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What is Educational Mediator

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Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
An educational mediator is a service that supports the sharing of learning resources. Examples of educational mediators are Educanext, Merlot or Ariadne. These portals support the exchange of learning resources under open content licenses (e.g., the Creative Commons Licenses). Recent developments in interoperability research have led to a federation of these portals via a protocol referred to as Simple Query Interface (SQI).
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Designing the Virtual Classroom for Management Teaching
Parissa Haghirian (Sophia University, Japan) and Bernd Simon (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-893-2.ch018
Abstract
With the modern business environment becoming increasingly dependent on technology, management teaching in higher education faces the challenging task of effectively leveraging technology in diverse learning environments. This chapter discusses the use of virtual classrooms, namely collaborative, information technology-mediated teaching endeavours in management education at universities. The overall aim of this chapter is to provide insights for those who are responsible for the development of management curricula and to give specific guidelines to management educators interested in integrating IT-based teaching to increase teaching effectiveness when designing virtual classrooms.
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