Author: Lawrence A. Tomei
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: technology, communication, information, advances, education, aicte, series, book, teaching, based, distance, adult, traditional, learner, new, designing, engine, instruction
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 1605668249
ISBN-13: 9781605668246

Adult students demand a wider variety of instructional strategies that encompass real-world, interactive, cooperative, and discovery learning experiences. Designing Instruction for the Traditional, Adult, and Distance Learner: A New Engine for Technology-Based Teaching explores how technology impacts the process of devising instructional plans as well as learning itself in adult students. Containing research from leading international experts, this publication proposes realistic and accurate archetypes to assist educators in incorporating state-of-the-art technologies into online instruction.

Authors:Terry T. Kidd, Jared Keengwe,  Jared Keengwe
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: technologies, outcomes, online, perspectives, learning, digital, adult
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 1605668281
ISBN-13: 9781605668284

As instructors move further into the incorporation of 21st century technologies in adult education, a new paradigm of digitally-enriched mediated learning has emerged. Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Online Technologies and Outcomes provides a comprehensive framework of trends and issues related to adult learning for the facilitation of authentic learning in the age of digital technology. This significant reference source offers researchers, academicians, and practitioners a valuable compendium of expert ideas, practical experiences, field challenges, and potential opportuni

Authors:Jorge Cardoso,  Wil Van Der Aalst,
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: handbook, research, modeling, business, process
Number of Pages: 634
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $265.00
ISBN-10: 1605662887
ISBN-13: 9781605662886

Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. The Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications. A useful resource for business leaders, field researchers, and academicians in management, this reference book contains a repository to the most relevant and up-to-date information on business process modeling.

Author: Murat Uysal
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: array, antenna, applications, premier, source, reference, virtual, framework, improved, communications, wireless, network, transmission, cooperative
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2009-07-31
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 1605666653
ISBN-13: 9781605666655

Cooperative communications, an emerging research area spurring tremendous excitement within academia and industry, has experienced an increase in demands for wireless multimedia and interactive services in recent years. Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Framework for Virtual Antenna Array Applications provides practitioners, researchers, and academicians with fundamental principles of cooperative communication, presenting the latest advances in this rapidly evolving field. Containing research from leading international experts, this Premier Reference Source

Authors:Katina Michael, M.G. Michael,
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: implants, chip, premier, reference, source, codes, bar, identification, automatic, location, based, services, innovative
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-03-18
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 1599047950
ISBN-13: 9781599047959

Automatic identification has evolved to use mechanisms that can identify an object without direct human intervention. Such devices are the bar code, magnetic-stripe, integrated circuit, and biometric and radio-frequency indentification. Innovative Automatic Identification & Location-Based Services: From Bar Codes to Chip Implants emphasizes the convergence and trajectory of automatic identification and location-based services toward chip implants and real-time positioning capabilities. Recording the history of automatic identification, this book also discusses the social, cultural, and ethical

Author: Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi Anastasia Papazafeiropo
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: data, transmission, broadband, diffusion, research, global, handbook
Number of Pages: 988
Published: 2008-01-21
List price: $495.00
ISBN-10: 1599048515
ISBN-13: 9781599048512

Large investments have been made by various governments for the deployment of broadband within their respective nations; however, the citizens of such countries have demonstrated a slow adoption of this technology. The Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission explores broadband adoption and the digital divide through a global perspective, providing up-to-date research on constructs such as relative advantage, utilitarian outcomes, hedonic outcomes, and service quality. Compiling cutting-edge research from over 100 noted experts in nearly 30 countries, this invalu

Author: Joanna Lumsde
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: mobile, technology, volume, evaluation, design, research, user, interface, handbook
Number of Pages: 1240
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $495.00
ISBN-10: 159904871X
ISBN-13: 9781599048710

In recent years, mobile technology has been one of the major growth areas in computing. Designing the user interface for mobile applications, however, is a very complex undertaking which is made even more challenging by the rapid technological developments in mobile hardware. Mobile human-computer interaction, unlike desktop-based interaction, must be cognizant of a variety of complex contextual factors affecting both users and technology. The Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation provides students, researchers, educators, and practitioners with a compendium of research