such repositories has opened the possibility of searching for statistical profiles of highly-rated resources that can be used as…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Educational Resources, Classification, Automation
Website Structure
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Jackson, Larry S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation reports the results of an exploratory data analysis investigation of the relationship between the structures used for information organization and access and the associated storage structures within state government websites. Extending an earlier claim that hierarchical directory structures are both the preeminent information…
Descriptors: Investigations, Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, State Government
Streaming of Continuous Media for Distance Education Systems
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Dashti, Ali; Safar, Maytham – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
Distance education created new challenges regarding the delivery of large size isochronous continuous streaming media (SM) objects. In this paper, we consider the design of a framework for customized SM presentations, where each presentation consists of a number of SM objects that should be retrieved and displayed to the user in a coherent…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Delivery Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Materials