...Fadi Abdelfattah; Abrar Mohammed Al Alawi; Khalid Abed Dahleez; Ayman El Saleh Purpose This paper aims to review the critical challenges and factors influencing the successful adoption of electronic learning (e-learning) systems in higher educational institutions before and during the current...

... the learning attitudes and effectiveness of postgraduate students in business administration toward combining podcasts as an e-Learning tool. This paper also explores the flexibility of this kind of asynchronous learning. Two types of podcasts for two different pedagogical purposes were examined in the study...

...Mona Jami Pour; Javad Mesrabadi; Mohammad Asarian Purpose Reviewing the existing literature in the field of e-learning success reveals a considerable number of studies that primarily investigate the causal relationships proposed by the DeLone and McLean (D&M) information system (IS) success...

...Mona Jami Pour; Javad Mesrabadi; Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh Purpose Today, the high cost of e-learning systems’ implementation and the difficulty of managing the infrastructures motivate educational institutions toward application of cloud-based e-learning systems. This new system should be aligned...

...Linda Cloete Edited by David   Parsons . Combining E‐learning and M‐learning: New Applications of Blended Educational Resources . Hershey, PA : IGI Global/Information Science Reference   2011 . 369 pp. , ISBN: 9781609604813   US$180.00 hard cover © Emerald Group...

...Ursula Paola Torres Maldonado; Gohar Feroz Khan; Junghoon Moon; Jae Jeung Rho Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: empirically validate a modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model by adding an “e‐learning motivation” construct in the South American context; try...

...Daqing He; Yefei Peng; Ming Mao; Dan Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the integration of digital library (DL) technologies with ontology‐based knowledge representation in providing semantic rich information access (IA) in e‐learning. DL technologies have powerful and flexible...

...David Pauleen; Blanca C. Garcia Purpose Adopting a personal knowledge management (PKM) scope, this paper aims to report the resulting experience of a four‐year qualitative research project on the dynamics of social skills development strategies in knowledge‐intensive, e‐learning workplace...

... by web mining applications? What are the current ongoing research and trends in e‐services fields such as e‐learning, e‐government, e‐politics and e‐democracy? What other areas of social interest can benefit from web mining? This work will try to provide the answers by reviewing the literature...

... to update the state of local interest, leading to a reduction in network traffic and promotion of better system performance. Originality/value This is an original study using behaviour analysis for interest mining in e‐learning. Research on interest mining in e‐learning focused on content mining...

... behaviour. Miaoliang Zhu can be contacted at: lily.zhum@zju.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 E‐learning Information retrieval Worldwide web The worldwide web is becoming the most important medium for collecting, sharing and distributing information. Related learning...

... Communication Integration Lateral thinking E‐learning The many stakeholders in scholarly information infrastructure are addressing their own territories, whether technical, legal, economic, social, economic, or political, or in individual research domains, but few are taking a big‐picture view...

... and Information Studies, 2 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> E‐learning Information literacy Electronic information resources “Stimulated recall” refers to the activities that stimulate memory within the learning process. The mental model concept refers to the thought process...

...Ina Fourie Tim S.   Roberts . Self, Peer and Group Assessment in E‐Learning . Hershey, PA : Idea Group Publishing   2006 . 333 pp. , ISBN: 159140966   US$69.95 soft cover Chapter 4 reports a case study on a course about the self‐, peer and group assessment of adult...

...Ina Fourie A.   Jafari and C.   Kaufman . Handbook of Research on ePortfolios . Hershey, PA : Idea Group Publishing   2006 . 595 pp. , ISBN: 1591408903   US$195.00 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> E‐learning Although printed...

... of interest that arise from Section 4 are collaborative and cooperative learning and the strategies to obtain the best results from them and the use of simulation as systematic teaching strategy. ICT solutions for the use of special virtual environments devoted to teaching‐learning such as e‐learning...

... Publishing: information literacy, e‐learning and digital publishing. To provide structure, the contents of the book are divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses primarily on education and information literacy; Part 2, on digital publishing; and Part 3 examines the overall implications of the growth...

...Ya‐Ching Lee Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of the e‐learning system (ELS) in mandatory and voluntary settings, through an extension of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Design/methodology/approach Regression analysis was used...

... to collect data from users of e‐learning resources and a statistical analysis of that data. The discussion employs concepts from such areas as e‐learning, didactics, and statistics. Findings The main finding is the identification of several learning objects metadata, including those that are not defined...

... of Botswana, the study provides a first insight into the impact of e‐learning on information literacy competency since the implementation WebCT in 2002. The University of Botswana in 2002/2003 semesterised its hitherto year‐long academic programmes as part of key reforms aimed at assisting it to become...