In this paper, we present our work in progress on using LOD data to enhance recommending on existing e-commerce sites. We imagine a situation of e-commerce website employing contentbased or hybrid recommendation. Such recommending algorithms need relevant object attributes to produce useful recommendations. However, on some domains, usable attributes may be difficult to fill in manually and yet...

Influential scientists are urging journal publishers to free their published works so they can be accessed in comprehensive digital archives. That would create the opportunity for new services that dynamically interconnect material in the archives. To achieve this, two issues endemic to scholarly journal publishing need to be tackled: decoupling journal content from publishing process; defragme...

In this paper, we illustrate our methodology for academic teaching, based on cooperative learning paradigm, which also relies on cutting edge elearning techniques. We use Web 2.0 resources to fulfill requirements for an interactive-constructivistic “learning space”, where blended-teaching paradigm may be proficiently applied. We extend an existing Free/Open Source Software Learning Management S...

The concepts of fuzzy e-open sets and fuzzy e-continuous are introduced and studied in fuzzifying topology and by making use of these concepts, we introduce and study T e 0 -, R e 0-, T e 1 -, R e 1-, T e 2 -, T e 3 -, T e 4 -, strong T e 3 and strong T e 4 separation axioms in fuzzifying topology and give some of their characterizations as well as the relations of these axioms and other separa...

A key role of higher education and one of the measures of its effectiveness is how well graduates can engage in critical and reflective thinking and apply these lifelong learning skills to problem solving in complex real world situations (Johnson, Levine, Smith, & Stone, 2010; Schön, 1983; The World Bank, 2003). The use of learning journals to encourage students to become more reflective and ac...

This article describes a study on the effects of a self-instruction training programme in communication skills for psychology students at the Open University of the Netherlands in comparison to a fully supervised training. We expected both training programmes to increase students’ knowledge and skills, as well as their self-efficacy and motivation concerning the use of skills. Furthermore we ex...

E-Learning and openness in education are receiving ever increasing attention in businesses as well as in academia. However, these practices have only to small extent been introduced in public administrations. The study addresses this gap by presenting a literature review on Open Educational Resources [OER] and E-Learning in the public sector. The main goal of the article is to identify challeng...

The enabling power of technology, especially information technology and social software, prompts a radical shift in economic and social interactions in societies around the globe. Existing traditional school based, formalized learning formats are unable to accommodate specific new learning needs. Hence, customized to the respective purposes of personal wellbeing, inclusion or requirements for p...

The recent growth of e-Business has called for open standards for inter-organizational electronic information sharing. Many firms form consortia to facilitate the development and adoption of open ∗We would like to thank the Bradley L. Goldberg Endowment Research Assistant Award for supporting Kexin Zhao, as well as the Faculty Research Award for supporting Mu Xia, in summer 2003. Both grants we...