Capstone courses are used extensively in teaching information technology to expose students to realistic, work-like situations, though in a controlled environment. The value of the experiences the student engages in, and the skills and knowledge they develop are not questioned, as they are accepted as a beneficial precursor to professional work. The pedagogical methods used to deliver capstone ...

The paper deals with the question, how the efficiency and successfulness of web pages in information dissemination can be measured. The paper concentrates on the use of a corporate web page in public relations with different interest groups. Basic principles of public relations theory are summarized. The importance of web-page credibility is emphasized and different factors that can have influe...

We extend our n-gram-based data-driven prediction approach from the Helping Our Own (HOO) 2011 Shared Task (Boyd and Meurers, 2011) to identify determiner and preposition errors in non-native English essays from the Cambridge Learner Corpus FCE Dataset (Yannakoudakis et al., 2011) as part of the HOO 2012 Shared Task. Our system focuses on three error categories: missing determiner, incorrect de...

The developments of the transdiscipline Informing Science not only furnish useful criteria for those creating or offering informing services, but also result in a new responsibility associated with them. Checking the information quality features of the processes involved provides many suggestions to improve the resulting service. The paper describes an informing service for agribusinesses that ...

A historical account is presented of the evolution of a new postgraduate level university course dealing with the psychology of computer programming. An outline of the course is presented and its objectives are discussed, as well as possible reasons for its premature demise and initiatives that could be undertaken to resurrect the format in a new guise.

A task that is unfamiliar and non-routine is sometimes characterized as having high structural complexity. Through increasing the task performer’s knowledge, informing processes can have a significant impact on structural complexity—as well as being impacted by it. The present paper examines the structural complexity construct, which can be further broken down into state complexity, operator co...