Während Qualifikationen und Kompetenzen, die auf informellem Wege erworben werden, immer mehr Beachtung finden, stellt sowohl deren Darstellung als auch die Anerkennung ein meist unüberwindbares Hindernis für Ausstellende und Erwerbende dar. Vermehrt wird unterdessen von klassisch papiergebundenen auf digitale Teilnahmezertifikate umgestellt, um den Nachweis von Kompetenzund Qualifikationserwer...

In an attempt to improve the effectiveness of distance learning, the present study aims to introduce an innovative way of creating and designing distance learning instructional material incorporating Bernice McCarthy’s 4MAT Model based on learning styles. According to McCarthy’s theory, all students can learn effectively in a cycle of learning that consists of eight steps, which adapt to all le...

The use of technology in education specifically for enhancing learning is of immense value for improving education delivery. This article serves to highlight the research project to be done by the University of Tampere, University of Botswana and Catholic University of Mozambique. The aim of the research is to investigate how low resourced higher education institutes could make use of free and ...

In this paper, we illustrate our methodology for academic teaching, based on cooperative learning paradigm, which also relies on cutting edge elearning techniques. We use Web 2.0 resources to fulfill requirements for an interactive-constructivistic “learning space”, where blended-teaching paradigm may be proficiently applied. We extend an existing Free/Open Source Software Learning Management S...

This article aims to share experience from a Swedish project on the introduction and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education with both national and international perspectives. The project, OER – resources for learning, was part of the National Library of Sweden Open Access initiative and aimed at exploring, raising awareness of and disseminating the use of OER and...

With the increase popularity of online education, the task of providing the right information to the right users has become a real challenge. Adaptive Hypermedia has been established as one solution to this challenge. However, many adaptation techniques are well suited for closed-corpus and are not compatible in open-corpus situation. Our solution for open-corpus adaptive navigation support is ...

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted to analyse the effect of mobile device intervention for student support services and to gauge its use for enhancing teaching – learning process as a future study in the context of offer of Distance Education programmes. The study was conducted with the learners of the coveted Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Cardiology programme of Indira Ga...

Bulgarian Съвременните мултимедийни инструменти, съчетани с възможностите на Интернет, позволяват на Уеб-базираното електронно обучение да преодолява много от недостатъците на традиционното обучение. Статията е фокусирана върху използването на виртуална мултимедийна среда за разработване на електронна система за повишаване нивото на знания и практически умения на студентите по медицина и на пра...

Adaptive hypermedia is an alternative approach to the traditional approach "one size fits all". Adaptive Navigation Support (ANS) is one of the adaptation techniques used to help users find their way in hyperspace. ANS has created interesting opportunities in e-learning applications to address users with different learning goals and different knowledge level. However, adaptive hypermedia techni...

The buyer solicits bids from suppliers with di®erent cost distributions de ̄ned by their capacities. The expected market share of each supplier is the ratio of its capacity to the industry capacity. The buyer's optimal reserve price declines with increases in the concentration of the industry. The lower reserve price can partially or fully o®set the price e®ects of a merger. However, a merger st...