Cloud computing technologies have changed the way applications are developed and accessed. They are aimed at running applications as services over the Internet on a scalable infrastructure. Many applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and more can all be accessed from a web browser, while the software and files are housed in the cloud. Educational institutio...

Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Learning Analytics (LA) research have emerged as interesting areas of research, which are unfolding useful knowledge from educational databases for many purposes such as predicting students’ success. The ability to predict a student’s performance can be beneficial for actions in modern educational systems. Existing methods have used features which are mostly re...

Integration of information and communication technology (ICT) has become a priority in national educational policies worldwide. Meaningful integration requires a number of pre-conditions such as economic opportunity, political will, availability of suitable equipment, support infrastructures, professional development and others. Meanwhile, schools are computer-deserts compared to homes and work...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed the whole world to a global village. Acquiring and maintaining essential ICT infrastructure has become a great challenge especially in education sector. Being a human resource development sector, it needs to use expensive infrastructure more effectively not only for providing education but also for its transactional applications. Wi...

Although machine use in education was introduced in the 1920s with instructional radio and 1950s with instructional television, these technologies lacked one of the most important components of learning interaction. Computers have filled this void. The functions they have served, the ways they have been used, and the terms they have been given have changed since their introduction to our school...

In the growing age of cloud computing demands in almost all the sectors like TV channel to online shopping to educational institution etc., the cloud infrastructure cost goes very high. Therefore, the concept of virtualization needs to be understand and implement in the cloud computing syterms, which enables the user as well as the owners for the better and robust management and usage of the cl...

In the early days of educational computing, dating roughly from the launch of Sputnik in 1957 to the advent of personal computers, teacher education programs addressed professional development needs for technology through inservice training programs. In 1983, when the report, A Nation at Risk, recommended that students be required to take a high school computer course, it was still unusual for a

The traditional university campus is designed to foster a thriving community of learners, but modernity has introduced many stresses. Mobile computing holds the potential to strengthen a campus’s traditional institutions of community by creating serendipitous learning opportunities through a process of indirect mediation. This paper introduces ActiveCampus, a suite of personal services for sust...

This paper outlines an approach to reshape the existing undergraduate CS curriculum. The introduction of parallel computing concepts is based on a software engineering framework. The details of the new curriculum are presented in terms of educational objectives, mathematical background, core courses, and innovations in the teaching method, such as the use of tools and laboratories.

After being mainly a research topic, semantic technologies (ST) have reached an inflection point in the market. This paper discusses the benefits (data integration and federation, agile schema development, semantic and collaborative / social computing search capabilities) and costs (namely technical, modeling, measuring and educational challenges) of Semantic Technologies with respect to their ...