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New Approaches to Technology in HE Management
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Cobb, Chris – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
Most UK universities can trace their current management information systems back to significant investments made in the 1990s, largely fuelled by concerns about the millenium bug and a change from character interfaces to graphical user interfaces following the introduction of the personal computer. It was during this period that institutions also…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Computer Interfaces, Technology Uses in Education
A Gateway between the World-Wide Web and PAT: Exploiting SGML through the Web.
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Price-Wilkin, John – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994
Discusses how the World-Wide Web (WWW) can be linked to the PAT system, a search engine supporting access to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) encoded documents. Technical concepts are reviewed, and the operation of a PAT-to-Web gateway is explained using examples of how it is employed. (JKP)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design
User-Driven Planning for Digital-Image Delivery
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Pisciotta, Henry; Halm, Michael J.; Dooris, Michael J. – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
This article draws on two projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation concerning the ways colleges and universities can support the legitimate sharing of digital learning resources for scholarly use. The 2001-03 Visual Image User Study (VIUS) assessed the scholarly needs of digital image users-faculty, staff, and students. That study led to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Libraries, Computer Networks, Information Networks
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
Rosenfeld, Louis; Morville, Peter – 1998
This book provides effective approaches for designers, information architects, and web site managers who are faced with sites that are becoming difficult to use and maintain. The book is divided into 10 sections. Chapter 1: "What Makes a Web Site Work" considers site users needs when designing the architecture; Chapter 2:…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Design Preferences, Designers
Human Body Interfacing.
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Fryda, Lawrence J.; Harrington, Robert; Szumal, Clint – 1997
Electronics Engineering Technology majors in the Industrial and Engineering Technology department at Central Michigan University have developed many real-world projects that represent the type of problem-solving projects encouraged by industry. Two projects that can be used by other educators as freestanding projects or as the core for further…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Electronics, Higher Education
Web-based OPACs: Between Tradition and Innovation.
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Moscoso, Purificacion; Ortiz-Repiso, Virginia – Information Technology and Libraries, 1999
Analyzes the change that Internet-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs) have represented to the structure, administration, and maintenance of the catalogs, retrieval systems, and user interfaces. Examines the structure of databases and traditional principles that have governed systems development. Discusses repercussions of the application…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design
An Intelligent Tutoring System on the WWW Supporting Interactive Simulation Environment with a Multimedia Viewer Control Mechanism.
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Nakabayashi, Kiyoshi; Maruyama, Mina; Koike, Yoshimasa; Fukuhara, Yoshimi; Nakamura, Yukihiro – 1996
This paper describes the features of the 1996 version of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) called CALAT. The architecture of CALAT is an extension of conventional World Wide Web systems, consisting of an ITS kernel on the server side and a multimedia viewer on the client side. The viewer control system is designed to achieve both educationally…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design, Courseware