Computerization and e-Government implementation in Jordan: Challenges, obstacles and successes     

Eman  Mohammad   《Government Information Quarterly》2009,26(4):577-583

With the latest revolution of technology in information, communications, and media, the need for computerization has been identified in most countries. Many social and technical advantages and problems come along with it. As a result, the Information Society concept has been created. There exist certain principles for building such a society, but in Arab regions it has unique challenges and obstacles. Jordan, responding to a royal vision, has established the goal of becoming a leader in information and economic developments among other countries in the region. Several plans and initiatives have been developed for this purpose. One of these initiatives is the implementation of e-Government, which offers several benefits for both the government and society. e-Government has five building blocks to achieve the expected results and the process of implementation involves passing through certain stages. Jordan, as an Arab country, faces several obstacles in the area of implementation. A readiness study for Jordan has been accomplished and implementation and achievements have been made in Jordanian e-Government.  相似文献   

E-learning at Sultan Qaboos University: status and future Ali Sharaf Al Musawi and Ahmed Yousif Abdelraheem     

Ali Sharaf Al Musawi  Ahmed Yousif Abdelraheem 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2004,35(3):363-367

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A study of cross-national collaborative research: reflecting on experience in Pakistan     

Alan J. Penny  Mehru Ahmed Ali  Iffat Farah  Sissel Ostberg  Robert L. Smith 《International Journal of Educational Development》2000,20(6):443-455

This paper seeks to offer insights into the complexities involved in cross-national collaborative research. It identifies and provides an account of the various issues running through the research process, whilst at the same time derives principles upon which such work should be based. Key narratives were identified by highlighting a number of critical incidents. These narratives were related to issues of ownership, trust, and power, whilst in the course of theorising the research process itself, the metaphors of voice and crossing borders were found to be profoundly empowering and transformative. The complexities of working cross-nationally in the research group, understanding roles, clarifying professional frames and ethical values, at the same time as creating and maintaining a context for effective partnership and participation, made managing and sustaining the research process challenging.  相似文献   

Research Productivity and Social Capital in Australian Higher Education     

Mohammad Salaran 《Higher Education Quarterly》2010,64(2):133-148

This study investigates the role of social capital in raising research productivity in academic institutions. Social capital as a strategic resource embedded in social relationships can be utilised towards decreasing pressures from external environmental conditions, such as the global financial crisis. A survey was sent to academic staff in five universities in Victoria, to collect data regarding their frequency of communications and research productivity. The findings indicated that there is a significant and positive correlation between social interactions and research productivity. Regression analysis demonstrated that social interactions as an independent variable predict research productivity of academics.  相似文献   

Globalization of national journals: investigating the growth of international authorship          下载免费PDF全文

Ali GAZNI 《Learned Publishing》2015,28(3):195-204

This study investigated changes in the internationality of national publishers' journals for the period 1990–2013. The patterns of foreign and interregional authorship in papers and references of 4,199 journals from 3,529 publishers were analyzed. The results revealed that foreign authorship increased from 36% to 62% during the period, but interregional authorship only grew from 77% to 82%. The growth in internationality is not the same across disciplines and regions of the world. Agricultural sciences, psychiatry/psychology, and economics and business have the least number of foreign authors, while journals in space science, mathematics, and physics have the most. According to the number of both foreign‐authored papers and foreign‐authored citations, clinical medicine is one of the least international fields. Latin America and Middle East publishers have a greater tendency to publish papers from authors in their countries. In contrast, national publishers in North America have become considerably more international over time. Russia, China, and Brazil publish the least number of foreign authored‐papers in their journals, while Switzerland's journals publish the most.  相似文献   

Pritchard,Alan (2014) Ways of learning. Routledge (London & New York) isbn 978‐0‐415‐83493‐3 143 pp £19.99 https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415834933          下载免费PDF全文

Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2015,46(6):E34-E35

Written for teachers, who generally lack a sufficient knowledge of how people learn, Pritchard's book aims at enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of education through raising teachers' understanding of learning theory. However, it does not do so very effectively: even if you are a keen teacher, you will probably find only parts of much interest or use. Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan  相似文献   

INVESTIGATING THE REPRESENTATIONAL FLUENCY OF PRE-SERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN A MODELLING PROCESS     

Ali Delice  Mahmut Kertil 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2015,13(3):631-656

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Who Pays for Online Content? A Media Dependency Perspective Comparing Young and Older People     

Liu Yang  Louisa Ha  Fang Wang  Mohammad Abuljadail 《媒体管理杂志》2015,17(4):277-294

This study examines predictors of online content purchases through media dependency theory and comparing young and older people. It focuses on actual online content purchases instead of willingness-to-pay used in previous studies. The effects of two dimensions of media dependencies are compared: intensity and referent scopes. Social media dependency and mobile media dependency are examined specifically, in addition to general Internet dependency as new media dependency. Our results show young people make more actual purchases of online content than older people. Predictors of online content purchases include age group, online shopping habits, ownership of mobile applications and mobile devices, Internet referent dependency, and social media intensity dependency. New media referent dependency is more important than intensity dependency for predicting online content purchases.  相似文献   

International trends in health science librarianship part 12: South Asia (India,Pakistan and Sri Lanka)     

Medha Joshi  Mumtaz Ali Anwar  Midrar Ullah  Chandrani Kuruppu 《Health information and libraries journal》2014,31(4):318-324

This is the 12th in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science librarianship. This issue describes developments in health science librarianship in the first decade of the 21st century in South Asia. The three contributors report on challenges facing health science librarians in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. There is consensus as to the need for education, training and professional development. Starting in the next issue, the focus will turn to Africa, starting with countries in southern Africa. JM  相似文献   

Partisan Media and Discussion as Enhancers of the Belief Gap     

Aaron S. Veenstra  Mohammad Delwar Hossain  Benjamin A. Lyons 《Mass Communication and Society》2014,17(6):874-897

This study examines the roles of partisanship, partisan media use, and political discussion in the development of belief gaps. Using national survey data, we construct models of political identity, media use, and discussion factors predicting beliefs on five contested political issues and find that ideology and partisanship are generally stronger predictors of beliefs than is education. Notably, each has independent effects on belief outcomes. Contrary to some concerns that the Internet especially promotes partisan clustering, use of partisan traditional media—television and radio—is by far the strongest information-related predictor of belief outcomes, whereas partisan social media use and partisan discussion are relatively weak and inconsistent. These findings suggest that political elites continue to exert significant influence over the perceptions of rank and file partisans.  相似文献