Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environments for Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning

A ubiquitous learning environment provides an interoperable, pervasive, and seamless learning architecture to connect, integrate, and share three major dimensions of learning resources: learning collaborators, learning contents, and learning services.

BARRIERS TO DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING: SURVEY RESULTS

This study supplies evidence of not only what barriers there are in distance education, but the priority given to them by various stakeholders and at different stages of organizational maturity regarding distance education and training.

Schema Theory: An Introduction

Information that does not fit into these schema target="_blank"may not be comprehended, or may not be comprehended correctly. This is the reason why readers have a difficult time comprehending a text on a subject they are not familiar with even if the person comprehends the meaning of the individual words in the passage.

Reference Guide for Instructional Design and Development

This is a Reference Guide for Instructional Design and Development. The document was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and serves as a valuable reference for designers and developers.

Online and Face-to-Face Group Interaction Processes

Previous, pioneering studies of small-group interaction, conducted in face-to-face environments, have generated a body of literature; however, the usefulness of this knowledge for online groups has not been systematically examined. This paper reports the use of Bales' influential Interation Process Analysis model...

Scientists Discover How to Pass Exams

Scientists from Washington University in St Louis made a discovery that could have profound implications for our understanding of human learning mechanisms - and immediate significance for students revising for examinations.

6th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property

6th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property, June 14-16, 2006, Hosted by The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland: The debate over the mass digitization and global availability of information has raged anew ever since late 2004 when Google publicly launched its ambitious plans to digitize and index the massive library
collections of Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library.