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Insights into Accounting Education in a COVID-19 World
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
The LOGIC of National Policies and Strategies for Open Educational Resources
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Mulder, Fred – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
In its first decade (2001-2010) the OER movement has been carried by numerous relevant and successful projects around the globe. These were sometimes large-scale but more often not, and they were primarily initiated by innovating educational institutions and explorative individual experts. What has remained, however, is the quest for a sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Multimedia Materials
European Particle Physics Masterclasses Make Students into Scientists for a Day
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Johansson, K. E.; Kobel, M.; Hillebrandt, D.; Engeln, K.; Euler, M. – Physics Education, 2007
In 2005 the European particle physics masterclasses attracted 3000 students from 18 European countries to visit one of 58 universities and education centres. The participants worked with data from real high energy particle collisions, learned about particle physics, and experienced research and education environments at European universities. In…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Physics, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education
Remote Teaching Experiments on Magnetic Domains in Thin Films
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Dobrogowski, W.; Maziewski, A.; Zablotskii, V. – European Journal of Physics, 2007
We describe our experience in building a remote laboratory for teaching magnetic domains. Fulfilling the proposed on-line experiments, students can observe and study magnetization processes that are often difficult to explain with written material. It is proposed that networks of remotely accessible laboratories could be integrated in the Global…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Magnets, Scientific Concepts, Science Experiments
National Testing of Pupils in Europe: Objectives, Organisation and Use of Results. Poland 2009
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Sawicki, Miroslaw – Eurydice, 2008
The Polish school education system makes a distinction between two types of assessment: (1) Intra-school or internal assessment; and (2) External assessment. The idea of introducing external examinations into the Polish school education system emerged in 1992. This was directly inspired by study visits to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests
What Works in Education Reform: Putting Young People at the Center
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Tolman, Joel – Forum for Youth Investment, 2003
Given the difficulties and uncertainties of education reform, asking "what works" may be making simple and commonplace what is nearly always a messy and unfinished business. But the work of the International Youth Foundation's partners in 49 countries does reveal a common message of successful reform efforts: put young people at the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Youth, Participation, Foreign Countries