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Roffe, Ian – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2009
In common with the United States, Europe is currently experiencing a serious economic recession. The crisis, which started in the financial sector, is now rippling out and affecting heavily other economic sectors: construction, property, retailing, manufacturing, etc. The arguable cause of the crisis was a failure of management in financial…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Economic Climate
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Krasny, Marianne E. – Environmental Education Research, 2009
In William Scott's plenary address at the World Environmental Education Conference, he expressed concerns about the relevance of environmental education research in a world facing global environmental and demographic change. In responding to Scott's concerns, I argue that addressing challenges related to development and the environment requires…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Research, Objectives, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Claffey, George F., Jr. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
Information technology (IT) departments must cut costs and justify expenditures in the face of shrinking budgets. To promote greater cost savings, it is important to look at IT through a new "lens." This article discusses four broad categories that can be evaluated to determine if IT resource alignment is appropriate and if savings can…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Perspective Taking, Cost Effectiveness
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Brekke, John S.; Phillips, Elizabeth; Pancake, Laura; O, Anne; Lewis, Jenebah; Duke, Jessica – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
The Interventions and Practice Research Infrastructure Program (IPRISP) funding mechanism was introduced by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to bridge the gap between the worlds of services research and the usual care practice in the community. The goal was to build infrastructure that would provide a platform for research to…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Theory Practice Relationship
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Lawson, Hal A. – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
Researchers' social-cultural organization influences the scope, quality, quantity, coherence, dissemination, utilization and impact of research-based, theoretically sound knowledge. Five concepts--paradigm, exemplar, segment, network and gatekeeper--are salient to research on researchers' organization. Autobiographical reflections signal these…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Physical Education, School Activities, Social Change
Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, 2012
In 2009-10 a series of Workshops was organized to focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning design for young students and adolescents. The objective was to provide visionary leadership to the education community by: (a) identifying and analyzing the needs and opportunities for future STEM curriculum development and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, STEM Education, Research and Development, Curriculum Development
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Hunte, Stephanie – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to create a more recent profile of the UWI distance learners as a follow up to a study undertaken in 2000, and, based on the profile created, discuss the implications for online curriculum development, teaching and learning at the University. Data on four descriptive characteristics were collected from UWI distance…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Distance Education, Curriculum Development, Online Courses
Cummings, Glenn A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
While niche colleges and universities have upheld principles of environmental sustainability for several decades, mainstream institutions of higher learning only more recently have begun to embrace a "green ethos" on campus. The exact nature of these initiatives may vary but tends to fall into four categories: (a) a general infusion of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Community Colleges, Instructional Leadership
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Agee, Anne; Rowe, Theresa; Woo, Melissa; Woods, David – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
A 2006 ECAR study defined cyberinfrastructure as the coordinated aggregate of "hardware, software, communications, services, facilities, and personnel that enable researchers to conduct advanced computational, collaborative, and data-intensive research." While cyberinfrastructure was initially seen as support for scientific and…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Research and Development, Research Universities, Computer Uses in Education
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Bishop, Russell; Berryman, Mere – Teacher Development, 2010
Te Kotahitanga is a research and professional development project that aims to support teachers to raise the achievement of New Zealand's indigenous Maori students in public/mainstream classrooms. An Effective Teaching Profile, developed from the voices of Maori students, their families, principals and some of their teachers, provides direction…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Pacific Islanders, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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Musialkowska, Ida – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
After joining the European Union, many aspects of economic and social development are changing in Poland. Change is necessary in many areas, including the areas of research and education and their links to practice as it is broadly understood practice. Some areas seem neglected by the policy-makers. This article will refer to the question of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research and Development, Educational Policy
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Shay, Suellen – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
This article explores the value systems which inform assessment practices in higher education, specifically how particular forms of knowledge valued in the curriculum shape and constrain assessment practices. The data for this article is drawn from two courses which participated in a service learning research and development project at the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Service Learning, Program Effectiveness
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Some years ago, bringing up peak oil--the concept that oil production will crest and then decline, leading to all sorts of trouble in society--might have made one seem like the kind of person who frequents Web sites that sell survival books and freeze-dried food. Today such discussion has pretty much hit the mainstream. Last month The Wall Street…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Energy Education, Energy Management, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Salmon, Gilly; Jones, Sylvia; Armellini, Alejandro – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2008
We detail the research, development and initial outcomes of an intervention process to promote capability building in designing for e-learning at a dual mode university in the UK. The process, called CARPE DIEM, was built on a pilot study and became a Higher Education Academy "Pathfinder" project named ADELIE. We report on the model…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Virtual Classrooms, Models
Glenn, David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on the dispute about the creation of an institute named for the late economist and free-market advocate Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago. Five months after the University of Chicago announced plans to invest $200-million in an economics institute named for the late Milton Friedman, the project is still generating…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Educational Development, Institutional Mission, Economics Education
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