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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Few people will be surprised to hear that textbooks these days are expensive. According to a recent article from U.S. News & World Report’s University Directory, “According to CollegeBoard, the average bachelor's degree seeker at a public college spent approximately $1,137 on books and other supplies during the 2010-2011 academic year.” The high costs have proven to be burdensome to students who are already saddled in debt paying for tuition, room, and board while most can only work a limited number of hours at part-time jobs as they focus on their studies.Many students have taken their frustrations ...
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Are science and design natural partners? Authors of a case study recently published by IGI Global demonstrate how a pencil holder design project gave new life to a group of Singapore students’ understanding of physics, helping this group of academically-challenged students embrace scientific principles.
In Singapore, students are assigned to different secondary school curriculums based on their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) scores. “In the Normal (Technical) course, students offer 5-7 subjects in the GCE ‘N’ Level examination,” states the Singapore Ministry of Education website. “This curriculum prepares them for a technical-vocational education at the Institute of Technical Education.”
These ...
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Monday, February 27, 2012
In order for an organization to continually grow and become or remain competitive, they must pursue knowledge and innovation. Not advancing with technology will prove to be a hindrance and a detrimental factor to any organization’s potential to succeed.According to Mustafa Alshawi (University of Salford, UK) and Mohammed Arif (University of Salford, UK), the key element of success is “accepting change and a new way of working.” This means that organizations need to be able and willing to adapt to change in the economy. As technology progresses, the business process needs to align with the advancing IT applications. If ...
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Friday, February 24, 2012
New technology has allowed the amount of information in the world to increase rapidly and exponentially. Despite the new data being constantly recorded in databases, Web sites, and social networks, some of the world’s information is still disappearing. A language dies every 14 days, according to National Geographic’s Web site. “By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain,” the Web site also states.Despite this frightening scenario, language and many ...
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Students and educators: Have you ever dutifully logged into your course management system like Blackboard or Moodle and ended up getting distracted by your favorite social network, such as Facebook? It’s okay to admit it if the answer is yes – your secret is safe with us! Maybe the solution to your distraction is a new virtual learning environment with a more appealing interface and additional social interaction? Edmodo might be just what you need!Edmodo is a virtual learning environment (VLE), created about three years ago, that emphasizes connection and collaboration through a user interface that closely resembles Facebook. ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
With the recent developments and advancements made to the World Wide Web, it seems vastly different from its earlier iteration. Some people would say this is a new era of Web 2.0 and that it is having a profound effect on governance and public service. The World Wide Web appears to have altered the relationships between citizens and government. President Obama recognizes that technology is an essential ingredient of economic growth and job creation. He has discussed a Cyber Security and Internet Policy and has pledged to preserve the free and open nature of the Internet to encourage innovation, protect ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Efficiency innovation talks about the changeswhich already exist in enterprises. The management generally looks for smallchanges in what is already being done. This approach is usually to cut costs,reduce cycle time or designing a simple format of a report for the topmanagement of an enterprise.2: Evolutionary InnovationEvolutionary innovation concentrates on ideasthat represent something distinctly new and better. An example under thiscategory is the introduction of Internet Banking. This has changed bankingbusiness from set hours to banking at any hour. The other example under thistype is advertisement in tabloids. Advertisements make the publishers oftabloids possible to distribute news free ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Institutional Research (IR) provides university and college administrators with essential information about how they can work to make their institutions more effective. This field, however, has a rather dry reputation, argues the editor of one of IGI Global’s newest casebooks.“Books on IR are a dry breed,” writes Texas Tech University Professor Hansel Burley in the Preface to his book, Cases on Institutional Research Systems. “After an Internet search, a quick read on any set of titles assures one that these books are not for the uninitiated. […] However, the perspective of Cases on Institutional Research [Systems] ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Recently, IGI Global’s e-resources marketing team has completed a series of videos highlighting each of the databases offered on our advanced InfoSci®-Platform. The latest video addition accentuates the various ways InfoSci®-Cases can complement classroom learning. InfoSci®-Cases contains over 850 teaching cases, helpful in classroom discussion and research integration.
Teaching cases can illustrate important lessons to students, professionals, and professors on a variety of topics from business to education and more! To sum it up, as Boston University’s Web site puts it, “Many students are more inductive than deductive reasoners, which means that they learn better from examples than from ...
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Modern computer scientists and engineers are creating, expanding, and improving a complex world of smart new technologies from da Vinci robotic surgery to the iPhone’s new intelligent personal assistant Siri to a world of interesting robots like Qbo, who learns to recognize itself in a mirror, and beyond. Each of these new advancements, in addition to be interesting or useful, also raises a world of questions about the philosophy and ethics regarding these technologies, making things more and more complex. One recent IGI Global publication, Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, edited by ...
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