Multilingualism

This book promotes understanding of multilingualism based on the research efforts at the frontiers with state-of-the-art approaches or novel interdisciplinary perspectives. It addresses issues of the impact of multilingualism on cultural awareness and national identity, gives an overview on how multilingual speakers benefit themselves in learning and communicative competence, and describes the association between multilingualism and media, health, and society

Engineering Data Compendium. Human Perception and Performance, Volume 1

The concept underlying the Engineering Data Compendium was the product an R and D program (Integrated Perceptual Information for Designers project) aimed at facilitating the application of basic research findings in human performance to the design of military crew systems. The principal objective was to develop a workable strategy for: (1) identifying and distilling information of potential value to system design from existing research literature, and (2) presenting this technical information in a way that would aid its accessibility, interpretability, and applicability by system designers. The present four volumes of the Engineering Data Compendium represent the first implementation of this strategy. This is Volume 1, which contains sections on Visual Acquisition of Information, Auditory Acquisition of Information, and Acquisition of Information by Other Senses

Distance Education

Strategic Decision of Non-Profit State Universities : Turning to Open and Distance Education / Rıza Erdem, Ali -- Open and Distance Learning : Achievements and Challenges in a Developing Sub-Educational Sector in Africa / Biao, Idowu -- Bridging the Distance : The Pedagogy of Mobile Learning in Supporting Distance Learners Makoe, Mpine E. -- Virtual Reality Applied in Distance Education / Pereira, Adriana Soares; Dutra Piovesan, Sandra -- E-Learning in Chemical Education / Josceanu, Ana Maria; Isopescu, Raluca Daniela; Postelnicescu, Paula; Dumitrescu, Anca Madalina; Onofrei, Razvan -- Virtual Reality Technology as an Didactical and Pedagogical Resource in Distance Education for Professional Training / Barilli, Elomar Christina Vieira Castilho -- Quality Assurance in Distance Education in Brazil / Vilas Boas, Ana Alice; Hamtini, Thair; Ferreira, Patricia Aparecida; Furtado, Renata Pedretti Morais -- Generations of Distance Education and Challenges of Distance Education Institutions in Japanese Higher Education / Aoki, Kumiko -- Locational Dynamics Influencing the Information Environment of Distance Learners in Botswana / Oladokun, Olugbade -- Study Mode Does Not Matter: MLearning Can Support Internal and Distance Learners / Muyinda, Paul B.; Lubega, Jude T.; Lynch, Kathy; Weide, Theo van derEducation has become the number one demanded commodity for social and economic transformation for both developing and developed economies. Thus the number of persons going and returning to school has become too big to be handled by existing brick and mortar learning institutions. Besides, the majority of lifelong learners do not have the time to become full-time students. Distance education is becoming the solution to the aforementioned challenges. It has been defined as the mode of study where the learner is separated in time and space from the institution and tutors providing the tuition

The parable of the prodigal son in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse Elizabeth Gaskell’s three prodigal short stories—“Lizzie Leigh” (1850), “The Crooked Branch” (1859), and “Crowley Castle” (1863)—with reference to her major works in terms of the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son representing the principal Christian creed of the Plan of Salvation. The investigation into the three short stories in addition to her major works discloses the following three main features. First, the recurrent appearance of the Prodigal Son motif—committing sin, repentance, and forgiveness—in her characters’ lives and actions. Second, Gaskell’s change of depicting the prodigal by gradually refraining from inserting hints for its salvation—there are many hints in the first short story, almost none in the second, and few in the third. This change signifies the increase of her tendency to trust the reader’s imagination and discretion on her implication of the possibility of the prodigals’ salvation. Third, her constant depictions of the parents’ unfathomable compassion for the prodigal which implies there is no change in her faith in the Christian teaching of love for the suffered, or God’s love for His children. This scriptural reading might be applicable to any type of literature as its fundamental function is to depict the complexities of human life which proceeds in accordance with the Plan of Salvation if the doctrine is true