Re-Training & Education Methods & Technology
Knowledge and complexity in education grow exponentially.
In the world of distributed networks, multiple schools, departments and individual instructors can directly share their resources in the way that is complementary to existing Web-based educational services. DEAN helps instructors and subject matter experts (SME) to capture content and transform it into active learning format from interactive training to games. This set of tools will complement traditional methods and motivate students who otherwise might have difficulties in achieving re-training/educational goals.
DEAN expends re-training limitations. It's known fact that university curriculum is five-ten years behind industry level. DEAN opens the door to hundreds SME (who'd like to share their expertise but never had an opportunity) as content providers and thousands students who prefer to learn "from the source". In the age of progressive data growing, our ability to capture knowledge, share and transform it into services, will define our future.
These tools include semantic engine that provides efficient and meaningful search and can serve as a “safety jacket” in the ocean of information. Students can use DEAN to work with personal labs, participate in business simulation applications, contribute their individual and teamwork, and collaborate with their teams and instructors.
SME, researchers, instructors and teachers can use DEAN to share or trade curriculum, important scientific data, and resources, evaluate training success on-the-go and promote best educational practices.
DEAN is a cost efficient software package that includes knowledgebase and a set of collaborative facilities to be used in training and beyond school boundaries.
Extracts of DEAN's features:
- building working profiles
- serving wired and wireless clients
- providing content-based subscriptions
- creating business simulation environments
- conducting usage-based evaluation of data and services
- granting promotions (higher ranks) to best student and instructor's work
- creating Topic Maps that capture interrelationships between multiple subjects
- arranging facilities in-school and beyond to grow and distribute subject matter knowledge
- providing behavior-based scenarios and instructions, best practices in education and re-training
- a "safety jacket" in the ocean of information: efficient and meaningful search facilities empowered by a semantic engine
- evaluation of training success on-the-go via combination of computerized and manual (by experts) course in progress monitoring
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The book focuses on XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Distributed Knowledge Technologies, and introduces integrated software and knowledge engineering.