This paper discusses Service-learning within an Australian higher education context as pedagogy to teach about inclusive education. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) model of the rhizome, this study conceptualises pre-service teachers’ learning experiences as multiple, hydra and continuous. Data from reflection logs of pre-service teachers highlight how the learning experience allowed them to...

E-learning enables the learner to gain diverse knowledge anytime, anywhere and on any device. Learning resources (objects) and resource providers play a very important role in e-learning applications/systems. The increasing demand for interoperability in existing heterogeneous e-learning systems to support accessibility and reusability is the most challenging research issue. Web services and SO...

This investigation proposed a service-oriented approach based on a pervasive learning grid for solving the difficulties associated with sharing learning resources distributed on different e-Learning platforms. Furthermore, the p-Learning grid not only enabled collaboration and effective reuse of the learning objects, but also supported learning at anytime and anywhere. Since the WSDL of web ser...

Most experts agree that a learning organization whose employees have a clear vision of the importance of service quality and are motivated to provide that quality will achieve superior service quality. We develop a theoretical framework and conduct a cross-sectional empirical study to investigate the inter-relationships among these constructs. The results indicate that higher levels of both emp...

Two decades ago service-learning as an innovation lingered on the periphery of the academy. Today, service-learning has spread across American higher education. Few educational innovations have achieved such relatively rapid success. This article describes the historical and philosophical underpinnings of service-learning. It notes some of the significant debates that have occurred among its pr...

in the united states schools in the k12 school system, that provide education for primary, junior and senior high school students, are moving toward information systems to solve and automate some manual processes performed in these schools. with this movement, and the pressure on schools to use technology to improve student achievement, many schools are turning to learning management systems as...

This work proposes an initial model for the automatic composition of Grid based learning services based on the semantic capabilities and metadata of e-learning frameworks. There are three principal motivations for Learning Grid Services Composition: build a more powerful service using basic existing services, fulfill service requester’s requirement better, and enhance resource reuse while reduc...