... be contacted at: c.senior@aston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Mindsets Employment Skills Communication technologies Students Innovation Recently, in the UK, the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), the government body that is charged with overseeing...

... IT is a fundamental tool (Lanham and Zhou, 2003). E‐learning Communication technologies Higher education Distance learning United Kingdom Learning technology can effectively assist teaching when it is seen as one of a set of activities aimed at supporting students' learning (Akgun et al...

...Harry Matlay; Kim Rickard; Alex Rickard Purpose While information and communications technology provides new opportunities for supporting mentoring, there is a need to explore how effectively these potential benefits are being realised. This paper seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of a program...

...Thomas Clarke; Thomas Clarke; Elizabeth Clarke Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of the shift to a knowledge society, where information and communication technology (ICT) and the widening spread of internationally distributed information are creating a “skill revolution...

... Limited 2009 Communication technologies Internet Curriculum development Graduates The development and use of information and communications technologies over the last 20 years has transformed many of the common practices that learners engage in whilst studying in higher education...

... world, help universities? Salmon (2005) comments that: The introduction of information and communications technologies (ICT) into the world of learning and teaching in universities is now in transition from “flapping” to mass take off thanks to appropriate conceptual underpinnings...

... internets because they are not emergent; and 3. traditional e‐mail and SMS because they aren't persistent. Human resource management Communication technologies Internet Social interaction It is this scenario that is beginning to worry HR professionals in those organisations...

...@wlv.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Communication technologies Small to medium‐sized enterprises United Kingdom For many SMEs innovation is not about “blue‐sky” research and leading edge technology, but rather the adoption of new technologies to enhance efficiency...

...Khalid S. Rabayah; Badie Sartawi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the evaluation results of a training initiative, undertaken in Palestine, that targeted fresh graduates in information and communication technology (ICT) disciplines. It describes the implementation and results...

...Ita Richardson; Briga Hynes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the requirements for an industry sector approach to entrepreneurship education – the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. A modified Process Framework for Entrepreneurship Education is presented...

... based training Communication technologies The purpose of this paper is to describe how a portion of a management principles course was re‐designed to incorporate a component that would address both the growing importance of technology and team skills. Specifically a virtual teams component...

... enterprise entrepreneurs. The evidence suggests that MNCs have a positive impact at the firm level, both at the formation and growth stage of development. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Entrepreneurialism Learning Communication technologies Multinational companies Small to medium...