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    Census politics in deeply divided societies

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    Population censuses in societies that are deeply divided along ethnic, religious or linguistic lines can be sensitive affairs ā€“ particularly where political settlements seek to maintain peace through the proportional sharing of power between groups. This brief sets out some key findings from a research project investigating the relationship between census politics and the design of political institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Lebanon and Northern Ireland

    The role and effectiveness of e-learning: key issues in an industrial context

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    This paper identifies the current role and effectiveness of e-learning and its key issues in an industrial context. The first objective is to identify the role of e-learning, particularly in staff training and executive education, where e-learning (online, computer-based or videoconferencing learning) has made significant impacts and contributions to several organisations such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Cisco and Cap Gemini Earnst Young. With e-learning, staff training and executive education provides more benefits and better efficiency than traditional means. The second objective of this research is to understand the effectiveness of e-learning. This can be classified into two key issues: (1) methods of e-learning implementations; and (2) factors influencing effective and ineffective e-learning implementations. One learning point from (1) is that centralized e-learning implementations may prevail for big organizations. How-ever, more organizations adopt decentralized e-learning implementations due to various reasons, which will be discussed in this paper. From the research results, a proposed way is to retain the decentralized way. The second learning point is about interactive learning (IL), the combination of both e-learning and face-to-face learning. IL has been making contributions to several organizations, including the increase in motivation, learning interests and also efficiency. The popular issues about IL are (a) how to minimize the disadvantages of IL and (b) the degree of interactivity for maximizing learning efficiency. One learning point from (2) is to analyze the factors influencing effective and ineffective implementations, which reflect the different focuses between industrialists and academics. In terms of effective e-learning implementations, factors identified by both groups can map to particular cases in industry. In contrast, factors causing ineffective implementations rely more on primary source data. In order to find out these factors and analyze the rationale behind, case studies and interviews were used as research methodology that matched the objective of the research

    Transferability of e-Portfolios in Education

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    This is a project funded by JISC DELL II and undertaken by Dr Derek Young and Kylie Lipczynski of ESCalate / University of Stirling. The aim of this project is to undertake an investigation of existing e-portfolio models and their use within the field of Education which will: Review existing motivational strategies; Identify alternative implementation models for PDP in Education departments; Explore the potential for cross-fertilisation of models and strategies between Education and other professional disciplines

    Regulation of providers on the early years framework : a report on the responses to consultation

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    Payroll Disparity Among Major League Baseball Teams: Building a Competitive Team Despite Limited Resources

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    There has been an inequality in payroll among Major League Baseball teams for many years that became increasingly evident in the late 1990s. Revenue disparities among teams cause a competitive imbalance for the league and make it harder for small-market teams to compete with large-market teams with much higher payrolls. MLB has attempted to alleviate this disparity, but the implementation of revenue sharing and the competitive balance tax alone is not enough for small-market clubs to build a competitive team. There are a number of ways that small-market clubs can build a competitive team despite limited resources, including employing the moneyball hypothesis, quantifying market inefficiencies, utilizing the teamā€™s farm system, taking advantage of trade opportunities, and making intelligent contract decisions

    The importance of task appropriateness in computerā€supported collaborative learning

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    Collaborative learning activities can be beneficial for exchanging ideas, sharing experiences, and developing shared understanding. It is our view that the task given to the student is central to the success or otherwise of the learning experience. In this paper, we discuss the need for the adaptation of traditional faceā€toā€face tasks when these are incorporated in computerā€supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. We focus on critical issues in relation to the implementation of CSCL tasks including: the appropriateness of the medium for the task, the role of individuals, the volume of work involved, the time allocated for tasks or subā€tasks, and, the assessment procedures

    Computer-mediated conferencing

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    This section addresses issues of Computer-Mediated Conferencing (CMC) as a teaching and learning resource, concentrating upon skills development within that context. The materials are appropriate for different experience levels of learners and provide a range of pathways to the materials and resources as appropriate for any individual learner or learner group
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