The paper presents the work of the Elena project. The contribution of this paper is twofold: The first part of the paper elaborates on the notion of educational services. Educational services are differentiated from learning objects and put in context of web services. A model for educational services is introduced and current limitations of metadata standards are addressed. In the second part o...

Educational metadata are attracting increasing attention, since they can facilitate the description, indexing, searching and retrieving on-line learning objects and educational resources. This paper describes the difficulties raised in retrieving educational resources from the Web, and discusses the current state-of-theart in educational metadata technologies and the advantages of their use. Th...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the associations among self-care or mobility limitations, use of assistive devices or personal help, and well-being while giving special attention to 3 dimensions of well-being and older adults' educational attainment. METHOD The analysis was based on 4,456 community-dwelling older adults with self-care or mobility limitations who completed interviews in the fir...

Educational institutions increasingly adopt the students-as-customers concept to satisfy their students. Understanding students’ perspectives on the use of this business concept in educational institutions is necessary for the institutions to effectively align these perspectives with their management practice. The study investigates whether students in technology and business disciplines have s...

Byrnes and Fox present a thoughtful article on a neglected but important topic for educational psychologists. Some major contributions are their emphasis on the need for consistency in educational theory and neuroscience research, the lack of automatic correspondence between neuroscience research and educational applications, the need for educator awareness of neuroscience research, the importa...

The World Wide Web offers access to a wealth o interlinked and fail to make explicit any real-world re identified and stressed as one of the key limitations educational systems enabling knowledge sharing and r combining the strengths of hypermedia systems with high quality, semantic-enabled web-based education hypertext framework for building generic web-based e studies showing how the framewor...