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Outreach Programmes Using the Triple Helix Model to Encourage Interest in Science and Technology among Underrepresented Youth
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Karmokar, Sangeeta; Shekar, Aruna – Design and Technology Education, 2018
Science and Technology entrepreneurship is one of the requirements of the new millennium, an era called digital society and globalization. Entrepreneurship is considered an agent of growth, wealth creation and development of society. Although New Zealand has experienced a rapid growth of education and research in Science and Technology areas, the…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, STEM Education, Entrepreneurship, Program Descriptions
PIAAC Technical Standards and Guidelines
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OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Coordinated, Collaborative and Coherent: Developing and Implementing E-Learning Guidelines within a National Tertiary Education System
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Suddaby, Gordon; Milne, John – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: The paper aims to discusses two complementary initiatives focussed on developing and implementing e-learning guidelines to support good pedagogy in e-learning practice. Design/methodology/approach: The first initiative is the development of a coherent set of open access e-learning guidelines for the New Zealand tertiary sector. The second…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
Technological Constraints and Implementation Barriers of Using Videoconferencing for Virtual Teaching in New Zealand Secondary Schools
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Lai, Kwok-Wing; Pratt, Keryn – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2009
Nine New Zealand secondary schools participated in the OtagoNet project, using videoconferencing technologies to deliver courses to multiple sites. This paper reports findings from a study conducted between 2001 and 2004 to evaluate the effectiveness of OtagoNet. It was found that videoconferencing technology had a significant impact on pedagogy…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Teaching Styles, Distance Education, Interaction
Keeping Kids Smokefree: Lessons Learned on Community Participation
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Charlier, N.; Glover, M.; Robertson, J. – Health Education Research, 2009
Community participation in program decision-making and implementation is an ideal that community and academic stakeholders aspire to in participatory research. This ideal, however, can be difficult to achieve. We describe lessons learned about community participation from a quasi-experimental trial aimed at reducing the uptake of smoking among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Intervention, Health Personnel
Meeting the Needs of Young Children with Special Developmental Needs: A Resource Booklet for Charter Development in Early Childhood Settings.
Early Childhood Development Unit, Wellington (New Zealand). – 1990
This resource package provides guidelines for use in New Zealand to: (1) help early childhood personnel develop their response to children's special education needs; (2) create confidence among early childhood staff that they are able to cope with children who require special attention; (3) help staff plan for additional resources that may be…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Educational Equipment