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Czech Electronic Book Market – Obstacles and Opportunities
Šperková, Lucie ; Koubský, Petr (advisor) ; Brodský, Jiří (referee)
This master dissertation "Czech Electronic Book Market -- Obstacles and Opportunities" analyzes Czech market with e-books. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current situation on the market in terms of technologies, distribution models and legal issues. It describes commercial, free and illegal sources in the market, including a description of digitisation projects in Czech libraries. The thesis also includes a theoretical introduction to e-books and their development in the past. Details are discussed, focusing on technology, modern electronic readers with electronic ink. For comparison, the thesis also analyzes the U.S. market with e-books. In analytical part the individual portals with e-books on the market, their supply and user interfaces are compared. The real example analyzes the costs of an e-book and its comparison to costs of a printed book. At the end of the thesis, alternative models of distribution requirements for establishment of a new portal with e-books are characterised, the Creative Commons licenses are described and the current trend of e-journals is mentioned. Finally, I suggest recommendations especially for sellers on the Czech market describe the advantages and disadvantages of e-books in terms of individual roles in the distribution model and estimate the future market development. More detailed information related to the comparison of different types of electronic ink, a list of electronic readers that are available on the Czech e-book market at this time and specific examples of various users' interfaces that are being used on Czech e-books portals can be found in Appendix.
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Evaluation of LMS Moodle's functionality for the purpose of supporting the application administrator
Šperková, Lucie ; Šedivá, Zuzana (advisor) ; Brodský, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with administrator environment of the Learning Management System Moodle. The aim is to provide a basic outline of the alternatives for administrative tools supporting the learning procedure in Moodle and to create a user's guide for LMS Moodle. The characterisation focuses on the administration of users, courses, modules, appearances, security and some other basic settings. A brief survey on functioning of the system among Czech universities is also a part of this thesis. Finally I give a summary of over-all advantages and disadvantages of LMS Moodle and its suitability for business sector. The survey shows the users' level of satisfaction and their abilities in operating LMS Moodle in accordance with their user's status (administrator, teacher or student). The last chapter centres on the new Moodle for mobile technologies. The actual survey and the description of advantages and disadvantages of e-learning are attached.
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