The slow and inadequate response to the devastations caused by Hurricane Katrina in the southern U.S. and the Indian Ocean tsunami that flooded coastal areas across South and Southeast Asia have left deep marks in the emergency management community. Essential emergency management coordination processes broke down in the immediate aftermath of these disasters, and even […]
Murray Turoff
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Building the computer as part of the emergency management team ensures that people continue to do the things they do well, supported by the technology, not driven by it.
Decision support system" (DSS) has become a multifaceted term covering a wide range of functions and uses, too many to list fully here. For example, systems might support operational, tactical, or strategic decision making. They might simply provide summaries of data; they might forecast future developments in the context of present circumstances or they might […]
This special section presents views of a society changing under the influence of advanced information technology. Computers have been around for about half a century and their social effects have been described under many headings. The title "Digital Society" chosen for this collection of articles is intended to call attention to fundamental IT-based transformations in social organization and structure.
Education Goes Digital: The Evolution of Online Learning and the Revolution in Higher Education
Studying the transformation of education and its changing role in society.
What Makes Learning Networks Effective?
Asynchronous Learning Networks are providing a strong online option to the learning process. Effective ALNs promote student-instructor interaction, emphasize student-to-student collaboration, and generate active participation with appropriate software.
Past and Future Emergency Response Information Systems
Past and future objectives remain the same in crises, providing relevant communities collaborative knowledge systems to exchange information.
Structuring computer-mediated communication systems to avoid information overload
Unless computer-mediated communication systems are structured, users will be overloaded with information. But structure should be imposed by individuals and user groups according to their needs and abilities, rather than through general software features.
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