The Language Exchange Programme: plugging the gap in formal learning [PDF]
, 2017 In the context of distance language learning, speaking is frequently perceived as the most challenging skill; this paper reports on a 12-week summer language exchange programme providing students with new ways of practising their oral abilities. Students
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International Migration of Health Professionals and the Marketization and Privatization of Health Education in India: From Push-Pull to Global Political Economy [PDF]
, 2015 Health worker migration theories have tended to focus on labour market conditions as principal push or pull factors. The role of education systems in producing internationally oriented health workers has been less explored.
Walton-Roberts, Margaret
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Utbildning & Demokrati, 2015 The aim of this article is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the internationalisation of the Swedish school, seen from a municipal level. The paper draws on an examination of local school policy in two Swedish municipalities between 1950-2000 ...
Andreas Nordin
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Building Educational Partnerships through Virtual IT [PDF]
, 2006 This paper reviews the authors’ experience in creating and implementing four educational videoconferences (VCs) for a three-week English language education program in 2004, and our proposal for VCs in 2006.
Knutzen, KB, Orris, DJ
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Ensuring the discoverability of digital images for social work education : an online tagging survey to test controlled vocabularies [PDF]
, 2009 The digital age has transformed access to all kinds of educational content not only in text-based format but also digital images and other media. As learning technologists and librarians begin to organise these new media into digital collections for ...
Ballantyne, Neil, Daly, Ellen Katherine
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Worldwide Educational Convergence
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1994 We argue for an examination of the role of the transnational organizational apparatus vis-a-vis nation-states in organizing national educational systems in accordance with world level educational ideologies, structures, and practices.
Connie L. McNeely, Yun-Kyung Cha
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A learning experience in the fields of economics and business: creation of student-managed inter-university virtual networks [PDF]
, 2005 With this article we shall describe the learning experience carried out by our students in the fields of Economics and Business at the Universities of Huelva and University of Seville within an active- and cooperative-learning framework involving ...
Brândao, Elísio (Coordinador) +4 more
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Scholarly collaboration across time zones [PDF]
, 2008 The barriers to global collaboration of yesteryear were, for example, country boundaries and time zones. Today however, in a world where communication is thriving on new technologies, these barriers have been overcome, not only by the technology itself ...
Heinze, A, Lynch, K, Scott, E
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Organic farming and international exchange: participant perceptions of North–South transferability
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017 Institutions of higher education and work–study abroad programmes have been instrumental in internationalizing sustainable agriculture education. Informal educational opportunities in the form of internships and apprenticeships have become relatively ...
Kevin Cody
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Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System [PDF]
, 2012 This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of the many visas that employers use and misuse to bring foreign workers into the U.S. in every field, from low-wage jobs in agriculture and domestic work, to specialty occupations in health care ...
Ashwini Sukthankar
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