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    The hothouse effect: a model for change in higher education (2005)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 13 (2005), S. 173-181 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Purpose - To present a model of innovative change in higher education based on research into the factors behind the performance of highly creative historical communities. Design/methodology/approach - The article diagnoses current pressures under which academia is laboring, explains the hothouse effect, and proposes solutions based on the hothouse effect model. Findings - The article proposes restructuring of discipline-based learning, developing new methods of strategic planning, adopting new assumptions about the social role of higher education, exploring modes of perception and cognition that are critical to education, and using digital technology to create learning communities and facilitate accelerated learning models. The model of organizational change emphasizes modest and numerous grass-roots initiatives as the most efficient generator of broad cultural change. Research limitations/implications - The aim is to stimulate pilot initiatives and broad dialog on the issues raised. The research points the way to further work in the dynamics of creativity, the nature of pedagogy, and the future role of the university. Practical implications - Numerous methods are presented for strengthening the relationship of faculty and administration, utilizing technology to create learning communities and transform pedagogy, stimulating faculty collaboration, and planning for the future. Originality/value - This paper provides many fresh and practical ideas useful at an individual, department, or institutional level. The goal is not a specific type of institution or mode of operation. Instead, it the model is flexible and adaptable to creative initiatives of any scope. Ultimately, this article can contribute to revitalizing the ongoing dialog about higher education's future.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120510618196
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    All that knowledge, and so what? Scholarship in the digital university (2005)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 13 (2005), S. 216-219 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Purpose - To ascertain how scholarship will be impacted by digital media. Design/methodology/approach - This paper breaks down the vocation of scholarship into subsidiary tasks. It examines how their relative importance has changed in the modern era. Finally, it looks at which tasks will be facilitated or complicated by digital media, particularly by the internet. Findings - The tasks of collecting and storing information have been made far faster and easier by digital media. Other tasks such as sorting, evaluating and assessing the implications of information have, however, become more difficult. In consequence, theory has become far more important. Research limitations/implications - The extrapolations in this paper are about broad trends, which may manifest themselves in a variety of ways. Practical implications - In the future, one can expect scholarship to deal less with uncovering new information. Instead, scholars will have to devote more time and effort to ascertaining why information is important. Scholars will be expected to articulate not only their methods but also their purposes. Originality/value - This paper provides useful information on how scholarship will be impacted by digital media.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120510627330
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    Serendipity or strategy? An investigation into entrepreneurial transnational higher education and risk management (2005)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 13 (2005), S. 220-228 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Purpose - To provide a past, current and future perspective of transnational higher education for academics and managers engaged in this area of education provision, to heighten awareness of the current trends and issues involved. Design/methodology/approach - An Australian/Hong Kong case study and reference to current literature are used to highlight the main issues concerning this rapidly expanding phenomenon in the provision of higher education. Findings - Identifies and discusses the main issues for consideration when planning new transnational activities, including the need for strategic approaches and risk management. Research limitations/implications - The paper focuses on Australia and the Asian region, although material related to the UK and the USA is included in some sections. Whether a country is the provider or the receiver of transnational education, the issues raised will be relevant. Practical implications - This paper provides a very useful source of information for those currently involved in or planning to become involved in a transnational higher education activity. Originality/value - This paper is timely in that it addresses the recent proliferation of transnational higher education activities by considering the past and present, as well as providing discussion of potential future directions.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120510627349
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    Academic Pilgrims: Faculty Mobility in the Virtual World (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 1-6 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Explains that international mobility forms an integral part of the academic work of most faculty members. Considers some implications of faculty mobility in cyberspace and some of the constraints of the virtual world. Formulates recommendations for the enhancement of faculty mobility in the virtual world at the international and department levels. Discusses new cultural, social and educational challenges related to virtual mobility. Concludes that through virtual mobility, the real collaborative links become even more efficient and that real mobility is an added value to virtual mobility and vice versa.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803626
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    The MBA is dead - part 1: God save the MBA! (2005)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 13 (2005), S. 229-240 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Purpose - The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is becoming increasingly publicly criticised by the likes of Mintzberg and other management writers. Much of their criticism is based on personal experience and opinion rather than any systematic research, and ready-made solutions are proposed as alternatives. This paper (and its counterpart) are the result of a year of research into the future of the MBA. Its purpose is to question whether its current market decline is terminal or if indeed it can be resurrected. Design/methodology/approach - A year-long future study was undertaken at Cranfield School of Management combining a range of traditional research methods and samples including literature review, surveys of alumni, academics and futurists, interviews with recruiters and human resources (HR) managers, a Delphi study with international participants, and interviews and a focus group with business leaders. The results were then analysed and combined to form the pictures developed in this article and its counterpart. Findings - The MBA is positioned here as a qualification that is plagued by market confusion as to what it actually represents and what its value is. A pre-emptive post-mortem is carried out into the future of the MBA and the future senior manager/leader, which highlights the gap between research and practice, league tables, e-learning and attempts at internationalisation as some of the causes of the current malaise. The paper also looks at how some business schools are starting to address these issues in order to maintain the MBA as a valued qualification in the management marketplace. Originality/value - This paper provides a comparison of MBA offerings and potential substitutes. It opens the arena of senior management education for debate by charting the future decline of the MBA, challenging business schools to make changes or witness the death of their cash-cow.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120510627358
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    The MBA is dead - part 2: long live the MBL! (2005)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 13 (2005), S. 241-248 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Purpose - Building on part 1 of this series, this paper aims to look at alternative ways in which business schools can develop the future managers and leaders needed by organisations. It draws attention to an emerging gap in the marketplace and suggests one possible model for addressing it. Design/methodology/approach - A year-long future study was undertaken at Cranfield School of Management combining a range of traditional research methods and samples including literature review, surveys of alumni, academics and futurists, interviews with recruiters and human resource (HR) managers, a Delphi study with international participants, and interviews and a focus group with business leaders. The results were then analysed and combined to form the pictures developed in this article and its counterpart. Findings - Following on from Part 1, this paper proposes a new "élite" qualification for senior managers and leaders to replace the Master of Business Administration (MBA) in the marketplace. This would allow the MBA to become the graduate conversion course in business necessary as an entry point into management. The Master's in Business Leadership (MBL) focuses on the individual rather than curriculum, and is a personal development journey rather than a functional knowledge-based experience, as there is an assumption that this knowledge base is already there prior to the course being undertaken. This paper concludes with a comparative analysis of the MBA, the MBL and the International Master's in Practising Management which Mintzberg has proferred as his alternative to the MBA. Originality/value - This paper provides a comparison of MBA offerings and potential substitutes. It also suggests a new curriculum for senior management education to prepare people for leadership in the future, while repositioning the MBA as a mass graduate conversion programme. By putting forward one possible way forward in the management education market, this paper hopes to open discussion for further development of the international management education sector.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120510627367
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    The Manager's Core Work in the New Economy (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 1-5 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: In present times of increasing change and uncertainty, managers need a real understanding of the way that people learn. Managers must strive to support a work environment that nurtures continuous learning. This article examines the principles that should help managers in their new roles and responsibilities, such as continuous learning, learning from customers, building on existing innovation, listening, observing and understanding.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803716
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    Lifelong Students for Lifelong Learning (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 2-3 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: This editorial continues our look at some of the forces that are acting on the university, both internally and externally. In this issue we look at the impact of lifelong learning. Universities use great expenses to recruit students, but are not retaining them as part of the community once they have graduated. The loss of alumni from the community is a great disadvantage to the institution and actively discourages collaborative learning.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803725
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    School Administrators' Responses To Wireless Handheld Applications (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 6-9 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: This article is the fourth in a series examining the projected impacts of new technology and software on K-12 education. The data was collected from 166 school administrators attending a workshop in the United States during January 2001. The data is presented in the form of brief composites representing administrator uses of handhelds for school management performances. The authors then comment on the administrators' assessments based on the background reasoning.
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    The Trojan Horse of Education (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 1-5 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Considers the future of education in light of developments in information technology - most notably the growth of the internet - over recent years. Suggests that information technology, which has been welcomed into schools, is a "Trojan horse" which will ultimately lead to the extinction of the education system as we know it. Schools will be unable to compete with the wealth of knowledge freely available to students via sources such as the internet.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803752
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    The Limits to Competition for Italy's Universities (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 9-12 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: In this issue A Voice from Pari comes from two participants at "The Future of the Academy" conference held in Pari in September 2001. Italian universities are in the midst of large-scale reforms dictated by the Italian government. When one reads that, while graduates in most European countries can expect to start work in their early twenties, Italian students are not graduating until around the age of 27, it becomes clear why change is needed. Francesca Farabollini, pro-rector of education at the University of Siena, and Maurizio Franzini, an economist at the same university, have been actively engaged in these reforms and present an analysis of the Italian situation and some reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of open competition in the university market place.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803743
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    Partnering and cultural change (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 2-3 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: This editorial continues the consideration of forces acting upon the university, both internally and externally. Particularly focuses on the impact of partnering. Suggests that outsourcing is now a firm part of the delivery of higher education and the issue is to what extent this has or will continue to occur. Looks also at the concept of "co-opetition" where institutions in one country have partnered with those in another. Suggests that the nature and rate of change present difficulties in terms of future planning for universities.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803761
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    The Corporatization of the Australian University (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 5-7 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Calls to attention the ways in which education has been mobilized in the service of dominant economic ideology. Looks particularly at the corporatization of Australian universities and argues that this will lead to a serious degradation of the system as a whole.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803770
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    On Books and Bytes (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 11-13 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Compares the process experienced through the reading of books with that of taking information from the internet. Indicates that the interaction between the book reader and the text is very rich and based around the life experiences of the reader. Indicates the importance with regard to the internet of organizing data and information into active knowledge. People need to be "participators of knowledge who will bring their inherent creativity to an understanding of how to use their knowledge".
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803798
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    Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1 (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 1-6 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Part one of this paper highlights how students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology. The author compares these "digital natives" with the older generation who are learning and adopting new technology naming them "digital immigrants".
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    The Costs of Legacy-based Thinking: Retro-preparing for the Industrial Age (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 8-10 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: The fifth is a series of articles looking at distributed competence software and performance base learning. This type of software offers real time solutions to person in learning, living and work situations. Performance base learning refers to the on-task learning that accompanies the application of distributed competence software in school, in the community and in work settings. This article considers the positive and negative reactions of administrators to the substitution of these innovations in place of conventional learning undertaken by students.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110803789
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    On the Horizon broadens its horizons - to publish may be to perish? (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 2-3 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: On the Horizon was born in the mind of our current Editor Emeritus, Jim Morrison, as an environmental scanning journal. Published for a number of years by Jossey-Bass, On the Horizon was acquired by a small, selective, house in the UK, Camford. Today we are pleased to announce that OTH will be published by Emerald, http://emeraldinsight.com, a major international publisher of over 130 professional journals. Beginning with Volume 10, in January 2002, OTH becomes a quarterly, doubled in size with expanded features, longer, more in-depth articles, and a global focus, as it adds regional editors to its board.
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    Legacy-based Thinking II: Resisting New Tools and Competencies (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 6-9 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: This is the sixth article in our series projecting a shift from learning to perform to performing to learn. This article summarizes and comments upon the last of three story-writing exercises undertaken by 166 Minnesota public school administrators in late January 2001.
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    NextEd Offers Multiple Services for Hitting Asian Marketplace (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 13-14 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: NextEd, an international education and training infrastructure company started in 1998, with offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong and Malaysia, currently has business relationships with 25 higher education institutions and commercial training providers located throughout the world.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110426490
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    Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 2: Do They Really Think Differently? (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 1-6 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Part 2 of Prensky's paper exploring the differences between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants". In this second part the author presents evidence to support these differences from neurology, social psychology and from studies done on children using games for learning.
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    A Voice from Pari (2001)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 10-12 
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    ISSN: 1085-4959
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: In this issue the "Voice from Pari" is that of Dr Elena Liotta, a Jungian analyst involved in local politics, who has been influential in guiding the direction of the Pari Center for New Learning. Her article reflects on the nature and future of education but in a much wider setting, that of society, and its values, as a whole and, in particular the growth and education of young children. The Jesuits are supposed to have said that, if they could have the education of a child for the first seven years of its life, they could then show you the man. While it is true that many of the issues faced in university education today are the result of economic pressures within a changing world, there is also the fact that students who enter university are less free and inquiring minds than minds that have already been conditioned by our primary educational system and current social values. If we are to address the future of education, we must do this at all levels.
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    The Intelligent Use of Information (2001)
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    On the horizon 9 (2001), S. 2-3 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Filtering out useful bits of information, in a world awash with information, is becoming very costly. Not only must we consider the information itself, but we must also consider the factor of time. When in time and space is it important and what is its half-life?
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    The motivation of gameplay: The real twenty-first century learning revolution (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 5-11 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Many academics prefer to think of education as "work" rather than "fun". As a result, motivation in higher education rarely comes from the process itself. The author predicts this will change as the generation raised on the engagement of games no longer accepts the historical but unnecessary separation of fun and learning. The author offers the games world as an example of the process itself being motivating to the user. He ascribes this to "gameplay", the techniques used by game designers to keep players engaged. The author suggests several ways to bring the motivation of gameplay into education, and predicts that gameplay will eventually become the criterion by which students choose their courses.
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    Student self-managed learning - cause for concern? (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 12-16 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: One of the defining characteristics of higher education is the expectation that undergraduates will exercise some responsibility for the management of their learning. In the UK and elsewhere student self-managed learning has become more salient due to resource constraints and the increasing emphasis on equipping students with what they need to become lifelong learners. At the same time, as a result of widening access policies, developments in compulsory education systems and changing lifestyles, undergraduates appear less well prepared to cope with the demands of self-managed learning than might have been the case in the past. The problem is further compounded by the diversity of view amongst academic staff concerning the extent and nature of the support, which they should provide in this respect. Although the need for support will vary between institutions, all are faced, to a greater or lesser extent, with the challenge of ensuring that their learning and teaching strategies take account of the contingencies of self-managed learning
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    Prospective education for an innovation economy (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 17-22 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: This paper projects a positive future for America and the globe within an emerging "innovation economy". The innovation economy is supported by knowledge workers and by emerging innovation workers. The authors offer examples in support of an innovation economy, stressing the development and application of strategic capital in selected areas: education; culture; the individual; society; and technology. The authors suggest that education services take the lead through a new "prospective" service mission. Prospective education would undertake continuous strategic projections and mine the most promising of these. Both services would help support the innovation economy and its innovative individuals and organizations.
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    Student self-managed learning - time for action (2002)
    Bradford : Emerald
    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 13-14 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: As student self-managed learning becomes an increasingly significant element of campus-based higher education courses, so action is required to ensure that academic staff are primed to deal with the challenges involved. Reconciling the needs and inclinations of students with the capabilities and disposition of academic staff in this respect is not for the faint-hearted. It calls for an active and sensitive leadership that is prepared to endorse revised understandings of academic development and academic discretion and to put in place measures designed to bring about their realisation.
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    Advancing social justice as a part of educational leadership development: The potential of imaging technologies (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 12-15 
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    Notes: We discuss beneficial uses of imaging technologies in higher education that advance social justice. Misuse and ineffectiveness of shared decision making, specifically as related to power relationships and the redistribution of decision-making authority, are addressed through the development of technologically delivered experiential simulations (ES). We outline ways in which ES can change higher education preparation programs to meet and adapt to the challenges of the future. ES entails using computer technology to modify a person's appearance and thereby evoking an atypical response from an audience. The key to our proposal, however, is having the person with the modified persona learn lessons pertinent to democratic cultures and social justice from their experience of immersion in that response.
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    The interface between experiential learning and the Internet: Ways for improving learning productivity (2002)
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    Notes: This paper addresses the persisting problem of stagnant productivity in the education sector and its contribution to escalating costs. An approach to improving learning productivity is proposed which emphasizes the integration of ICT, service learning, experiential learning, and cooperative learning. Thus, the fundamental theme of this paper is to link these four learning domains as a basic strategy to improve the quality and productivity of education and at the same time to reduce costs or limit cost increases. The advances in ICT and the concomitant "death of distance" greatly strengthen the potential for teachers to become facilitators to organize creative autonomous learning in diverse settings. Concrete examples are described from diverse cultural settings such as South Africa, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Chile, Japan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Oregon. The paper concludes by offering a number of specific recommendations to improve learning productivity.
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    Transcending digital, performance, and innovation divides in the preparation of new teachers (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 16-21 
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    Notes: In this article I argue that teacher educators must prepare future classroom teachers to bridge innovation, digital and performance divides so that they are supported to develop new pedagogy that incorporates technology to increase student performance. In most of the teacher licensure programs at the University of Minnesota, where I direct its Ed-U-Tech project, a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant, we are working towards these ends. In particular, I describe the eTIP Cases, an instructional tool that others and I have created to develop preservice teachers' technology integration abilities. These instructional cases are powered by IMMEX software, which provides embedded assessment capabilities. It is felt that the learning environments created by these cases and the response they demand help preservice teachers to develop the instructional planning and decision-making skills necessary to bridge innovation, digital and performance divides in K12 schools.
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    Personal capital and virtual selves: Learning to manage the five "divides" (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 22-27 
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    Notes: Invention arises from creativity, while innovation arises from invention. Innovation is not the last step in this sequence; innovations must be implemented through small and large changes in organizational practices before they can become operationally successful. The comparatively higher frequency and wider distribution of this process defines an innovation society and its economy. This article proposes a focus on the individual as the first beneficiary of preparatory and on-the-job-services to help evolve innovation societies for coping with five major "divides" currently driving the unequal distribution of global opportunity. To this end, the article proposes developing personal capital through role evolution, rehearsal, and assessment processes supported by "virtual" selves.
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    Adopting technology should mean adapting it to meet learning needs (2002)
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    Notes: The thrust of this essay is that there is an increasing emphasis on the capabilities graduates need to have. We live in a changing, complex world and so post-secondary programs need to equip students with the capacity to adapt their learning into working in a variety of new situations. Planning for the unknown is always tricky and needs to be done with care. Using technology in designing post-secondary programs provides new opportunities but also adds another layer of complexity. Four aspects considered essential are: defining what we are asking students to ultimately achieve (graduate capabilities); designing at both program and course levels; working together in teams (the complexity demands that); and obtaining evidence that we are on the right track.
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    Refocusing learning on pedagogy in a connected world (2002)
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    On the horizon 10 (2002), S. 7-13 
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    Notes: Advances in technology provide valuable opportunities for furthering the goals and methods of education. In this paper, we argue that, unfortunately, many of these opportunities are not seized because of restrictive conceptions of education that constrain teachers to viewing the educational mission primarily in terms of providing instruction. Adopting a pedagogical stance on this issue leads us to a fundamental rethink of how technology can and should be used. From this reconsideration, we conclude that using technology predominantly to provide access to learning content is a misguided use of technology. Technology is rendered more powerful for learning objectives when it is used to support learning-by-doing. Technological advancement on its own does not lead to better education. Pedagogical guidance is vital if technology is to be productive for human learning.
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    A new knowledge of reality (2003)
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    Notes: Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University is a report released in October 2002, produced by the US National Academies, advisors on science, engineering and medicine. The report describes emerging technologies that are reshaping higher education, including the organization, management, governance and finance of universities. Universities must work with stakeholders to anticipate and influence the learning systems of the future. The next phase of the study will organize national channels for dialogue.
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    Disastrous consequences of scientific and technological illiteracy (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 21-22 
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    Notes: The essayist contends that American academia is rife with a "dog-eat-dog" version of Social Darwinism, or survival of the fittest through brutal competition. Offered as evidence are the training of too many students for limited career opportunities, prolongation of graduate training to provide professors with cheap assistants, conversion of 40 per cent of faculty to adjunct status, crushing student debt. Higher education is becoming a bloated, inefficient, non-innovative, and marginally productive process.
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    In their dreams: Paradigm alternatives and the marketing of responsive educational services (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 17-20 
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    Notes: This article identifies three education service paradigms and explores how each contributes to applied learning. Scenarios constructed by over 700 US teachers are summarized and implications for service paradigm changes are drawn from them. Attention is drawn to a lack of paradigm change leadership on the parts of administrators and teacher colleges.
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    New educational technologies: do they improve learning? (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 14-16 
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    Notes: Is the incorporation of new educational technologies into the teaching/learning process the key to an effective and appropriate education in the twenty-first century, or is it a knee-jerk reaction to external pressures that is unlikely to be of lasting benefit to students? This paper explores some of the ways in which technology is changing what, where, when, how, with whom and even why we learn. In situating these changes within a broader context of recent developments in social and workplace practices, the paper argues that engaging with new technologies is essential for educators, not simply in the interests of enhancing and making more relevant the educational experiences of students, but also of revisiting long held assumptions concerning best practice in teaching and learning.
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    E-commerce forecasts: a return of the dot.com boom? (2003)
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    Notes: A forecast of 20 e-commerce applications shows that the Internet is likely to mature into a more sophisticated, conversational form of communication in about 2010, thereby entering the mainstream of advanced societies. This "second coming" of the dot.com era should create a resurgence of economic growth and exert powerful effects on business, government, education and other social functions.
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    The strategic context of education in America - 2000 to 2020 - part 2 (2003)
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    Notes: Presents an historic model of technologic maturation and examines five emerging information technologies projected to achieve marketplace pre-eminence during the next three to five years that will pose transformational implications for traditional classroom-based teacher-mediated education.
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    e-Nough! "e-Learning" is a misnomer - it's mostly just "e-Teaching." For any teaching to reliably and consistently produce the results we want, we still have a lot to learn about learning (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 26-32 
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    Notes: The author suggests we know a lot less about learning than we normally admit - in fact there is no generally accepted definition of what it is. He suggests that this is a big problem with designing so-called e-Learning, most of which is really just "e-Teaching." There is a need, the author argues, for much more differentiation of learning, especially by type of material to be learned. Much of the available research on learning is not about how people learn, but about how they learn in groups - i.e. classes, or, as the author calls them, herds. "Herding" introduces all sort of learning problems, and, to be successful, any e-Learning must take one-on-one tutoring, which is two standard deviations more effective than classroom teaching - as its base.
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    The university as a moral force (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 32-36 
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    Notes: In a time of ethical lapses and moral ambiguity, it is essential for the university, the source of preparation for managers, scientists, journalists, teachers, and other professionals, to understand its role as a force in preparing graduates for decision-making. The university is a "moral force" because it constantly extends the boundaries of what is known, and therefore challenges societal rules describing desirable and undesirable states and behavior. By focusing on the decision-making competence of those it educates, it also makes choices about the values it will express, exhibit, and eschew. In this way, the university has a unique opportunity to help create a culture of conscience not only for the professions and professionals, but for all citizens, through its teaching, scholarship, actions, and service to and with others. With this as its stance, the university would strengthen its place at the center of society and solidify its place at the margins - as curator, creator, and critic.
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    Flying the KITE (knowledge innovation for technology in education) through a case-based reasoning knowledge repository (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 19-31 
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    Notes: Case-based reasoning (CBR), which has long been considered a branch of artificial intelligence, has recently gained great attention in the knowledge management circle because of its capability for storing and retrieving experience-based knowledge by emulating human memory, and its ability to function similar to organizational memory to preserve organizational knowledge. While many successful CBR systems have been developed as knowledge repositories for preserving intellectual capital and for problem solving in business communities, both the concept and methodology of CBR are still novelties in education communities. While there are a plethora of projects and practical pursuits for CBR applications in business, literature relating to designing, developing and evaluating practical CBR educational applications is conspicuously scant. Based on the issues encountered and lessons learned in a CBR system development project, this paper attempts to provide some pragmatic guidelines for those who are interested in applying the CBR knowledge repository approach to supporting knowledge creation and diffusion in the education domain.
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    Artificial intelligence is almost here (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 37-38 
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    Notes: Trends in computer science show that various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) are emerging, and other trends show that these advances are being applied to create intelligent information systems. Although the field of AI has not been very successful in the past, these trends suggest that it may finally arrive in the next few years.
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    Academic tradition in a digital age (2003)
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    Notes: Contemporary institutions of higher education encourage veneration of the past through anachronisms their rhetoric and their design. This characteristic, however, owes less to scholarship or tradition than to a mood of nostalgia. Universities tend to have far greater longevity than institutions of government or commerce. They have managed to survive the Industrial Revolution and other upheavals with remarkably little structural change. Nevertheless, it is still uncertain how, or whether, they will adapt to a post-industrial world.
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    The online education market: Much is at stake for institutions of higher education (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 9-15 
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    Notes: The online degree and education market represents a crossroad for Higher Education. Outlines some issues the HE community must now face and several factors to success for their online degree programs. Universities have played an important role in the formation of the Internet and application of online education. The question remains, will universities actively participate and lead this market or sit on the sidelines and watch an opportunity for education slip away? Universities must act now.
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    Higher education - IT as a catalyst for change (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 23-28 
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    Notes: This paper is based on a review of current literature and addresses issues relating to communication and information technology (C&IT) provision in UK higher educational institutions from a number of perspectives. Suggests that potentially technology can improve the learning environment, but may not yet be the best medium for all situations.
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    Accelerating change in the academy: Balancing new demands while protecting core values (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 16-22 
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    Notes: Forces that are transforming the global economy are now sweeping through higher education. As the higher education environment becomes more turbulent, administrators and academic leaders are caught between opposing forces that both demand and resist change. Suggests five strategies to help universities adapt to the changing environment while preserving important academic values.
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    The myth of the crisis in academic publishing (2003)
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    Notes: The high cost of academic journals has led researchers to seek alternative venues for both publishing and accessing scholarly research. The Internet will provide an appropriate vehicle once there is a model which is not a simple mapping of brick space into click space. This will require The Academy to apply knowledge management to their own practices.
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    Accreditation, competence and digital portfolio assessment (2003)
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    Notes: Accreditation encourages the examination of programs as to whether they make sense as a whole and if students are well prepared for the world of work. Current accreditation is directed toward the assessment of learning and the assessment for learning. What is competence? Professional organizations and higher education should be involved in determining what is competence, how should it be measured and by what standard it should be evaluated. Digital portfolios provide a means for professionals, students and education entities to demonstrate competence. Portfolios provide performance-based assessment; artifacts that provide real-world preparedness.
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    Universities and public deliberation: bringing expertise to the people (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 15-24 
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    Notes: This article makes two points: first, that greater public deliberation is needed to enhance the democratic steering of technological change and, second, that universities are particularly well situated to provide an institutional foundation for such deliberations. Existing problems with policy making about issues with significant scientific and/or technological components are considered, along with the prospect that structured public deliberation might help close an evident democratic deficit in scientific and technological policy making. Several kinds of public deliberations are described, with special emphasis on the Danish Consensus Conference model. The basic requirements for effective public deliberations are discussed, along with several issues that need fundamental research. Finally, a scenario of multiple public deliberative exercises scaled at the national level is discussed.
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    The coming conflict between science and spirit (2003)
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    Notes: This review of a fine book on recent advances in neuroscience shows that the field has successfully demonstrated the use of game theory and probability to model animal behavior. However, science may be claiming too much by contending that this approach explains away consciousness, will, and other qualities attributed to mind and spirit. A balanced assessment of evidence on both sides of this historic debate shows that it is impossible to resolve this issue now, but the results of this great social experiment can be expected by about 2020 when computer power matches the brain.
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    Strategic planning and information use: the role of institutional leadership in the community college (2003)
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    On the horizon 11 (2003), S. 10-14 
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    Notes: Community college presidents face a daunting challenge in trying to manage and guide an organization that is, by its nature, decentralized and bureaucratic in its decision-making processes, and at the same time they face external demands for greater accountability and internal demands for information. Although technological systems can accomplish these kinds of data collection tasks easily, the implementation of such systems is itself problematic. In many ways, implementing new information and technology systems, when done effectively, mirrors the open-ended, cross-functional deliberative processes of strategic planning. This paper discusses how institutional leaders at community colleges have used the implementation of strategic planning processes to break down information silos, increase collaboration among units, streamline information and work processes, and provide greater access to both academic and operational information. While this process may be time-consuming and disorderly, it is a promising tool for bringing about organizational change.
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    Introduction: On the Horizon special issue (2004)
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    On the horizon 12 (2004), S. 8-9 
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    Notes: This special issue of On the Horizon focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. A facet of this issue is the interactive and collaborative method in which it was created. Instead of separated individual articles, the authors and editors have orchestrated the articles together, reading and writing as a whole so that the concepts across the articles resonate with each other. It is the intention that this special issue will serve as the basis of many more discussions across conference panels, online forums and interactive media that in turn will engender more special collaborative issues.
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    Why create a media and game center? (2004)
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    Notes: Game centers are increasingly being started at various universities around the world. The paper explores and expounds on the incorporation of an official university center that has a mission on the study and making of games and simulations. To focus this discussion, the paper looks at the ideas and initiatives that led up to the successful creation of the Applied Media and Simulation Games Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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    The four slates of educational experiences (2004)
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    Notes: Proposes that simulations teach timing and balance which is not possible to teach in a traditional manner through classrooms, books or films. States that these can be used to increase the power of the organization if they are used correctly. Proceeds to explain four stages, or slates of simulation deployment used today. Concludes that although simulations take more work, they result in exponentially better results.
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    Practical barriers in using educational computer games (2004)
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    On the horizon 12 (2004), S. 18-21 
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    Notes: This paper outlines the barriers for using computer games in an educational setting by drawing on a study of a two-month history course with the historical strategy game Europa Universalis II. The paper draws on the limited earlier literature on the subject to identify classic areas of difficulty. Some of these are time schedule, physical setting, class expectations, teacher background, genre knowledge, technical problems, experience with group work, teacher preparation, perception of games, class size, priority issue. It is concluded that these factors add up to a tremendous workload on teachers that wish to engage with educational computer games and demands that the teacher possesses a variety of skills.
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    Making visible: using simulation and game environments across disciplines (2004)
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    On the horizon 12 (2004), S. 22-25 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Simulation and game environments exemplify effective pedagogical principles; enable students to manipulate concepts, principles, systems and variables; and are applicable to curricula across academic disciplines. Illustrative examples of simulations and games used for instruction by government, industry and academia are provided.
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    The Age of Learning: Education and the Knowledge Society (2004)
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    On the horizon 12 (2004), S. 79-82 
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    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: This 230 page edited book attempts to capture the ethos of the age of learning and analyze its features. It questions its ethics from a variety of academic perspectives and discusses how the learning society actually functions. Traditional views are seen threatened, as education becomes a commodity. Education and learning are seen intertwined with global capitalism, and government policies and practices are increasingly viewed as treating learning as an investment, resulting in employability and work. A learning society emerges as one of the products.
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    Spinning the Semantic Web (2004)
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    On the horizon 12 (2004), S. 74-78 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: From the quiet new born days of early 1990s, the World Wide Web has had an exponential growth in the last decade or so. From the original goal of sharing research resources, Web today portrays a virtual world spanning from research to entertainment and e-commerce. This growth has necessitated substantial changes in the Web model. From the purely syntactic and relatively static framework of HTML, we have moved through DHTML and XML incorporating dynamicity and extensibility, and are now en route semantic frameworks starting with RDF. These allow Web documents to be comprehensible to machines (and not just to humans) allowing software agents to access and process such information on the Web. This leads us to semantic Web, and thus to a generation of Web applications based on Web services, adaptive content delivery, etc. Spinning the Semantic Web is based on papers presented in a seminar in Germany in 2000, and sketches the vario elements of semantic Web, the issues in realising it as well as some visions of the future. The stimulating forward to the book by Tim Berners-Lee, recently Knighted and widely regarded as the father of the Web, portrays his vision of semantic Web. The chapters explore specific issues such as ontologies, schema languages, annotations, applications, etc. The chapters are largely unorganised and presented without any cross-linking and most chapters use a fair amount of domain jargon. The book will be of value to those seriously interested in the field.
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    Institutional change in government: puzzles and paradoxes (2005)
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    On the horizon 13 (2005), S. 24-30 
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    Topics: Education , Economics
    Notes: Purpose - Seeks to outline the impact of the information society on the institutional changes taking place in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach - A veteran of government outlines the impact of the information society on the institutional changes taking place in the public sector. Drawing on his extensive experience and the literature, he provides creative insights into the themes of this special issue. Findings - E-government may prove useful in managing routine tasks, he agrees, but the highly complex, interpersonal nature of government places severe limits on the extent to which public work can be automated. With government outsourcing much of its work to private firms, and corporations required to serve the public interest, there is also a marked overlap of the public versus private domains. The old hierarchies of the past are being fragmented by information systems and the need to involve people in managing complexity, leading to "uncentralized" systems in which initiative and creativity must be exercised at all levels. And the mismatch between geographic boundaries and the criss-crossing nature of real problems creates confusion over how governments should be organized. Originality/value - All of these trends, the author notes, pose paradoxes that mark the distinctive features of government today.
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    Environmental management in Swedish higher education: Directives, driving forces, hindrances, environmental aspects and environmental co-ordinators in Swedish universities (2005)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 6 (2005), S. 18-35 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Purpose - This study of environment management systems implementation in Swedish universities contributes to the dialogue about the role of management systems as tools in developing sustainability in higher education. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical study is based on Government directives that make environmental management systems implementation compulsory for all public organisations in Sweden, annual environmental reports of Swedish universities for the years 1997-2002, their internet home pages, and a survey. Findings - Many universities focus only on direct environmental aspects like paper use and waste handling, even though the main tasks of the universities, namely education, research and co-operation with the surrounding society, that is the indirect aspects, are likely to have a considerable environmental impact. The organisation of the environmental work and the placement of the environmental coordinator also vary. Two main patterns appear; the coordinator has a function in the service department or an administrative function in the president's office. The goal of certification increases the likelihood of the environmental coordinator being placed in the president's office. Originality/value - The aim is to increase the understanding of why and how a concept that was first introduced in industry is applied to institutions of higher education.
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    Recreating the university from within: Collaborative reflections on the University of British Columbia's engagement with sustainability (2005)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 6 (2005), S. 65-80 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Purpose - In 1997, the University of British Columbia (UBC) adopted a sustainable development policy stating that the campus should adhere to sustainable practices in all of its actions and mandates and that all students who attend UBC will be educated about sustainability. The purpose of the paper is to consider how far UBC has moved in the last six years in the direction of sustainability education, what has been accomplished, what lessons have been learned and what challenges lie ahead. Design/methodology/approach - This paper is a collaborative inquiry created by a number of faculty, staff and one doctoral student working on sustainability education issues at UBC. Findings - The shift to sustainability involves: a fundamental thinking-through of basic issues about the role of the university in society, creating a strong relationship between sustainability principles and the core goals of the university. It also will require a reworking of the design and operation of institutional reward systems, creating an appropriate linkage between the operational and academic functions of the university, and finding an appropriate mix of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. The collaborative writing process helped to bring people together to reflect on the projects of the past and consider the plans for the future. Originality/value - The intention of the paper is to summarize the sustainability education initiatives at UBC, and address barriers and pathways to creating sustainability education programs at the university level. The collaborative stories aim to help other individuals and groups implement sustainability in higher education and contribute to a process of institutional learning for sustainability.
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    Preaching what we practice: experiences from implementing ISO 14001 at the University of Glamorgan (2005)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 6 (2005), S. 161-178 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Purpose - To provide an overview of how environmental management systems (EMSs) are becoming sporadically employed within higher educational institutions. Design/methodology/approach - An overview of international developments in sustainable education and within UK universities. Focuses specifically on the University of Glamorgan, Wales. Findings - EMSs have been historically perceived as of little importance within most of the UK higher educational sector. Documents how the University of Glamorgan, Wales became the first university in the UK to have all of its operations accredited to ISO 14001. Originality/value - Provides a summary of a higher education institution's path to ISO 14001 accreditation.
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    City networks and sustainability - The role of knowledge and of cultural heritage in globalization (2001)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 2 (2001), S. 38-47 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Sustainable development has clearly taken on a global dimension, even if in recent years it has increasingly been acknowledged that there is a close mutual interaction between local and global processes. Politicians, economists and practitioners have realised that regional differences and particularities have become very important for building a people-based development which is not only goods-based. Thus, some new keywords for endogenous self-sustainable development are: networks, knowledge and local milieux. The integration of sustainable development aspects in spatial planning, territory governance and development has become stronger and stronger, combined with a spread of local knowledge and the preservation of both the cultural and environmental heritage. This paper considers all these factors and tries to explain these types of relationships, starting from the idea of city network as a basis for global competition, and moving on towards discussing the role of universities and scientific parks as institutions for knowledge production and dissemination. Finally, the important role of cultural heritage in a territory is investigated, as tool for building a culture-based growth that should increase social cohesion, local identity and equity. Although largely descriptive, this analysis is of special use to those teaching courses in the fields of architecture, planning and civil engineering, where a broader knowledge of city networks offers a more solid basis upon which awareness of sustainability may be built.
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    Seven recommendations for creating sustainability education at the university level: A guide for change agents (2005)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 6 (2005), S. 326-339 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Purpose - This paper describes a set of recommendations that will aid universities planning to create sustainability education programs. These recommendations are not specific to curriculum or programs but are instead recommendations for academic institutions considering a shift towards "sustainability education" in the broadest sense. The purpose of this research was to consider the possible directions for the future of sustainability education at the university level. Design/methodology/approach - Through a series of workshops using a "value focused thinking" framework, a small team of researchers engaged a large number of stakeholders in a dialogue about sustainability education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Recommendations were compiled from workshop data as well as data from 30 interviews of participants connected with decision-making and sustainability at UBC. Findings - The recommendations include infusing sustainability into all university decisions, promoting and practicing collaboration and transdisciplinarity and focusing on personal and social sustainability. Other recommendations included an integration of university plans, decision-making structures and evaluative measures and the integration of the research, service and teaching components of the university. There is a need for members of the university community to create space for reflection and pedagogical transformation. Originality/value - The intention of the paper is to outline the details of a participatory workshop that uses value-focused thinking in order to engage university faculty and administration in a dialogue about sustainability education. Students, faculty and staff working towards sustainability education will be able to adapt the workshop to their own institutions.
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    Sustainable development, education and literacy (2005)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 6 (2005), S. 351-362 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: 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 is given and related to sustainable development education, and a case study is provided to demonstrate an example of incorporating sustainability into course delivery and to demonstrate problem-based interdisciplinary learning. Findings - Our discussion supports our claim that reconciling sustainability and development requires a complex interdisciplinary approach beyond that found in some areas of traditional environmental education. Research limitations/implications - Our literature search is not exhaustive and focuses on sustainable development education. A much greater body of literature relating to environmental education exists. Practical implications - Our discussion and case study suggests practitioners designing and teaching sustainable development related programs should incorporate an interdisciplinary approach and allow for problem-based applied learning to take place. Originality/value - This paper distinguishes sustainable development education from environmental education and suggests practical courses of action for initiating sustainable development education in a meaningful manner.
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    Forming a community partnership to enhance education in sustainability (2005)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 6 (2005), S. 392-402 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Purpose - To provide an example of how colleges can partner with local EcoVillages to further sustainability curriculum on campus and the educational mission of the EcoVillages, and to strengthen ties with the community. Design/methodology/approach - Describes four structured courses developed for the Environmental Studies Program, including sustainable communities, sustainable land use, sustainable energy and environmental futures. Additionally, independent research opportunities in wind energy, solar photovoltaics, and GIS/GPS developed as part of the curriculum. Describes numerous ancillary activities that have promoted sustainability across campus and the community. Findings - Provides information about how to develop educational partnerships with community groups, foster sustainability education on campus, recruit additional faculty involvement, and influence college operations with respect to sustainability. Practical implications - A very useful source of information for those involved in building sustainability curriculum and linking it to campus operations and community outreach. Originality/value - This paper describes a unique partnership between a college and an intentional community that serves as a model for other colleges and universities.
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    Nurturing green innovations for academic institutions (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 155-163 
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    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: This article observes how, in today's common building practice, design practitioners seldom utilize the expertise of researchers in building-related fields. The lack of the collaboration may be due as much to the "applicability gap" between research and practice as to the lack of a clearly defined role of researchers in building design. Most institutions' research groups and facilities planning offices are generally not set up to collaborate with the design and engineering professionals. This study, however, found design teams' collaboration with academic and research institutions to be instrumental in the successful development and implementation of technological innovations in architectural projects. It discusses the findings and provides partnership strategies between the institutions, as large-building owners, and the building professionals, as design providers.
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    Survivor Studio Philadelphia University: Promoting sustainability in the design studio through collaborative game playing (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 146-154 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: The paper describes how, in the first few weeks of each semester, the architecture students and faculty at Philadelphia University participate in a Survivor Competition. Inspired by the campy show where contestants battle the elements and each other for a million dollars, Survivor Studio pits teams of design students and faculty against each other to accumulate points in a variety of physical, intellectual and design challenges. Geared towards heightening the students' respect for natural systems, understanding of indigenous cultures and the poetic potential for sustainable technologies, the challenges attempt to develop relationships with the students' non-design studio curriculum. This included a game show on the history of architecture, the reading and interpretation of a novel called Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, and a research documentation project focused on sustainable architecture and technologies developed by indigenous cultures. Physical challenges included scavenger hunts around campus that highlighted strategy, teamwork and knowledge/sensitivity to local environments. The main challenge for the students was to design a small community that could sustain the team without food or power or any supplies for one year. It elaborates on the ideas, pedagogical concepts, teaching strategies and eventual results of the Survivor Studio as a vehicle for exploring new and innovative ways to activate students' imagination, energy and innate knowledge about sustainable design.
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    Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 203-220 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: This paper reviews definitions and frameworks for sustainability in higher education by examining a set of major national and international declarations and institutional policies related to environmental sustainability in universities. It identifies emerging themes and priorities, and discusses how these declarations and policies are affecting various institutions in how they frame the central task of becoming sustainable and how they perceive their own commitment to sustainability.
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    Environmental initiatives and further educational possibilities within the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 164-173 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: The paper refers to a "beautifying and landscaping the university campus" competition held in June 2001 to improve the learning and working environment of the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. One of the proposed themes in the form of an education trail, which aims to provide a better understanding of the principles and operations of renewable energy in solar, wind, hydro, wave, geothermal and biomass, is to be illustrated as a case study at the city centre campus of the Polytechnic University. The same facility will also serve as an invaluable resource for teaching, applied research as well as community education on renewable energy. It discusses the objectives and tentative strategies in the design of this education trail.
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    Shifting sights: The cultural challenge of sustainability (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 233-242 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: This article focuses on the need for universities, as teaching and research organisations, to recognise and act upon a more culturally inclusive interpretation of "sustainable development" and "sustainability". It argues for the valuing of indigenous worldviews as a means of achieving a more holistic and interdisciplinary way of thinking about the Earth as the home of all people and as a complement to the beliefs of Western science and rational objective thinking. At a more personal level, it challenges readers, especially academics, to re-examine their own ways of thinking and knowing for the sake of creating sustainable futures that are inclusive in its processes, contexts and outcomes.
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    "Sustainability" in higher education: From doublethink and newspeak to critical thinking and meaningful learning (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 221-232 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: It is higher education's responsibility to continuously challenge and critique value and knowledge claims that have prescriptive tendencies. Part of this responsibility lies in engaging students in socio-scientific disputes. The ill-defined nature of sustainability manifests itself in such disputes when conflicting values, norms, interests, and reality constructions meet. This makes sustainability - its need for contextualization and the debate surrounding it - pivotal for higher education. It offers an opportunity for reflection on the mission of our universities and colleges, but also a chance to enhance the quality of the learning process. This paper explores both the overarching goals and process of higher education from an emancipatory view and with regard to sustainability.
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    Advancing sustainability in higher education: Issues and opportunities for research (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 243-253 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: This paper explores issues related to the choice of goals and approaches for advancing sustainability in higher education through research. The paper argues that the diverse nature of the questions, issues and problems facing advocates of sustainability in higher education requires a willingness to adopt an eclectic approach to the choice of research methodologies or paradigms. The views of reality and knowledge embedded in alternative research paradigms - empirical analytical, interpretive, critical, and poststructural paradigms - are summarised briefly. The relevance of the four paradigms is illustrated by taking two issues of sustainability in higher education and exploring how they would be addressed by each one. The two issues are: campus catering services and integrating the principles of the Earth Charter into an engineering degree program. The paper concludes by reviewing the debate over whether this eclectic position is consistent with the goals of advancing sustainability in higher education.
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    Sustainability and peace in Costa Rica: The case of the University of Costa Rica (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 271-278 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: This article describes initiatives at the University of Costa Rica, which, in combination with national programs, have strengthened the country's commitment to sustainable development over the past 15 years. It discusses the university's role in defining a national perspective on sustainability starting in 1987, as well as the evolution of the university's Programa Institucional de Sostenibilidad y Paz (PRINSOPAZ) from being university focused to joining with the Earth Council to promote the Earth Charter both nationally and internationally.
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    Institutional assessment tools for sustainability in higher education: Strengths, weaknesses, and implications for practice and theory (2002)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 3 (2002), S. 254-270 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: This paper analyzes recent efforts to measure sustainability in higher education across institutions. The benefits of cross-institutional assessments include: identifying and benchmarking leaders and best practices; communicating common goals, experiences, and methods; and providing a directional tool to measure progress toward the concept of a "sustainable campus". Ideal assessment tools identify the most important attributes of a sustainable campus, are calculable and comparable, measure more than eco-efficiency, assess processes and motivations and are comprehensible to multiple stakeholders. The 11 cross-institutional assessment tools reviewed in this paper vary in terms of stage of development and closeness to the "ideal tool". These tools reveal (through their structure and content) the following critical parameters to achieving sustainability in higher education: decreasing throughput; pursuing incremental and systemic change simultaneously; including sustainability education as a central part of curricula; and engaging in cross-functional and cross-institutional efforts.
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    Introducing sustainability into the architecture curriculum in the United States (2003)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 4 (2003), S. 100-105 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: A brief review of the five collateral organizations that influence architectural education in the USA and their priorities indicate they may have reached the point of recognizing that sustainability is a core issue of architecture. To reflect this recognition, sustainability will need to be integrated into the architecture curriculum. The question is now one of how to achieve integration. Differing approaches to introducing sustainability into an architectural program are proposed and examined. They range from assuming sustainability already permeates the curriculum by its nature and therefore is integrated, expanding the existing courses concerning environmental systems, and revising the entire curriculum to fully integrate into each subject. To assist in the task of integration, criteria are proposed. The task of integrating sustainability is not to be understated, but if architectural education and practice is to focus beyond state and national levels a global responsibility will need to be assumed.
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    Science education and sustainability initiatives: A campus recycling case study shows the importance of opportunity (2003)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 4 (2003), S. 218-229 
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    Notes: Instructors at Francis Marion University developed a recycling course in an attempt to satisfy the students' goals of increasing campus awareness about sustainability and recycling, and the teachers' goals of using problem-based learning approaches in class. Students enrolled in the course designed their own experiment, completed the experiment and presented the results at several national meetings. The focal point of the experiment was student apartments, where some students were provided with recycling bins, some were not, and some were provided with both bins and education about the importance of recycling. Results show that students living in campus apartments significantly reduced their waste stream when given recycling bins and some education about recycling. Although ANOVA tests showed that while the presence of recycling education did not result in significantly more recycling, students who received bins (opportunity) recycled more as time went on. Positive student feedback indicated the success of using project-based learning to teach sustainability.
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    Strategies for institutional Kyoto compliance: A case study of the Lewis & Clark experience (2003)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 4 (2003), S. 257-262 
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    Notes: This article attempts to answer the question of how should institutions of higher education best go about achieving the emissions reductions specified in the Kyoto Protocol. To answer this question, it examines the efforts to make Lewis & Clark College (LCC) the first institution of higher education in the USA to actually meet the emissions targets stipulated in the Kyoto Protocol. The article concludes that LCC's strategy of offset purchasing for immediate Kyoto compliance is feasible and desirable for other institutions of higher education, particularly when combined with a program for long-term on-campus emissions reductions.
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    Building commitment to sustainability through habitat restoration: A case study of Valley Forge Christian College (2003)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 4 (2003), S. 250-256 
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    Notes: This sustainability initiative was created to improve the campus habitat for wildlife and to motivate students to begin new sustainability initiatives. A habitat restoration and educational outreach plan called "Habitat action to change hearts" (HATCH) was developed and a Campus Ecology grant provided support for this student-led effort. Nestboxes were erected along a newly constructed nature trail that passes through the campus and a local park. Native trees were planted along the trail. Bluebirds (Sialia sialis), tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), and black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus) nested in 83 percent of the nestboxes. Educational outreach was provided through various outlets, including training elementary students to monitor nestboxes, providing brochures that inform trail users about biodiveristy, cavity nesting birds, and habitat restoration, and giving student-led tours of the trail that educated participants about environmental issues. The college has benefited from improved community relationships and raised awareness.
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    Is the "maize-and-blue" turning green? Sustainability at the University of Michigan (2003)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 4 (2003), S. 263-276 
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    Notes: Although popular press and internal media have dubbed the University of Michigan (U of M) a "sustainability leader", it is not clear whether this label reflects a true commitment to environmental and interrelated social issues or simply a savvy public relations campaign. This case study (1997-2002) explores these possibilities by analyzing the environmental organizational change process and outcomes at Michigan through my experiences as a student, activist, researcher and employee. I conclude that while the U of M is not an environmental laggard, the recent media attention exaggerates the campus' progress by ignoring the fact that sustainability efforts are scattered and have not deeply permeated the culture, leadership, policies and practices of the institution. In terms of campus sustainability advocacy, this analysis highlights the importance of coordination and institutional leaders, a "spark" to move environmental issues onto the campus agenda, and tailoring advocacy approaches to stakeholder interests.
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    An environmental management qualification through distance education (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 63-80 
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    Notes: The department of geography and environmental studies of the University of South Africa recently played a pivotal role in implementing an inter- and multidisciplinary undergraduate programme in environmental management. This programme prepares students for entry-level occupations, and equips them with the knowledge, skills and values needed to contribute to sustainable development. Both BA and BSc students are catered for, which contributes to the broadening of undergraduate education. This programme is unique because of its inclusion at undergraduate level and because it is offered through distance education. The teaching approach acknowledges that the causes of environmental problems are not simple, and are rooted in the nature of political, social and economic systems. It acknowledges that the solutions to environmental problems are equally complex, requiring not only specialist inputs, but also value and structural shifts. In line with the latest trends in education, a student-activating approach is followed, with emphasis on real case studies, the flexible application of knowledge, and formative and integrated assessment. An overview is given of the experience that has been gained through designing and implementing this programme. This experience may serve to stimulate discussion on how to improve education and training in this field. The results of a pilot survey conducted among the students enrolled for this programme are presented. Their responses reflect a positive attitude to the programme, especially concerning the interconnectedness of modules, the fostering of environmental awareness, and its usefulness for career objectives.
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    Need a university adopt a formal environmental management system?: Progress without an EMS at a small university (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 125-132 
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    Notes: What system does a university need to optimise its progress to sustainability? Discusses the gradation of approaches possible for a university as it strives to improve its environmental performance. Argues that an environmental policy plus mechanisms for its implementation can be adequate, and endorsement of a single formal EMS need not be necessary. Illustrates this with progress at Lincoln University, the smallest public university in New Zealand. Lincoln University introduced its environmental policy in 1992, but its full implementation was delayed due to pressures on the tertiary sector in New Zealand. However, a new policy has now been adopted and an environmental task force established. Also briefly addresses the following topics: why have an environmental policy?; the establishment and content of the Lincoln University environmental policy; putting the policy into practice - an example based on waste reduction; and a discussion of the main obstacles to progress, in the current university climate.
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    Environmental certification at Mälardalen University (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 133-146 
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    Notes: Aims to describe how the concept of sustainable development, with a focus on the ecological dimension, can be applied practically in an institution for higher education and research. The institution used as an example is Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden. Encompasses literature studies and conclusions from practical experience in implementing and maintaining the environmental management system at Mälardalen University. Begins with a review of the concept of sustainable development based on the report "Our common future", presented by the Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Then briefly summarises "Agenda 21", the document from the Rio conference in 1992. Then describes the sector principle, which has been adopted in Sweden by its Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) and government. Then reviews European, regional, and national strategies for a sustainable development within the bounds of higher education and research, followed by a report of the University's work to translate these strategies into practice. The report describes the University's work to integrate the environmental management system within the bounds of training and research and daily operations.
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    Implementing the sustainable development policy at the University of British Columbia: An analysis of the implications for organisational learning (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 156-168 
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    Notes: Rethinking our organisational learning processes is critical to society's transition to sustainability - a transition toward living respectfully with one another on a planet with finite resources. Presents the concept of sustainability as a central organising focus for higher education and draws on theories of organisational learning to help inform the transition. Specifically, the central case study focuses on the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada's first university to adopt a sustainable development policy, and explores how well the policy is implemented in practice. Explores some of the barriers to effective implementation, and provides insights into why the University operates as a "knowledge institution" rather than a "learning institution". An embedded case study examines the learning experience of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at UBC based on the recent transformation of its core curriculum to incorporate sustainability principles.
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    Assessing the educational opportunities from a solar powered cultivator at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 190-198 
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    Notes: The need to develop alternatives for fossil fuel energy consumption is mandated by the limit of world oil reserves and the environmental costs associated with their continued use. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate to local farmers the environmental benefits provided by a modified farm implement and to enhance interest in alternative energy systems. The investigators wanted also to evaluate the attitudes among students and the general public in studying energy in lower power applications at Slippery Rock University. This was accomplished through the administration of a purposefully designed survey to 72 subjects who were introduced to alternative energy systems by the investigators at the farmers' fairs. Presents a discussion about every indicator proposed by the research instrument with implications for colleges and universities in gearing curricula toward sustainability. The acquisition of solar powered equipment remains inaccessible for a majority of Pennsylvania farmers. However, this initial evaluation study demonstrates a sincere interest toward solar energy, in an attempt to pursue sustainability a step further, at an institution of higher education, in this prominent agrarian region of the USA.
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    EcoCity Columbus: Using an Ohio State University planning class to bring sustainability concepts to Columbus, Ohio (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 199-212 
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    Notes: Attention in US literature and practice addressing sustainable development has focused on a limited number of communities such as Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. These communities have been identified as making difficult decisions and ground-breaking policies to advance sustainability initiatives. However, these communities are considered by some to be atypical and their experiences do not relate to the typical US city. The US landscape is dominated by more "average" places. Explores the use of a graduate level planning class to help bring sustainability concepts to a more typical US city, Columbus, Ohio. Examines impediments and opportunities that were encountered in the process, and identifies three key factors that have characterized the Columbus experience: timing, leadership, and a non-continuously successful process.
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    Major challenges to engineering education for sustainable development: What has to change to make it creative, effective, and acceptable to the established disciplines? (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 239-250 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Scholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re-examination of the curriculum and restructuring of research in engineering-focused institutions of higher learning. This article will address the following themes and questions: How can multi- and trans-disciplinary teaching and research coexist in a meaningful way in today's university structures? Does education relevant to sustainable development require its own protected incubating environment to survive, or will it otherwise be gobbled up and marginalized by attempting to instil it throughout the traditional curriculum? What roles can national and EU governments have in accelerating the needed changes? How can it be made safe for courageous students to take educational paths different from traditional tracks, even if technical options exist to do so? What can one learn from comparative analysis of universities in different nations and environments?
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    Advances in education transformation towards sustainable development at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 251-266 
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    Notes: This paper presents methodological and strategic results of the first two years of the implementation of the second environmental plan (2002-2005) at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and discusses the benefits and difficulties of new strategies adopted. Particularly, the focus is pointed to the introduction of environmental aspects into technical education, in the framework of an integral university approach that combines simultaneous actions in the areas of education, research, university life and communication in order to develop a consistent and synergetic model. The paper describes and discusses the strategies that have been adopted for accelerating the transformation of the university towards a sustainable university, which include: to create useful tools for decision making, particularly strategic planning indicators; to introduce environmental indicators into university mainstream processes; to assess the transformation potential through an environmental research map; and to work synergistically through "linking initiatives".
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    Implementing a program in sustainability for engineers at University of Technology, Sydney: A story of intersecting agendas (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 267-277 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Integrating sustainability into an undergraduate engineering program at the University of Technology, Sydney has been a challenging project. The authors of this paper have been participant observers of the integration process. In this paper, they have attempted an analysis of that process, focussing on the dynamics of the network of people and interests, which have shaped the process. Actor network theory was used to provide an analytical framework for the analysis. The interests and experiences of the authors in the process necessarily influence the analysis. All three authors have been active in positioning sustainability as a central theme for the critique and practice of engineering. Paul Bryce and Stephen Johnston have had long-standing involvement in technology transfer projects in development. Both have published on engineering as a social activity, critiquing the undue emphasis in engineering education on engineering science, at the expense of attention to engineering practice. Their experience and scholarship have given credibility to their efforts in the faculty to press for a new paradigm of engineering practice. Keiko Yasukawa is an educational developer in the faculty who has been working with staff and students to help them reflect on their idea of what engineering is about in their teaching and learning. She has taken a leading role in shaping the new curriculum.
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    Integrating SD into engineering courses at the Delft University of Technology: The individual interaction method (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 278-288 
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    Notes: When sustainable development (SD) is only taught in specific courses, it is questionable if engineering students are able to integrate it into their engineering practices and technical designs. For this reason, sustainability should also be integrated into regular engineering courses, e.g. design courses, materials courses or processing technology. The SD education plan adopted by the board of Delft University of Technology (DUT) in 1998 was based on this philosophy. It consists of three interconnected activities for all engineering curricula: the implementation of an elementary course "Technology in sustainable development"; the development of a graduation program in sustainable development for students who want to specialize; and the integration of sustainable development in all regular courses, wherever applicable. This paper describes various activities that the project group carried out to stimulate and support the third strategy: SD integration. It turned out that top-down attempts to influence the content of courses often triggered resistance among lecturers, as they feared the intermingling of laymen into their scientific/engineering discipline. Interaction was important but was often impossible by lack of mutual understanding. Participation in a national project aimed to stimulate discussion by making disciplinary sustainability reviews of academic/engineering disciplines. This approach was promising as it created the base for serious discussions. However, the reports often ended in the bureaucracies of the departments. More positive results were achieved with a semi-consultant approach directed at discussing SD issues with individual lecturers. Many lecturers were willing to discuss their courses, and were interested in practical ideas to integrate sustainability. This interactive approach is promising because it does not conflict with academic culture and keeps the lecturer in charge of his own course.
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    A sustainable development course for environmental engineers in Kyrgyzstan (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 289-294 
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    Notes: Courses on sustainable development (SD) are taught in several institutes of Kyrgyzstan. However, courses for the specialties "eco-technology", and "ecological exploitation of natural resources" are only offered by two institutes. There are two alternative courses: for students; and (two months) for decision makers. The theoretical-cognitive base of the courses includes Rio 92 documents, Club of Rome Reports, Brundlandt Report, Vernadsky biosphere-nooshere theory, and the Kyrgyzstani Comprehensive Development Framework 2001-2010. Three problems are also included: administrative apparatus reform; economy restoration (mining, water-soil-energy); and poverty alleviation. Philosophy, recent nature concept, regional and global problems are also included in the courses. A focus point in the courses is to restore balances between nature conservation and nature-using activities, especially in the energy field (oil, gas, coal, and alternative energy from sun and wind). Sun, including collectors for water, building heating and processes for drying crops and vegetables by sunlight, are also included in the course. Small hydroelectric power stations (1-22KW) might be used in the country's mountain range. The courses also deal with Central Asian ethnic problems (sharp divisions by ethnicity such as Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Iranian, Tadjik). There is also a course in emotional form, using poetry and (sometimes religious) verses. The courses have been taught since 1998. Thus far 400 students and 92 administrators passed the course. In this paper, the specific approach of the course, investigating SD at a conceptual as well as an emotional level, will be evaluated. Reflects on the question of how successful this approach might be for developing countries in general.
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    Learning about environmental issues in engineering programmes: A case study of first-year civil engineering students' contextualisation of an ecology course (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 295-307 
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    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Education
    Notes: Describes how first-year civil engineering students interpreted the content and structure of an ecology course. Students' learning processes were analysed from an intentional perspective, i.e. a perspective that takes into account the students' educational aims and conceptions of the study situation. Interviews were carried out with six civil engineering students who had taken the ecology course. Classroom observations were carried out and the dialogue between the lecturers and the students recorded. Interviews were transcribed and analysed from an intentional perspective, i.e. meaning is ascribed to the students' actions and utterances in terms of intent. Students contextualised the content of the ecology course in different ways - within natural science, cultural, social and political, applied and professional, and existential contexts. Students found the content of the ecology course to be a question of value judgement. Also, among the students there were feelings of accusation on behalf of engineers as professionals. Learning processes among the students were analysed in terms of contextual awareness and contextual inconsistency. Students mainly enhanced their knowledge in the sense that they tended to elaborate concepts solely on an empirical level and learned more facts. Suggests that environmental issues can be seen and dealt with from natural science, social science and philosophical perspectives, and that it is important that these different perspectives are explicitly addressed on a meta-level. The tendency to enhance the amount of content matter to be taught without considering the meta-level issues can cause the students problems in their efforts to learn. Suggested that the premises for teaching certain content should be made explicit by the teacher. To know why certain content has been included in the teaching may be of considerable help for the students in formulating relevant learning projects.
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    Arsenic mitigation and social mobilisation in Bangladesh (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 308-319 
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    Notes: For the people of Bangladesh, mostly in rural areas, a new disaster is emerging. Two-thirds of the deep tube wells installed over the last three decades - roughly 3 million in total - contain arsenic concentrations above the permissible levels set by the WHO. These wells were installed to contribute to a secure and reliable drinking water supply, and put an end to various contagious diseases from the use of surface water. In itself that goal has been reached. It is therefore a bitter observation that it is this very approach that has led to the widespread arsenic poisoning of drinking water. Most rural development programs cannot meet the demand of the community because of the absence of appropriate institutional mechanisms, and most programs simply cannot reach the large low-income groups. It is time to rethink the existing institutional set-up and redefine the roles of communities, the private sector, NGOs, local government institutions and the central government. An initiative from several Bangladeshi organisations has resulted in international co-operation - the Arsenic Mitigation and Research Foundation (AMRF). Participation of the local community is one of the guiding principles of AMRF. Local priorities will be a significant component in the decisions made regarding mitigation activities. Given the institutional weakness of governmental bodies in solving problems within a reasonable time, it is natural to look for local solutions based on local experience, knowledge and capacity. Focuses on institutional development and community participation related to arsenic contamination in drinking water and broadly in sustainable development policy and practice in Bangladesh. Looks into possible comprehensive frameworks for the implementation of sustainable drinking water systems, facilitating a basic development strategy for people's participation. Discusses ways to ensure a greater role for the community in achieving a sustainable rural water management system, involving formal institutions as well as informal networks at village community level.
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    An overview of ecological footprinting and other tools and their application to the development of sustainability process: Audit and methodology at Holme Lacy College, UK (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 340-371 
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    Notes: A sustainability audit of Holme Lacy College is described. The approach adopted a "triple bottom line" assessment, comprising a number of key steps: a scoping review utilising a revised Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors project appraisal tool; an environmental impact assessment based on ecological footprinting and a social and economic impact assessment. The college has a number of unsustainable features. Its ecological footprint is equivalent to 296?ha and some 866 tonnes of CO2 were emitted from the site over a one-year period. The social impact of the college and its staff is significant over a wide range of stakeholders and the region. The economic impact indicates that the college contributes up to £5.3 million to the local and regional economy.
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    Programme review guidelines for quality assurance in higher education: A South African perspective (2004)
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    International journal of sustainability in higher education 5 (2004), S. 372-383 
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    Notes: All educators should reflect on and assess the quality of their teaching and their learning programmes. Such reflection is the subject of this article. The focus is on higher education (HE) with particular emphasis on distance learning institutions. A particular educational programme is considered, namely a course-work Master's degree in environmental education at a South African distance learning university. Sustainable living is one of the envisaged outcomes of this programme. This article gives a general perspective on quality assurance in HE. The views of a number of authors are discussed, with special reference to HE in the cultural diversity of South Africa. Various approaches and factors that influence learning assessment are discussed. The theme of sustainability as integrated in HE programmes is emphasised as one of the criteria that should determine quality in education programmes. It is concluded that, although programme assessment is a difficult process and necessarily contextualised, it is an important tool for ensuring quality teaching and learning. Programme assessment is a form of critical self-evaluation that includes peer evaluation and evaluative input from students.
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    Physicochemical properties of organic pigments on a silica core (2002)
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    Pigment & resin technology 31 (2002), S. 96-101 
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: The surface of pyrogenic silica was modified with silane coupling agent, such as N-2-(aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane. Pigments were obtained by attaching different organic dyes, to a modified silica surface. The adsorption process was conducted in an aqueous suspension of the modified silica in the presence of the dye. In order to determine effect of silane on the dye adsorption process various amounts of the modifying compound was used. The microscopic properties, colour and particle size distribution were examined for the modified silicas and the obtained pigments.
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    Effects of magnesium chloride on the properties of wood and non-wood fibrous paper sheets treated with sodium silicate (2003)
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    Pigment & resin technology 32 (2003), S. 175-184 
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: This study examines the effects of using magnesium chloride as a precipitating agent of sodium silicate on the mechanical, optical and fire retardant properties of the resulting paper sheets. Two types of treatments (internal and external), were carried out to investigate such effects on the paper sheets prepared from wood pulp and from non-wood fibrous, bagasse pulp. The results obtained showed that the treatment of paper sheets with either sodium silicate or sodium silicate-magnesium chloride led to a decrease in the activation energy of the initial main degradation stages. Wood pulp-paper sheets treated with sodium silicate showed better fire retardant properties than the sodium silicate-magnesium chloride treated wood pulp-paper sheets. A reverse trend was noted in the case of paper sheets made from bagasse pulp.
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    Comparison of the efficiencies of anticorrosive pigments based on phosphates (2002)
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    Pigment & resin technology 31 (2002), S. 381-388 
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: The paper studies the effect of modification of zinc orthophosphate on the anticorrosion efficiency thereof in organic coating. The zinc orthophosphate dihydrate and tetrahydrate and the reaction of phosphate anion with hydroxyl binder groups are compared. The highest anticorrosion efficiency is reached with pigments which are modified by organic corrosion inhibitors. The highly water soluble phosphate pigments reduce the anticorrosion coating properties. The effect of cation in phosphate pigments on the corrosion inhibition was confirmed.
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    Synthesis and dyeing properties of a new class of condensed carbocyclic arylazopyrazolo[1,5-a] pyrimidines (2003)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Pigment & resin technology 32 (2003), S. 10-23 
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    ISSN: 0369-9420
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Several new condensed carbocyclic arylazopyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine derivatives were obtained from 4-arylazo-3,5-diaminopyrazoles as starting components. The application and dye characteristics for the synthesized dyes are demonstrated.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03699420310454893
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    A silver-palladium thick film for aluminum nitride substrate (2003)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Pigment & resin technology 32 (2003), S. 30-33 
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    ISSN: 0369-9420
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: A silver-palladium thick film conductor for aluminum nitride (AlN) substrate has been developed. This conductor film on AlN ceramics had low sheet resistivity, high adhesion strength and good wettability with Pb-Sn solder. The frit powder of lead borosilicate glass was used as inorganic binders to enhance the adhesion between the conductor and ceramics. After sintering the conductor film connected with the AlN substrate through frit bonding, no transition phases but a multilayer structure is present in the interface. The softening point of the glass was important to the adhesion strength of conductor film. In order to achieve good adhesion, it is necessary that the glass has a proper softening point (about 500-650°C).
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03699420310454910
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