... online learning promotes self-paced learning by learners. They can learn anytime they want to and there is no specific duration for them to complete their learning. Due to the flexibility of logistics, learners can learn wherever they are as long as they have access to the Internet. ... end up feeling discomfort or depressed. Apart from that, online learning requires more time than the traditional learning because the online environment is text-based. The time taken for the students to read the lecture materials is longer than listening to the delivery of words from the teachers ... to b...

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... from the World Wide Web. The definition of a web search engine made by Halavais (2009, 5–6), is "an information retrieval system that allows for keyword searches of distributed digital text." Without a doubt, there is bias in search engines. Couvering, in her abstract describes this as "bias that invites users to click on links to large websites, commercial websites ... that thousands of seemingly unrelated web sites (many that seemed to contain only links) were linking to the J.C. Penney web site. And most of those links had really descriptive anchor text. It was almost like someo...

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... of technology. Interestingly enough, Nikola envisioned smartphone technology in 1901 and actually shared his thoughts with Thomas Edison on the idea he had that we now know as cellphone and text messaging. Yet Nikola was not credited with contributing to these technologies until decades after he died in 1943. So therefore Nikolas background consisted of a lack of acknowledgement for his creative ... laboratory where he would assign them a new frequency that could be sent to a small handheld device (Jacobson). Today that device and technology is what we know as a cell phone and text mess...

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... search results (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). If a particular search engine has not indexed a web page, the searcher, seeker, or surfer, must know its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is its complete Internet address (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). Search engines construct what amounts to a map of the World Wide Web by indexing pages according to keywords that generate databases that link the ... employ certain tactics that can manipulate the algorithm in order to achieve a desired ranking (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). This can be achieved through such unethical practices as "ke...

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... the cultural effects of computer mediated communication. Computer mediated communication is still a very selective communicative medium It is a known fact that all non verbal cues are eliminated when using text based messaging. It is a very common phenomenon, when using common messengers, like MSN messenger, now supplements its software with whole list of emotions or similes that can help communicate ... primarily due to the lack of non verbal cues. Beyond eliminating facial expressions and other aspects of physical appearance, computer mediated communication also eliminates personality c...

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... . By regulating that you enslave child to what only you want them to see. That is excessive control. In today's society, technology serves as the newest form of communication. We text, tweet and post to keep in contact and update our friends on what we're doing. This form of communication is also a seemliness lead into bullying. In America today, children ... to be safe online. The Internet is not only full of predators and privacy settings, it is also a public place where life is shared, hurt, and evaluated. The Internet is complete with truthful and false information for everyone to se...

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... bot, as an object finder, moreover a film came up where a micro camera was inside a pill thus the body from inside could be seen. Moreover the chapter electricity in our physics text book was quite interesting. Ever since then I found myself doing nothing other than making a control system. I would not say that I had no previous knowledge about circuits as previously I had worked ... teacher Mr Sanjeev was also a great source of motivation, he motivated me tremendously. The reason of me working hard on this topic was that one small mistake could lead to a complete disaster and there wou...

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... became home to an assortment of web-sites consisting of topics that are shunned from the mainstream media or any place else. This comes to play as the governments takes complete control on their daily lives on the internet. It seems as if our online lives will be open to the government and nothing will be private. Internet privacy gives us ... brings to mind as if there are secret facilities where the NSA camp and stores data. If you wonder how this works it's pretty much done easy as every call, text, email pass through - it would go through steps like you to telecommunication company ...

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... risk asking that one question everyone else will term "dumb." Although, multimedia is a great training option for delivering highly interactive, graphical material; it's not one of the best options for text-heavy material. Accessing text-heavy material on a CD-ROM could become tedious to the learner as reading a screen for long periods of time is a fatiguing task. For materials comprised primarily of ... text, the Internet or Intranet are better training tools. Internet and Intranet The Internet and Intranet offer the same training advantages as the CD-ROM or multimedia training. It's e...

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... the current restriction of 18,000 feet, SW Bell is attempting to place remote central offices to accommodate the demand to provide DSL service to rural communities. Once this is complete, we believe that prices for a digital subscriber line will decrease while the use of dial-up connections will become obsolete. Today, the technology for high-speed Internet access and network ... , the graphics will be intensifying, the video will be crisp, and the speed will be phenomenal. DSL will literally transform the existing public information network from one limited to voice, text, and low resol...

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... risk asking that one question everyone else will term "dumb." Although, multimedia is a great training option for delivering highly interactive, graphical material; it's not one of the best options for text-heavy material. Accessing text-heavy material on a CD-ROM could become tedious to the learner as reading a screen for long periods of time is a fatiguing task. For materials comprised primarily of ... text, the Internet or Intranet are better training tools. Internet and Intranet The Internet and Intranet offer the same training advantages as the CD-ROM or multimedia training. It's e...

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... , calculations, decision-making, and graphing. I find it very useful in making professional looking reports. I also use it for tracking my sales and income using its spreadsheet capabilities. Microsoft PowerPoint is "a complete presentation graphics program that allows you to produce professional looking presentations" (Shelly, Cashman, & Vermaat, 1996,p. 2). PowerPoint is flexible enough so that you can create electronic presentations, overhead transparencies, or even ... composed of a collection of smaller networks" (Shelly, Cashman, & Jordan, 1995, p.12). Information can be sent over ...

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... only recently have begun to recognize that women are not discouraged by all types of computer use. Women do not seem to feel discouraged from using computers as tools to complete tasks. Tools such as word processing software are less sex stereotyped than say computer games, and are commonly used by women. Software tools are perceived to be more relevant to ... relationship between a man and a woman communicating on the Internet is to shatter to the egalitarian illusion that the Internet is merely a sharing of texts. While some women hope that the text based and faceless communication on...

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... rapid growth in Internet. This software enable computers using various carriers such as telephone line, cable TV and satellite channels to send different form of data like text messages, sound file or an image to each specific computer (Lee, B, 1999). Without this software, Internet may not be growth so rapidly because of ... the internet is the World Wide Web (1998, pp36). The development of World Wide Web allow a range of information combined with text, sound and images. According to Flew, T, it (World Wide Web) allowed for the display of colourful pictures, music and audio as well as ...

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... change (Dessler 2001). Globalization Globalization is the new frontier of business - all businesses must be able to adapt to the increased competition that comes with it. Dessler stated in his text, Management Theory, Practice and Application, that, "globalization is nothing more than the extension of a firm's sales or manufacturing to new markets abroad" (p. 33). In theory, one could say the more ... in functionality and bandwidth. The Internet's most important effect is that of lowering transaction costs, allowing companies to focus on their market leadership strengths and partner via...

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... part in their experience, seeking out information, making connections, following up on ideas, making choices and decisions. The hypertext is seen as open, readerly form, not so much one text as a network of many potential texts, out of which readers construct their own, individual texts. Hypermedia place the reader in a more active role than traditional texts, which essentially means ... within hypertext and hypermedia and can be seen in the different aspects of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling can be described as telling a story using a multiple of different digital mediums, t...

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... to try and picture the entire world's documents and books into one big accessible resource. If the goal is to have one large place with the entire world's works of text for all of humanity, that would be having every work ever created by what Dictionary.com defines, "the quality or condition of being human" (unknown, 2012). This includes ... such documents as books, scholarly notes, articles, blogs, and pretty much anything else ever recorded in text anywhere in the world. In this present day and age, not only would creating a universal digital library for all of humanity be a dangerous...

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... an email and chat based organization which gives solutions to other woman's problems in some remote location of the globe. Another computer-based technology that helps the greatest is the "E-text", "Jaws" and "Books on Tape". How this technology helps is that people who cannot read and write they just scan the pages of the ... text they want to get information from and then the computer reads out loud the pages of the text or any other material that is needed. There are various other innovations that are helping to make the life of these women ... ...

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... Tresse et al. (1998, pg.209) cryptography is the science of communication over untrusted communications channels. Basically it means encrypting a plain text message which is then sent as cipher text to the recipient who then decrypts the message back into plain text. Tresse et al. (1998, pg.209) also tell us that used properly, cryptography can keep a message secret, positively identify its sender ... ...

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... of today's web browsers, but the format did make the Internet far more accessible to new users. That same year, the first hyper text post was made on the internet, this new format allowed users to combine pictures and text and even audio in a universal language to be posted on to internet sites. In 1993 the first web browsers with a graphical interface ... were introduced. "Mosaic" was the first graphical web browser, It allowed text, graphics, sounds and other multimedia to be viewed in one document. This revolutionized the Internet and brought its potential to the attention of the res...

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... software can control this designed to block offensive materials. Net Nanny is one type of software that will censor any obscene materials. The program scans the web page for any text that is deemed offensive. After the program finds the site obscene, it will not let the user view the materials. Using such a type of program will protect children only if ... the site contains such text. Otherwise, the child will be able to view the adult materials. One possibility, created and passed into law, is encoding the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) and File Transfer Protocol (ftp ... ...

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... a password put over it. Those are hard to get around. I am not sure who developed the notion to do this and the ability to do this, but "encrypting" a program or text on your computer is something that most computers with an up-to-date version of Windows can do. Encryption on computers just takes the information when viewed as ... text or as a program, and it changes a few things that are used to access that particular information. For example, the path to which the program is located in your computer, the ... ...

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... borrowing from a library as infringing on copyright laws as well, since libraries purchase books and loan them out to the public. Why not let a person purchase a book and place the text on the internet? Indeed, a difference does exist. First, if the library purchases several copies of a book, when a person, checks out the book numerous times, the library still owns only two ... playing a major role in the legal unraveling of the Church on Scientology, which has turned to the legal system--sometimes in a drastic way--to stop the spread of its "sacred text" onto the Internet. Lawrence Wol...

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... its advantage. If a client company requests a contract for a foreign distributor, it can send electronic mail over the Internet to a Hale & Dorr computer, where a draft document will be constructed from the text. A lawyer will then review the documents and ship them back over the Internet to the client, including a list of lawyers in the other country (Verity 81). The ability to process ... going to the library and checking out books, people will simply turn on their home computer, log into another library mainframe computer, and be able to download large amounts of text, as they wish. ...

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... run it anywhere, even across both client and server platforms. But why is this internal web so popular? There are typically three main reasons. First, all internal webs contain text and non-text items, for example recorded speech, graphics and even video clips. This allows the users to listen to speeches, watch video clips and look at graphics ranging from pictures to ... ...

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