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Direct linkCollinge, Bill – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2004
This article considers the arguments used in support of private-sector educational establishments in post-Communist Europe and compares them with the observations and experiences of an academic librarian working in the field. The article uses as its case study a private-sector university in Slovakia and addresses the issues of quality and…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Social Change
Luke, Carmen – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
Accelerating global flows of people and information have formed new communities and networks across social and political borders. Higher education is one such globalised knowledge community in which new patterns of knowledge, accreditation, research alliances, and social and professional relationships are emerging. In this paper I outline the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nationalism, Role of Education, Research Libraries
Arnold, Julie; Kaske, Neal K. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
A quantitative study of a university chat reference service (online synchronous) addresses the following research questions: (1) What types of questions are being asked? (2) Who is asking the questions of the service? and (3) Did the customers get correct answers to their questions? All the transcripts (351) from January through August 2002 were…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Computer Mediated Communication, User Needs (Information), Communication Research
Oatman, Eric – School Library Journal, 2005
"Do you blog?" That's a question educators are hearing frequently these days, and more and more are responding with an enthusiastic "yes!" The reason? Teachers have discovered that technologies like weblogs--Web sites that are a snap to update--can be powerful teaching tools. And librarians are gearing up to help them. The educational community's…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Sites, Internet
Adams, Helen R. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2006
Today, federal laws often seem like an alphabet soup with acronyms like CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act), CTEA (Copyright Term Extension Act), ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), YMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), and NC LB (No Child Left Behind). These letters stand for federal…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Copyrights, Disabilities, School Libraries
Brazhe, T. G. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
This article reports the results of a study examining the reading attitudes of the Russian people. This study also investigates the motives that guide adults in their choice of literature. Researchers have noted that two motives stand out: (1) "normative" or "pragmatic" reading (for school, exams, and reports; for carrying out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Utilization, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
Apedoe, Xornam S.; Reeves, Thomas C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006
The purpose of this paper is twofold: to describe robust rationales for integrating inquiry-based learning into undergraduate science education, and to propose that digital libraries are potentially powerful technological tools that can support inquiry-based learning goals in undergraduate science courses. Overviews of constructivism and situated…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Electronic Libraries, Undergraduate Study, Constructivism (Learning)
Kuzyk, Raya – Library Journal, 2006
In apparently no time at all, the distance between the once doggedly segregated religion and self-help shelves has shortened, and the two genres are fraternizing openly. Librarians have noticed an influx of books that cannot be definitively classified as religion or self-help. It is a phenomenal time for the breed of books dubbed "spiritual…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Individual Development, Self Actualization
Download full textWhittington, Gary; Lowson, Sandra – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
The Scottish Science and Technology Network (SSTN) is a major collaboration between Careers Scotland and Scottish industry to promote science and technology via an on-line and integrated learning programme. An initial two-year pilot project has grown considerably and has now been running for over 7 years. The SSTN programme is a web-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Course Improvement Projects, Integrated Activities, School Business Relationship
Gaylord, Vicki, Ed. – Institute on Community Integration (NJ1), 2009
How can families and early childhood professionals provide quality, inclusive early childhood education for young children with and without disabilities? That's the question posed in this "Impact "issue. In its pages, parents reflect on their experiences with early childhood education and inclusion for their children--what was helpful, what was…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities
Webster, Andrea, Comp.; Dautremont-Smith, Julian, Comp. – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2009
This publication includes over 1,350 stories that illustrate the continued expansion of sustainability practices into every sector of campus. Initiatives from nearly 700 institutions are organized into 28 chapters, spanning education and research, campus operations, and administration and finance. In addition, the publication contains over 90 new…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Campuses
American Association of Instructors of the Blind, Washington, DC. – 1966
THE THEME OF THE CONVENTION WAS "RESEARCH--KEY TO PROGRESS," AND PAPERS WERE DELIVERED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS (1) RESEARCH ON THE TEACHING OF READING AND IMPROVING READING SKILLS, (2) RESEARCH ON INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS AND ORIENTATION, MOBILITY, AND TRAVEL, (3) RESEARCH ON THE CHILD WITH LIMITED BUT USEFUL VISION, (4) RESEARCH ON THE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Braille, Children
National Association of College and University Business Officers, Washington, DC. – 1980
Cost behavior analysis, a costing process that can assist managers in estimating how certain institutional costs change in response to volume, policy, and environmental factors, is described. The five steps of this approach are examined, and the application of cost behavior analysis at four college-level settings is documented. The institutions…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Building Operation, Case Studies, College Administration
University System of Georgia, Atlanta. – 1977
The contents of the annual report include the report of the chancellor and appendices giving data on enrollment (headcount and full-time equivalent, class distribution, student classification, summer quarter, nonresident students, and extension education); degrees and certificates awarded; research contracts; faculty (ranks and average salaries,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Annual Reports, Budgets, College Faculty
Zabudsky, Jeff – 2000
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, has undertaken a project called LOGging Our Curriculum. The goals of the project, which involves creating a fully outcomes-based curriculum across the institution and housing that curriculum in a database that is accessible to NAIT instructors over the World Wide Web, are as…
Descriptors: Classification, Competency Based Education, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
