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Online Communications & Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
“Today, student learning is no longer confined to a physical space. Computers and the Internet have broken through school walls, giving students greater opportunities to personalize their education, access distant resources, receive extra help or more-challenging assignments, and engage in learning in new and unique ways.” (SPELLINGS, M, 2008)…Read More
Outdoor Guernsey Web Design Goes Live.
We are happy to announce the launch of the new Outdoor Guernsey website. Purple Coffee have been working closely with Outdoor Guernsey over the last few months to create a bespoke content managed system to process their online bookings and help increase the efficiency of their online communications with their Guernsey clients.…Read More
Guernsey Web Design Company Purple Coffee Interactive Wins Web Design Award
Purple Coffee recently received an “Honourable Mention” and second place in the interfaceSPACE Design Awards 2009 on renowned web designer’s portal deviantart.com. Our blog design titled “Textured Blog Layout” was selected by interfaceSPACE’s judges from DeviantArts user base of approximately 11 million members. This was no easy feat considering deviantart.com receives in the region of 100’000 user’s submissions daily!…Read More
Google Considers Pulling Out of China on the Principles of Equal Access to Information
Google announced today in a lengthy article on the Google blog that it refused to continue censoring its Chinese version of its world dominant search engine. This comes as a result of alleged breaches in Google’s infrastructure in an attempt to access the personal email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Speculation is rife that China’s government is to blame for such attempted privacy breaches.…Read More
Global Information Technology: Sociological or Criminal Revolution?
Human communications mediums have always been an integral part of the way societies group, organize and distribute information among one another, they are essential for organization in all forms, but never before has mankind had available to them a vast medium of interconnected nodes such as the Internet, that seemingly transcends the physical boundaries of time and space with ease, with this phenomenon comes enormous advantages and benefits for the global networks and societies it creates, but like many developing technologies, it posses increasing risks and concerns that are often neglected. Employment, entertainment, education, and numerous other aspects of society have been impacted by this technological revolution. IT and the Internet has become an integral part of organizational systems, in their many forms across the globe. In some sense we have created a dependence and Co-existence with machines that cannot be reversed without re-structuring the very organizational structures that make use of and grow out of these technologies. …Read More
How does the increasing use of Information Technology within Global Societies impact Crime and Criminal Networks?
Information technology and the technological revolution of recent decades have had a broad reaching affect on many aspects of life for global societies; commerce, employment, education, entertainment and many other aspects of society have been impacted by information technology and its apparent cohesion with the day to day activities of people all over the world. Such technological advancements have been shown to have many positive effects on society, but with these advancements it seems only fitting that the scales are balanced by a number of negatives, such as the emergence of information technology related crimes.…Read More
Online vs. Offline Shopping – Consumer Choice or Retail Bully Tactics?
In today’s retail environment the shop floor has transcended into cyberspace and traditional consumer boundaries of access to products and services have skewed. With this comes a multitude of purchasing options for today’s web savvy shoppers, all accessible in a second from innumerable vendors and locations. A technological advantage for some, or a confusing plethora of unneeded options for others? One thing’s for sure, our individual shopping preferences and tendencies can really demonstrate a lot about ourselves.…Read More
E-Commerce and Online Shoppers
E-commerce is really set to innovate they way it offers its products to consumers, as attempts to maximise hits to sales ratios for business’s becomes more than preferable but essential.…Read More
