By drawing an analogy between the development of software and the development of an elearning product, a set of methods can be re-used. In academic environments however, content experts often have to cope with very limited resources for developing e-learning products, which demands an efficient development process. The paper presents experiences in the application of selected techniques that su...

Ma Academic medical centers (AMCs) are presently facing enormous challenges arising from a prospective decline in government funding for research and education, shifting payment models emphasizing efficiency and value, and increasing competition. Left unabated, these challenges will drive many AMCs to de-emphasize or forsake their core missions in an effort to survive. Stemming from a symposium...

Prediction of student’s performance is potentially important for educational institutions to assist the students in improving their academic performance, and deliver high quality education. Developing an accurate student’s performance prediction model is challenging task. This paper employs the Adaptive NeuroFuzzy Inference system (ANFIS) for student academic performance prediction to help stud...

Curriculum design is a highly important activity for the academic institutions. It is discussed in literature as a balancing academic curriculum problem (BACP). The BACP schedules courses to different semesters, while balancing the total workload per period. BACP model involves precedence relations, but the related courses are not necessarily assigned to closest periods. The Relevance Based Cur...

Purpose – This paper aimed to develop a usability evaluation model and associated survey tool in the context of academic libraries. This study not only proposed a usability evaluation model but also a practical survey tool tailored to academic library websites. Design/methodology – A usability evaluation model has been developed for academic library websites based on literature review and exper...

Web-sites are domain intensive and some important domains are social, cultural, entertainment, e-commerce, e-government, museum, tourism, academic, etc. It is obvious that domains of Web-sites differ significantly, and hence a common yardstick can not be applied to measure quality of all Web-sites. Signore, Loranca et al, Olsina et al, Tripathi & Kumar and others have tried to define quality ch...

The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante topdown PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficiency and effectiveness criteria. It then goes on to analyse the roles of Peer Review and how good the system is at fulfilling those roles. The paper then proposes an alternative system for evaluation o...