Based on research on several national, regional, local projects, and on an analysis of the Canadian federal governments’ main Internet public access programs, the authors argue that as the digital divide has evolved and changed, changes in a conception of this and approaches to sustainability are required. This requires defining sustainability in terms of supporting community organizations that...

Bringing users into the process of content development may help to reduce the time and cost associated with tutoring system development, and may benefit users by deepening their understanding of the domain. We describe a pilot effort with middle school students who successfully authored word problems for the AnimalWatch intelligent tutoring system for Grade 6 math, and the design and pilot test...

Despite the rapid evolution of Web technologies and development tools and skills, most Web sites fail (to varying degrees) to achieve their true business goals. This is at least partially due to our inability to effectively define Web acceptance criteria (from both a client perspective and a developers perspective). These criteria cover those characteristics that the final system must possess, ...

In this paper we present our research work concerning the development of a QTI (QTI, 2003) player and QTI editor that are integrated in a web portal, called netUniversité, to support the teachers to design the educational Web sites based on pedagogical scenarios represented in IMS LD (IMS LD, 2003). Our application is a tool that helps the staff having no skill in web development to conceive th...

The paper presents theoretical foundations for effective ICT supported learning content development and course design. The practical use of these tools is described in the development of blended learning courses for improvement of computer literacy of unemployed people in Slovenia. The results of the survey about the efficiency of learning within these courses and about user satisfaction in the...

This paper examines the process of preparing and coordinating a group of graduate students to work with faculty in the development of online hybrid courses for the Post-Baccalaureate Certification in Secondary Education and the Master’s in Special Education programs at the College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The analysis revealed several themes about the online course developme...

We faced the problem of deciding what is important when revising the contents of a Web Programming course. Torn between balancing industrial expectations and our vision of Web development based on research conducted at our University, we formed a set of topics that were first used during the Spring 2010. In this paper we report on the driving forces for the changes, how we structured the conten...

This paper explores advertising to marketers within Marketing News over four periods 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007. The results identified the types of advertisements, in terms of appeal; products (most of which were for marketing research related activates) and coverage were relatively stable over time. There were increases in the number of advertisements, the appearance of web related services an...

Web 2.0 and social software have long since reached research. Existing examples and even studies show, that researchers use social software during the research process. However, the ways social software can be used to support research work are still not sufficiently explored. In this paper, we suggest that this question can be addresses systematically by means of a simple exploration framework....

Government institutions, businesses and individual members of society at least in the developed world are increasingly required to become computer literate and knowledgeable about Web based electronic publishing. A key issue is what strategies can be employed to ensure that such skill development is achieved within a community and that the opportunities presented to a community by Web based ele...