Information Technologies in Educational Management: Cultural Dimensions

Information Technologies for Engineering Asset Management – Cultural and Technical Barriers

Engineering enterprises utilize a variety of technologies to manage the lifecycle of their critical assets. These technologies consist of operational as well as information technologies that aim to provide control of individual asset management processes as well as to create overall information enabled integrated view of the asset lifecycle management regime. However, implementation and adoptio...

Information Technologies: Opportunities for Advancing Educational Assessment

Knowledge Management Strategies and Cultural Dimensions

The importance of knowledge management has intensified as globalization has become more prevalent in the business world. Globalization has lead to a dispersion of general knowledge, clusters of specific knowledge, and numerous cultural differences in organizations. Organizations that implement effective knowledge management systems have the ability to leverage knowledgebased assets that can lea...

Information Technologies for Knowledge Management

The chapter describes the various information technologies that can be used for managing enterprise knowledge. It first introduces knowledge management from a historical point of view and gives some definitions of the main concepts and vocabulary. Then it proposes a grid for a classification of the different useful information technologies. Then, it describes the said technologies. The chapter ...

A Cross Cultural Perspective on Information Communication Technologies Learning Survey

In this study, the “Information Seeking Strategies” scale that was developed by Mills, Knezek and Wakefield (2013) has been adapted to Turkish language. A confirmatory factor analysis was run and subsequently, two items were removed. The fact that these two items are related to learning in a traditional class environment may be interpreted in such a manner that the participants prefer online en...