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Lubin, Ian A. – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2016
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are being utilized extensively in education and have become an essential aspect of both formal and informal learning worldwide. Related to their widespread availability and use in education, it is suggested that ICT hold tremendous promise for society at large, and in particular, in shaping social…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality
Carlebach, Ezri; Branco, Eduarda Castel; Deij, Arjen; de Jong, Mirjam; van Uden, Jolien – European Training Foundation, 2019
The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. It focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Foreign Countries
Ahrens, A.; Zascerinska, J. – Online Submission, 2012
Engineering education is facing a challenge of the development of student engineers' social responsibility in the context of sustainable development. The aim of the research is to analyze efficiency of engineering curriculum in the context of sustainable development underpinning elaboration of pedagogical guidelines on the development of students'…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Summer Schools, Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development
Hutton, Paul; VandenBurg, Todd – Educational Facility Planner, 2011
President Obama said in his 2011 State of the Union address that the United States is experiencing a second "Sputnik Moment," implying that the country is challenged to keep up with its international competitors in training scientists and engineers. A recent review of academic performance rated the United States 17th in reading, 23rd in science,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Public Schools, Magnet Schools
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Payne, Phillip – Environmental Education Research, 2006
An ambivalent, sometimes destructive, relationship between modern humanity, technology and "outer" or external nature has historically attracted the critical attention of scholars and commentators from a wide variety of backgrounds. The effects of technology on postmodern "inner" nature warrants similar scrutiny. This article examines how…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Postmodernism, Sustainable Development, Educational Technology
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Dale, Ann; Newman, Lenore – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2005
Purpose: To distinguish sustainable development education from environmental education and stress the importance of problem-based interdisciplinary learning to sustainable development education. Design/methodology/approach: A range of published works relating to sustainable development education are critiqued, an introduction to complexity theory…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sustainable Development, Problem Based Learning
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Vezzoli, Carlo; Penin, Lara – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to diffuse the concept of a multi-lateral learning process as a means to promote experimental didactics and research (and the cross-fertilization between these two activities) in the field of design of sustainable product-service systems (PSSs) and to consider the university campus as the locus for the design,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Internet, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
Wirasinghe, Chan – 2000
The engineering profession and, consequently, the education process for engineers must respond to several new realities in order to be successful in the 21st century. Some aspects of the new reality that are relevant to engineering education are as follows: the globalization of commerce; the information revolution; innovations in technology; the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Adult Learning, Change