The goal of this paper is to propose a complete environment for authoring cooperatively e-learning courses using a workflow approach and relying mainly on open software and web standards. This authoring environment is based on modern technologies such as XML, SMIL and WebDAV and allows to connect a group of professionals in order to cooperatively create material for e-learning courses. The prop...

The value of the Internet as a flexible tool for the posting and exchange of information is expressed in the potential it has for governance, commerce, and social interaction. The Internet is symbolic of the digital revolution of the 20th century that changed the packaging and dissemination of electronic information. In politics, the potential of the Internet is perceived to be in e-government....

Service innovations are central concerns in fast changing environment. Due to the fitness in customer demands and advances in information technologies (IT) in service management, an expanded conceptualization of e-service innovation is required. Specially, innovation practices have become increasingly more challenging, driving managers to employ a different open innovation model to maintain com...

The Internet changes the way business is conducted. It provides an affordable and easy way to link companies with their incorporating trading and distribution partners as well as customers. However, the Internet’s potential is jeopardized by the rising digital anarchy: closed markets that cannot use each other’s services; incompatible applications and frameworks that cannot interoperate or buil...

This paper explores open source as a metaphor for e-learning. It builds the case that e-learning and open source movement are rooted in the constructivist movement and the constructivist movement is itself rooted in the pragmatism and instrumentalism that pervades John Dewey’s theories of understanding as applied to learning. As a result, it is recommended that the use of open source as metapho...

Today there exists a variety of efforts to bring public administration closer to its customers (citizens, entrepreneurs, etc.). This paper investigates the concept of open innovation, i.e. the integration of the customer into the product creation process of a company, w.r.t. its applicability in the area of e-government. The concept of open innovation is well known within the context of mass cu...

This research paper aims to present an integrated evaluation model in e-learning systems for students. The paper describes the phases of development and analysis of the application of a web-based open student evaluation model in an e-Learning System. The proposed model has been tested and evaluated in terms of its effectiveness on student communication, collaboration, and progress. The evaluati...

In this paper, we introduce and characterize fuzzy wea-kly $e$-closed functions in fuzzy topological spaces and the relationship between these mappings and some properties of them are investigated.