Nikesh Arora Discusses Google's Investment Decisions and the Shifting of Ad Spending Online
Chrystia Freeland Interviews Nikesh Arora
Jeremy Siegel: We Can Look for More Gains in the Stock Market
All eyes and ears were on the two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (FOMC) that ended on March 21. While most observers did not expect interest rates to change, the markets were keen to know what language the Fed would use about inflation in its statement on economic and monetary policy. The U.S. economy has seen mixed signals lately, and concerns about recession have been replaced by worries about "stagflation" -- or stagnation combined with inflation. Is stagflation re
Are Hedge Funds out of Control?
If you go to Amazon.com and search for books about venture capital, you get 14,114 responses, which include many text books. Andrew Metrick, a professor of finance at Wharton, has just written a new book on the subject titled, "Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation." Unlike the thousands of other books, though, this one offers a different approach, especially in areas such as valuing startup companies and IPOs, by bridging the gap between finance fundamentals and venture capital practice
Newfoundland Images and Folk Music
A video tour of this Province of Canada accompanied by a satirical folk music that contains a few words that may be offense to some.
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Pedagogical innovation in new learning communities
This report is part of the research project on Pedagogical Innovations in New ICT-facilitated Learning Communities (LearnCom), under an Administrative Arrangement between IPTS (IS Unit) and DG Education and Culture.
The aim of this study is to review and assess the new social and pedagogical approaches to learning that are emerging in new ICT-facilitated collaborative learning settings. In addition to formal education, such communities are increasingly emerging in informal and non-formal lifelo
Learning aware environement: a Laboratorium of epidemiological studies
One challenge of the Laboratorium is to have the capacity to recognize and capture relevant events from observing the human activity, the ability to understand the learning needs and then to provide the adequate feedback in whatever form. Another challenge is the mapping of inaccessible phenomena into the sensible and temporal space of the classroom. Our design combines gaming situations and ambient technologies in the context of learning bio-statistics. This paper presents a method and a formal
Guess my X and other techno-pedagogical patterns;
Toward a language of patterns for teaching and lea
Most people see learning mathematics as a demanding, even threatening, endeavour. Consequently,
creating technology-enhanced environments and activities for learning mathematics is a
challenging domain. It requires a synergism of several dimensions of design knowledge: usability,
software design, pedagogical design and subject matter. This paper presents a set of patterns
derived from a study on designing collaborative learning activities in mathematics for children
aged 10-14, and a set of tool
Précis de recherche en Ingénierie des EIAH
Français + English
Ce document est destiné aux chercheurs travaillant sur les Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain (EIAH). Sa raison d’être est le constat qu’il y a une difficulté en soi à expliciter clairement les travaux de recherche liés à la conception et la construction des EIAH ou, en d’autres termes, en ingénierie des EIAH. L’objectif de ce document est de promouvoir l’idée qu’il est indispensable de mieux décrire ces travaux de recherche, et de propo
Open teaching: The key to sustainable and effective open education
not available,WHY DO WE NEED LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES?
A Virtual Environment for Distance Education and Training
The world-wide networks and the information superhighways allowing rapid
transmission of digital multimedia information to any user in any time, offer a ground for
a new educational reform that would prepare the citizens to live in the Information
Society. This reform would break the monopoly of the print and paper based educational
system and would rely on learning environments incorporating asynchronous space and
time, interactivity, and virtual reconstruction (McClintock, 1992). The most impo
SMATBOOK –THE FUTURE E-BOOK AND EDUCATONAL HYPERMEDIA
This paper presents a vision for the future of the e-books as part of the
growing collective intelligence. The vision entails further development of
technologies that will facilitate the creation and use of a new generation of ‘smart’
books: e-books that are evolving, highly interactive, customisable, adaptable,
intelligent, and furnished with a rich set of collaborative authoring and reading
support services. The proposed set of tools will be integrated into an intelligent
framework for colla
E-LEARNING FOR E-LEARNING:
REFLECTION ON TEACHER AND STUDENT EXPERIENCES
IN AN E-LEARNING COURSE
The paper discusses design and implementation issues of a university course on elearning,
delivered in mixed mode. Reflections on teacher and student experiences are
made and conclusions are drawn with regard to content, delivery mode, instructional
materials and online support.
Towards a Model of the Digital University:
A Generalized Net Model for Producing
Course Timetables
In a series of research papers, the authors have
studied some of the most important models of contemporary
universities, such as: the research university, the entrepreneurial
university and the digital university and construct their
Generalized Net (GN) models. This paper is based on the casestudies
of Sofia University, the Technical University of Munich
and the University of Edinburgh. The main focus is to put the
analysis of the processes of the functioning of a university
which effectively in
A Model for European e-Competence Framework
Development in a University Environment
The paper describes a model of implementation of the
European e-Competence Framework in Sofia University by
using the methodology and tools developed in the frames of
the EC Sixth Framework European Integrated Project Ten-
Competence. The work is a follow up activity of an internal
university project for implementation a curricula in
computing based on the ACM/IEEE recommendations.
DESIGNING A TOOLSET FOR THE PRIME
VIRTUAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The PRIME (Providing Real Integration in Multi-disciplinary Environments) project1
aims in modeling, creating and evaluation of a Virtual Business Environment (VBE) for
learning the entire life cycle of products and processes for all involved stakeholders and for
gaining practical experience in strategic manufacturing through serious gaming. The paper
presents the overall architecture of the PRIME system. Further it discusses in more detail the
design of the game toolset, which provides the user
Some Methodological Aspects of the Development of an ICT Research and Technology
Development and Inn
The aim of this paper is to share the experience gained at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
(FMI), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (SU), in the up to now work within the scope of a project
funded by the Capacities Specific Programme of FP7. At the first call for proposals of this Programme in
2007 the EC provided a grant to the project SISTER of SU, aimed at strengthening the research capacity
of FMI in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The main go
Building skills for the knowledge society
The present paper takes into account the skills sets needed for the knowledge
society, and the focus on ICT and e-business skills, innovation and knowledge management in
organizations. It highlights the related challenges for learning providers, and in particular for
regularly updating the higher education curricula and programs according to the labor market
needs. The paper outlines two practical examples for provision of up-to-date training. The first
one is related to designing knowledge mana
CONCEPTUAL KMS ARCHITECTURE WITHIN ENTERPRISE 2.0 AND CLOUD COMPUTING
Today, the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 is not an option, but a must for knowledge-based organizations within the changing social paradigms. The new-coming generation of employees and customers expect technological proficiency to be part of the customer-centered business models. On their turn, organizations need to apply new forms of cooperation with their employees, customers, suppliers and partners. The knowledge is recognized as crucial resource and its efficient management determines sustainab
