Global Warming. Greenhouse Effect
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Building a global teaching profile: Showcasing Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape
This presentation was delivered November 18 2009 at the Teaching with Technology Miniconference hosted by the Centre for Educational Technology at UCT. Higher education institutions in the 21st century find themselves in a complex and often contradictory environment as many of the world's leading institutions are formulating policy to give their content away for free and are investing significant resources in establishing open content platforms while other smaller institutions are holding onto c
Researching solutions to global water shortages
Making sure the world's population has enough drinking water is one of the biggest challenges we face today. A rapidly increasing global population, the fact that only a very small percentage of global water is available for consumption and an uneven global distribution of clean drinking water are the main problems in regard to the current global water crisis.
Professor Hilal discusses these problems and some of the possible solutions the University's Centre for Clean Water Technologies is curr
Message Development: Understanding the Landscape through Political Research
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China, population policy and global warming
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The Emerging Global Brain - part II
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The Guts of the Computer (understanding computer hardware)
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1. A powerful force for perception and understanding
This unit looks at visualisation as it relates to mathematics, focusing upon how it can be used to improve learning. It will also identify ways in which to make more use of visualisation within the classroom.
Understanding research: The HCIU Shoes exercise
Understanding research: The HCIU Shoes exercise - Debra Humphris
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ISLLC 2008: Websites to Promote Standards-Based Principal Preparation
Barbara A. Klocko,
Betty Kirby
The authors present a comprehensive and accessible list of websites useful to both education leadership faculty and graduate students who are either practicing school leaders or aspiring to the [â¦]
Mick Bhatia on turning skin cells into blood
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Educating an iPod generation: undergraduate attitudes, experiences and understanding of vodcast and
Educating an iPod generation: undergraduate attitudes, experiences and understanding of vodcast and podcast use - UNSPECIFIED
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Global Climate Cycles
Global Climate Cycles - James Andrews and Heiko Palike and Eelco Rohling
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Understanding IQ Testing and Special Programming for Advanced Learners This seminar outlines the benefits and limitations of IQ testing, compares various score profiles, and demonstrates how to use testing data in educational planning. Both in-school and outside gifted programming options will be considered. David Palmer, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist specializing in GATE testing, IQ testing for educational planning, and learning disability assessment and consultation. He also directs the Palmer Learning Center in Orange County, California.
Global Resources and the Built Environment
With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world’s resources, setting the stage for global crisis. Yet Fernandez counters his own bleak picture with some bright examples of design that could help humans live within thei
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Perhaps no one comprehends the roots of depravity and cruelty better than Philip Zimbardo. He is renowned for such research as the Stanford Prison Experiment, which demonstrated how, in the right circumstances, ordinary people can swiftly become amoral monsters. Evil is not so much inherent in individuals, Zimbardo showed, but e
Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next U.S. Administration
“I’ve drunk kava in the South Pacific and rubbed noses with natives,” says William Fallon. “I’ve enjoyed tender baby camel as a delicacy. I’ve met presidents, kings, prime ministers and many ordinary folks. I’ve done a lot of things. That was yesterday. What matters is today and tomorrow.” Now, says Fallon, is the time for a
Challenges to the Global Economy
If economic analyses earned ratings like movies, this event would receive an X for extremely disturbing. Two of the field’s most prominent voices spare any sugar coating in their unsettling accounts of the world’s unfolding economic crisis.
Martin Feldstein had a hard time choosing which of the innumerable problems
Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key
Contrary to popular thinking, China owes its astonishing economic expansion not to far-sighted government policy but to hundreds of millions of entrepreneurial peasants. Yasheng Huang’s research reveals not only how small-scale rural businesses created China’s miracle but how that nation’s recovery from the global recession an
Bridging the Delivery Gap to Global Health
Jim Yong Kim and Partners in Health are paradoxically suffering from their own success. They demonstrated over the past decade that it is possible to set up effective HIV and primary care clinics in such developing nations as Haiti, and that it’s possible to cure multiple drug resistant tuberculosis. They even managed t
