Dan Bouhnik

E-learning Environments in Academy: Technology, Pedagogy and Thinking Dispositions

Around two decades have passed since higher education institutions began incorporating the internet as an alternative studying environment, together with frontal class teaching and learning. This kind of environment still poses meaningful challenges for students and teachers that take an active part in E-learning courses. Today it is quite clear that taking part in online courses requires new technological, behavioral, and thinking skills, in order to best handle and even successfully finish the course. Although technological skills are a must for taking part in an online course, a majority of students participating in these kinds of courses have arrived thus far without suitable prior computer experience or background, internet working skills, and internet based studies skills.

Asynchronous learning sources in a high‐tech organization

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to characterize learning from asynchronous sources among research and development (RD extent of source usage; employee satisfaction with these sources and the effect of the sources on the workplace.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 120 R&D employees of a high‐tech firm were administered questionnaires consisting of open‐ended and close‐ended questions regarding different features of asynchronous learning.Findings – The study finds that a synchronous sources are highly utilized by employees and are used both for general‐purpose learning and solving specific problems. Despite the high usage and satisfaction from these sources, we do not find evidence to support the creation of an expert community of practice.Research limitations/implications – The research is limited to a single, albeit large, firm. Possibly, in different organizational, cu...

A model design proposal of a supportive web site for women experiencing IPV: Catering for needs at different phases of the coping process

Purpose – This paper attempts to recognize the informational needs of women who suffer from intimate partner violence (IPV). It then presents a model of a web site that may answer to these needs.Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper defines the phases women suffering from IPV go through. This is done by surveying the literature that describes the stages these women experience. In order to clarify the proposed model, the paper then describe our own set of phases based on the above literature. Once the phases mentioned above are understood, the needs of these women become evident, thus allowing us to define and specify them. The model of the web site is then described and the paper shows how it relates to the various aforementioned needs.Findings – The web site would offer a variety of information, such as: names of organizations that offer support, chats, and forums that provide emotional support and advice from women who experienced abuse in the past as well as from professionals.Research limitat...

Supplier Selection and Assessment by University Procurement Officers

Supplier selection and assessment is at the core of the procurement process. This study investigates how procurement officers in Israels universities select and assess their suppliers. The authors explore which information channels officers use to assess suppliers and find that incidental and informal information sources are the most frequently used followed by official sources. The authors examine the criteria used by officers to select suppliers and identify quality and price as significantly more important than most other criteria. Finally, the authors do not find strong evidence that officers categorize suppliers to key and non-key suppliers according to the universitys goals.

Optimal ULD Treatment Algorithm as a Function of the Number of ULD, AWB and System Constraints

Thispreliminary research is aimed at examining the optimal work order on ULDs (unit load devices) in order to optimize the disassembly of ULDs, assembly of AWB(air waybill) packagesand sorting and handlingof cargo operations. This optimal work order will lead to: shortening the work process, lightening the burden of workers, improving the quality of work, improving customer service by receiving the cargo neatly and quickly, savings in storage and retrieval operations from the automated warehouse, helping prevent errors and minimizing package allotment with incorrect AWBs. This article offers an algorithm that contains two phases and aims to bring efficiency and affectivity to the complex processes of air cargo operations.

The Informing Needs of Procurement Officers in Israel

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University Procurement Officers' Use of Technology When Seeking Information

The transition from printed to electronic sources of information has resulted in a profound change to the way procurement officers seek information. Furthermore, in the past decade there have been additional technological revolutions that are expected to further affect the procurement process. In this paper, we conduct a survey among forty nine university procurement officers in Israel to examine to what extent procurement officers have adapted to smartphones and tablets by testing how frequently officers use notebooks, smartphones, and tablets for work-related and leisure purposes. We find that while officers prefer electronic sources of information over printed sources of information, officers have not yet adapted to the later technological advances (i.e., smartphones and tablets). Notebooks are more frequently used than either smartphones or tablets for work-related and leisure purposes. One explanation behind this result is that officers are not skilled in using smartphone and tablets applications. This implies that training officers in the use of these devices may improve their performance.

CSE - Controlled Category Search engine

This research presents and develops the CSE - a Controlled Category Search engine which combines the automated search engine and the hierarchic manual web directory. Thus, the size advantage and the internal textual search that the search engine offers are combined together with the advantage of the human control and category division of the web directory while using a convenient interface.