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Digital resilience in higher education
Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institutionâs ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canadaâs Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing
Donning Coaseâcoloured glasses: a property rights view of natural resource economics
Economic analysis of natural resource and environmental issues inappropriately places too much emphasis on Pigouvian externalities and too little on Coasean property rights and transaction costs. The crucial questions are who has what property rights and what are the transaction costs associated with these property rights. Asserting an externality implicitly assumes a set of property rights and hence a distribution of the social costs, but it is precisely a lack of property rights that allows decision makers to ignore social costs. By viewing natural resource and environmental problems through a Coasean lens, we better focus our attention on how property rights evolve, how they influence transaction costs, and how those transaction costs affect the potential for bargaining to minimise social costs.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Teaching In An Online Learning Context
This chapter focuses on the role of the teacher or tutor in an online learning context. It uses the theoretical model developed by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000) that views the creation of an effective online educational community as involving three critica
The Allocation and Dissipation of Resource Rents: Implications for Fishery Reform
In the move to adopt rights based arrangements for renewable resources to avoid the losses of open access and the inefficiencies of prescriptive regulation, we argue that grandfathering the allotments of local users can be the most efficient distribution mechanism. We differ from the standard support among economists for auctions which contends that auctions allocate rights to the highest valued users and thereby maximize rents. Our contention is that rents are not a fixed stock as is commonly assumed, but rather depend upon the actions of those who use the natural resource and convert it into valuable goods and services. First-possession allocation assigns ownership and rents to existing users, reinforcing their incentives for stewardship and rent maximization. Resource rents are an important source of wealth and well being, especially in developing countries. By contrast the alternative, auction allocation, assigns ownership to winning bidders, but the rents are captured by the auctioneer, often the state, not local agents. We argue that there can be important efficiency effects. Our empirical focus is on fisheries, but the implications extend to other settings.
PouÄavanje u kontekstu online
U ovom Äemo se tekstu usredotoÄiti na ulogu
nastavnika ili tutora u kontekstu online uÄenja. Koristit
Äemo teoretski model koji su razvili Garrison, Anderson
i Archer (2000.) prema kojemu stvaranje uÄinkovite
online edukacijske zajednice ukljuÄuje tri kljuÄna
Äimbenika: kognitivnu prisutnost, druĆĄtvenu prisutnost i
prisutnost pouÄavanja. Ovaj je model razvijen i
verificiran analizom sadrĆŸaja te drugim kvalitativnim i
kvantitativnim mjerama iz recentnih istraĆŸivaÄkih radova
na SveuÄiliĆĄtu u Alberti (za radove nastale na temelju
ovog istraĆŸivanja vidi Anderson, Garrison, Archer i
Rourke, N.d.) (http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/cmc)
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