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These proceedings contain the papers of the 15th International Conference on e-Learning (EL 2021), which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), July 20-22, 2021. This conference is part of the 15th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS), July 20-23, 2021, which had a total of 456 submissions. Due to an exceptional situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference was hosted virtually. The e-Learning (EL) 2021 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within e-Learning. This conference covers both technical as well as the non-technical aspects of e-Learning. The conference accepted submissions in the following seven main areas: (1) Organisational Strategy and Management Issues; (2) Technological Issues; (3) e-Learning Curriculum Development Issues; (4) Instructional Design Issues; (5) e-Learning Delivery Issues; (6) e-Learning Research Methods and Approaches; and (7) e-Skills and Information Literacy for Learning. [Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]

The article presents Chapter 4, "Disaster, Public Service and Emergency Communications" from the 10th edition of the "ARRL Operating Manual" of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). It references the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report, "Crisis Response and Disaster Resilience 2030: Forging Strategic Action in an Age of Uncertainty." Topics include emergency management in a changing environment, implications for Amateur Radio, and the role of the Emergency Coordinator (EC).

The article examines the public's psychological and behavioral responses to four terrorist incidents. It looks at the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Intifada in Israel, the 1995 sarin attack on the subway system in Tokyo, and the 2001 anthrax attacks. The lessons which could be learned and applied to civil defense preparation and response mechanisms are also discussed.

This job shows the experience of the office “Servizio Sismico Nazionale” (OSSN - Italian Department of Civil Protection), started in the 1992, to build up the complex information system: SIGE. SIGE, that utilizes a lot of integrated technologies to support the seismic emergency management: G.I.S., G.P.S., G.P.R.S., P.D.A. and W.E.B., is activated in case of an earthquake of magnitude 5 or more that hits the Italian Territory. The article describes the different phases of a seismic crisis: the activities start from the scenario production in the OSSN centre, continue in the involved area with the data collection and close with the production of synthesis maps for the emergency management. SIGE utilizes the positive experience of two IST European project: FORMIDABLE and EGERIS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How shall we characterize contemporary regime–society relations in the Soviet Union? In the 1950s Soviet specialists and students of comparative politics more broadly were agreed on the basic outlines of How the Soviet System Works, to use the title of the summary volume of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (Bauer, Inkeles, and Kluckhohn 1959). The Soviet Union was a novel dictatorial form in which the regime insisted on, and accomplished, the mobilization to its purposes of the entire society. This pattern of regime–society relations differentiated the Soviet totalitarian system and traditional autocracy, which discourages mobilization of elites and masses and is content with citizen acquiescence. Changes in the Soviet Union, developments in the social sciences, and improvements in the international climate all served to bring the totalitarian model under severe scrutiny in the 1960s. With the assimilation of the implications of the end of terror as an instrument of political control, there was a newfound sensitivity to the increased social differentiation and articulation of a growingly complex industrial society, along with renewed attention to the persistent impact of traditional Russian culture on the Soviet polity. If the Soviet system under Stalin has been described in Marxian terms as the revenge of the superstructure, the period from the 1960s forward might be described as the rediscovery of the base. Throughout the latter period, however, specialists and generalists alike (cf. Dahl 1971) have continued to describe the Soviet Union in terms that stress, inter alia, the extent to which it is a highly participatory, mobilized, political system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]