This paper reports experiences and issues in authoring e-learning content as well as the solutions proposed and applied in using the Angel Learning Management System under the E-Learning Framework project. The qualitative research and comparative analyses of authoring e-learning content issues and proposed solution as findings were studied comparing different courses in the University framework...

I review recent efforts by political scientists and economists to explain crossnational variation in corruption using subjective ratings, and examine the robustness of reported findings. Quite strong evidence suggests that highly developed, long-established liberal democracies, with a free and widely read press, a high share of women in government, and a history of openness to trade are perceiv...

The fact that anthropologists ‘construct’ the field in which they conduct their ethnographic research has long been recognized, but less considered are the ways in which the field can ‘construct’ both the anthropologist and fieldwork practices. In many ways this process is a natural corollary of the fact that researchers must always adapt and sensitize themselves to the realities of their field...

Since Fall 2004, we have been co-teaching a class on Grid computing to several NC institutions using the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In this paper, we focus on a new teaching approach. In Fall 2008, we introduced a more integrated co-teaching or “pair-teaching” approach to the course. Our experiences are particularly relevant for a course taught in a distributed fashi...

Sometimes, our emotions lead us to do the oddest things. Grown men pull over so they can brawl over which driver is the bigger idiot. Parents lose their cool and bark hateful things at their children that they later regret. Adolescents who were best friends before a jealous spat vow never to speak again. And children throw tantrums as if on cue at the supermarket candy display. Moments such as ...

Gerrymandering—the manipulation of electoral boundaries to maximize constituency wins—is often seen as a pathology of democratic systems. A commonly cited cure is to require that electoral constituencies have a ‘compact’ shape. But how much of a constraint does compactness in fact place on would-be gerrymanderers? We operationalize compactness as a convexity constraint and apply a theorem of Ka...

Few guidelines are available about how a case researcher may collect data about past or historical phenomena. A methodology for case studies based on archival data would be useful for taking advantage of a wealth of evidence (e.g., corporate documents such as memoranda and e-mail, as well as popular press) that occurs naturally in organizational and societal experiences of dealing with informat...

For many people in Australia, crowding is a major issue and an unavoidable aspect of their daily rail commute. Australian passenger experiences, perceptions of, and their reactions to crowding are not well understood. To gain an understanding of passenger perceptions and tolerance of railway crowding and the impact of passenger behaviour on the crowding experience, qualitative (Stage 1) and qua...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have made significant contributions to business innovation and wealth generation for organisations, societies and nations. ICT have also made significant contributions to environmental degradation. Confronted by the necessity to respond to growing environmental concerns in society, regulatory imperatives and market pressure, many executives expre...

This article focuses on the problems faced by researchers carrying out participant observation in fields where the committal of criminal offences is the norm. Can participation in criminal activity by a researcher be justified on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the distortion of the field? Alternatively, can the difficulties in gaining and maintaining access in such spheres excuse s...