A number of regional Internet electronic marketplaces (REMs) have failed or are floundering, partly due to the lack of proper evaluation of their costs and benefits. This paper uses a conceptual REM Success Model to examine the costs and benefits of a REM in Western Australia. The model has been derived from an extension to the Updated DeLone & McClean IS Success Model. The findings from the ca...

Many companies utilize employee portals to improve information exchange and communication between their employees as well as to better support business processes. Owing to limited IT budgets and the need to justify portal investments, assessing employee portal benefits is important. In this article, we propose a model for measuring employee portal success on the basis of the DeLone and McLean I...

Mobile technologies offer great opportunities for improving business users’ productivity and for running business processes more effectively and efficiently. This particularly applies to service and maintenance processes which are highly information-intensive. Mobile services enable technicians to directly capture information more quickly and more precisely, while they are performing maintenanc...

This paper investigates how webmasters in first prize winning companies of web awards explain website quality. In order to gain insights into website quality descriptions, we held qualitative interviews with webmasters in eight Norwegian companies. The outcome is grounded theory models of how webmasters representing four ideal types of websites explain website quality. By using the left side of...

E-learning tools have profoundly transformed modern pedagogical approaches. Vendors provide different types of systems, such as self-paced (SP) and instructor–student interactive (ISI) elearning tools. Although both types of tools represent promising solutions to facilitate the learning process, it is important to theoretically identify a framework to evaluate the success of these tools and ass...

We can call the education offered by using the Internet environment as ―teaching through the Internet‖. Such a teaching contributes to interaction, which is not sufficient in traditional classrooms most of the time. It gives the geographically separated students the opportunity of exchanging ideas and information, collaborative learning, discovering alternatives in learning and developing their...

The expectations and demands with respect to teaching and research have been changing for universities due to changes in their institutional environments. Born out of changing national research policies and modern governance arrangements, efficiency, effectiveness and output-oriented cultures have become increasingly important. In this article we ask the question of what the consequences of the...

To The Editor: Having read Dr Benamer’s views on medical teaching, we remembered our days as medical students [1]. We share Dr Benamer’s and other’s views that teaching in Libyan medical schools should shift from being subject focused to being learning focused [1,2]. We remember one incident when our professor showed us an ECG and asked about the diagnosis. He was so furious when none of us was...

The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between life-wise syllabus- as a new type of syllabus which emerged as the result of recent developments in applied ELT and corresponding to the "education for life"- and teacher success in an EFL context. Life-wise syllabus introduced by Pishghadam in 2011 directed English teachers’ attention to give priority to life issues rather than ...