Current Development of Mashups in Shaping Web Applications

Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Hermann Maurer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1172–1177

The WWW is currently experiencing a revolutionary growth due to its numerous social software. This paper highlights an emerging application development paradigm on the WWW, called mashups. As blogs have enabled anyone to become a publisher, mashups...

Coping With the Copy-Paste-Syndrome

Hermann Maurer; Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1071–1079

The Copy-Paste Syndrome describes a situation whereby students at all levels are becoming more and more reliant on wide-range of easily-available digital content. This is a universal problem that has to be addressed effectively, especially with the...

Integrating Copy-Paste Checking into an E-Learning Ecosystem

Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Bilal Zaka; Denis Helic

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1779–1786

Today’s educational institutions are plagued with a variety of challenges, which includes the difficulty in establishing a trusting learning environment free from abuses. The Web has brought about a widespread culture of easy-access to all sorts of...

Topics: Culture, Educational Technology

Topic-Centered Aggregation of Presentations for Learning Object Repurposing

Bilal Zaka; Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Wolf-Tilo Balke; Hermann Maurer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3335–3342

Large collections of learning content, developed using applications such as Microsoft Powerpoint can be found in numerous institutions and organizations. The reusability of such custom-made learning content are however not supported in traditional...