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Kingsley, Leilarna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This paper is based on research conducted in banks in the international banking centre of Luxembourg. Operating in the globalised context of international banking and multilingual Luxembourg, financial institutions are an ideal focal point for investigating policy and practices in complex multilingual and transnational work spaces. Two theoretical…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Multilingualism, Questionnaires, Focus Groups
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Dixon, Ed – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2010
This article describes the affordances of social media and networks for online Elementary German courses that have been taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 2010. These online courses were created to provide students the opportunity to take Elementary German as part of the language requirement for Penn credit during the summer months…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, German, Online Courses
Kaye, Tony – 1985
The purpose of this project is to investigate the potential of communication networks using electronic mail, computer conferencing, and electronic databases for education and training at a distance within the Open Univeristy system of Great Britain, although it would be applicable within other contexts. This report discusses (1) the rationale for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Databases, Distance Education
Japan Audio-Visual Education Association, Tokyo. – 1989
The Ad Hoc Council on Educational Reform pointed out in 1987 that Japanese education must prepare for the ever-increasing information needs of the future, and in 1988, a proposal for the development of information networks was published by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture. This proposal recommended the utilization of a wide range of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Mail
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Smaldino, Sharon E.; Muffoletto, Robert – TechTrends, 1997
Examines a nonintrusive model for technology training in teacher education and describes the University of Northern Iowa's basic preservice technology training course: educational media and classroom computing. Discusses media production, distance education, hypermedia, e-mail, telecommunications and the Internet, database construction,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Distance Education, Educational Media
Cutright, Patricia J.; Edvalson, Terry – 1988
The Online Reference and Document Delivery Service Library Network developed at Eastern Oregon State College and operated in Eastern Oregon provides rural east Oregonians improved access to information sources via computers, telefacsimile, and telecommunications. Microcomputers have been placed in public, school, community college, and hospital…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Distance Education