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Williams, Peter – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
The need for social inclusion, informed choice and the facilitation of independent living for people with learning disabilities (LD) is being emphasised ever more by government, professionals, academics and, indeed, by people with LD themselves, particularly in self-advocacy groups. Achieving goals around inclusion and autonomy requires access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Inclusion, Access to Information
Ahn, Jae-wook – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The new trend on the Web has totally changed today's information access environment. The traditional information overload problem has evolved into the qualitative level beyond the quantitative growth. The mode of producing and consuming information is changing and we need a new paradigm for accessing information. Personalized search is one of…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Searching, Computer System Design, Access to Information
Wang, Hei-Chia; Chou, Ya-lin; Guo, Jiunn-Liang – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The paper's aim is to propose a core journal decision method, called the local impact factor (LIF), which can evaluate the requirements of the local user community by combining both the access rate and the weighted impact factor, and by tracking citation information on the local users' articles. Design/methodology/approach: Many…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Information, Weighted Scores, Models
Miller, L. D.; Soh, Leen-Kiat; Samal, Ashok; Nugent, Gwen – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2012
Learning objects (LOs) are digital or non-digital entities used for learning, education or training commonly stored in repositories searchable by their associated metadata. Unfortunately, based on the current standards, such metadata is often missing or incorrectly entered making search difficult or impossible. In this paper, we investigate…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Metadata, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Hanson, Karen; Williamson, Kasi – College and University, 2010
Where do students find out about courses they might take? Potentially, from just about anywhere: friends, bulletin boards, department Web sites, advisors, e-mails, or flyers posted in the halls. Of course, some of these sources are more trustworthy than others. Where should students go to get reliable information that can help them make wise…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Dissemination, Course Selection (Students), Information Sources
AL Faresi, Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Current research in health care lacks a systematic investigation to identify and classify various sources of threats to information privacy when sharing health data. Identifying and classifying such threats would enable the development of effective information security risk monitoring and management policies. In this research I put the first step…
Descriptors: Identification, Information Security, Compliance (Legal), Patients
Ooi, Teik Chooi; Ho, Henry Wai Leong; Amri, Siti – Current Issues in Education, 2010
This paper looks at criteria on how education service providers' websites could benefit their potential students from overseas. Effective design of education website is important as web users are typically fastidious and want information fast--this serves as the background of this study. The study focuses on three selected education institutions'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Case Studies, Web Sites
Aldrich, Alan W. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
The convergence of web-enabled smartphones, the applications designed for smartphone interfaces, and cloud computing is rapidly changing how people interact with each other and with their environments. The commercial sector has taken the lead in creating mobile websites that leverage the capacities of smartphones, and the academic community has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Internet, Handheld Devices
Gradel, Kathleen; Edson, Alden J. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
This article is based on the premise that face-to-face training can be augmented with cloud-based technology tools, to potentially extend viable training supports as higher education staff and faculty implement new content/skills in their jobs and classrooms. There are significant benefits to harnessing cloud-based tools that can facilitate both…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Faculty Development, Staff Development, Workshops
Everhart, Nancy; Mardis, Marcia; Johnston, Melissa; Smith, Daniella – Online Submission, 2009
For Americans to engage in a global information society, it is critical that they have access to high-speed, high-bandwidth Internet, meaning broadband. Network connectivity opens up a wealth of possibilities to K-12 educators. While it has the potential to result in fundamental changes in teaching methods, it can definitely be used to enhance…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Internet, Access to Information, Computer Networks
Heckner, Markus; Schworm, Silke; Wolff, Christian – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2010
Many current (online) help systems fail because users refuse to use them or, even if they do so, they do not perceive them as helpful. There is an obvious gap between the intentions of the help content authors and the achievement of objectives concerning the perceived usefulness by help users. Problems may be divided into psychological and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Prior Learning, Psychology, Internet
Kumar, Sanjeev – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Information Technology has brought significant benefits to organizations by allowing greater information sharing within and across firm boundaries leading to performance improvements. Emerging technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web2.0 have transformed the volume and process of information sharing. However, a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Organizational Effectiveness, Information Technology, Decision Making, Business
vultur, Sidonia Otilia; Marincas, Delia Adriana – Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2007
In this paper, an evaluation of web sites regarded like projects is discussed. We give an overview of the Web Assessment Index (WAI), by presenting a web sites of Romanian Faculties of Economics case study. The WAI contains five categories: accessibility, access speed, navigability, content and reliability. We analyzed and presented a detailed…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Internet, Foreign Countries, Computer Software Evaluation
Ruecker, Stan; Given, Lisa M.; Sadler, Elizabeth; Ruskin, Andrea; Simpson, Heather – Visible Language, 2007
This paper examines inclusive design delivery through interface design, with a particular focus on access to healthcare resources for seniors. The goal of the project was to examine how seniors are able to access drug information using two different online systems. In the existing retrieval system, pills are identified using a standard search…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Patients, Drug Use, Identification
Johnson, Russell; Kemp, Elizabeth; Kemp, Ray; Blakey, Peter – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This article reports on a project that explores strategies for narrowing the digital divide by providing a practicable e-learning option for the millions living outside the ambit of high performance computing and communication technology. The concept is introduced of a "learning computer," a low bandwidth tool that provides a simplified,…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Internet, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Learning