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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Information and communications technologies"”.
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The Use of Information and Communications Technologies in High School Physics Classrooms
… lack of literature on how to implement information and communications technology in the classroom, despite the fact that it is almost universally believed to improve student learning. This paper explore fifteen ICT tools and how they impact student learning. It then provides …
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Information and Communications Technologies and Urban Environment: Empirical Analysis of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region
… explores the relationship between urban form and ICT in an intrametropolitan context. In spite of the expected centrifugal (i.e., decentralization) forces of ICT on urban form, the findings of the regression analyses suggest that ICT function as a centripetal force, and provide evidence of the …
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Learning and support of ‘older adults’ in the use of Information and Communications Technologies: a framework to enhance technology engagement
This research provides independent and in-depth knowledge and understanding of ‘older adult’ learning (those aged 50 and over) and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) with respect to the new dynamics of ageing (e.g. changing motivations, requirements, preferences and ‘learning …
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Reciprocal Technologies: Enabling the Reciprocal Exchange of Voice in Small-Scale Farming Communities through the Transformation of Information and Communications Technologies
… of voice—an element for constructing community and strengthening political recognition—may be fostered in small-scale farming communities by (1) the appropriation and transformation of information and communications technologies, (2) artistic intervention, and (3) cross-community research. This …
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An analysis of models of branchless banking in developing countries
… outside conventional bank branches using information and communications technologies and nonbank retail agents. The services offered take a variety of forms including long-distance remittances, micropayments, and informal airtime bartering schemes for example: mobile banking, mobile …
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
… investigated teachers' professional learning and pedagogy as they grappled with the challenges and implications of using new information and communications technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. It contributes to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical …
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Social perspective of mobility sharing : understanding, utilizing, and shaping preference
Advances in information and communications technologies are enabling the growth of real-time ride sharing-whereby drivers and passengers or fellow passengers are paired up on car trips with similar origin-destinations and proximate time windows-to improve system efficiency by moving more people in …
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An application service provider infrastructure for shared workspaces in Internet-based collaborative design
For architectural, engineering and construction projects involving transient 'virtual organizations' composed of non-collocated team-members, the adoption of concurrent design principles is seen as vital. An important aspect of concurrent design is the need for an effective communications …
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The transformation of public space : mobile technology practices and urban liminalities
… century, various architectural, urban, cultural, and computer science discourses have advanced the rhetoric that contemporary information and communications technologies (ICTs) will fundamentally transform the built and urban environment. More recently, communications and media studies, as well as …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of school- and cyber-bullying intervention and prevention programmes: Two systematic and meta-analytical reviews
… effectiveness of interventions to reduce school- and cyberbullying in two meta-analytical reviews. Bullying is defined as repetitive and intentional behaviours that involve children and adolescents between whom there is a distinct power imbalance. Cyberbullying is the manifestation of these …
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Digital badges for STEM learning in secondary contexts: A mixed methods study
… is a matter of concern for national economies and a major focus for educational policy makers. The development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has resulted in a rapidly changing workforce of global scale. In addition, ICT have fostered the growth of digital and mobile …
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Integrating demand into the U.S. electric power system : technical, economic, and regulatory frameworks for responsive load
… with the assumption of exogenous, inelastic demand. The resulting evolution of the power system reinforced this assumption as nearly all controls, monitors, and feedbacks were implemented on the supply side. Time invariant, averaged retail pricing was a natural extension of the assumption of …
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Gendered political spaces in international relations : the case of NGO use of information & communication technologies (ICTs)
… its focus on public institutions of politics, and state-centric, through a neo/Realist hegemony of ideas in its discourse. These discursive parameters are argued to impose limitations on the study of transnational phenomena, and the thesis therefore develops a framework for analysis apposite to …
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Appropriate assessment for resource based learning in networked environments
Recent advances in the use of information and communications technologies in Higher Education have led to an explosion of interest in networked learning, which offers the potential for more open ended and flexible study in an ODL context. Anew generation of resource based courses in networked …
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Maritime strategy in the era of control and denial of visibility
… of scholars from as far back as the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett. Yet the political, strategic and technological environments have changed a lot since those periods, with the current context marked by advancements in information and …
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Smart cities : concepts, perceptions and lessons for planners
… of the "smart" prefix. For example, cities are branding themselves as, or striving to become "smart" cities. Planners and policy-makers espouse "smart growth". Infrastructure planning involves "smart grids" for energy, "smart networks" for information and communications technologies (ICTs) and …
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Developing a Framework for Stigmergic Human Collaboration with Technology Tools: Cases in Emergency Response
<p>Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), particularly social media and geographic information systems (GIS), have become a transformational force in emergency response. Social media enables ad hoc collaboration, providing timely, useful information dissemination and sharing, and …
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Exploring the geographic uncertainty associated with crowdsourced crisis information: a geovisualisation approach
New information and communications technologies, such as mobile phones and social media, have presented the humanitarian community with a dilemma: how should humanitarian organisations integrate information from crisis-affected communities into their decision-making processes whilst guarding …
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Analysis of designed and emergent consequences of mobile banking usage by SME’s in Kenya using ethnographic decision tree modeling
Evaluating the impact of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) has been a challenge both in terms of theoretical and methodological approaches. It has been pointed out in extant literature that ICT4D impact studies are few compared to those that investigate …
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