This paper aims at a broad-brush look at certain technological and educational challenges that confront wave-oriented electromagnetic (EM) engineering in the 21 st century, in a complex computer and technology-driven world with rapidly shifting societal and technical priorities. Simulation strategies for complex EM systems, both analytic and numerical, are reviewed and categorized, and are illu...

Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni 1,* and Ahmed Abdelraheem Farghaly 2,* 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, GR-26334 Patras, Greece 2 Department of Civil and Architectural Constructions, Faculty of Industrial Education, Sohag University Sohag 82524, Egypt * Correspondence: [email protected] (D.-P.N.K.); [email protected] (A.A.F.); Tel...

Today’s learners have sophisticated technological skills, and since technology offers learners a myriad of new and highly effective tools which they can use to learn autonomously, digital games could be a case for such an educational use (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005; Reeves, 2008). According to PEW Reports (2008), computing Hyungsung Park Kyonggi University, South Korea Interaction to Facilitate ...

1Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering (ICSE), University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilene, Greece 2Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy 3Department of Informatics, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 574 00 Macedonia, Greece 4Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicac...

With the rapid growth of online programs, many higher educational institutions are considering offering online courses and programs to better serve students that have grown up in a technological era. Although many higher educational administrators recognize the value and flexibility of online education, research is needed concerning course design, assessment, and student’s perceptions of online...

The Digital StudyHall (DSH) project seeks to improve education for the poor children in slum and rural schools in India and Bangladesh. The educational opportunities available to these children today range from the very poor to the non-existent. In a nutshell, think of the technical approach of DSH as the educational equivalent of YouTube + Netflix + Kazaa. DSH stresses: (1) cost realism in a r...

1 Markovian Analysis of a Push-Pull Merge System with Two Suppliers, An Intermediate Buffer, and Two Retailers; Alexandros Diamantidis, Department of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece Stylianos Koukoumialos, Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece Michael Vidalis, Department of Business Administra...

The Hellenic Open University has embarked on a large-scale effort to enhance its textbook-based material with content that demonstrably supports the basic tenets of distance learning. The challenge is to set up a framework that allows for the production-level creation, distribution and consumption of content, and at the same time, evaluate the effort in terms of technological, educational and o...

Education is an expensive process and the quality of an education program is largely affected by resources devoted to it. Availability of qualified instructors and physical amenities such as labs are the most important resources that determine the educational quality. Based on the graduate Information Systems curriculum recommendation of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Association...

A short historical discussion of the Internet access’ influence into the students’ thinking, pointing projects devoted to use of ICT in education, together with the pressure of technological evolution for a change of educational system. The local situation regarding the ICT use in Romanian schools are analysed based on some recent Romanian e-groups teacher postings, and authors own papers as we...