Cooperative Web caching is the most common solution for augmenting the low cache hit rates due to single proxies. However, both purely hierarchical and flat architectures suffer from scalability problems due to cooperation protocol overheads. We present a new cooperative architecture that organizes cache servers in well connected clusters and implements a novel cooperation model based on a two-...

Hybrid Learning: "Neither Fish Nor Fowl" or "The Golden Mean" p. 82 Techniques for Enhancing Hybrid Learning of Physical Education p. 94 Using New Web Technologies in Teaching Demography p. 106 Pedagogical and Psychological Issues Best Practices in Teaching Online or Hybrid Courses: A Synthesis of Principles p. 117 Students' Attitudes towards Web Searching p. 127 Knowledge Structure of Elementa...

Web caching is a technology that has demonstrated to improve traffic on the Internet. To find out how to implement a Web caching architecture that assures improvements is not an easy task. The problem is more difficult when we are interested in deploying a distributed and cooperative Web caching system. We have found that some cooperative Web caching architectures could be unviable when changes...

Background Integration of web-based educational tools into medical training has been shown to increase accessibility of resources and optimize teaching. We developed a web-based educational portal (WBEP) to support teaching of pediatric residents about newborn medicine by neonatology fellows. Objectives 1) To compare residents' attitudes about their fellow-led education in the NICU pre- and pos...

Vocational degree earners represent a major portion of the work force in Taiwan. However, the reality of computing education in Taiwan’s vocational schools is that it’s not so practically oriented, revealing much room for improvement. In this context, we conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of applying web-based self-regulated learning, web-based problem-based learning with initi...

We showcase and describe a collection of digital Web-based teaching tools, highly adaptable to diverse teaching needs and styles and designed to foster conceptual understanding of chemistry via interactive visualization. These resources target many of the topics traditionally addressed in the general chemistry curriculum and are widely available to chemistry instructors and students on the Web....

This paper presents a way of possible implementation of teaching process based on interdisciplinary correlation. Interdisciplinary relationship between biology (bird migration) and geography (the basic features of countries through which white storks travel to their wintering grounds in Africa) is suggested in this paper. Such interdisciplinary approach should make the teaching process effectiv...

The Internet represents a wonderful opportunity to modify the teaching methods, and to redefine our notions of education. The aim of this paper is to present our teaching project, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), which studies the use of the “Net ” and its resources to develop a learning environment. We have involved a classroom (sixteen students, aged 16-17) of a technical institute in It...

the present study intended to look into and compare the possible effects of competitive team-based learning (ctbl) with learning together (lt) or cooperative group-based learning (cgbl) – the most popular method of cooperative learning (cl) -- on oral performance of iranian efl intermediate students. after administering the oral interview, this researcher selected a group of 40 almost homogeneo...