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Griban'kova, A. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
Like their counterparts in other countries, Russian students increasingly are entering graduate schools with a view to being involved in the application of research beyond the academy. Under the conditions of the raw materials economy that has become dominant in Russia over the past two decades, however, the demand for innovation is limited and of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Relevance (Education)
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Nese, Joseph F. T.; Biancarosa, Gina; Anderson, Daniel; Lai, Cheng-Fei; Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study examined the type of growth model that best fit within-year growth in oral reading fluency and between-student differences in growth. Participants were 2,465 students in grades 3-5. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analyses modeled curriculum-based measurement (CBM) oral reading fluency benchmark measures in fall, winter, and spring…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Fluency, Grade 3, Student Characteristics
Basken, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
As the General Motors Corporation shuts assembly plants and veers toward bankruptcy, the lonely remnants of one of its top technological achievements--the first modern mass-produced electric car--lie scattered across a few dozen American college campuses. GM produced and leased to customers more than 1,000 "EV1" automobiles beginning in 1996. In…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Auto Mechanics, Power Technology, Manufacturing Industry
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Sarah L. Kieweg had her own nice surprise when the University of Central Florida contacted her. She understood quite a bit about her father's pioneering work on artificial intelligence in the 1990s. Still, in 2006, eight years after he died of a heart attack, at age 50, the call from the university came out of the blue: some of James R. Driscoll's…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, Artificial Intelligence, College Faculty
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Melin, Ulf; Axelsson, Karin – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
In this paper we focus on lessons learned from developing information systems (IS) higher education in an inter-organizational (IO) network focusing possibilities and challenges. Developing higher education is one area among others where organizing joint efforts in networks are possible. An IO R&D project is described and analyzed in this…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Higher Education, Research and Development, Program Descriptions
Assaf, Mohammad Ahmad – Online Submission, 2011
This paper starts with the idea that knowledge has become one of the most important factors to determine human development and explore the different requirements that need to be met by the government and the citizens of the UAE to succeed in building a knowledge society (KS). An explanation and examination of the five pillars of establishing a KS…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Paranhos, Julia; Hasenclever, Lia – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper analyses industry-university interaction and its characteristics in the Brazilian pharmaceutical system of innovation, taking account of the relevance of company strategies, the approach of the universities and the actions of government. By analysing primary and secondary data the authors show that, for as long as corporate investment…
Descriptors: Industry, Government Role, Innovation, Pharmaceutical Education
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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