The potential of information technology to facilitate collaboration in education has grown considerably in recent years. The use of Web videoconferencing, whereby learners in an online classroom can simultaneously collaborate using audiovisual communication tools, increases the learner’s ability in social and emotional expression, thus improving communication which may enhance learning satisfac...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effects of consumers’ perceptions concerning the ethics of online retailers on web site satisfaction and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach – An online survey instrument was administered to a sample of 220 students who were enrolled in various business undergraduate classes at a mid size university located in the southwestern USA. Participants complete...

One of the facts of online learning is when learners engage in such learning, the rest of the Web is merely a click away. While many studies have identified an association between learners’ personal attributes and online learning experiences, few have explored the linkages among learners’ aptitude, experiences of daily social web activities, and perception of online learning. The purpose of thi...

This article traces discussions from 1991 to 1994 about the impact of the World Wide Web on libraries. Librarians and other information professionals commented about the Web's potential as a tool for organizing and using materials on the Internet in print journals devoted to library science, in periodicals about computing trends, and in online media such as discussion lists. Evaluation of the W...

The Journal of Economic Education (JEE) has been an Internet leader among economic journals, beginning with a Web page in 1995 that included abstracts and a search engine for articles published since 1984. Full text of articles in pdf became available in 1998. This issue of the JEE inaugurates another innovation, a new section called Online. In addition to finding descriptive notes published in...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of using Trigonometric Graphs, a teacher created web-based simulation, and asynchronous online discussion on students’ understanding of and performance in sketching transformation of trigonometric curves. The participants of the study were 29 Grade 9 students from a Singapore school. The students worked in groups of three or four in experim...

this article considers the many developments in technology and practice that are making libraries more connected and interdependent. it looks at new integrated online services and reviews the increasing importance of both formal and informal standards. global centralized web services are discussed. the relationships between information industry companies and libraries are considered. virtual re...