...Auf Tumwebaze Alicon Purpose This paper aims to examine the possible link among the African Development Bank (AfDB), Results Measurement Framework 2016–2025 and the research published at institutions of higher education on the continent in the last five years. The unregulated commercialisation...

... to their students how the Humanities provide a perspective that allows students to work through the big questions of their time. Research limitations/implications Much has been written about the challenges facing the Humanities. It is hoped that this paper will generate additional discussion on how...

... Economics Self-regulated learning Competency Adaptive learning Universities E-learning Research Kevin Carey’s The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere basically starts with the assumption...

... is promoting its research programs, that it has the fiscal resources to support the undergraduate distance education program at similar levels. As suggested above, the volume lacks sufficient details to understand how there can be congruency between the philosophical rhetoric and the application. Until...

... of journals in research and education, including the function of the institutions themselves. Social implications – Islands of concentrated knowledge locked in Ivory Towers are now readily accessible, broadly changing how individuals gain and improve competencies and use of increasing, evolving...

... Foresight Post secondary Economics Education Universities Bologna Competency‐based education University campus Research Open education resources In a recent exchange among educators, a university dean remarked that with the increasing access of university courses on the internet she...

..., by Aya Kamenetz. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents reviews of two recently published books. Findings The economics and functions of post secondary education at the baccalaureate and post‐baccalaureate (research) levels are changing in a world where knowledge flows...

...David Pearce Snyder; Sue Snyder; Richard G. Maynard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to motivate individuals to use social networking and information tools to address complex personal issues. Design/methodology/approach This is a discussion paper based on the author's research...

...Wolfram Elsner; Frederic S. Lee; Therese Jefferson Purpose The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of being vigilant in the implications of all indicators of research output, quality and impact that are used in research assessment exercises. Design/methodology/approach...

... action in human experience. Research limitations/implications The paper stresses that this system of research assessment, while having the merit of preserving some pluralism in social sciences, does not guarantee in many cases a well‐defined evaluation of economics journals, research...

... of heterodox economics in Australia. Findings The first comes from funding uncertainties, given the fiscal conservatism of the new federal government. The second emanates from attempts by the élite “group of eight” institutions to secure all (or almost all) of the available research funding...

...Wolfram Elsner; Frederic S. Lee; Alan Freeman Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion...

... The paper provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings It is argued that heterodoxies had gained a considerable and growing influence on research orientations, methodologies, and critical reflections, also on the mainstream publishing practices, even...

...Wolfram Elsner; Frederic S. Lee; Marco Novarese; Christian Zimmermann Purpose This paper seeks to study how the democratization of the diffusion of research through the internet could have helped non‐traditional fields of research. Design/methodology/approach The specific case...

... “creationism” cast in the form called “intelligent design”. Within the academy it is a challenge for the faculty to define the arena for valid study. The roles are reversed with the faculty defending secular dogma. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Economics Political science Research...

...Tom P. Abeles © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Innovation Change Universities Problem solving Research Teaching Tom P. Abeles Abstract Can academics, with years of disciplinary training step out of their intellectual box with regards to their areas of specialization...

...Janet C. Moore Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University is a report released in October 2002, produced by the US National Academies, advisors on science, engineering and medicine. The report describes emerging technologies that are reshaping...