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Dimitriadis, Yannis – Educational Technology, 2012
This article describes some of the main technological trends and issues of the European landscape of research and innovation in educational technology. Although several innovative technologies (tools, architectures, platforms, or approaches) emerge, such as intelligent support to personalization, collaboration or adaptation in mobile, game-based,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Educational Innovation
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Chia, Noel Kok Hwee; Li, Jenyi – International Journal of Special Education, 2012
There is an alarming increase in more Singaporean children diagnosed with special needs and it could be attributed to higher awareness and better screening procedure. However, research and development on various intervention strategies for children with special needs is still very lacking. With the introduction of information and communication…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Intervention, Autism
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
Phonological awareness, or the ability to detect or manipulate the sounds in words independent of meaning, has been identified as a key early literacy skill and precursor to reading. For the purposes of this review, "phonological awareness training" refers to any practice targeting young children's phonological awareness abilities.…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Training, Evidence, Reading Research
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Blume-Kohout, Margaret E. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Public funding for biomedical research is often justified as a means to encourage development of more (and better) treatments for disease. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between these expenditures and downstream pharmaceutical innovation. In particular, although recent analyses have shown a clear contribution of federally…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Diseases, Biomedicine, Grants
Raths, David – Campus Technology, 2012
No one who's worked in higher education will ever confuse the experience with working in the corporate sector. Colleges and universities are simply not geared for the business of manufacturing or marketing products. The focus--as it should be--is on teaching and research. Given the wealth of talent among IT staff and faculty, however, higher ed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Source Technology, Research and Development, Knowledge Management
Wheeler, David L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Fifteen years ago, the Australian state of Queensland was famous more for its beaches than for its brain power. Fellow Australians thought of Queenslanders as miners, farmers, or surfers, not as professors or scientists. When Queensland announced in 1998 that it was planning to become a "Smart State," or a knowledge economy, locals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Research and Development, Educational Change
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Mueller-Oppliger, Victor – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2014
With its strong federalism and direct democracy, as well as the high level of autonomy of its cantons, Switzerland does not have mandatory national policies and regulations on gifted education. Responsibility for the promotion of high-end learners is in the hands of the cantonal boards of education, and depends largely on their current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Program Implementation, Barriers
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Ljunggren, Maria – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This study attempts to provide a new perspective on current shifts in knowledge production through analysing the relationship between research and education. The study, based on interviews and questionnaires, focuses on the interaction within applied research centres with a close industry cooperation. The results suggest that the interaction…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Research and Development, Higher Education, Interviews
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Yore, Larry D.; Anderson, John O.; Chiu, Mei-Hung – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
Evidence-based policies, decisions, and practices are highly valued and underachieved in the international mathematics and science education reforms. Many in the mathematics and science education research communities lament the lack of influence that research results have on the education profession, schools, and teaching. Academic research done…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Public Policy
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Hendricks, Jon; Applebaum, Robert; Kunkel, Suzanne – Gerontologist, 2010
This article is based on the premise that there is inadequate attention to the link between theory and applied research in social gerontology. The article contends that applied research studies do not often or effectively employ a theoretical framework and that theory-based articles, including theory-based research, are not often focused on…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Gerontology, Models, Research and Development
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Awwad, Mohammad Amin – Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This paper aims at providing an objective evaluation and transformation of Higher Education in the Arab World with a focus on its contribution to knowledge and human development. It argues that despite the great expansion in the number of higher education institutions and the great increase in the number of students enrolled in them, the needs and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Arabs, Educational Trends, Higher Education
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Birx, Donald L.; Ford, Ralph M.; Payne, Carrie A. – Journal of Research Administration, 2013
Colleges and universities are two of the most formidable resources a country has to reinvent and grow its economy. This is the second of two papers that outlines a process of building and strengthening research universities that enhances regional technology development and facilitates flexible networks of collaboration and resource sharing. In the…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Knowledge Economy, Regional Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Murdock, Alex; Shariff, Razia; Wilding, Karl – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2013
This paper considers the different approaches to undertake knowledge exchange between academia and the third sector from three practitioner perspectives. London South Bank University (LSBU), as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) Social Enterprise Capacity Building Cluster (CBC), has been…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Partnerships in Education, Capacity Building, Research and Development
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Bekerman, Fabiana – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2013
This study looks at some of the traits that characterized Argentina's scientific and university policies under the military regime that spanned from 1976 through 1983. To this end, it delves into a rarely explored empirical observation: financial resource transfers from national universities to the National Scientific and Technological Research…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Scientific Research, Foreign Countries, Financial Support
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Todeva, Emanuela – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
Research on sustainability and innovation-driven economic growth has exposed a lack of sufficient knowledge in the governance literature about the appropriate extent of government involvement. This paper focuses on the governance of innovation and the intermediary role of the state. The author synthesizes the literature on governance and…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Government School Relationship, Higher Education, Governance
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