The e-Learning paradigm shift capitalises on two main aspect: the elimination of the barriers of time and distance, and the personalisation of the learners’ experience. The current trend in education and training emphasises on identifying methods and tools for delivering just-in-time, on-demand knowledge experiences tailored individual learners, taking into consideration their differences in sk...

A ‘‘Just-In-Time Lecture’’ is a low-cost, flexible technology for creating and presenting educational material to groups and individuals. A review of learning concepts and education research supports the notion that Just-In-Time Lecture technology should be as effective as traditional classroom instruction. This finding is based on (1) a large body of research on related technologies, including...

We present the Moments in Time Dataset, a large-scale human-annotated collection of one million short videos corresponding to dynamic events unfolding within three seconds. Modeling the spatial-audio-temporal dynamics even for actions occurring in 3 second videos poses many challenges: meaningful events do not include only people, but also objects, animals, and natural phenomena; visual and aud...

The assembly line balancing problem is a non deterministic polynomial type planning problem for mass production. Layout design changes constitute a major decision that yields investment for assembly operations and numerous heuristics have been reported in the literature for solving the line balancing problems. U-shaped assembly layout offers several benefits over traditional straight-line layou...

Globalization requires new methods of delivering education and training, partly to enhance traditional methods of knowledge acquisition and to impart new skills and tools (Adam, Awerbuch, Slonim, Wegner and Yesha, 1997). Traditional classroom learning doesn’t seem to fit well with the notion of lifelong learning, since it requires the physical presence of instructors and students. It is instruc...

Simulation offers the most efficient adjunct in education and “refresher” training of medical personnel. However, simulation devices and facilities are expensive and the combination of cost, distance from the training centers, and professional constraints prevent medical personnel in rural and remote regions from simulation-based training. We have demonstrated that fiscal and logistic barriers ...

Mobile learning (M-Learning) is the point where mobile computing and e-learning intersect to produce an anytime, anywhere learning experiences. Advances in mobile technologies have enhanced M-learning tools at just the right moment to meet the need for more costeffective just in time information. Electronic Learning offer methods, which decrease the limitations of traditional education but M-le...

The most important advantage of an economic order quantity (EOQ) system is its ability to handle the unexpected demand. A model for comparing the inventory costs of purchasing under the EOQ system and the just-in-time (JIT) order purchasing system in existing literature concluded that JIT purchasing was virtually always the preferable inventory ordering system. By expanding the classical EOQ mo...

Task-specific cueing formats that promote the automation and construction of problemsolving schemas should ideally be presented just in time to students learning to solve complex problems. This article reports experimental work comparing learner-controlled cueing, system-controlled cueing, and no cueing among 34 sophomore law students in a multimedia practical aimed at learning to prepare and h...