Scientific computing relies heavily on e-Infrastructures as one of the cornerstones of today’s advancements in research. These e-Infrastructures include advanced IT architectures such as supercomputers, grids, clouds, and the networks interconnecting them. In order to deliver high-quality services provided by these systems to the users, adequate IT management is an essential requirement. The Le...

The integration of spatial data infrastructures (SDI) into the educational work at universities represents a novelty to the e-learning environment. The active component is one of the most important issues in the field of effective learning as shown in the cognitive apprenticeship approach (Collins et al., 1989). Therefore the goal should be to facilitate an environment that gives the student th...

This research work intends to develop a conceptual framework for effective implementation of elearning technology in the rural settings. E-learning is a form of computer mediated teaching and learning pedagogy that utilizes electronic media, such as web/internet, television, consumer devices and distributed resources to improve the quality of teaching and learning. This kind of teaching and lea...

This presentation and accompanying demonstration focuses on the development of a mobile platform for e-learning purposes with enhanced text-to-speech capabilities. It reports on an international consortium project entitled Mobile E-learning for Africa (MELFA), which includes a reading and literacy training component, particularly focusing on an African language, isiXhosa. The high penetration r...

This paper is concerned with several of the most important aspects of Competence-Based Learning (CBL): course authoring, assignments, and categorization of learning content. The latter is part of the so-called Bologna Process (BP) and can effectively be supported by integrating knowledge resources like, e.g., standardized skill and competence taxonomies into the target implementation approach, ...

COLearn is a web-based collaborative learning environment that supports the specification of collaborative learning workflows, their deployment and enactment. It addresses major challenges in modern learning infrastructures to enable contextualization, social constructivism and knowledge-pull. It offers a shell, easily integrated on top of existing open learning infrastructures (such as LMSs an...

The looking education on the internet, the wonderful web-based education environment has become one of the warm points on researching remote education. Cloud computing is rising rapidly, with applications in almost all area, including education.Cloud computing builds on decades of research in virtualization, distributed computing, utility computing, and more recently networking, web and softwar...