International Journal on ELearning articles from October 2006

International Journal on ELearning archives from October 2006

E-learning: encouraging international perspectives. A Mexican-UK comparative case study analysis.
October 1, 2006... E-learning has been an important topic for more than a decade, but the area is still evolving. The increased use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education systems, has major implications for instructors, learners...

An immune agent for web-based AI course.(Artificial intelligence)
October 1, 2006... To overcome weakness and faults of a web-based e-learning course such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), an immune agent was proposed, simulating a natural immune mechanism against a virus. The immune agent was built on the multi-dimension...

Understanding the dimensions of virtual teams.
October 1, 2006... The focus of this study was to empirically investigate how virtual teams operate in an online MBA program. Building knowledge and skills required for a successful career is a central component of higher education, especially in business...

Computer-mediated communication: a meta-analysis of male and female attitudes and behaviors.
October 1, 2006... This study quantitatively synthesized the empirical research of the gender effects on people's communicative, interactive, affective, and process patterns using computer-mediated communication (CMC). In total, 321 independent effect sizes were...

Factors of online learning adoption: a comparative juxtaposition of the theory of planned behaviour and the technology acceptance model.
October 1, 2006... Organisational investments in information technologies have increased significantly in the past few decades. All around the globe and in Malaysia particularly, a number of educational institutions are experimenting with e-learning. Adopting the...

Course Management Systems as tools for the creation of online learning environments: evaluation from a social constructivist perspective and implications for their design.
October 1, 2006... The Internet and the Web offer academic institutions solutions for covering the massive demand for education and transition towards student-centered, social constructivist educational models, in accordance with the demands of the...

Attitude as predictor of success in online training.
October 1, 2006... This is the second article in a series of articles published with findings on student perceptions of asynchronous web-based courses (Perez Cereijo, Young, & Wilhelm, 2001). This portion of the study examines the independent relationships...

Designing a learning design engine as a collection of finite state machines.
October 1, 2006... Specifications and standards for e-learning are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex as they deal with the core of the learning process. Simple transformations are no longer adequate to successfully implement these latest...

Externalization of tacit knowledge in online environments.
October 1, 2006... Knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, has gained more and more attention in recent years. The author claims that, with the development of information technology, more knowledge sharing takes place online rather than face-to-face. The purpose...