The growing popularity of e-learning may pose one of the greatest challenges currently facing traditional educational institutions. The questions often asked are how, rather than whether, to embrace this new form of instructional delivery and how to create an appropriate learning environment for the learners. Educational institutions in Hong Kong have the option of adopting programmes or learning materials developed in other parts of the world for local learners, or not. Such an approach of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Computer Uses in...
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to...
The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has many opportunities to apply expertise and creativity to the solution of perplexing human problems. It is much more rare, however, to find oneself at the nexus of a set of opportunities that make it possible to make a greater contribution than the original objective. Macedonia's commitment to education, to taking a leadership role in the globalized world, and to being open to change provided that unusual context, and AED was privileged to be a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Quality, Elementary...
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach, Photography, Visual Aids,...
This document includes the following issues of this journal: volume 18, number 3, Summer 2002; volume 18, number 4, Fall 2002; volume 19, number 2, Spring 2003; and volume 19, number 3, Summer 2003. The summer 2002 issue of "The Bill of Rights in Action" views problems related to victims of war. It focuses on the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II, the court case that upheld it as constitutional, and subsequent attempts to compensate those held in the camps;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ancient History, Black Leadership, Capitalism, Civil Rights, Discussion (Teaching...
In this interdisciplinary curriculum unit, students examine and debate the relationship between China and Tibet. Students are expected to produce a mock television report covering topics related to the Tibet question, such as historical issues, the policies of the U.S., Chinese, and Tibetan governments, and human rights concerns. Students are provided with background information, detailed instructions, on-line resources, and reflection questions. The teacher's notes describe the unit's purpose,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Grade 10, High Schools,...
This report of a study at the University of Maryland describes an international, interactive, and interdisciplinary project for first- and second-year students, which combines a large lecture format with small-group, seminar-type sessions organized around a computer-assisted simulation model, the International Communication and Negotiation Simulation (ICONS). Students learned about negotiation strategies through case studies and materials on cross-cultural communication. Strategies were tested...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Active Learning, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation,...
This annual report of the National Council on Disability (NCD) describes major activities and accomplishments during fiscal year 1996 in its role of advising the President and Congress on issues concerning people with disabilities. The NCD conducted the first-ever National Summit on Disability Policy which gathered 300 people to develop more than 120 comprehensive recommendations for the future of people with disabilities, and released several reports covering a variety of disability policy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accessibility (for Disabled), Advisory Committees, Advocacy, Change Strategies,...
This is a paper titled 'The Globalization of American Culture in China and the Resurgence of Chinese Nationalism: A Preliminary Survey'. It was presented at the pacific Sociological Association in 1997. Dimensions are 8 1/2" width by 11" height. This work was created by Gerard Arthus and is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons License.
Topics: garthus, garthus1, PRC, Peoples republic of china, china, foreign policy, united states, business,...
This is a paper proposal submitted to the Pacific Sociological Association 'The Globalization of American Culture: The Historical Evolution of The Most Recent Opening of the World to the People's Republic of Chine'. 1991. Dimensions are 8 1/2" width by 11" height. This work was created by Gerard Arthus and is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons License.
Topics: garthus, garthus1, PRC, Peoples republic of china, china, foreign policy, united states, business,...
This is an an excerpt from the Program for the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS) 'The Internet and Information Technology In The PRC: A Contrast And Comparison With the United States'. 24-26 October 1996. Dimensions are 8 1/2" width by 11" height. This work was created by Gerard Arthus and is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons License.
Topics: PRC, Peoples republic of china, china, foreign policy, united states, business, politics,...
This is a paper presented at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS) 'The Internet and Information Technology In The PRC: A Contrast And Comparison With the United States'. 24-26 October 1996. Dimensions are 8 1/2" width by 11" height. This work was created by Gerard Arthus and is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons License.
Topics: PRC, Peoples republic of china, china, foreign policy, united states, business, politics,...