information technology is a critical tool for companies to achieve the competitive advantage and organizational innovation. it capability provides an appropriate opportunity for retailers to improve their relationships with customers and progress firms’ performance. comes with advances in technology, retail industry by using information technology has changed its business process from tradition...

This research analyzed the teacher-directed instruction against the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction at a subject school in Alabama for 5 grade science and mathematics. The Alabama school changed the science and mathematics curriculum for a period of 3 years and in the process became an Alabama Math, Science and Technology (AMSTI) school. During the process there was extensive profess...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using online instruction as a supplement to a face-to-face introductory technology education course. Survey data were collected from 46 pre-service teachers. Findings indicated that when traditional face-to-face instruction was combined with online components, learning was enhanced over a single delivery mode. However, the blended approach adopted in...

E-learning is the application of computer-based technologies to enhance teaching and learning (Waterhouse, 2003). Rosenberg (2001) describes E-learning as a networked activity, which makes it capable of instant updating, storage or retrieval, distribution and sharing of instruction or information. In this Information age, education has made a step from the traditional transmissive classroom to ...

Technology, whether assistive (AT) or instructional (IT), has played an uneven role in the field of learning disabilities since its inception more than a half century ago. In addition, technology is in a constant state of flux; hence, researchers have been challenged to conduct appropriate experimental testing of interventions before they are outdated or made irrelevant by advances in hardware ...

The purpose of this evaluative study was to determine the effectiveness of a hybrid instructional model, called ADAPT (Active Discovery And Participation thru Technology) that combines the important features of traditional classroom instruction (classroom, instructor, textbook) with those of computer-mediated instruction (learning by performing rather than listening, frequent assessment and fee...

Improvements in technology and the increasing bandwidth of Internet access have led to an increasing popularity for synchronous solutions for instruction. Not only do they provide savings in terms of time and cost, in many situations they can also outperform both asynchronous online instruction and traditional facc-to-face education. However, until now, the lack of a pedagogical framework for s...

"Interactive" and "interactivity" are some of the most commonly used terms in instruction. For example, we are often told that multimedia (among other emerging technologies) is superior to "traditional" instruction, often because it is "interactive." However, the term interactivity is a loosely defined term that, according to Rose (1999), seems to deconstruct itself when closely examined. Her i...

P lanning's " quiet revolution " in information technology (Godschalk and McMahon, 1992) may have finally come of age. Through the decade of the 1990s, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has evolved from a technological novelty distinguished by its operational complexities into a much easier to use, less expensive, and now seemingly indispensible tool of the planning profession. GIS skills th...