Realising the potential of web services

The Arts and Australian Education: Realising potential

Realising the Potential of Web 2.0 for Collaborative Learning Using Affordances

With the emergence of the Web 2.0 phenomena, technology-assisted social networking has become the norm. The potential of social software for collaborative learning purposes is clear, but as yet there is little evidence of realisation of the benefits. In this paper we consider Information and Communication Technology student attitudes to collaboration and via two case studies the extent to which...

Specifying and Realising Interactive Voice Services

VoiceXML (Voice Extended Markup Language) has become a major force in interactive voice services. However current approaches to creating VoiceXML services are rather low-level. Graphical representations of VoiceXML are close to the textual form of the language, and do not give a high-level description of a service. CRESS (Chisel Representation Employing Systematic Specification) can be used to ...

Realising the Potential of Technology Tools: Expecting the Unexpected

Comprised within the term “return on investment” is the implication that the benefit to be accrued from supporting an initiative matches with the expectation of its potential value. In the case of technology implementations, however, the outcomes of investment often do not align with the intentions of those who propose them. At one extreme visible improvement to organisational processes may be ...

Realising the Potential of the Network Perspective in Innovation Studies

Even a cursory review of the various business and management sub-disciplines in the post-war period reveals the ebb and flow of a whole series of management and organisational innovations: the 1980s heralded the rise of ‘Quality Circles’, ‘Portfolio Management’, MBWA (‘Management by Wandering Around’), and the focus on ‘Excellence’, to name but a few; in the 1990s the fashionable themes shifted...