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The long and winding road ...
The long and winding road is a metaphor for a journey, often used to describe life
journeys and the challenges encountered. The metaphor was used for the title of
my keynote to refer both to the journey towards the current position of virtual
exchange in education policy \u2013 but also the long road ahead. This paper aims to explore
the emergence of virtual exchange in educational policy and how it has been adopted by
non-profit organisations, educational institutions, and policy makers to address geo- and
socio-political tensions. Though still a relatively new field, in recent years there have been
some important developments in terms of policy statements and public investments in
virtual exchange. The paper starts by looking at the current state-of-the-art in terms of
virtual exchange in education policy and initiatives in Europe. Then, using an approach
based on \u2018episode studies\u2019 from the policy literature, the paper explores the main virtual
exchange schemes and initiatives that have drawn the attention of European policy
makers. The paper closes by looking at some of the lessons we have learnt from research
on the practice of virtual exchange, and how this can inform us as we face the long road
ahead of us. The focus of this paper is on the European context not because I assume it to
be the most important or influential, but rather because it is the one I know best, since it is
the context in which I have been workin
Subject: Human Resource Management
Compiled by Susan LaCette.HumanResourceManagement.pdf: 5527 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Mid-term evaluation of the support to strengthened bilateral relations under the EEA and Norway Grants
Through the EEA Grants and Norway Grants, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein aim to reduce economic and social disparities and strengthen cooperation with 16 countries in Central and Southern Europe. A mid-term evaluation of the current EEA and Norway Grants 2009-14 was conducted by COWI during the second half of 2015 and early 2016 at the request of the Financial Mechanism Office, EEA and Norway Grants. The aim of the mid-term evaluation is to assess to what extent and in which way the EEA and Norway Grants contribute towards strengthening bilateral relations between donor and beneficiary states. The evaluation covers four out of the ten priority sectors of the EEA and Norway Grants and five of the 16 beneficiary countries (Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), representing 19.4% of the allocated total of EUR 1.8 billion
ILR Research in Progress 2006-07
The production of scholarly research continues to be one of the primary missions of the ILR School. During a typical academic year, ILR faculty members published or had accepted for publication over 25 books, edited volumes, and monographs, 170 articles and chapters in edited volumes, numerous book reviews. In addition, a large number of manuscripts were submitted for publication, presented at professional association meetings, or circulated in working paper form. Our faculty's research continues to find its way into the very best industrial relations, social science and statistics journals.Research_in_Progress_2006_07.pdf: 18 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Weak nodes detection in urban transport systems: Planning for resilience in Singapore
The availability of massive data-sets describing human mobility offers the
possibility to design simulation tools to monitor and improve the resilience of
transport systems in response to traumatic events such as natural and man-made
disasters (e.g. floods terroristic attacks, etc...). In this perspective, we
propose ACHILLES, an application to model people's movements in a given
transport system mode through a multiplex network representation based on
mobility data. ACHILLES is a web-based application which provides an
easy-to-use interface to explore the mobility fluxes and the connectivity of
every urban zone in a city, as well as to visualize changes in the transport
system resulting from the addition or removal of transport modes, urban zones,
and single stops. Notably, our application allows the user to assess the
overall resilience of the transport network by identifying its weakest node,
i.e. Urban Achilles Heel, with reference to the ancient Greek mythology. To
demonstrate the impact of ACHILLES for humanitarian aid we consider its
application to a real-world scenario by exploring human mobility in Singapore
in response to flood prevention.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytic
ILR Faculty Publications 2008-09
The production of scholarly research continues to be one of the primary missions of the ILR School. During a typical academic year, ILR faculty members published or had accepted for publication over 25 books, edited volumes, and monographs, 170 articles and chapters in edited volumes, numerous book reviews. In addition, a large number of manuscripts were submitted for publication, presented at professional association meetings, or circulated in working paper form. Our faculty's research continues to find its way into the very best industrial relations, social science and statistics journals.Faculty_Publications_2008_09.pdf: 36 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: The GENNOVATE field methodology
From mode choice to modal diversion: A new behavioural paradigm and an application to the study of the demand for innovative transport services
We analyse past research efforts that focus on modal diversion in the transport sector, as opposed to the classical mode choice concept, showing the added value of this alternative framework that emerges from the existing scientific literature. The modal diversion paradigm is then used to assess the relative importance of the technical performances of transport services on one hand and of the subjective factors of its potential users on the other, when forecasting the use of a new means among a group of white-collars working in a French research institute. We quantitatively show that multimodal habits and cognitive attitudes have an importance that is in general not negligible for this group, compared to that of the transport services performances, even if only these latter are routinely considered by engineers and planners. Beyond this, we find that the role of self-related factors further increased when the group was less familiar with the technological background and the subsequent operation of the new system, such as in the case of demand responsive transport service
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