Der Beitrag beschreibt die Möglichkeiten einer integrierenden Nutzung von Wissensmanagement-Systemen und E-Learning-Anwendungen. Hierzu werden die grundlegenden Merkmale beider Technologien dargestellt. Anhand dieser Charakteristika und den Bausteinen des Wissensmanagement werden Vorteile einer integrierten E-Learningund Wissensmanagement-Umgebung diskutiert. Das Knowledge Content Management Sy...

The Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Laboratory is a world leader in the analysis of walking disorders in children. Using state of the art equipment, highly specialised staff are able to determine why children walk the way they do. Knowing this, it is then possible to plan treatment individually for each child. Gait Lab aims to make thorough and reliable measurements of children’s walking ability ...

We propose a framework for considering active portfolio management, consistent with existing literature in the single period environment, but extended to the multi-period environment that most practicing active managers operate in. We derive several active portfolio management results including the Generalised Law of Active Portfolio Management (a generalisation that accounts for correlations a...

The main purpose of the project ATLAS (Applied Technology for Language-Aided CMS) is to facilitate multilingual web content development and management. Its main innovation is the integration of language technologies wi th in a web content management sys tem. The language processing framework, integrated with web content management, provides automatic annotation of important words, phrases and n...

Nowadays, most organizations use content management systems (CMS) to manage large volume of content which are created in their daily work. For many large organizations and enterprises, different CMS might be used for various reasons. Although the demand of exchanging content crosses different CMS is imperative, the interoperability is difficult to realize due to proprietary APIs. The Content Ma...

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) uncovers a new learning space for students to start their learning in multidisciplinary subjects and provides an enormous storage for different types of learning materials. This brings not only the ease and flexibility to our learning, but also the challenges in organizing, managing, and controlling of information which is indispensable to the design of an eff...

While content management systems (CMSs) might be a new concept to many.people in our field, content management as a practice within our discipline is not; our field has been studying it and practicing it for years, though under different headings: single sourcing, knowledge management, and course management (such as in the form of WebCT and Blackboard). We started our work on this special issue...

Four hypotheses relevant to the contingency theory of management accounting are presented. Data relate to the period 1994–98 for a sample of new Scottish microfirms. First, correlation analysis is applied to test the hypothesis that the introduction of management accounting system (MAS) developments is related to the timing of contingent events such as cashflow crises, shortfalls of finance, an...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study conducted with a set of students using an online learning environment (OLE) to follow a distance education program. The aim of the study was to find whether students could perform well in examinations using only the Learning Management System (LMS), whether they could use it in an efficient way and whether there was a relationship between st...

A brief look at the evolution of the public management system in New Zealand shows the need for further reform. Two periods in its history are highlighted: the emergence of a classic bureaucratic model in the early 20th century, followed by the managerial reforms in the 1980s and 90s. They laid the groundwork for future development, but also show the current constraints against which public ser...