With the advent of the Internet, educators now have access over the web to the first artificial intelligence productivity toolsites. This presentation will demonstrate a unique online lesson planning toolsite and a research toolsite where educators actually create documents in the website. Following a process guide, the user applies a natural language retrieval algorithm to locate educational r...

In this paper, a case is made for linking a Computer Algebra System into Computer Aided Assessment systems. It is argued that such a link will signi cantly reduce the restrictions that CAA packages otherwise impose on educators. A CAA package based on a CAS, i.e. AIM, is used to illustrate the advantages and the possibilities that emerge from more intelligent CAS. A variety of uses within a lea...

Usability capability models are used for assessing the ability of development organisations to develop usable products. We have identified quality criteria for usability capability models and analysed the strengths and weaknesses of the existing models. The analysis reveals that there are differences both in the quality of the structure of the models and in the extent that they cover phenomena ...

language teacher assessment, like many aspects of second language teacher education, is changing. to understand factors that are driving the change, such as work of teaching generally, language teaching in particular, and the role of teachers’ knowledge in teaching, this study examined language teacher assessment schemes across the globe. the aim was to arrive at a set of shared beliefs, attitu...

This mixed-methods study aimed at investigating the effects of a gadget-based Internet multimedia extensive reading program on promoting language proficiency. In so doing, a pretest-posttest design was applied in the quantitative phase to comparatively analyze outcomes of three classes of college-level EFL learners (two experimental groups and one control, each including 30 university students)...

[Context and motivation] It is desirable that requirement engineering methods are reliable, that is, that methods can be repeated with the same results. Risk assessments methods, however, often have low reliability when they identify risk mitigations for a system based on expert judgement. [Question/problem] Our goal is to assess the reliability of an availability risk assessment method for tel...

CAMRA (Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment) gathers a community of scientists that investigate several stages in the life cycle of biological agents of concern. This paper describes the knowledge management (KM) approach adopted for CAMRA’s community of scientists. The approach includes knowledge facilitators, a weband repository-based KM system, and use-centered design. The approach...

Due to the growing use of the internet, more and more critical processes are running over the web such as e-commerce. Internet allows commerce and business between parties who are physically distant and do not know each other doing the transaction. For the effective operation of the web application and ecommerce applications, security is a key issue. Various aspects of security are relevant to ...