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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Penaluna, Kathryn; Penaluna, Andrew; Jones, Colin; Matlay, Harry – Industry and Higher Education, 2014
It has been noted elsewhere that an idea is acknowledged to be creative if it is novel, or surprising and adaptive. So how does that fit with education's desire to measure student performance against fixed, consistent and predicted learning outcomes? This study explores practical measures and theoretical constructs that address the dearth of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Entrepreneurship, Career Education
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Jones, Colin; Penaluna, Andy; Matlay, Harry; Penaluna, Kathryn – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
This article offers a critical discussion of the role of the business plan in current enterprise educational practice. In addition to reviewing recent work that considers the "for" and "against" arguments about the use of business plans in higher education, the authors suggest that the context of student learning is largely…
Descriptors: Role Perception, Business Administration Education, Best Practices, Educational Strategies
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Penaluna, Kathryn; Penaluna, Andy; Jones, Colin – Industry and Higher Education, 2012
This paper presents the results of an investigation into contextual differences in the development and delivery of enterprise education in higher education globally. Using information gathered from an online survey distributed to enterprise educators, distinct differences in the provision of enterprise education are identified, as are differences…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Entrepreneurship, Investigations, Higher Education
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Jones, Colin – Industry and Higher Education, 2009
This paper outlines the development of a reflective process through which student feelings are brought to the surface to advance their learning outcomes. A key notion in relation to the capacity of student development is the ability of students to alter their collective habits of thought and in turn the nature of the learning environment. The…
Descriptors: Student Development, Reflection, Intellectual Development, Student Diversity
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Jones, Colin – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
Entrepreneurship education is the process of providing individuals with the ability to recognize commercial opportunities and the insight, self-esteem, knowledge and skills to act on them. It includes instruction in opportunity recognition, commercializing a concept, marshalling resources in the face of risk and initiating a business venture. It…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Jones, Colin – Industry and Higher Education, 2005
This paper is concerned with the degree to which the graduate skills required by industry are developed in Australian universities. Despite acknowledgement of the need to increase the graduate skills of students, it would seem that the stated intentions of Australian universities in this respect do not yet meet the expectations of industry. The…
Descriptors: Industry, Skill Development, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications