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Advanced Technologies and Standards for Interactive Educational Television: Emerging Research and Opportunities
The media are described by many as the mighty fourth Power and being able to influence the course of developments in the whole planet. The media power is enhanced by advances in technology as well people can access the media directly (in addition to television and radio), anytime, anywhere.
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Media and Human Resource Management
Dimos Savvas Charidimou (Department of Informatics, School of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and Stylianos Euaggeos Gouloudis (Independent Researcher, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0253-2.ch002
Abstract
Easily mentioned, but not that much categorically identified, is the infrastructure beyond huge communication networks providers. Undoubtedly, the commitment for people of a certain country, in their transformation from citizens of a definite jurisdiction to netizens of a global community seeking advanced training and instruction with interactive educational TV, heavily relies on top management support over complex issues, starting from governmental initiatives and ardent information technology support along vigorous settlements with vendors, private funds, and international conglomerates. What the student body seeks, in national scale, is how to enhance the delivery methods of its learning, from face-to-face methodologies to self-paced learning, and recently, even further to live e-learning. For the first time, however, in-depth skill building, support in a range of practical subjects, animated knowledge acquisition, peer networking, and action-planning have been introduced as managerial educative aspects, along information and entertainment, in the world of broadcasting.
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