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Using Voicethread to Create Community in Online Learning
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Delmas, Peggy M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
A sense of belonging to a learning community has been identified as one of the factors contributing to greater student satisfaction and persistence in online education programs. Using the community of inquiry framework as a theoretical guide, the purpose of this study was to explore the role of VoiceThread, a web-based platform that facilitates…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Information Storage, Information Management
Researching, Evaluating, and Choosing a Backup Service in the Cloud
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Hastings, Robin – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Backups are a modern fact of life. Every organization that has any kind of computing technology (and that is all of them these days) needs to back up its data in case of technological or user errors. Traditionally, large-scale backups have been done via an internal or external tape drive that takes magnetic tapes (minicassettes, essentially) and…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Storage Devices, Information Storage, Computer Software Evaluation
Research Data Management Self-Education for Librarians: A Webliography
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Goben, Abigail; Raszewski, Rebecca – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2015
As data as a scholarly object continues to grow in importance in the research community, librarians are undertaking increasing responsibilities regarding data management and curation. New library initiatives include assisting researchers in finding data sets for reuse; locating and hosting repositories for required archiving; consultations on…
Descriptors: Librarians, Information Management, Information Utilization, Data
Education on the Cloud: Researching Student-Centered, Cloud-Based Learning Prospects in the Context of a European Network
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Panoutsopoulos, Hercules; Donert, Karl; Papoutsis, Panos; Kotsanis, Ioannis – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
During the last few years, ongoing developments in the technological field of Cloud computing have initiated discourse on the potential of the Cloud to be systematically exploited in educational contexts. Research interest has been stimulated by a range of advantages of Cloud technologies (e.g. adaptability, flexibility, scalability,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Internet, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software
Long-Term Information Preservation and Access
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Song, Sang Chul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An unprecedented amount of information encompassing almost every facet of human activities across the world is generated daily in the form of zeros and ones, and that is often the only form in which such information is recorded. A good fraction of this information needs to be preserved for periods of time ranging from a few years to centuries.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Sources, Indexing, Access to Information
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Jackson, Larry S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation reports the results of an exploratory data analysis investigation of the relationship between the structures used for information organization and access and the associated storage structures within state government websites. Extending an earlier claim that hierarchical directory structures are both the preeminent information…
Descriptors: Investigations, Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, State Government