This article presents GRAPP&S (Grid APPlication & Services), a specification of an E-learning architecture for the decentralized sharing of educational resources. By dealing with different resources such as files, data streams (video, audio, VoIP), queries on databases but also access to remote services (web services on a server, on a cloud, etc.), GRAPP&S groups the resources of each instituti...

Michael W. Graham Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education and Human Services, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri Philip E. Messner Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Cooperative Doctoral Program, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education and Human Services, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Miss...

The article presents the results of particularly popular network services, introduction VKontakte and GoogleDocs, in the educational process and the organization of students’ joint activity. This integration of the network services with the learning technologies changes the forms of educational activity organization, which should be focused on the modern skills formation, the skills

INTRODUCTION Students and university community are social and human resources of the country. The students' viewpoints about the quality of educational services can be considered as a basis for planning quality promotion and improving organizational performance. This study was conducted to determine the quality gap in educational services by the students of Health and Nutrition School of Shiraz...

The objective of the ELENA project is to demonstrate the feasibility of smart spaces for learning. Smart learning spaces are defined as educational service mediators, which allow the consumption of heterogeneous learning services via assessment tools, learning management systems, educational (meta) repositories and live delivery systems such as video conferencing systems or iTV (see Figure 1). ...

BACKGROUND Recently, focusing on higher education quality has got increasingly critical. The novel managerial attitudes have defined the customer-demanded quality. Based on this, recognizing the receivers' perception of the quality of the services offered and evaluating the quality of the service is considered of the basic measures taken in order to develop quality promotion programs. Therefore...

Today, social media as a channel for offering educational services has become an extensive and effective educational tool for the students. This survey aimed to investigate the effective factors on intention towards social commerce of educational services among students. The statistical population included social media users at Isfahan university of medical sciences in Iran. 214 students were s...

With the increase in number of paid educational services institutions, percentage fraudulent actions committed, both relation to web and service purchasers, also increases. Therefore, all participants process banking transactions, i.e. totality operations that accompany remote interaction between user payment system, must be protected from such actions, which determines introduction development...