Thanks to the open technologies around the world wide web, the authors as just college teachers have been able to develop a compact and practical online quiz system we call QDB to satisfy needs in their classes. In this paper, first we introduce our system to give ideas what the system can do. Then we show the effectiveness of the system by describing the effects of practical uses of the system in our classes for years including the effect of the recently added retry-functionality. Then as an example of the feasibility of our development we explain how simple to implement the retry-functionality because of the compactness of the system and again the great power the open technologies give us and show the speed of the system. As conclusion we suggest possibilities of a compact and flexible system as a form (or a part) of e-learning systems made to your order.

The e-book (www.design-educacao-tecnologia.com) is a support for teaching Hypermedia Design, which constitutes a didactic material to support teaching and research activities for the Design area. The book will gather issues about Design, Education and Hypermedia aimed at offering resources to enhance the use of multiple languages that converge in hypermedia environments, their applicability, techniques and methods in light of Design in Situations of Teaching-Learning. This paper is divided into five parts: the first part introduce the paper subject, the second part shows the e-book Design, Education and Technology, the third part presents the use of this hypermedia e-book as a pedagogical tool in a graduation course in Design, some of the results developed by the students, the fourth part presents the main questions observed about this digital environment and the last part is the conclusion.

The teaching of computer programming is one of the greatest challenges that have remained for years in Computer Science Education. A particular case is computer programming course for the beginners. While the traditional objectivist lecture-based approaches do not actively engage students to achieve their learning outcome, we believe that integrating some cutting-edge processes and practices like agile method into the teaching approaches will be leverage. Agile software development has gained widespread popularity and acceptance in the software industry and integrating the ideas into teaching will be constructive. In the educational system, while the positive impact of agile principles has been felt on students’ projects, none has been experienced on the teaching aspect. Therefore, this paper proposes the use of agile process in the teaching of first year programming courses. The goal is to help the beginners develop their programming skills, proffer a teaching technology that maximizes students’ chances of engagement, improve teaching as teachers reflects on what they are teaching and what the students are learning. Additionally, beginners will be able to operate the computer, program, and improve their programming skills through active team collaboration as well as managing large classes effectively by the teacher.

Although technology is successfully being used these days as a tool to improve education at all levels, its improper usage is curbing the imagination of the student community, leading to a diminution in their thinking capacity and ability to focus and concentrate. As attention is a vital cognitive feature of any learning process, students these days are not coping well with this process. This study attempts to analyse the focusing capacity of students from two different backgrounds; students who have undergone training in mental arithmetic and usage of the abacus and students without any formal mental arithmetic training. The analysis is done through a simple Electroencephalogram (EEG) based gaming software, which measures the time needed for the players to focus and reach a specific attention level. An EEG device measures brain invoked potentials. Due to the availability of low cost commercial grade EEG devices, usage of these devices today, is not confined only to research and clinical purposes, but is being used beyond these applications. This study is an attempt to apply Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Technology to assess cognition. The performance of the first category was found to be better than the second set of students.

The paper comprehends an impending accost of intensifying biometric stationed authentication protocol(BSAP) bestowing meta-heuristic genetic algorithm for securing MANET. Biometric authentication using fingerprint, facial, iris scan, voice recognition etc. have gain a lot of importance in recent years to provide security in MANET. Biometrics are more advantageous and secure as compared to prevailing data security techniques like password or token mechanisms. A higher level of security is achieved in our impending approach using genetic algorithm to overcome the security and privacy concerns that exist in biometric technology. The foremost requirement of our protocol is to overcome various data attacks such as wormhole, cache poisoning, invisible node attack etc. that are confronted by MANET and make the network more secure.

E-health is the application of information technology for health care management. It includes all applications of information communication technologies to promote healthcare services support, delivery and education for improving efficiency in health care delivery to the citizens. Many factors contribute to the poor state of the medical sector of Nigeria, and in fact many developing countries, two of the most important being record keeping and accessibility. Nigeria still operates a paper based healthcare delivery system; meeting demands of citizens have been increasingly difficult due to her huge population, understaffed hospitals, apathy towards embracing ICTs and other issues. On the other hand, ICT applications have been used successfully in developed countries to address most of these problems. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the healthcare system in Nigeria while highlighting confronting issues with a view to proposing a viable solution.

Requirement engineering is an essence of software development life cycle. The more time we spend on requirement engineering, higher the probability of success. Effective requirement engineering ensures and predicts successful software product. This paper presents the adaptation of requirement engineering practices in small and medium size companies of Pakistan. The study is conducted by questionnaires to show how much of requirement engineering models and practices are followed in Pakistan.