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Carroll, Fiona; Kop, Rita – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
The design of experiences and, in particular, educational experiences is a complex matter and involves not only using effective technologies and applying cognitive triggers, but there is a need to "think outside the box" in order to also design for the affective dimension of human experiences; the impressions, feelings and interactions that a…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Action Research, Educational Technology, Learning Experience
Park, Yoonhee; Jacobs, Ronald L. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2011
Although the importance of workplace learning has been recognized in research and practice, there is little empirical support that describes how workplace learning, including both formal and informal learning, is linked to organizational performance. This study investigated the influence of investment in workplace learning on learning outcomes and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Human Capital, Informal Education, Structural Equation Models
Ronen, Tammie – Research on Social Work Practice, 2011
The Renata Adler Memorial Research Center for Child Welfare and Protection operates within the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. The main aims of this research center are to facilitate study and knowledge about the welfare of children experiencing abuse or neglect or children at risk and to link such knowledge to…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Social Work, Child Abuse
Perla, Rocco J.; Carifio, James – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Background: Extending Merton's (1936) work on the consequences of purposive social action, the model, theory and taxonomy outlined here incorporates and formalizes both anticipated and unanticipated research findings in a unified theoretical framework. The model of anticipated research findings was developed initially by Carifio (1975, 1977) and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Models, Influences, Creativity
Kali, Yael; Goodyear, Peter; Markauskaite, Lina – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
If research and development in the field of learning design is to have a serious and sustained impact on education, then technological innovation needs to be accompanied--and probably guided--by good empirical studies of the design practices and design thinking of those who develop these innovations. This article synthesises two related lines of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Instructional Leadership, Instructional Design
Powers, Joshua B.; Campbell, Eric G. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of technology commercialization on researcher practice and productivity at U.S. universities. Using data drawn from licensing contract documents and databases of university-industry linkages and faculty research output, the study findings suggest that the common practice of licensing…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Finance, Certification, Researchers
Muresan, Mihaela; Gogu, Emilia – Online Submission, 2010
The actual infrastructure of the information society sustains the globalization trend and increases the importance of the information and knowledge. The development of the knowledge society is the direct consequence of the mix of economic, social and cultural processes, which involve the knowledge creation and its equitable distribution, access…
Descriptors: Universities, College Role, Innovation, Global Approach
Universities UK, 2010
This paper presents the keynote speech by Professor Steve Smith, President of Universities UK, delivered at Universities UK Annual Conference last September 2010. In this speech, Professor Smith focused on two sets of issues: firstly, the future of the UK economy and, secondly, the potential pitfalls of the decisions that are shortly to be made by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Economics, Knowledge Economy
Threadgill, Elizabeth – Journal of Developmental Education, 2010
This article presents an interview with Dr. Muriel Harris who is considered as one of the most influential figures in writing center research and practice for over three decades. She is currently Professor Emerita of English at Purdue University. She founded The Purdue Writing Center which she directed from 1976 until 2003. She also founded…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Interviews, English Instruction
Neber, Heinz – Gifted and Talented International, 2010
In this article, the author presents his comments on Hisham Ghassib's article entitled "Where Does Creativity Fit into the Productivist Industrial Model of Knowledge Production?" Ghassib (2010) describes historical transformations of science from a marginal and non-autonomous activity which had been constrained by traditions to a self-autonomous,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Science and Society, Epistemology, Scientific Concepts
Neville, David O. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The essay is a conceptual analysis from an instructional design perspective exploring the feasibility of using three-dimensional digital game-based learning (3D-DGBL) environments to assist in second language acquisition (SLA). It examines the shared characteristics of narrative within theories of situated cognition, context-based approaches to…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Video Games, Instructional Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
Folk, G. Edgar – Advances in Physiology Education, 2010
The war contributions of the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, were recorded in 169 Technical Reports, most of which were sent to the Office of the Quartermaster General. Earlier reports were sent to the National Research Council and the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Many of the reports from 1941 and later dealt with…
Descriptors: Weather, Research and Development, Scientific Research, Fatigue (Biology)
Dijkstra, J.; Van der Vleuten, C. P. M.; Schuwirth, L. W. T. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
Research on assessment in medical education has strongly focused on individual measurement instruments and their psychometric quality. Without detracting from the value of this research, such an approach is not sufficient to high quality assessment of competence as a whole. A programmatic approach is advocated which presupposes criteria for…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Research and Development, Focus Groups, Interviews
Vamos, Sandra; Hayos, Julia – American Journal of Health Education, 2010
The health education profession has developed over recent years garnering national and international attention. Canada's evolving health education perspective emphasizing the concept of health literacy within the broader public health system reflects the need for trained, competent and skilled health educators designing, implementing and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Health Education, Public Health, Foreign Countries
Bastalich, Wendy – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
The "knowledge economy" has been received with considerable scepticism by scholars within the fields of political economy, social and political philosophy, and higher education. Key arguments within this literature are reviewed in this article to suggest that, despite policy claims, "knowledge economy" does not describe a "new" mode of economic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Information Technology, Telecommunications