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Costello, Eamon – Open Learning, 2013
The virtual learning environment (VLE) has grown to become a piece of complex infrastructure that is now deemed critical to higher educational provision. This paper looks at Moodle and its adoption in higher education. Moodle's origins, as an open source VLE, are investigated and its growth examined in the context of how higher educational…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Higher Education, Open Source Technology, Computer Software
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Cheong, France; Cheong, Christopher; Jie, Ferry – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Routing is the process of selecting appropriate paths and ordering waypoints in a network. It plays an important part in logistics and supply chain management as choosing the optimal route can minimise distribution costs. Routing optimisation, however, is a difficult problem to solve and computer software is often used to determine the best route.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Visualization, Maps, Internet
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Collis, B.; And Others – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1996
Addresses the problems of adapting instructional courses for trans-European tele-learning and for enlarging the range of students and learning modalities in distance learning. Building on previous work on the portability of educational software, various dimensions of software adaptation are examined and their possible effects on course adaptation…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
McMahon, Harry; And Others – Educational Technology, 1992
Discusses the use of open software, i.e., software which is essentially empty of content and can be customized by users to fit their own context, and describes the development and evaluation of one such program--Bubble Dialog--by the Language Development and Hypermedia Research Group at the University of Ulster. Various applications of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education
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Smith, Mac; Gustafson, Kent – TechTrends, 1995
Describes the use of a barcode reader, rather than a computer, to control an interactive videodisc for presentations and self-paced tutorials. Highlights include hardware and software used; remote and direct communication; a HyperCard-based program to make barcodes; and converting an existing program. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Selection, Computer Software, Higher Education, Hypermedia
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Lawrason, Robin A. – Journal of Educational Techniques and Technologies, 1987
Writing courses at Temple University (Pennsylvania) were adapted from the Writer's Workbench program to provide a computer-assisted instruction model for students to obtain a wide range analysis of their writing abilities and skills. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education
Johnston, Wanda K., Ed.; Roark, Derrie B., Ed. – 1996
This guide provides samples of college libraries' copyright policies and materials as a reference for library and learning resources personnel who need to create formal copyright policies, procedures, and publications and for those who are reviewing and updating their existing copyright materials. A survey of 310 members of the Community and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Computer Software, Copyrights