International Journal of Information and Learning Technology: Volume 32 Issue 1

Aligning computing ethics for strategy making in higher education (HE): A contrarian view – who knows?

Lucy Bowden, Colm Fearon, Heather McLaughlin, Stephen Jackson

The purpose of this paper is to explore a possible strategic role for computing ethics and investigate how they might align with corporate values and higher education (HE…

Information technology networked system for student mobility support

Piotr Dębiec, Andrzej Materka

This paper presents an IT system – Student Connectivity Module (SCM) – designed to support administration of student exchange between universities in different countries…

A mobile service using anonymous location-based data: finding reading rooms

Shang Gao, John Krogstie, Trond Thingstad, Hoang Tran

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mobile service, based on anonymous location-based data, to help students find available reading rooms on a university campus. To evaluate…

Evaluating the impact of ERP systems in higher education

Ahed Abugabah, Louis Sanzogni, Osama Alfarraj

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems on user performance (UP) in higher education institutions with a view to better…

Facebook in teaching: strengths and weaknesses

Reyes González-Ramírez, José L. Gascó, Juan Llopis Taverner

The use of online social networks has experienced a vertiginous increase in the last few years, and young people appear as the key players in this trend. Immersed, educated and…