Browsing by Author "Oberer, Birgit"

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Citation Count: 7
Anytime. Everywhere. Mobile learning in higher education: creating a GIS course
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Oberer, Birgit
The course concepts introduced in this contribution were implemented in 2011 in a university in Turkey and show an approach for integrating mobile learning modules in higher education. The results of the course show the advantages as well as potential for improvement of the system and the use of it in higher education.
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Cloud eLearning: transforming education through cloud technology: preliminaries for generation C
(ACAD Conferences Ltd, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
Cloud computing is a buzz word that is also spilling over into the education industry which enables access to software applications hardware data and computer processing power on the Web rather than installing software onto one's computer or server. For education it offers new possibilities to structure and perform learning processes. In this study the potential impact of cloud computing on education is analyzed showing what it means for educators and students as well as institutions and summarized under the heading 'Generation C' where C stands for cloud. The results of the study revealed that cloud computing can be used by educators institutions and individual students as well as by jurisdiction to support particular teaching and learning experiences and to organize software availability. Challenges for educators and institutions using cloud computing in teaching could be summarized under the following keywords: interoperability and transferability terms and conditions security and privacy issues backup and perpetuity denial of service and content issues. On a whole some implications of using cloud computing need to be kept in mind good understanding of the applications in use development of guidelines for use and migration strategies as well as the implementation of risk management could allow educators and institutions to take advantage of cloud computing in turn offering rich online learning experiences for students.
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Cross Border Healthcare: Advancing E-Health in Europe
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
E-Health refers to tools and services using information and communication technologies that can improve the management and monitoring of a health system and improve prevention diagnosis and treatment for patients. Health services across Europe are becoming increasingly unsustainable. The E-Health approach can benefit the entire community by improving access to care and quality of care by making the health sector more efficient. E-Health solutions are generally welcomed by all users because of their ability to develop greater health awareness amongst the people who use them and to provide them with a tool by which they can be in greater control of their own health. In this study the EU Directive and the project of the European Union on establishing an EU-wide E-Health network were analyzed the main benefits highlighted and the limitations evaluated. Currently the European Commission is conducting an impact assessment in order to evaluate various policy options under consideration to evaluate the proportionality of the compliance costs as well as the likely benefits from the measures communicated in the Directive that should be adopted in 2013.
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eGovernment cloud: should governments move to the cloud? requirement considerations
(ACAD Conferences Ltd, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction using different deployment models such as 'software as a service' (SaaS) 'platform as a service' (PaaS) and 'infrastructure as a service' (IaaS) with public private community and hybrid clouds as deployment models. In general cloud computing can be defined by considering its characteristic attributes such as multi-tenancy scalability elasticity pay as you go and self provisioning of resources. Governments around the world are actively looking into cloud computing as a means of increasing efficiency and reducing cost. Apart from the potential benefits such as increased flexibility cost reduction elastic scalability and service quality that cloud computing could offer governments different concerns such as security performance availability ability to customise investment or regulatory requirements also have to be taken into consideration. In this study first the cloud computing attributes that are needed for government use such as governance legal requirements risk management outsourcing and security issues and the requirements for eGovernment applications that are used in clouds were analysed and second eGovernment use cases were analysed and categorised according to their fit to the cloud deployment models and then the GOV. Cloud Dashboard is introduced. The results of the study revealed that parameters such as security management by vendors security architecture user access and identity management are key success factors for clouds being used for governments. Apart from that government applications themselves have to fulfil special requirements to be included in clouds such as availability authenticity transparency and interoperability.
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eGovernment in Healthcare: Smart Open Services for European Patients
(Information Engineering Research Inst Usa, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt
With the establishment of a European E-Health Network the European Union would like to improve citizens' health by making life-saving information available using E-Health tools to make E-Health tools more effective user friendly and widely accepted by involving professionals and patients in strategy design and implementation of the network and to increase healthcare quality and access by making E-Health a part of the European health policy and managing cross national political financial and technical strategies on E-Health. In this study the epSOS project of the European Union on establishing an EU-wide E-Health network was analyzed main challenges highlighted and the limitations evaluated. Currently the European Union with its epSOS project is on its way to pilot cross-border eHealth services in a one-year pilot ending in April 2013.
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Electronic government services in Europe: Strategies projects and applications
(Academic Journals, 2011) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
In Europe national electronic government incentives have made a significant contribution to the modernization of administration and its processes as well as its customer oriented services. In this study European strategies and projects for electronic government as well as their implementation plans were analyzed followed by an examination of the electronic services offered by the national governmental authorities in Austria European pioneers in electronic government the United Kingdom the electronic government leader in Europe 2010 and Spain as a Southern European electronic government representative. The results revealed that Europe has developed hybrid electronic government strategies for the whole community and has launched projects in that field in which member countries have to participate in order to offer electronic government services at a high level and in a competitive international environment. On a whole offering a single gateway to governmental information and transactions generally offers higher attractiveness for conducting nationwide business and all incentives for electronic government focus on developing good practices in the area of efficient and effective electronic government. Nevertheless strategies are transformed and implemented in different ways and the intensity in the member countries and a union-wide electronic government is still in its infancy.
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Employee connections. The multidimensional team management scorecard
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Oberer, Bırgıt; Oberer, Birgit
Many organizations that resist change are missing growing opportunities
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Google plus in the higher education space. Are educators ready for social media learning in schools?
(International Institute of Informatics and Systemics IIIS, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
Social Media have an increasing influence on higher education. In the past mainly privacy issues discouraged educators from using social media in teaching but with Google Plus a new way of communicating is promised. Apart from the possibility to post information for students use a videoconferencing tool or a tool to get updated on selected topics instructors can also use Google Plus as a tool for cross-course communication. In general nearly all web services can be adapted for educational use. It requires some experimentation from research and educators in order to find out ways to use Google Plus to improve education and cross-course communication is only one part of it.
Guidelines for information technologies change management in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt; Oberer, Birgit
information Technology (iT) has increasing vital importance for organizations and companies which aim to remain competitive in the market. information Systems (iS) concept is an essential element for companies who build their own iT infrastructure for contributing to organizational processes. Rapid developments in iT revive changes in organizations which use iS intensively. -- Abstract'tan.
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Guidelines for IT Change Management shown on an example in Turkey
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2010) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
In today's highly technology driven competitive global markets the ability to adopt is the only guarantee of survival. Businesses need to show ability to enable a competitive edge by taking their products or services to markets before the competitors. Today business have to take care that IT systems are able to adapt to the changes caused by our highly technology driven society and the influences of digitalization and globalization to support the needs of businesses quickly and efficiently. The following contribution gives an overview about a work in progress that is defining the guidelines for IT change management in Turkey.
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Helping Universities to be More Competitive: The Program Design Scorecard (PDS) Shown in the Example of a Management Information Systems (MIS) PhD Program
(SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT & SPORTS SCIENCE INST PTE LTD, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt
Many universities that resist change are missing out on the growing opportunities
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How to Become an HPO? The 4Ps Approach: A One-Way Road to Successful Government Management
(SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT & SPORTS SCIENCE INST PTE LTD, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt
To be competitive in global markets governments have to increase the attractiveness of their services. Electronic government incentives have made a significant contribution to the modernization of administration and its processes as well as its customer oriented services. Nevertheless lots of governments could not reach a high performance level. In this study the high performance organization (HPO) approach was applied for governments and their agencies
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Innovation in Management: The Virtual Project Performance Scorecard (VPPS)
(INFORMATION ENGINEERING RESEARCH INST USA, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
Many organizations that resist change are missing growing opportunities
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The Innovation Union Scoreboard: helping Europe become more innovative
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
In this contribution we focus on the Europe 2020 growth strategy its targets initiatives and on EU tools on growth one of which is the 'Innovation Union Scoreboard' (IUS) which includes innovation indicators and trend analyses for the EU27 Member States and other countries such as the US Canada or Japan. The main focus of this analysis in progress is drawing a picture about the European 2020 strategy in the center of innovation and analyzing the IUS structure from its beginnings in 2007 up to the newest IUS report. The results of the analysis revealed that the IUS 2011 distinguishes between 3 main types of indicators and 8 innovation dimensions capturing in total 25 different indicators. The limitations of the IUS 2011 are that it does not capture the most recent changes in innovation performance or the impact of policies introduced in recent years which may take some time to impact innovation performance. It also does not fully capture the impact of the global financial crisis on innovation performance. Whether or not the European Commission was able to overcome the difficulties of IUS2011 will be highlighted in an upcoming analysis of the IUS 2012 report which will be published in 2013.
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Management Information Systems: The Virtual Team Scorecard (VTS)
(2013) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
Organizations resisting changes are missing opportunities to grow or to become or remain competitive. Management Information Systems (MIS) used as decision support systems may support organizations in making use of changes in environmental conditions. Nevertheless innovative structures are needed to motivate organizations contributing in change projects. Tn this study a virtual team scorecard which can be used as a management information system enabling requirements analyses for managing virtual teams in organizations and in virtual teams with members of different organizations was developed in two different versions: (a) an intemal VTS and (b) an inter-organizational VTS. The results revealed that the developed virtual team scorecard covers all the main strategic factors from a management perspective and in particular relies on the qualitative factors of the team determines the quality and group dynamics deficits of a team and may provide clues for knowing which factors should receive special attention. Furthermore the developed scorecard can be used for inter-organizational teams and any kind of structured co-operation between organizations.
Citation Count: 1
Mobile Devices and Flipped Classrooms in Higher Education: An Impact Analysis on the Educational Landscape in a Turkish University
(IEEE, 2015) Oberer, Bırgıt
Mobile technologies can be used to enhance learning experiences of students in different ways supporting the CILP the creative and innovative learning process. In this study was analyzed how the combination of the flipped classroom approach and mobile devices used as educational tools in higher education could support innovative learning in a university in Turkey. The results of the study revealed that the flipped classroom approach created a leverage effect on the use of mobile learning elements having a direct positive impact on the overall student achievement.
Citation Count: 9
Mobile learning in higher education: A marketing course design project in Austria
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2013) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
The course concept introduced in this paper was implemented in 2011 in a university in Austria and shows an approach for integrating mobile learning modules in higher education. The results of the course as revealed in the research show the advantages as well as the potential for improvement of the system and its use in higher education. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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National Electronic Government Strategies in Austria
(ACAD Conferences Ltd, 2011) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
One of the most emerging concepts of information technology is the one of electronic government. Electronic services that are made available by governments to citizens businesses and other governments (international) or governmental authorities (national) are general proof of the changes being made in the public sector. Intersecting the government citizen and business domain a business model can be defined considering the government-to-business government-to-citizen and government-to-government approaches. Governments around the world try to follow their most of the time ambitious strategies to become or stay competitive. In this study Austrian strategies and projects for electronic government as well as their implementation plans were analysed followed by an examination of the electronic services offered by the national governmental authorities in Austria one pioneer in electronic government in Europe leading in the European E-Government ranking 2010 and the declared 'European champion in eGovernment' for the fourth time in a row. The results revealed that Austria has developed hybrid electronic government strategies and has launched projects in that field in which national governmental authorities have to participate in order to offer electronic government services at a high level and in a competitive international environment. On a whole offering a one-stop shop gateway to governmental information and transactions generally offers higher attractiveness for conducting nationwide business and all incentives for electronic government focus on developing good practices in the area of efficient and effective electronic government. Nevertheless national strategies are transformed and implemented in different ways not always following the one-stop-shop approach and contributing to the development of isolated applications instead of integrated ones.
Citation Count: 6
Social media integration in higher education cross-course google plus integration shown in the example of a master's degree course in management
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Erkollar, Alptekin
Nearly all web services can be adapted for educational use Although some nistructors do use social media for their courses privacy concerns always throttle the 'need' of instructors for social media. Google Plus seems to offer the possibility to overcome this privacy issue in using a methodology to group one's contacts. The course concept shown in this contribution offers a concrete approach for integrating Google Plus functionalities in higher education and benefiting from cross-course interaction. The results of the forthcoming analysis will show advantages and potential for improvement both of the system and the use of it in higher education. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Sustainable and responsible business: the renewed EU strategy 2011-2014 for corporate social responsibility
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2012) Oberer, Bırgıt; Oberer, Birgit
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to companies that voluntarily go beyond what the law requires in order to achieve social and environmental objectives during the course of their daily business activities. The European Commission encourages companies to apply fair employment practices that respect human rights particularly where products come from outside the EU. In this contribution the activities of the European Union on Corporate Social Responsibility are analyzed focusing on the 2011-2014 strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility which was published in 2011 and corporate social responsibility reporting and disclosure. The results of the analysis revealed that the European Commission by publishing their new policy on corporate social responsibility intends to enhance positive and to minimize and prevent negative impacts in close collaboration with their stakeholders addressing different actions such as the establishment of sector-based platforms for enterprises and stakeholders to make commitments and jointly monitor progress. The promotion of social and environmental responsibility through the supply-chain and the disclosure of non-financial information are recognised as important cross-cutting issues. Regarding the disclosure the European Commission has different open issues to work on to get a working process for reaching sustainable and responsible businesses.