Powering A Learning Society During An Age Of Disruption

Author : Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811609831

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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption by Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean Pdf

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.

Author : Marius Venter
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781779952356

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Promoting sustainable local economic development initiatives by Marius Venter Pdf

This book endeavours to outline case studies that promote sustainable Local Economic Development (LED) initiatives. It is generally believed that local governments are the foot soldiers of LED. However, this seems to be a myth, as local governments in South Africa and elsewhere have not yet fulfilled this mandate and have been struggling for several years to implement LED initiatives. The distinctive merit of this book lies in the way it combines the South African context with the wider international development context in ways that there is a flow of information and ideas both ways. The book is an essential part of this sequence of ideas development and action at a critical time for strategic action directed at a sustainable future. It showcases case studies and responses to the impacts of globalisation as a bridge between urban/rural and institutional action and reveals avenues for local government leadership in communities, research, student engagement and wider interactions.

Author : Anders Örtenblad,Professor of Working Life Science Anders Örtenblad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192865977

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Making Sense of the Learning Turn by Anders Örtenblad,Professor of Working Life Science Anders Örtenblad Pdf

The main focus of this volume is to increase our understanding of the "learning turn" referring, in this book, to the frequent occurrence and usage of terms in the last few decades where the word "learning" is the premodifier, such as "learning city" and "learning organization".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192690777

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Making Sense of the Learning Turn by Anonim Pdf

From "learning toy" and "learning society" to "learning city" and "learning organization", what is meant by "learning"? The main focus of this volume is to increase our understanding of the "learning turn" referring, in this book, to the frequent occurrence and usage of terms in the last few decades where the word "learning" is the premodifier. The authors also offer insights into the use of the word "learning" as a premodifier in the future and discuss what, if anything, may replace it, such as "knowledge" (as in "knowledge management") and "smart" (as in "smart city"). An extensive range of academic disciplines are covered including political science, economics, human geography, philosophy, linguistics, higher education, working life science, management and organization, and marketing. While a single, overall, unified conclusion is not provided, Making Sense of the Learning Turn presents a variety of voices and perspectives. Some contributors are critical towards the learning turn, explaining it in terms of fashion-following, manipulation, and seduction. Others interpret the learning turn more lightly or suggest a more collective form of learning as an alternative to the individualization of learning that some authors argue has been the case thus far.

Author : Daniel Araya,Peter Marber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000870855

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Augmented Education in the Global Age by Daniel Araya,Peter Marber Pdf

Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions. Chapters in this book discuss the history of technological revolutions and consider the anxieties and social challenges of lost occupations, as well as the evolution of new industries overlapping robotics, biotechnology, space exploration, and clean energy. Chapter authors unpack the nature of augmented education, from revamping curriculum and personalizing education, to redesigning workplace learning for an algorithmic era. Ultimately the book discusses policy and planning for an augmented future, arguing that work and learning are undergoing a metamorphosis around creativity and innovation amid a new global era and the race against automating technologies. Bringing together expert perspectives from around the world, this exciting, informative collection of research and analysis helps educators, policymakers and analysts navigate the future of work and learning amid rapid and accelerating technological change. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Jen Ross
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000770230

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Digital Futures for Learning by Jen Ross Pdf

Digital Futures for Learning offers a methodological and pedagogical way forward for researchers and educators who want to work imaginatively with "what’s next" in higher education and informal learning. Today’s debates around technological transformations of social, cultural and educational spaces and practices need to be informed by a more critical understanding of how visions of the future of learning are made and used, and how they come to be seen as desirable, inevitable or impossible. Integrating innovative methods, key research findings, engaging theories and creative pedagogies across multiple disciplines, this book argues for and explores speculative approaches to researching and analysing post-compulsory and informal learning futures – where we are, where we might go and how to get there.

Author : Vanna Boffo, Regina Egetenmeyer
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9791221501506

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Re-thinking Adult Education Research. Beyond the Pandemic by Vanna Boffo, Regina Egetenmeyer Pdf

This work is the result of the European INTALL Project, International and Comparative Studies for Students and Practitioners in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (2018-2021). From early September 2018 to the end of August 2021, this project allowed us to build knowhow about some specific issues of adult education. The latest meeting of the INTALL project partners led to a conference about the role of Adult Education Research, during and after Covid-19, and the importance of re-thinking Lifelong and Lifewide Learning for the future. Based on four sections, Innovation and Future Competences in Adult Education Research, Professionalisation in Adult Education, Sustainability, Inclusion and Wellbeing: Topics for Adult Society and Smart Cities and Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in Post-Pandemic Time: A Digital Transformation, the volume represents an opportunity to foster a debate on key issues in the field of Adult Learning and Education across Europe.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789292705619

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Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This report analyzes the online learning experiences of higher education students in six Asian countries during the pandemic to illustrate how to provide technical and learning support, narrow the digital divide, and direct future policy. Drawing on surveys from Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, and Viet Nam, the report touches on areas including internet availability, student satisfaction, and levels of student-teacher interaction. Providing country breakdowns, it considers funding for online education, underscores the challenges for low-income students, and sets out how to fill the skills and training gap to offer equal access to better education.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789292701864

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Reimagine Tech-Inclusive Education by Asian Development Bank Pdf

As fast-evolving education technology (EdTech) revolutionizes learning, this report examines the evidence for effective digital learning, the key interventions and innovations in education technology, and how best to implement effective digital transformation initiatives in the education sector. The study provides some key ADB frameworks to guide through the digital transformation process including the “Quality, Effectiveness, Scalability, and Affordability" tool kit for identifying and selecting EdTech interventions, the Digital Education Readiness Framework to holistically assess a country’s digital education readiness situation, and ways to improve digital capacity in ADB developing member countries through a systemic, staged, and sustainable planning and implementation road map process.

Author : Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783658429485

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Creating the University of the Future by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers Pdf

Author : Uma Pradhan,Karen Valentin,Mohini Gupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000885866

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Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia by Uma Pradhan,Karen Valentin,Mohini Gupta Pdf

This edited volume offers new analytical and methodological approaches to the study of education in the post-pandemic educational context, through case studies from countries in South Asia such as Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries to advance collaborative knowledge production in South Asian education, the book explores how different colonial legacies, religious orientations, and positions in the global economy are played out in regional education systems. In doing so, this volume focuses on the educational challenges faced by the region to better understand South Asian society and the existing societal inequalities in the wake of COVID-19. The book highlights how the pandemic invites a re-thinking of current ways of approaching educational research in hybrid forms, and also opens up new areas of research ranging from pedagogical innovations to the well-being of teachers and students. Offering interdisciplinary perspectives on education in this unique context, this timely book will be highly relevant to students, researchers, and academics in the fields of international and comparative education, South Asian studies, teacher education, and education policy and politics.

Author : John Richards,Manzoor Ahmed,Md. Shahidul Islam
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 9781487522551

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The Political Economy of Education in South Asia by John Richards,Manzoor Ahmed,Md. Shahidul Islam Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231540629

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Creating a Learning Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald Pdf

“A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review

Author : Mohammad Hadi Dehghani,Rama Rao Karri,Inderjeet Tyagi,Miklas Scholz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780443153556

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Water, the Environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals by Mohammad Hadi Dehghani,Rama Rao Karri,Inderjeet Tyagi,Miklas Scholz Pdf

Water, the Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals details the availability of water resources on Earth in the context of sustainable resource management, how these water resources are utilized and the latest sustainable techniques in water resource management. Along with the latest techniques, each chapter discusses future challenges and opportunities in sustainability and provides detailed case studies. Sections cover water quality, water pollution, water borne diseases, water purification, transboundary waters, water and energy, water and the green economy, water cooperation, water scarcity, and the relationship between water environments and sustainable development goals. Comprehensively covers water resources on Earth and their relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals Covers a wide range of promising approaches for water resource management Provides case studies to further elucidate the progress made towards the SDGs and the latest developments in sustainable techniques

Author : Ashraf Mishrif,Magdalena Karolak,Cameron Mirza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811980725

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Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets by Ashraf Mishrif,Magdalena Karolak,Cameron Mirza Pdf

This book addresses critical aspects of the nationalization of labour markets in the Gulf countries. It examines the role of higher education institutions in providing the market with the right skills that are most needed in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0). The book also explores the new dynamics of technology and information systems in upgrading the skills, changing the work environment, and generating employment for the youth in the Gulf countries. The holistic approach of the subject area makes this volume indispensable to academics, researchers, students, and policy makers in the Gulf region and beyond. The book covers a broad range of topics including the nationalization of labour market programmes such as Emiratization and Saudization, attitudes toward women in workplace, the role of high-tech firms in upskilling and enhancing the productivity of workforce, while also providing sector-specific investigations in healthcare, banking, finance, tourism, and hospitality. The analysis is based on original research and primary data collected by a group of scholars from 15 countries and presented in an illustrative, accessible, and concise manner.