Similar to the suggestions offered by Gahala (2001), Brody (1995) identified several traits to be considered when developing a comprehensive professional development program. Among those traits include the reputation of the trainer, the rewards available to the participants, both tangible and intangible, and the support of the administration. Traditional staff development models have required everyone to participate at the same time and in the same location creating problems such

Kinshuk, Liu, T., & Graf, S. (2009). Coping with mismatched courses: Students' behaviour and performance in courses mismatched to their learning styles. Educational Technology Research and Development, 57(6), 739-752. Retrieved from ERIC database. Kinshuk and Graf first establish the fact that students are often required to learn material that is not adaptive to their preferred learning style. The work then goes on to analyze how an interactive adaptive online/computer aided system

Computer Adult Learner An employee is terminated after 23 years of service. Suddenly thrust into the work arena without the skills to make a smooth transition. In order to make a transition into the computerized workforce it will be necessary to get educational skills up to speed. (The employee has never had the need to learn the basics such as the use of a mouse, word, excel, power point or even

In some areas it will be used for more populist applications such as, in schools to introduce students to the discipline and within an environment that will give opportunity for participation of non-academics in academic discussion. Conclusion Computer has in a great deal widened the world's knowledge. As the fastest technology that has ever evolved, it has given opportunity for the children and adults, for personal, academic and commercial use. It

Using Perl LWP Library scripting and data harvesting tools, data is quickly collected, aggregated and used to launch a phishing attack with a stunning success rate of 72%. The rapid nature of how this attack was planned and executed shows how lethal from a privacy standpoint phishing can be when based on social network-based data. There is an implied higher level of trust with any e-mail originating from social

This particular instance was significant as the attackers used a generic approach instead of a site specific or application specific exploitation by devising tools that used the web search engines to identify ASP applications that are vulnerable. SQL injection attack was used to propagate the malicious code that exploited zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Internet explorer last year. [Symantec, (2009 ) pg. (47)] the aim of the attackers employing