This short paper presents arguments to use TIC for teaching and learning. It starts with an overview of the environment that the education sector is currently facing, and then describes an experimentation with an actual Internet-based learning environment: WebCT. This research offers theoretical and practical foundations to promote this use.

1. Zadra G, Asselta R, Tenchini ML, Castaman G, Seligsohn U, Mannucci PM, et al. Simultaneous genotyping of coagulation factor XI type II and type III mutations by multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction to determine their prevalence in healthy and factor XI-deficient Italians. Haematologica 2008; 93:715-21. 2. Rodriguez-Mari A, Diaz-Font A, Chabas A, Pastores GM, Grinberg D, Vilageliu L....

Based on a dynamical model with fractional derivatives we show that the evolution of radical groups in society memory depends mainly active proselytism and level cohesion social networks. We find conditions determine group either disappears or, contrary, achieves permanent significant expression. also discuss possible intervention strategies susceptible population lead to disappearance groups. ...

This paper reviews a number of recent approaches to put memetics to the test of quantitative measurability. The focus is on the selection criteria for the spreading of memes put forward by Heylighen (1997), which include utility, novelty, simplicity, coherence, authority and proselytism. The general hypothesis is that memes scoring higher on these criteria will survive longer and be more preval...

Whereas the rabbinic tradition attacks King Asa of Judah for trusting in himself rather than in G-d and, in particular, for drafting the sages, Josephus, the apologist, omits such details and, indeed, whitewashes Asa completely. He is praised particularly, in language reminiscent of Josephus' portraits of Saul and David, as well as of Thucydides' Pericles, for putting his nation in order. In pa...