Life at the beginning of the 21st century is characterized by the ever-increasing pace of technological development and the associated changes in patterns of communication, work and leisure. This paper comments on some of the bene"ts and limitations of current technology, the potential of emerging technologies to deliver enhanced quality of life for all on a global basis, and the role of human ...

This paper reports the first phase of a project with the goal of developing a general model of self-explanation support, which could be used in both openand closed-ended domains. We studied how human tutors provide additional support to students learning with an existing intelligent tutoring system designed to help students learn database modelling. We report on the findings from this study, wh...

Improvements in technology have led to innovations in training such as Electronic Learning (E-learning). E-learning aims to help organizations in their training initiatives by simplifying the training process and cutting cost. It also attempts to help employees in their learning processes by making learning readily accessible. Unfortunately, the diffusion of this innovation has not been as succ...

This article focuses on the evolution of theory, methodology, and practice regarding the role of adoption, implementation, diffusion, and evaluation factors, and the interaction of these factors at various levels, to healthcare system success. These topics continue to present challenges to organizations, the research community, and to society in general. The first place that new waves of though...

In the offered work two approaches to the problem of economic growth rate determining is considered. The first approach assumes, that economic growth rate is set exogenously, so its value is known while at the second approach economic growth rate is determined endogenously, i.e. its value is unknown. In the model there are included such components of the economic growth, which are determined by...