eChallenges e-2008. 22 – 24 October 2008

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Extended abstracts are invited for e-2008. Papers are actively encouraged from private as well as national, regional, international and European Commission funded research programmes. The conference language is English and abstracts should be for case studies, technical, legal or policy papers or proposals to arrange workshops. Proposals related to international cooperation, interoperability issues, multi-disciplinary research, Grid applications, Smart and Virtual Organisations and papers showcasing commercialisation issues are particularly welcome.

Extended abstracts of 800 – 1,200 words should be submitted online by 29th February 2008. In the case of joint authors, the Conference Organisers will only communicate with the person who uploads the abstract, who is assumed to be the presenter unless we are informed otherwise. Potential authors can submit more than one abstract, but normally an author will not be invited to present more than one paper at the conference, with co-authors expected to register and present other successful submissions. (leer más…)

Fuente: [ eChanllenges]

[link] The role and effectiveness of e-learning: key issues in an industrial context

Chang, V. (2003) The role and effectiveness of e-learning: key issues in an industrial context. In Proceedings of The First International Conference in the United Nations Information Society, 8-10 December 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. Chang, V., Eds.
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Abstract

This paper identifies the current role and effectiveness of e-learning and its key issues in an industrial context. The first objective is to identify the role of e-learning, particularly in staff training and executive education, where e-learning (online, computer-based or videoconferencing learning) has made significant impacts and contributions to several organisations such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Cisco and Cap Gemini Earnst Young. With e-learning, staff train-ing and executive education provides more benefits and better efficiency than traditional means.

The second objective of this research is to understand the effectiveness of e-learning. This can be classified into two key issues: (1) methods of e-learning implementations; and (2) factors influencing effective and ineffective e-learning implementations.

One learning point from (1) is that centralized e-learning implementations may prevail for big organizations. How-ever, more organizations adopt decentralized e-learning implementations due to various reasons, which will be dis-cussed in this paper. From the research results, a proposed way is to retain the decentralized way. The second learning point is about interactive learning (IL), the combination of both e-learning and face-to-face learning. IL has been making contributions to several organizations, including the increase in motivation, learning interests and also effi-ciency. The popular issues about IL are (a) how to mini-mize the disadvantages of IL and (b) the degree of interac-tivity for maximizing learning efficiency.

One learning point from (2) is to analyze the factors influ-encing effective and ineffective implementations, which reflect the different focuses between industrialists and aca-demics. In terms of effective e-learning implementations, factors identified by both groups can map to particular cases in industry. In contrast, factors causing ineffective implementations rely more on primary source data. In or-der to find out these factors and analyze the rationale be-hind, case studies and interviews were used as research methodology that matched the objective of the research.

* Item Type Conference or Workshop Item
* Keywords e-Learning, Interactive Learning, staff training, executive education
* Research Group Declarative Systems and Software Engineering Research Group
* Deposited On 14 February 2006 by Chang, Victor
* ID Code 11971
* Performance Indicator EZ~08~14~17

Authors

* Victor Chang (leer más…)

Fuente: [eprints.ecs]

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