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Digital technology for learning enhancement has been accepted in various levels of education. This book identifies and presents research on theory, practice, and captures learning designs and best-practices. It demonstrates significant ways of improving learning processes through responsible integration of technology.

The term digital divide is used to characterize the injustice associated with inequalities in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). This work presents conceptual frameworks for understanding and tackling digital divides. It includes information on access and skills, access and motivation, and other levels of access.

How can assessment practices be used to assist and improve the learning process? Attempting to answer the question, this work aims to encourage the development of higher-quality learning and assessment practices, ones in which the learners themselves assume a greater responsibility for, and play a more active role in, their own learning.

Presents accounts and case studies of experience in developing, implementing, or evaluating learning technologies. This book presents descriptions of the tools used by practitioners, explains how these tools are used, and discusses the role of the student and educator in the learning process.

Presents the research ideas and topics on database systems and applications, and provides insights into important developments in the field of database and database management. This book describes the capabilities and features of technologies and methodologies, with an emphasis on theoretical issues regarding databases and database management.

Features the research findings in all aspects of information resources management. This volume provides information technology researchers, scholars, educators, and practicing managers with the research on managing the technological, organizational, and human aspects of information utilization and management.

The rise of the Internet has driven massive shifts in both what IT people are asked to do, and how they are required to do it. This book explores these impacts, and the ways in which the work life of IT professionals - from the perspectives of both the individual worker, as well as managers - has had to change and adapt to the Internet Age.

Addresses one of the pressing challenges in the IT field - how to create secure environments for the application of technology to serve future needs. Of interest to corporate executives, this book provides an integrated perspective on this complex set of challenges, supported with practical experiences of leading figures from various realms.

Reports on the advances in privacy protection issues and technologies for e-services, covering important material, such as: consumer empowerment, assessing privacy risks, and more. This book is useful for consumers, educators, researchers, designers, and developers who are interested in the protection of consumer privacy for Internet services.

Provides a global vision about the lesser-defined areas of microarchitectural design knowledge, exposing the main techniques, experiences, and methods in order to help researchers apply these concepts.

Offers an outlook on various works in the field of artificial neural networks (ANN). This book includes theoretical developments of the ANN area and applications of these systems, using intelligent characteristics for adaptability, automatic learning classification, prediction and even artistic creation.

Utilizing Information Technology in Developing Strategic Alliances Among Organizations deals with two important topics for a firm's competitiveness in the framework of the information society: alliance strategies and the role played by IT in alliances. While technical solutions to distance work abound, there is a lack of a strong and theoretically-grounded approach on how best to implement these solutions. This book offers a theoretical framework, allowing strategic alliance managers to implement the IT required in these alliances, supported by their work teams. Utilizing Information Technology in Developing Strategic Alliances Among Organizations analyzes many important topics, such as: the development of global business-to-business electronic markets, and whether these markets are becoming a way of improving trust between organizations at an international level; problems in implementing interorganizational systems and their solutions; and how IT and alliance strategy are important both to multinational corporations and family firms, regardless of firm size.

Provides an analysis of the important strategies for integrating IT systems into fields such as e-business and customer-relationship management. This work gives readers a comprehensive survey of enterprise architecture and integration approaches.

Intelligent assistant systems information is becoming the raw material of modern society. Access to information spaces and the capability to use them efficiently has become a key economical success factor. This book addresses such systems and their issues, scope, purpose, architecture, implementation, deployment, theoretical background, and use.

Covers various aspects of outsourcing and offshoring and the influences, challenges, and socio-economic impacts of this phenomenon. This book is useful to academicians, students, and business people who are considering outsourcing and moving offshore for suppliers and partners around the world.

Covers several research topics of data mining on bioinformatics. This title helps readers gain an understanding of the basics and problems of bioinformatics, as well as the applications of data mining technologies in tackling the problems and the essential research topics in the field. It is for researchers, molecular biologists, and others.

Provides analysis and explains some of the contradictions and apparent paradoxes of the many information systems (IS) quality perspectives. This book offers prescriptions, grounded in research findings, syntheses of relevant literature, and leading IS quality practices to assist the assimilation, measurement, and management of IS quality.

Provides a synopsis of the various technologies in perceptual-based multimedia design.

Validation and verification is an area of software engineering that has been around since the early stages of program development. This book offers coverage of many formal and semiformal techniques of V&V. It explores, depicts, and provides examples of different applications in V&V that produce many areas of software development.

Covers various main areas of focus of cognitive science research that may influence the design of computer-based systems. This book presents several projects from different parts of the world, which offer a variety of applications as examples to show the scope of the benefit is not at all limited to a particular target, like learning.

Contains several questions that are implicitly addressed by scientists tackling specific problems which require intelligence in both individual and combinations of specific artificial intelligence techniques.

Describes enterprise-level information systems that businesses use to support their processes. This book provides a clear and simple framework to help software companies understand this experience, and help them build software products compatible with organizations, humans, and complex customer environments.

The digital business world is undergoing phenomenal and sometimes turbulent changes. The digital economy has also seen the rise of entirely new businesses. This title reports accounting and other information about business processes to assess performance.

Addressing the value and the skills that an IT project manager must have, this book uses these values in a new methodology based on agile manifesto. This methodology merges the mustbe of agile manifesto with the needs of a controlled development environment, like the capability maturity model, which deals with aspects related to UML formalism.

Presents methodologies, strategies, and design approaches for building interfaces for a user-centered CALL environment. This book acts as a guide to help educators, administrators, professionals and researchers find the basis of a framework for the development and management of CALL environments.

Aimed at educators who may be considering introducing Problem-based Learning (PBL) and need to know what it involves, its benefits, and the details of how to implement it. This book also covers major issues, including rationale for PBL, how to write effective problems, preparing students and tutors, being an effective facilitator, and more.

Collecting and presenting the research and development results from the leading researchers, this book provides a single record of research and practical applications in Web-based intelligent e-learning systems. It includes aspects of Web-based e-learning systems standards and certifications, design and development, prototypes, products, and more.

Presents a comprehensive study of teaching applications involving educational technology. This book encourages collaboration across geographical borders to promote information literacy, facilitate the learning process, and to establish a greater infusion of technology throughout the region.

Technology has impacted every area of life, including religion. The use of sound systems and computers in public religious expression is just one way technology is being used in religious circles. Yet, what is often overlooked is the way that religion is shaping technology through philosophy and morality. Religion and Technology in the 21st Century: Faith in the E-World examines the relationship of the two areas, and provides insight into the impacts religion and technology have on humanity. In examining the dual impact, the book points to a synergy that has traditionally been missed in previous research into technology or religion.