Universities play an important role in lifelong learning. E-learning is one of the key elements in today’s networked and knowledge oriented world. It is crucial to know whether the universities are ready to transform their courses to e-learning systems. In this paper the e-learning readiness of the academic staff of Hacettepe University Faculty of Letters (HUFL) is investigated. A 37-item quest...

  Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through self-assessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leade...

Benefits of e-government are many. Not only the citizens of a country receive a quality service and empowerment, but the government and other stakeholders are also benefited by adoption of an e-government system. The present paper investigates the e-government readiness scenario in India and UAE vis-à-vis other countries in Asia. The study is based on the e-government surveys conducted by the U...

Received: 15 May 2002 Revised: 31 January 2003 Accepted: 18 July 2003 Abstract In this study, we developed a conceptual model for studying the adoption of electronic business (e-business or EB) at the firm level, incorporating six adoption facilitators and inhibitors, based on the technology–organization– environment theoretical framework. Survey data from 3100 businesses and 7500 consumers in ...

BACKGROUND/AIM This study examined the reliability and convergent validity of the Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context, a measurement evaluating writing readiness in kindergarten children (aged from five to six years). METHODS Test-retest reliability was established with 59 children, inter-rater reliability with 72 children and convergent validity with 119 children. All participants we...

BACKGROUND School readiness generally captures the notion that children do best when they arrive at formal schooling with a certain threshold of skill that will help them thrive in the classroom's academic and social milieu. AIMS To examine the dimensionality of the construct of school readiness among children with language impairment (LI), as well as the extent to which these dimensions rela...