Blended learning (b-learning) is considered as the dominant instructional model in higher education. Herein, the study focused on the effectiveness of b-learning on a teacher training program in higher education and mainly aimed at revealing the effect of b-learning on students’ achievement, perceived cognitive flexibility levels and self-regulated learning skills and also examining the instruc...

Different types of digital learning environments have evolved over the years and there is an ongoing evolvement of different concepts and technology. During the last 10-15 years Learning Management Systems have dominated. In recent years there has been a development of concepts like Personal Learning Environments using mashup technology. This paper presents a study of a mashup approach to the d...

In order to explore what motivates post-entry mode change of the MNC (Multinational Corporation) in China, this paper proposed a theoretical framework that has highlighted MNC flexibility influenced by learning ownership regulations through relationship networks. A company is embedded in a number of relationships with identifiable counterparts and this web of relationships can be called a netwo...

Internet is evolving toward highly personalized user spaces. Mashups, web applications that combine data from different sources into a single tool, are providing users with higher levels of flexibility to surf the net. These new environments can be used to offer students an attractive learning environment. At a first glance, this flexibility might be contradictory with the tendency toward captu...

This paper presents a flexibility analysis as a practical procedure to evaluate large-scale capital-intensive projects considering market uncertainty. It considers the combined effects of the time value of money, economies of scale, and learning, and demonstrates the additional benefits stemming from considerations of uncertainty and flexibility in the early stages of design and project evaluat...

This paper presents a flexibility analysis as a practical procedure to evaluate large-scale capital-intensive projects considering market uncertainty. It considers the combined effects of the time value of money, economies of scale, and learning, and demonstrates the additional benefits stemming from considerations of uncertainty and flexibility in the early stages of design and project evaluat...