WebCT that has been used widely in higher educational institutes of North America is going to be a mission critical e-Learning platform in on-campus education, rather than mere WBT system. In this paper, we describe WebCT and its current status in North America at first. Secondly, we introduce three critical trends for educational information basis that we can observe in the movement of WebCT; ...

T hese days macroeconomics has become more respectable than it used to be. I can remember when many economists liked to say: Microeconomics is not problematic, but I just don’t understand macroeconomics. There was a definite implication that something must be wrong with macroeconomics, not with the observer. Of course macroeconomics cannot be “exact;” it has to work by rough analogy and empiric...

The Impact of Personalization-Based Tailored Instructional Communications on College Student Persistence by Nichole Gibbs MA, City University of New York, 2000 BS, Howard University, 1996 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology Walden University May 2013

Enterprise systems (ES) are important business software which can be difficult to implement, while the failure to account for organisational culture can lead to projects that are expensive and late. However most of the existing research has focused on national level culture. As such little is known of how organisational culture influences the implementation of enterprise systems. This ongoing r...

Student modelling systems must operate in an environment in which a student’s mastery of a subject matter is likely to change as a lesson progresses. A student model is formed from evaluation of evidence about the student’s mastery of the domain. However, given that such mastery will change, older evidence is likely to be less valuable than recent evidence. Data ageing addresses this issue by d...

Virtual or Managed Learning Environments (VMLEs) cannot be fully effective unless well-integrated with existing campus information systems. Institutional planning for the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has provided an unexpected impetus at the University of Bristol. The DataHub, a reporting database created initially to back-end a locally developed Web application (IRIS) to support the R...

The ground-breaking social psychological experiment of Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) provides a central insight into the stories we tell ourselves about why we think and behave the way we do. The experiment is filled with ingenious deception so the best way to understand it is to imagine you are taking part. So sit back, relax and travel back. The time is 1959 and you are an undergraduate stud...

To respond to learning needs, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) must provide instructional support. The particular focus of this paper is on designing collaboration in a 3-D virtual game environment intended to make learning more effective by promoting student opportunities for interaction. The empirical experiment eScape, which encourages learners to solve problems collaborative...

Over the past years, professional students have had extensive exposure to clinical cases during basic science classes. With this in mind, we have taken this clinical case exposure moment to be an opportune time to introduce the ethics of working with patients during biomedical research. Our goal is to present a straightforward assignment that allows for active student research into the facts of...

We compare behavior across students and professional traders from the Chicago Board of Trade in a classic Allais paradox experiment. Our experiment tests whether independence, a necessary condition in expected utility theory, is systematically violated. We find that both students and professionals exhibit some behavior consistent with the Allais paradox, but the data pattern does suggest that t...