This project investigated the problem of how to enable a student-centered environment in reading instruction through effectively incorporating meaningful web-based technology into the community college reading curriculum. Three multimedia strategies were tested to promote individual and collaborative meaning making: ePortfolios, eJournals, and the Class Know-It-All. The success of these strategies was measured against that of a previous course with identical materials and resources with the exception of multimedia integration.

The purpose of this project is to develop a website by which students can improve their understanding of literary elements. This project will aid the students in completing some research as part of the initial stages of the WebQuest, to help them better understand the importance of literary elements.

The project presents a web-based component for a tutor training program at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California. The application is designed to be responsive and adaptable to the tutor's needs. It also addresses the logistic and pedagogical problems that plague many community college tutor trainers and helps to mitigate this through an online instructional system that facilitates communication among the tutors so that learning can occur in a situated context.

The purpose of this project is to design, build and implement a secure, payment-based email delivery system that provides privacy and reduces spam.

The purpose of this project is to apply marketing tactics in the form of website and online services. The goal of this plan is to improve company image and customer service and relationships, Moreover, website and online service can also increase the sales and profits of the company and expand its market.

The International Extension Program Online Registration System (IEPORS) allows prospective international students to apply over the Web to the programs offered through the International Extension Program of the College of Extended Learning. The system is comprised of two separate systems: a web application and a desktop application. In this project, Hibernate technique is used to reduce code size and system architecture. Security schema was also modified to be simple and solidly secure. All the private information could be interceped on the Internet are protected by SSL (secure Sockets Layer).

With the advent of globalisation and new communication technologies, it was inevitable that educational institutions would follow the advertising trend of establishing websites to market their services. This paper analyses the cultural and ideological values transmitted by such university websites. Particular focus is on issues around gender, sexual orientation, race, religion and socioeconomic status. The aim is to analyse consumer reaction to Internet messages conveyed in websites from different cultures, compare them with the intentions of producers and to relate all these back to ideological factors. This study deconstructs content and messages conveyed by University websites to assess the extent to which they might subscribe to particular ideologies (whether overt or covert). The argument that there are hidden ideologies in Web design does not imply that designers or producers intended any conspiracy or deception. Rather, the study compares the organisation's intended image/ethos with that which consumers perceive through their exposure to the website. The methodology was purposive sampling of participants consulted through personal (face-to-face) and interviews conducted online, as well as email-distributed questionnaires.This study uses websites of two universities in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.

This descriptive study examines effective online school library practice. A Delphi panel selected a sample of 10 exemplary sites and helped to create two research tools--taxonomies designed to analyze the features and characteristics of school library Websites. Using the expert-identified sites as a sample, a content analysis was conducted to systematically identify site features and characteristics. Anne Clyde's longitudinal content analysis of school library Websites was used as a baseline to examine trends in practice; in addition, the national guidelines document, Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, was examined to explore ways in which the traditional mission and roles of school library programs are currently translated online. Results indicated great variation in depth and coverage even among Websites considered exemplary. Sites in the sample are growing more interactive and student-centered, using blogs as supplemental communication strategies. Nevertheless, even these exemplary sites were slow to adopt the advances in technology to meet the learning needs and interests of young adult users. Ideally the study's findings will contribute to understanding of state-of-the-art and will serve to identify trends, as well as serving as a guide to practitioners in planning, developing, and maintaining school library Websites.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:53:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 402606.pdf: 744085 bytes, checksum: 0e4e35cde32c7da7e3fa83a644bf4f5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-07-13 / O presente trabalho objetivou analisar as concep??es de envelhecimento manifestadas por idosos que freq?entam as Oficinas de Inclus?o Digital (15), que integram um Projeto Matriz de Pesquisa oferecido pela PUCRS, desenvolvido pelo Instituto de Geriatria e Gerontologia em parceria com a Faculdade de Educa??o da PUCRS. Para tanto, idosos volunt?rios socialmente ativos, que participam das oficinas pedag?gicas, foram instrumentalizados para o uso da inform?tica na elabora??o de homepages, para que pudessem se valer delas para projetar no universo virtual, sua capacidade de expressar sua produ??o intelectual. O estudo foi realizado numa abordagem qualitativa de cunho interpretativo, utilizando-se principalmente as id?ias de Kachar (2003), Kahn e Antonucci (1980), Neri (1991) e Tapia (1999). Os dados foram coletados pela an?lise das homepages elaboradas pelos participantes, sendo utilizada a an?lise de conte?do de Bardin (2004) para identificar as categorias que permeiam as concep??es de envelhecimento que os idosos registraram na homepage individual. A partir das an?lises de suas concep??es constatou-se a presen?a das categorias biol?gica, psicossociocultural e educacional (aprendizagem). O computador se revelou tamb?m como instrumento com potencial para valoriza??o social. Idosos participantes mencionaram que voltaram a se sentir ?teis ao pr?ximo, afirmando que o computador lhes permitiu o retorno ? atividade produtiva e a vislumbrar novas perspectivas para o seu futuro. Conclui-se, pois, que o dom?nio da inform?tica, na ?poca atual, pode ser considerado uma ferramenta tamb?m com potencial para a valoriza??o e reinser??o social para idosos.

A presente dissertação investiga o quanto influencias situacionais, presentes nos sites de empresas do comércio eletrônico, impactam na intenção de recompra do consumidor online. Para tanto, um modelo teórico integrativo foi desenvolvido e investigado, baseado em uma revisão teórica dos principais estudos que pesquisam intenção de compra no e-commerce. Buscou-se o desenvolvimento de um modelo que proporcionasse uma explicação abrangente dos principais fatores advindos do contexto de compra nos sites que tivessem uma relação positiva com a satisfação e intenção de recompra do consumidor. Uma das grandes contribuições dessa dissertação é a identificação dos fatores presentes nos sites de empresas do e-commerce mais importantes no processo de decisão de compra do consumidor. Como contribuição teórica, esse modelo desenvolvido abrange além dos principais construtos que já estão sendo investigados nesta área de estudos (conteúdo, layout, risco percebido e diversão) construtos ainda não investigados em um mesmo modelo: Tipo de apelo utilizado na comunicação, Comunicação do preço, Tipo de manchete e Facilidade percebida na realização da transação. Além disso, investigou-se se a variável gerações de consumidores seria moderadora destas relações. Os dados desse estudo foram coletados a partir de uma amostra de 228 questionários válidos aplicados em consumidores que utilizam a Internet para realizar compras. O método de coleta de dados aplicado nesta pesquisa foi a pesquisa do tipo survey com questionários auto-administrados pela Internet. Para a análise de dados primários coletados, optou-se pelo uso do mínimo quadrado parcial (Partial Least Squares ou PLS) para a obtenção tanto das relações dos construtos independentes e dependentes, como também das relações existentes entre todos os construtos do modelo proposto. Resultados obtidos demonstram que a satisfação afeta diretamente a intenção de recompra do consumidor. Além disso, todos os construtos do modelo tiveram a hipótese sustentada, indicando influencias com magnitudes distintas, mas todas positivas. A variável gerações demonstrou moderar a relação de 4 dos 8 construtos da pesquisa. Destaca-se por fim que o modelo proposto permite a explicação de elevada proporção da variância total da intenção de recompra. / This project presents a study that investigates how recurrent online consumers are influenced by different aspects while shopping through websites (e-commerce). The author reviewed main international academic studies about buying intents through the internet, and then investigated and modeled an integrative survey, which could correlate both consumer satisfaction and rebuying intent with a series of factors related to the shopping experience. The main contribution of this paper is the identification of the most important factors on the online stores (e-retail) which positively impact the online shoppers, both, those already analyzed in many studies as content, layout, enjoyment and perceived risks, and some new constructs that have not been analyzed together as headlines, price/discount offers, advertisement appealing and easiness of browsing. Moreover, this paper also offered a perspective about whether and how these factors vary according do consumers\' generation. All data was extracted from an online self-administered survey with 330 consumers in São Paulo who declared being used to shopping goods through Internet. It came to a 228 valid respondents, whose responses were analyzed through the method of Partial Least Squares (PLS), in order to obtain both, the correlation of dependent and independent constructs, as well as the correlation among all factors analyzed within this study. The main outcome of this study is that online shoppers\' satisfaction strongly impacts their rebuying intention. Moreover, all the constructs present in this study have proved their positive impact on consumers rebuying intention, each factor varying in correlation strength, but all positive and statically proven. Besides that, the variable \'generation\' moderated 4 out of all 8 constructs presented in this study. Lastly, the proposed model statically explains higher proportion of total rebuying intention variance.