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JCP
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Lifelong Learning, Empirical Modelling and the Promises of Constructivism
—Educational technology is seen as key for lifelong learning, but it has yet to live up to expectation. We argue that current learning environments are typically oriented too muc...
Meurig Beynon, Antony Harfield
DEXAW
1999
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
An XML-Based, 3-Tier Scheme for Integrating Heterogeneous Information Sources to the WWW
The phenomenal growth that the WWW currently experiences necessitates the integration of various types of information sources to its platform. We present an open, extensible multi...
Costas Petrou, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Drakoulis...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Operational experience with a virtual networking laboratory
Virtual laboratories are a potential replacement for standard laboratory facilities. Use of these virtual resources can reduce cost and maintenance overheads for teaching institut...
Charlie Wiseman, Ken Wong, Tilman Wolf, Sergey Gor...
PAM
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
An Experimental Performance Comparison of 3G and Wi-Fi
Mobile Internet users have two options for connectivity: pay premium fees to utilize 3G or wander around looking for open Wi-Fi access points. We perform an experimental evaluation...
Richard Gass, Christophe Diot
CE
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Employing virtual humans for education and training in X3D/VRML worlds
Web-based education and training provides a new paradigm for imparting knowledge; students can access the learning material anytime by operating remotely from any location. Web3D ...
Lucio Ieronutti, Luca Chittaro