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Designing for Multiple Stakeholder Interests within the Humanitarian Market: The Case of Off-Grid Energy Devices
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Nielsen, Brita Fladvad; Rodrigues Santos, Ana Laura – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2013
A "humanitarian market" for off-grid renewable energy technologies for displaced populations in remote areas has emerged. Within this market, there are multiple stakeholder agendas. End-user needs and sustainable development goals are currently not considered through the customer-enterprise relationship and the applied product and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Sustainability, Energy Education, Power Technology
New Approaches to Technology in HE Management
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Cobb, Chris – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
Most UK universities can trace their current management information systems back to significant investments made in the 1990s, largely fuelled by concerns about the millenium bug and a change from character interfaces to graphical user interfaces following the introduction of the personal computer. It was during this period that institutions also…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Computer Interfaces, Technology Uses in Education
Investigation of Users' Preferences in Interactive Multimedia Learning Systems: A Data Mining Approach
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Chrysostomou, Kyriacos; Chen, Sherry Y.; Liu, Xiaohui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
With advances in information and communication technology, interactive multimedia learning systems are widely used to support teaching and learning. However, as human factors vary across users, they may prefer the design of interactive multimedia learning systems differently. To have a deep understanding of the influences of human factors, we…
Descriptors: Investigations, Multimedia Instruction, Design Preferences, Performance Technology
School Furniture. Programme on Educational Building.
Medd, David – 1981
The experience of designing and making installations of school furniture in collaboration with three countries--Norway, Portugal, and Spain--and of performing additional work in France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom provides the basis for this report. The ages of the pupils in the schools concerned ranged from 3 to 13 years. A theme of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Design, Classroom Furniture, Demonstration Programs
Working with Display Screen Equipment--Do You Know Your Rights?
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Morris, Anne – Electronic Library, 1992
Discusses possible risks to workers using visual display terminals (VDTs), standards relating to VDTs, the provisions of the European Community Directive concerning minimum health and safety standards, how the standards are being interpreted in the United Kingdom, and implications for libraries. A workplace assessment questionnaire is appended.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Factors Engineering, Legislation, Librarians
Ergonomic Factors and Student Learning.
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Taylor, Andrew – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1990
Results of a survey of computer users in a department of business studies in a college of further education in the United Kingdom focus on human factors problems associated with computer usage. Perceptions of health-related problems are explored, and findings from questionnaires and group discussions are described. (Nine references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Higher Education