There are numerous discourses associated with knowledge management but it is only in recent times that e-learning has been identified as a strategic resource that can be utilised in an increasing diversity of venues (home, workplace, cultural and entertainment venues, as well as traditional institutions of learning, education, and training). This chapter focuses on this issue and is concerned w...

The advent of the Internet-based applications into the academic settings engendered a wide range of dynamic virtual paradigms such as e-learning, e-research, and digital libraries. The networked information and e-learning processes however have brought about information overload and search anxiety to the end-users. Such phenomena created urgent needs for developing effective eliteracy scenarios...

This paper proposes an efficient performance measurement system to evaluate the excellence of e-learning centers of universities. The proposed system uses the analytic network process (ANP) as an effective multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method and its fuzzy mode to respond to uncertainties in judgements. This system also needs a targeted and systematic criteria set which is collected thr...

G. Rodríguez Gómez (Coord.), M.S. Ibarra Sáiz, J.M. Dodero, M.A. Gómez Ruiz, B. Gallego Noche, D. Cabeza Sánchez, V. Quesada Serra, Álvaro Martínez del Val 1 EvalFOR Research Group, University of Cadiz, Faculty of Science Education, 11519 – Puerto Real (Cádiz) Spain. 2 SPI&FM Research Group, University of Cadiz, Superior School of Engineering, Department of Computer Languages and Systems – 1100...

The growing interests in the Internet and WWW attempt to extend the field of study from stand alone learning environment to collaborative or cooperative learning environment. In the light of recent explosive growth of information communication technology, the common platform for collaborative or cooperative activities should be discussed and considered in international community. Additionally, ...

Automated negotiation can play a vital role in the domain of e-commerce. Researches have mainly focused on negotiation protocol and strategy design in B2C section. Less work has been done in the area of B2B e-commerce which is crucially useful in dynamic negotiation to achieve better profitability for both buyer and supplier. Lack of such researches has a bottleneck in implementing automated ne...

in the united states schools in the k12 school system, that provide education for primary, junior and senior high school students, are moving toward information systems to solve and automate some manual processes performed in these schools. with this movement, and the pressure on schools to use technology to improve student achievement, many schools are turning to learning management systems as...

e-learning model is examined of three major dimensions. and each dimension has a range of indicators that is effective in optimization and modeling, in many optimization problems in the modeling, target function or constraints may change over time that as a result optimization of these problems can also be changed. if any of these undetermined events be considered in the optimization process, t...

The post methods era has witnessed a dramatic change inapproaches to and methods of teaching as well as testing. At the heart of such a change, collaborative learning has received top priority and testing domain has actually gone under scrutiny. This new mode of education has made stakeholders, especially in higher education; reflect on an interactive e-assessment based instruction. Such a cybe...