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Due to the high rate of innovations in products and procedures traditional means of education are not adequate life-long learning of the banking staff. The short life time of modern financial products requires immediate mar-keting and therefore...

Effective Web-based training (WBT) has a need for adaptation and contextual information, but most WBT modules provide not more than some simple help pages or hypertext facilities with keyword indices. Help pages mostly provide information how to...

Multimedia could potentially facilitate learning processes: A great number of studies address specific effects of media like video and photography. It has been argued that (a) multiple media does not influence learning, (b) learning gains are due to ...

Computer science is in search for user interfaces that are human-like or may even outperform the cognitive skills of human beings. Up to now, the Web is far from being an ideal interface: Search engines comprise about 30% of all Web pages, providing ...

The authors designed a course 'New and Emerging Media in Distance, which has been used as one of the mandatory courses within a 'Master of Distance Education' program. We summarize our course experiences concerning collaborative learning and the...

E-learning spurs new markets for educating and persuading; advanced technology makes inroads with non-traditional students and subjects. E-learning technology is rapidly expanding the market for education products and services to working...

The Internet and its non-linear fabric of multimedia information have changed they way cultural artifacts, such as historical documents or pieces of artwork, are perceived, archived, and managed. The mind does not belong to only one person; rather...

In a field study we examined the use of online tools and services for job-hunting by students and faculty members at higher academic institutions. The survey results identify significant strengths and weaknesses of different facets of online tools...

A Weblog including streaming video and photo galleries (video blog or vlog, for short) is described which helps young people in the socially underprivileged suburb of Moisling, a part of the hanseatic city of Luebeck (Germany), to express their own...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) become more interactive and more visual. We examined technical solutions which combine internal and external data mining and data visualization supporting business intelligence in sea bound logistics. As only...

We are so used to accept new technologies being the driver of change and innovation in human computer interfaces (HCI) that almost all books and trend studies are filled with all kinds of exciting visions and developments of new computing facilities ...