Educational Methods as Commodities within European Education: A Norwegian-Danish Case

Learning Within a Connectivist Educational Collective Blog Model: A Case Study of UK Higher Education

The use Web 2.0 technologies and specifically blogs has become increasingly prevalent within the Higher Education (HE) sector within recent years as educators begin to maximise the opportunities such tools can provide for teaching and learning and to experiment with their usage in a wide range of context. The use of such technologies has been shown to promote learning (Garcia, Brown & Elbeltagi...

Approaches to Cultural Diversity in the Danish Education Sys- tem: The case of public schools A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship: Legal, Politi- cal and Educational Challenges EMILIE

Using Danish as a CG Interlingua: A Wide-Coverage Norwegian-English Machine Translation System

This paper presents a rule-based Norwegian-English MT system. Exploiting the closeness of Norwegian and Danish, and the existence of a well-performing Danish-English system, Danish is used as an «interlingua». Structural analysis and polysemy resolution are based on Constraint Grammar (CG) function tags and dependency structures. We describe the semiautomatic construction of the necessary Norwe...

A Norwegian Letter-to-Sound Engine with Danish as a Catalyst

Danish phonetics and Norwegian phonetics are not all that different. This fact is exploited in an ongoing project establishing a phonetic transcription algorithm for (East-) Norwegian. Using methods known from machine learning we exploit a publicly available phonetic database for Danish (based on the Danish PAROLE corpus) arriving at a cost-competitive phonetic database for Norwegian. While the...

Information Technology as Commodities

This paper is about a model of software delivery known as Software as a Service (SaaS). We believe that companies will pay for software as they pay for electricity and telephone. They will pay for what they use. We present why and when it happened. That it came from the outsourcing idea and became possible by the advances in the Internet. Software retailers will become service provides. The mai...