Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings

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Language Micro-gaming: Fun and Informal Microblogging Activities for Language Learning....Pages 1-14
Appropriating Technologies for Contextual Knowledge: Mobile Personal Learning Environments....Pages 15-25
Teachers Professional Development through Web 2.0 Environments....Pages 26-32
Using Web 2.0 Applications as Supporting Tools for Personal Learning Environments....Pages 33-40
An Infrastructure for Intercommunication between Widgets in Personal Learning Environments....Pages 41-48
Communities of Practice as a Support Function for Social Learning in Distance Learning Programs....Pages 49-56
Do Open Source LMSs Support Personalization? A Comparative Evaluation....Pages 57-66
The Impact of Organizational Learning on Innovativeness in Spanish Companies....Pages 67-76
Educatronics, New Technologies and Knowledge Society: A Critical Approach....Pages 77-86
Effectiveness of Game-Based Learning: Influence of Cognitive Style....Pages 87-96
Goneis.gr: Training Greek Parents on ICT and Safer Internet....Pages 97-106
Educational Accountability and the Global Knowledge Society – What Can We Learn from the EU Experience?....Pages 107-118
Participatory Design of the Participatory Culture: Students’ Projections of e-Learning 2.0....Pages 119-128
Towards an “Intelligent” Tagging Tool for Blogs....Pages 129-136
ICT in the Classroom Microworld - Some Reservations....Pages 137-145
Quality Development in Education....Pages 146-153
Capitalizing Knowledge in Communities of Practice of e-Learning: Ontology-Based Community Memory....Pages 154-163
An Empirical Study on the Use of Web 2.0 by Greek Adult Instructors in Educational Procedures....Pages 164-170
Estimation for Up/Down Fluctuation of Stock Prices by Using Neural Network....Pages 171-178
Defining Malaysian Knowledge Society: Results from the Delphi Technique....Pages 179-189
Cultural Aspects of Secrecy in Global Economy....Pages 190-199
New Forms of Managerial Education in Knowledge Society....Pages 200-207
Managing Project Landscapes in Knowledge-Based Enterprises....Pages 208-215
Gender Differences in the Continuance of Online Social Networks....Pages 216-225
It’s Not Only about Technology, It’s about People: Interpersonal skills as a Part of the IT Education....Pages 226-233
Understanding Organizational Learning via Knowledge Management in Government-Link Companies in Malaysia....Pages 234-247
A Generic Core Knowledge Management Process: Locating Crucial Knowledge....Pages 248-257
Applying IT Governance Concepts and Elements to Knowledge Governance: An Initial Approach....Pages 258-267
The Concept of Embodied Knowledge for Understanding Organisational Knowledge Creation....Pages 268-278
An Extended Model of Knowledge Governance....Pages 279-287
Assessing the Value Dimensions for Customers in Knowledge Intensive Business Services....Pages 288-297
An Interactive Medical Knowledge Assistant....Pages 298-304
Elaborating a Knowledge Management Plan: A Multi-actor Decision Process....Pages 305-318
Scouting for Drivers of the European Knowledge Society: The Role of Social Participation....Pages 319-327
Operationalising the Sustainable Knowledge Society Concept through a Multi-dimensional Scorecard....Pages 328-337
Extending Static Knowledge Diagrams to Include Dynamic Knowledge....Pages 338-345
Against the Reign of Ignorance....Pages 346-356
Italian University Students and Digital Technologies: Some Results from a Field Research....Pages 357-365
Success Factors in IT-Innovative Product Companies: A Conceptual Framework....Pages 366-376
Management Guidelines for Database Developers’ Teams in Software Development Projects....Pages 377-386
ERP and Four Dimensions of Absorptive Capacity: Lessons from a Developing Country....Pages 387-394
Approaches of E-Records Management in E-State Transformation Process in Turkey....Pages 395-403
Supplier Networks and the Importance of Information Technology: Outlook on the European Automotive Industry....Pages 404-410
Answer or Publish – Energizing Online Democracy....Pages 411-419
CICERON-e: Interactive Tourism for SMEs....Pages 420-429
Developing e-Business Capabilities to Bridge the Knowledge Divide in Mediterranean Countries....Pages 430-439
Securization of e-Cognocracy....Pages 440-446
Business and IT Alignment: An Evaluation of Strategic Alignment Models....Pages 447-455
A Study for the Organization of the Greek Publishing Enterprises at the Beginning of the 21st Century....Pages 456-465
A Middleware Framework to Create and Manage Data Structures for Visual Analytics....Pages 466-473
Factors Influencing e-Business Adoption in the Greek Hotel Sector....Pages 474-483
The Impact of e-Customer Relationship Marketing in Hotel Industry....Pages 484-494
An Ontology for Musical Phonographic Records: Contributing with a Representation Model....Pages 495-502
A Semantic Support for a Multi-platform eGovernment Solution Centered on the Needs of Citizens....Pages 503-512
Towards the Selection of Testable Use Cases and a Real Experience....Pages 513-521
Towards the Neuropsychological Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Hybrid Model in Decision Making....Pages 522-531
Applied Neuroimaging to the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Multicriteria Model....Pages 532-541
An Expedient Study on Back-Propagation (BPN) Neural Networks for Modeling Automated Evaluation of the Answers and Progress of Deaf Students’ That Possess Basic Knowledge of the English Language and Computer Skills....Pages 542-551
Decade Review (1999-2009): Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Student Modeling....Pages 552-564
Digital Dividend Aware Business Models for the Creative Industries: Challenges and Opportunities in EU Markets....Pages 565-569
Integrating Adults’ Characteristics and the Requirements for Their Effective Learning in an e-Learning Environment....Pages 570-584
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