Shaping up for E-Commerce: Institutional Enablers of the Organizational Assimilation of Web Technologies

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Africa face the challenge of responding to the expanding demand for tertiary education while maintaining or enhancing the quality of their course offerings. This has led to some HEIs introducing interactive web technologies to support their distance teaching and learning practices. However, academic staff at these institutions may struggle to provide sufficient support to online learners in part due to inadequate staff capacity in terms of familiarity with and use of online communication tools. This paper reports the practical experiences of building academic staff capacity within three southern Africa institutions, in order to initiate skills development and introduce foundational concepts in support of engaging online learners. The design of the course material is discussed and the experiences of the facilitators and participants are examined.

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The Need of Semantic Web Technologies Integration with Web-based Educational System

International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering ◽

10.26438/ijcse/v6i7.10101013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (7) ◽

pp. 1010-1013

Author(s):

Kalla Madhusudhana

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Educational System ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Based ◽

Web Technologies

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THE SYSTEM OF INFORMATICS COMPETENCIES FOR THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER

The Educational Discourse a collection of scientific papers ◽

10.33930/ed.2019.5007.25(7-8)-5 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 57-72

Author(s):

Nadiia Ponomareva

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Secondary Education ◽

Mathematics Teachers ◽

Mathematics Teacher ◽

Systems Analysis ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Key Competencies ◽

Teachers Training ◽

Technology Specialists ◽

Further Development

As a result of the analysis of domestic and foreign standards of key competencies, basic and complete secondary education, teachers’ training (in particular, mathematics teachers’ training) and information technology specialists training, the system of informatics competencies of a mathematics teacher, developed by Yu. S. Ramskyi, was updated in terms of the structure, content and indicators of competencies formation. It has been found out that the formation of the informatics competencies of a mathematics teacher begins with basic informatics competencies, the further development of which occurs primarily in the competencies in system administration, web technologies, programming and systems analysis.

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E-Commerce and Web Technologies

10.1007/978-3-642-15208-5 ◽

2010 ◽

Keyword(s):

Web Technologies

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The Design, Implementation and Use of Web-Technologies to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing: A `Real-World' Application

10.21236/ada461065 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Janel H. Rogers ◽

Heather M. Ooak ◽

Ronald A. Moorre ◽

M. G. Averett ◽

Jeffrey G. Morrison

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Real World ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Real World Application

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Evaluating the Performance of Three Popular Web Mapping Libraries: A Case Study Using Argentina’s Life Quality Index

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi9100563 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (10) ◽

pp. 563

Author(s):

Alejandro Zunino ◽

Guillermo Velázquez ◽

Juan Pablo Celemín ◽

Cristian Mateos ◽

Matías Hirsch ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Quality ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Network Bandwidth ◽

Web Map ◽

Raster Maps ◽

Dynamic Web ◽

Network Usage ◽

Overall Performance

Recent Web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL have enabled powerful and highly dynamic Web mapping applications executing on standard Web browsers. Despite the complexity for developing such applications has been greatly reduced by Web mapping libraries, developers face many choices to achieve optimal performance and network usage. This scenario is even more complex when considering different representations of geographical data (raster, raw data or vector) and variety of devices (tablets, smartphones, and personal computers). This paper compares the performance and network usage of three popular JavaScript Web mapping libraries for implementing a Web map using different representations for geodata, and executing on different devices. In the experiments, Mapbox GL JS achieved the best overall performance on mid and high end devices for displaying raster or vector maps, while OpenLayers was the best for raster maps on all devices. Vector-based maps are a safe bet for new Web maps, since performance is on par with raster maps on mid-end smartphones, with significant less network bandwidth requirements.

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