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Fuller, Robert J. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2010
In closing his 2008 Myer Lecture, the scientist and environmentalist Dr. Tim Flannery said that this century will be defined by the search for sustainability. How perilous therefore that nowadays there is so much overuse of the word "sustainability" that it has become a cliche. Today's tertiary students studying architecture and…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Architecture, Energy, Language Usage
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Fram, Sheila M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose--The purpose of this paper is to offer an example, for, school administrators and planners, of the cohesiveness of community policies and school design and planning endeavors during the 1980s in Arizona, USA. Design/methodology/approach--The paper reports the results of a qualitative, discourse analysis involving images of the exterior and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Facilities Design, Physical Environment, Educational Facilities Planning
Calvo-Sotelo, Pablo Campos – CELE Exchange, 2010
A university campus should reflect a commitment to quality and be dedicated to the intellectual, psychological and social development of its students. The "Educational Campus" is an innovative concept which espouses this concept and is designed to stimulate a process of modernisation in universities and contribute to their excellence.…
Descriptors: Social Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Development
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Sa, Creso; Gaviria, Patricia – Higher Education Policy, 2011
Professional mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) are one of the policy instruments employed in global and regional trade agreements to facilitate the mobility of skilled labour. While such agreements have been noted in the literature examining cross-border academic mobility, little is known about how they impact higher education. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Cooperation, International Trade
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Subramaniam, K.; Padalkar, Shamin – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
In this study, we examine how subjects set up, transform, and reason with models that they establish on the basis of known facts as they seek to explain a familiar everyday phenomenon--the phases of the moon. An interview schedule was designed to elicit subjects' reasoning, and in the case where explanations were mistaken, to induce a change in…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Visualization, Logical Thinking, Models
Kolowich, Steve – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Early this decade, the number of Web-based documents stored on the servers of the University of Florida hovered near 300,000. By the end of 2006, that number had leapt to four million. Two years later, the university hosts close to eight million Web documents. Web sites for colleges and universities everywhere have become repositories for data…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Online Vendors, Information Management, Navigation (Information Systems)
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This article seeks to augment an emerging interest in education policy research in enactment theorising, to explicitly consider the role and contribution of materiality in this theorising. Guided by the notion of policy "matters," the article takes as its empirical context a major policy initiative, the Building the Education Revolution…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Role, Educational Research, Policy Analysis
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Ekman, Richard H. – Planning for Higher Education, 2011
America's private colleges and universities include most of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country, and their evolving physical campuses say much about American education. In recent years, the study of campus history, preservation, and adaptive reuse has received increasing attention by many sectors of the educational…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Architecture, Universities
Jabbour, Ghassan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The increasing proliferation of globally interconnected complex information systems has elevated the magnitude of attacks and the level of damage that they inflict on such systems. This open environment of intertwined financial, medical, defense, and other systems has attracted hackers to increase their malicious activities to cause harm or to…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Systems, Computers, Databases
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Demski, Jennifer – T.H.E. Journal, 2010
Moving from a traditional desktop computing environment to a virtualized solution is a daunting task. In this article, the author presents case histories of three districts that have made the conversion to virtual computing to learn about their experiences: What prompted them to make the move, and what were their objectives? Which obstacles prove…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Client Server Architecture, Computer Simulation, Data Collection
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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2010
Open source software is poised to make a profound impact on K-12 education. For years industry experts have been predicting the widespread adoption of open source tools by K-12 school districts. They're about to be proved right. The impact may not yet have been profound, but it's fair to say that some open source systems and non-proprietary…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Software, Instructional Materials, Educational Technology
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Goad, Philip – History of Education, 2010
This paper examines, through one school's location in Australia, the international reach and nature of the networks associated with New Education; the aims and ideals of Clive and Janet Nield, the main protagonists behind the venture of Koornong School; what transformations they brought to progressive education; and the deliberate assembling of a…
Descriptors: Architecture, Governance, Psychiatry, Educational Change
Exceptional Parent, 2010
This article describes how Beverly and Martin Ryfa, working with an architect who specializes in accessible design, were able to build a house that is handicap accessible for their 9-year-old daughter, Danielle, who suffered an intraventricular hemorrhage when she was three days old. The article describes the features of their house that make…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Architecture, Accessibility (for Disabled), Program Descriptions
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Wallick, Karl; Zaretsky, Michael – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
This article tracks the generative role of research and fragmentation as a means for integrating technology and form within an architecture technology lecture class and a co-requisite design studio. The complexity of teaching building systems integration within a design studio context is achieved by removing any expectation of building design…
Descriptors: Building Design, Student Projects, Measures (Individuals), Evaluation Methods
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Soygenis, Sema; Soygenis, Murat; Erktin, Emine – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
This article discusses the process of a study designed to develop university students' sketching skills in schools of architecture. Acknowledging the relationship between cognition and writing, it aims to investigate the role of writing in learning sketching among architecture students and to examine how students regulate their thoughts by writing…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Elective Courses, Building Design, Architecture
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