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Capacity-Building Projects in African Higher Education: Issues of Coloniality in International Academic Collaboration
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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Madsen, Lene Møller – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article studies issues of coloniality in so-called capacity-building projects between universities in Africa and Scandinavia. Even fifty years after independence, the African higher education landscape is a product of the colonial powers and subsequent uneven power relations, as argued by a number of researchers. The uneven geography and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Policy
A Study of Knowledge Management Systems Processes and Technology in Open and Distance Education Institutions in Higher Education
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Altinay, Fahriye; Altinay, Mehmet; Dagli, Gokmen; Altinay, Zehra – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the implementation and evaluation of knowledge management and e-transformation strategies of higher educational institutions in distance education. After an evaluation of higher educational practices in different countries, distance education was considered a different strategy and was emphasized…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Distance Education, Change Strategies, Access to Education
The University and Transformation towards Sustainability: The Strategy Used at Chalmers University of Technology
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Holmberg, John; Lundqvist, Ulrika; Svanstrom, Magdalena; Arehag, Marie – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the strategy used for achieving change towards sustainability at Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers). Examples of how this strategy has been used are described and discussed, and exemplified with different lines of activities in a project on Education for Sustainable Development, the ESD…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Administrative Organization, Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods
Embedding of ESD in Engineering Education: Experiences from Chalmers University of Technology
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Svanstrom, Magdalena; Palme, Ulrika; Wedel, Maria Knutson; Carlson, Ola; Nystrom, Thomas; Eden, Michael – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on methods developed, within a three-year Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) project at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, to achieve a higher degree of embedding of ESD in engineering programmes. The major emphasis is on methods used, results achieved and lessons…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Learning Processes, Engineering
Accelerating and Braking in Times of Economic Crisis: Organisational Learning in a Top Management Team
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Wallo, Andreas; Kock, Henrik; Nilsson, Peter – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study of an industrial company's top management team (TMT) that fought to survive an economic crisis. Specifically, the article seeks to focus on describing the TMT's composition, group processes, and work during a period of high external pressure; analysing the TMT's work in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Learning Processes, Group Dynamics, Strategic Planning
Experiential Learning in Retrospect: A Future Organizational Challenge?
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Olsson, Annika; Bjoorn, Urban; Jonson, Gunilla – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a retrospective reflection over unconscious, emergent learning among employees of an organization and to suggest how to capture these moments of experiential learning for future organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: Action research in organizations is undertaken in interaction with…
Descriptors: Action Research, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes