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50 Years of ERIC
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Ahamer, Gilbert – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: This paper seeks to argue that global change calls for training in intercultural, interdisciplinary and interparadigmatic professional behaviour. Thus a concrete web-based five-level training procedure "Surfing global change" (SGC) is to be proposed that includes reflection of game players' own knowledge, views and values. Rules of SGC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Web Based Instruction, Role Playing
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Ahamer, Gilbert; Kumpfmuller, Karl A.; Hohenwarter, Michaela – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this article is to present the development-oriented Master's curriculum "Global Studies" (GS) at the University of Graz, Austria, as an example of interdisciplinary academic training with the purpose of fostering inter-"cultural" understanding. It aims to show that scientific disciplines can be understood as "cultures of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Global Education, Masters Programs
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Ahamer, Gilbert – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: Aims to examine a negotiation-oriented and partly web-based game "Surfing Global Change" (SGC) invented by the author based on didactics of self-managed learning and successfully implemented in WebCT. Design/methodology/approach: Along three historic generations of web-based teaching (WBT), the key functionalities of any platform…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Internet, Web Based Instruction, Computers
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Ahamer, Gilbert – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2004
An original concept for a Web-based role play "SurfingGlobalChange" is proposed on the basis of multi-year interdisciplinary teaching experience and constructivist pedagogy. Underlying didactic orientation is towards self-guided learning, acquiring socially compatible "competence to act" in a globalised world, self-optimising social procedures…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Role Playing, Teaching Experience