This contribution presents an instructional model that aims to offer a convenient alternative to study abroad programs in college education. The instructional model, known as the International Reciprocal Distance Education Model (Vásquez de Velasco & Holland, 1998a), is implemented by means of tactical models that address all possible instructional scenarios of a design curriculum. All the tact...

In the paper a form-driven approach to the application development is presented. Our development environment IIS*Studio suports presented form-driven approach. It is aimed to provide the information system design and generating executable application prototypes. A form type is central IIS*Studio concept, used to model the structure and constraints of various business documents. On the one hand,...

One barrier to the uptake of Geocomputation is that, unlike GIS, it has no system or toolbox that provides easy access to useful functionality. This paper describes an experimental environment, GeoVISTA Studio, that attempts to address this shortcoming. Studio is a Java-based, visual programming environment that allows for the rapid, programming free development of complex data exploration and ...

Despite these huge efforts in university teaching and learning, still the fact remains that in design education context students have difficulty in being motivated and self-directed in non-studio courses. Thus, the study analyzed the effectiveness of a blended learning to contribute design students’ engagement with non-studio courses. It also investigated how blended learning could develop a re...

Extensive use of standard SAS® Data Integration Studio Transformations is often made when designing data warehouses, thereby reducing maintenance requirements and the need for user defined code. This paper instead advocates using the SAS Data Integration Studio API against user defined code. Thus using the full power of SAS to build and maintain warehouse processes may yield several advantages,...

In this paper we provide an overview of IBM WebSphere Studio, a family of tools for developing distributed applications for J2EETM servers for state-of-the-art information technology systems. In today’s business environment such systems are complex, comprise multiple platforms, and make use of a wide range of technologies and standards. Through a representative development scenario we illustrat...