Introduction In 1996, the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) launched three initiatives i.e. National Education (NE), the Thinking Programme (TP) and the Master Plan for Information Technology in Education (MPITE). Three years later, the Project Work (PW) initiative was implemented in 1999. These initiatives represent the change in the landscape in our education system and as a nation itself...

Arlington, VA— In September and October 2005, more than 1,000 adult Americans engaged in a national scientific experiment to see what the public would think about education and health care--if people became more informed about the issues and talked about them together. For five weeks, participants engaged online in weekly small group dialogues with trained moderators, discussed balanced briefin...

Multi-players dynamic game between government, parks managers and visitors is proposed in this paper to find out which party should invest money to visitor education and their optimal investment strategies. The game reveals that government should invest a lot of fund to helping the park managers to develop proper visitor education programmes when the visitor education the visitor education mark...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now understanding the importance of ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of it as part of the core of education. Organizations, experts and practitioners in the education sector increasingly recognizing the importance of ICT in suppor...

Dark fibre networks are considered the key element of future research infrastructures. The ownership of fibre leads to the freedom of development, freedom of choice of technology and freedom of design for research networks, as well as virtually unlimited transmission capacity. This concept has been confirmed by the new design of the GÉANT2[1] network, where majority of links will be based on da...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now understanding the importance of ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of it as part of the core of education. Organizations, experts and practitioners in the education sector increasingly recognizing the importance of ICT in suppor...

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically influential constituencies? In a county-level analysis of federal spending from 1984 to 2008, we find that presidents are not universalistic, but particularistic – that is they reliably direct dollars to specif...

Virtualization in both computer systems and network elements is becoming increasingly part of the Internet. Apart from posing new challenges, virtualization enables new functionalities, and hints at a future Internet architecture, which contains a physical, but polymorphic, substrate on which various parallel infrastructures can be created on demand. This article explores such a new “architectu...

Cloud Computing is a new application model for decentralized computing which can provide reliable, customized and maximum number of users with minimum resource. The development of cloud computing marks a great leap towards designing a unified, open and flexible educational information platform, sharing educational resources, and diminishing gaps in the use of educational information. This paper...

Since Fall 2004, we have been co-teaching a class on Grid computing to several NC institutions using the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In this paper, we focus on a new teaching approach. In Fall 2008, we introduced a more integrated co-teaching or “pair-teaching” approach to the course. Our experiences are particularly relevant for a course taught in a distributed fashi...