Ruzaini Abdullah Arshah

Software Visual Specification for Requirement Specification Validation

Informal specifications are commonly adopted for requirements engineering (RE), especially for customer-oriented system development projects, but their validity with respect to the users requirements is usually difficult to perform. The common reason for the difficulty is that the specifications are often misinterpreted by the stakeholders due to the ambiguity of the natural language. This paper describes a procedure in transforming the informal specification into specification visual specification. The transformation procedure is developed based on the extended version of software visualization taxonomy. The underlying software visualization specification principle is called Requirement Engineering (specification) for Human Factor validation (REsHFv). The framework is devoted to human factor involvement in validating the informal specification using software visualization as interaction medium.

Review on the Effect of Student Learning Outcome and Teaching Technology in Omani's Higher Education Institution's Academic Accreditation Process

Academic accreditation standards are defined clearly in Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) plans, management, and delivering results of assessment student with learning outcomes. In recent years, all universities and institutions work hard to increase their approval privileges, skills, achievements through getting the accreditation from HEI. The aim of this integrative review was to examine the current evidence on the impact of technology learning on student learning and academic performance and analysis the main factors of an institution accreditation process. The authors searched several electronic databases for relevant articles, with different learning techniques. The main contribution of this study lies in showing the general criterias of accreditation standards that focus on essential technology enhanced learning, student learning outcomes, and faculty technology experience on academic performance of universities. The result from this paper is showing the relations between what have been done and presented before with methods, factors, suggestions to identify these activities.

The Effectiveness of Cloud-Based E-Learning towards Quality of Academic Services: An Omanis’ Expert View

The purpose of this paper is to understand the importance, relevance and the need of implementing Cloud-Based E-Learning (CBEL) in Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Oman. The paper maintains its emphasis on addressing the effectiveness of the cloud based e-learning system and also takes into account the activities of comparing and contrasting the before and after effects of the implementation of the CBEL on higher educational sector in Oman. Method: The methodological approach of this paper follows qualitative approach of data collection and the data analysis techniques used in this paper are interpretivist approach and thematic analysis. Results and Findings: The data analysis techniques used in this research paper helped in understanding and gathering meaningful insights relating to the need and significance of implementing CBEL in educational sectors.

Conceptualizing a Model for the Effect of Information Culture on Electronic Commerce Adoption

There are many vital roles and attributes played by the internal organizational environment in IT adoption. Technological innovations are adopted as a result of the reaction of many organizations to change and for influencing the business environment. For this study, a conceptual model was developed to focus on the effect of information culture as internal organizational factors on Electronic Commerce (EC) adoption on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The proposed model buttressed by four of information culture as internal organizational factors. Specifically, the model constructed from, the information integrity, formality, control and proactiveness variables, evaluated their effects and determined how they can optimally be combined to permit EC adoption by SMEs. To achieve the objectives of the research, a pilot study was conducted with 35 managers of ICT SMEs from Palestine, to assess the proposed model. The proposed model will be assisting SMEs managers better understand and increase predictive capacity on EC adoption. This model will be applied to increase the rate at which EC is adopted among SMEs.