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Millwood, Richard; Powell, Stephen – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: This paper seeks to describe and analyse an approach to course design as part of a strategic, technology-inspired, cross-university intervention to widen participation. A curriculum framework was developed for students who wished to make their work the focus of their study and could not readily access current university provision. A…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Intervention, Action Research, Cybernetics
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Herrera, Linda; Peters, Michael A. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
The year 2010 was named the Year of Social Media, a technology of communication and for creating and exchanging "User Generated Content". The year 2010 also marked the start of the Arab revolts where, in Tunisia and Egypt, social media served as a critical platform for expressing dissent, organizing, and providing citizen media accounts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Social Networks, Internet
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Middlehurst, Robin; Elton, Lewis – Studies in Higher Education, 1992
Different models of academic governance and their implications for management and leadership are examined. It is argued that the United Kingdom's universities and polytechnics have relied on increased managerialism rather than the essentially collegial cybernetic model in recent years and may have sacrificed long-term goals for short-term success.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education
SCHRAMM, W.; AND OTHERS – 1963
REPORTS WERE PRESENTED ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND STATE-OF-THE-ART OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, JAPAN, FRANCE, AND THE SOVIET UNION. KENNETH AUSTWICK, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, HIGHLIGHTS THE PICTURE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHERE INTEREST HAS GROWN RAPIDLY SINCE 1961. THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT THAT PERHAPS THE MOST EXCITING WORK IS BEING…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programed Instruction, Programing, Teaching Machines