This paper proposes an ICT based system for enhancing teaching and learning in a large classroom and increasing the interactivity to improve learning. Typically, such a classroom suffers from difficulties in audibility of lectures, seamless teacher-student interaction, monitoring attention of students, collecting attendance and conducting examinations. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)1 paradigm has...

With the end of the Supermarket Revolution in the 1970s, new forms of horizontal, vertical, and geographic competition have appeared to chaflenge the supremacy of the supermarket format. New retail formats like warehouse stores, supercenters, and fast-food outlets appear to affect local retail supermarket prices. Slotting allowances, coupons, and electronic data gathering have intensified retai...

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The objective of this study was to evaluate, through an electronic questionnaire, the satisfaction Community Health Workers after completing course “Open your mouth, folks! – What you need know about oral cancer!”, offered in distance modality and self-instruction, State Pernambuco, Brazil. Pedagogical intervention study, with convenience sample. scientific content addressed different points pr...

Blogging is a form of social communication that facilitates human interaction. The cultural orientations of individualism and collectivism, which relate to basic beliefs about human relationships and interactions, should be determinants of blogging. This study explores the impacts of individualism-collectivism orientation on perceived self-efficacy in blogging, along with blogging and attitudes...

INTRODUCTION: STUDYING FOOD This position paper seeks to uncover and understand a range of everyday behaviours associated with food shopping, preparation, consumption and waste as a precursor to design. How food is purchased, prepared, consumed and its waste disposed of is of growing interest for those concerned with sustainability and ‘carbon footprint’ [2, 3]. This topic provides interesting ...

Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is an emerging socio-technical phenomenon in both businesses, and increasingly, in schools-where it is being advocated for ICT enabled learning. The later has not, to date, received as much research attention as the former. Despite accelerating adoption, the factors that affect students’ use of BYOD are still not well articulated. This research determines those fact...

We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face specific development problems in addition to weak institutions. Given their geographic and economic ...