E-learning tools can be found on an occasional basis in higher education, in particular regarding social sciences. This paper concentrates on envisaged future developments of E-Modules, the innovative elearning platform on European Union matters created by the Institute for European Studies, which is an autonomous department of the Free University Brussels. First, it provides an overview of the...

Spiraling healthcare costs in the United States and elsewhere, coupled to mediocre outcomes and health status indices, the persistent latency between best practice knowledge and its application in practice, an inefficient public health and clinical research infrastructure, and many other factors demand a more sophisticated use of information technology to support improvements. The ever growing ...

B-HERT believes that a prerequisite for a more prosperous and equitable society in Australia is a more highly-educated community. In material terms it fosters economic growth and improved living standards – through improved productivity and competitiveness with other countries. In terms of equity, individual Australians should have the opportunity to realise their full social, cultural, politic...

Healthcare providers are under pressure to work more efficiently and in a more patient-focused way. One possible way to achieve this is to launch Business Process Redesign (BPR) initiatives, which focus on changing the structure of the involved processes and using IT as an enabler for such changes. In this paper, we argue that a list of historically successful improvement tactics, the BPR best ...

This paper describes the work of the JISC-funded PoWR (Preservation Of Web Resources) project which is developing a handbook on best practices and advice aimed at UK higher and further educational institutions for the preservation of Web sites and Web resources. The paper summarises the challenges institutions face in preserving Web resources, describes the workshops organized by the project in...

36 Objective 37 The involvement of consumers in the development of dietary guidelines has been promoted by 38 national and international bodies. Yet, few best practice guidelines have been established to assist 39 such involvement.

This paper presents the Learning Scorecard (LS), a platform that enables students to monitor their learning progress in a Higher Education course during the semester, generating the data that will also support the ongoing supervision of the class performance by the course coordinator. The LS uses gamification techniques to increase student engagement with the course. Business Intelligence best ...

The nature of how marketing research is conducted has changed dramatically over the past thirty years. This has been a function both of how the prevailing view of best practice in marketing has developed, and also of the state of technology available to researchers. While it is clear that the WWW will increasingly be used as a medium for conducting marketing research, the full implications of t...

Due to the values, including equality and equity, solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others, upon which they are based and principles that they embody voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, member economic participation, member education, and concern for the community their very mandate places cooperatives in a unique position to ensure and promote gender equal...

Computer Supported Collaborative learning (CSCL) is nowadays well mature and it is able to set guide-lines to enrich e-learning. On its side, e-learning does not fully exploit its potentialities yet. Suggestions from CSCL could be useful to empower the presence on the elearning on the market and would foster a vision of learning as not a simple further “commercial product”. The European Commiss...