During the past few years, spam has invaded electronic mail boxes and become one of the major challenges for information systems (IS) professionals. Spam decreases user productivity, erodes electronic mail reliability, and requires the maintenance of spam-filtering software that drains the IS budget. Although spam is the largest type of electronic mail received, spam levels have begun to decrea...

According to the World Health Organization, one of the criteria for the standardized assessment of case causality in adverse drug reactions is the temporal relationship between the intake of a drug and the occurrence of a reaction or a laboratory test abnormality. This article presents and describes an algorithm for the detection of a reasonable temporal correlation between the administration o...

The teaching of information technology in an ever-changing world at universities presents a challenge. Are courses taught as concepts, while ignoring hands-on courses, leaving the hands-on classes to the technical colleges or trade schools? Does this produce the best employees for industry or give students the knowledge and skills necessary to function in a high-tech world? At Georgia College &...

Experimental based learning is important engineering courses to enrich student’s skills and knowledge. In electronics, subjects related to sinusoidal oscillators are good to consolidate knowledge on different matters at undergraduate level. Is also facilitates the interconnection of theoretical and practical aspects from other courses and allows the verification of some non-linear effects. This...

This paper surveys examples in which questions are answered by developing recurrence relations that model certain situations and then exploring those recurrence relations using an electronic spreadsheet. The goals of this approach are (1) to develop an understanding of and a facility for using recurrence relations as a modeling tool to motivate the need to derive analytical methods for solving ...

Rhodes AE, Rozell TG. A constructivist approach to e-text design for use in undergraduate physiology courses. Adv Physiol Educ 39: 172–180, 2015; doi:10.1152/advan.00011.2015.—Electronic textbooks, or e-texts, will have an increasingly important role in college science courses within the next few years due to the rising costs of traditional texts and the increasing availability of software allo...

Web-based learning environments are a great asset only if they are designed well and used as intended. The urgency to create courses in response to the growing demand for online learning has resulted in a hurried push to drop PowerPoint notes into Web-based course management systems (WBCMSs), devise an electronic quiz, put together a few discussion questions, and call it a course. My mentor onc...

A multimedia degree program for educating new engineers for new themes is described. The subject of Computational Visualistics was introduced at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, in the fall of 1996. This five-year diploma program has computer science courses as its core: students learn about digital methods and electronic tools for solving picture-related problems. The technological areas ...

Objectives Frambu Resource Centre for Rare Disorders in Norway has registered 140 persons with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), and often receives inquiries on telephone and e-mail about different aspects concerning this group. Frambu offer local guidance and courses at Frambu, but with limited time resources for local guidance, as well as limited possibilities for local caregivers to participate i...

While systematic and worthwhile research efforts have been undertaken regarding the conceptualization, development, and assessment of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) within the context of face-to-face learning experiences in higher education and teacher professional development settings, the authors herein posit that the framework of TPCK requires a technological solution, be...