Improving sustainability teaching by grouping and interrelating pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences: evidence from 15 worldwide higher education institutions

There has been increasing research on pedagogical approaches, sustainability competences, and how to connect them in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This paper's aim is to provide deeper insights into the system of pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences, as well as how these interrelate. A survey was developed to investigate sustainability teaching in 15 HEIs. The survey was sent to educators of each HEI from which 668 responses were obtained. The responses were analysed in a five-step process: (1) descriptive statistics; (2) Pearson correlations; (3) principal component analyses (PCAs) to detect groups; (4) Pearson correlations between the groups; and (5) regressions. The first step provided the base to carry out the PCAs, from which three groups for the pedagogical approaches (Universal, Social, and Environmental) and three for the sustainability competences (Extrospective-social, Introspective-personal, and Cogitative-processual) were obtained. The correlations between the groups showed that: (1) the competences are closely interrelated; (2) the pedagogical approaches are somehow interrelated; and (3) the pedagogical approaches are somehow interrelated to the competences. The regressions showed that the Universal and Social groups would be most suitable to develop all the competences' groups. The Environmental group develops only the cogitative-processual competences' group. The results served as bases to propose the Sustainability Teaching System (STS), which provides deeper insights into the system of pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences by grouping them, as well as showing directionality and strength. To improve sustainability teaching, it is necessary to understand the pedagogical approaches' groups and how they can develop the competences' groups.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Impact of the Personal Workplace Configuration on Intel Employees

This project will illustrate some of the characteristics of the personal workplace configuration of INTEL Company and how these characteristics have impact on INTEL’s employees. In this study, we interviewed some of INTEL employees in order to get a better understanding and clear picture about INTEL’s personal workplace configuration. After that, we narrowed down the characteristics and tried to know if there is any relationship between these characteristics and features of INTEL’s personal workplace. To achieve this goal, we distributed a survey into some INTEL’s employees in order to get their feedback and responses about specific personal workplace characteristics and features, and try to get our quantitative data that we will use in this study. Then, we are going to apply regression and correlation analysis to the collected quantitative data from our survey to illustrate the relationship between INTEL’s personal workplace characteristics and features

The Economic Impact on South Africa: The FIFA World Cup 2010

In this study, we seek to evaluate the costs and outcomes of hosting the World Cup by South Africa in 2010. The study is important because South Africa is going to be the first African country to host this big and awesome event and therefore it poses a lot of challenges for the country. It is also going to set a precedent for future selections of third-world host countries. Beside the political mileage, South Africa could financially benefit tremendously from the event as millions of spectators would come into the country to support their national football teams. Many South African businesses are going to be affected and trade is going to be at the center stage in deciding whether South Africa benefits and loses from this big one-off event. The vastness of investment by South Africa in this event makes it imperative that a pre-event evaluation be done in order to facilitate a working model for proper implementation. Such an evaluation would shed light on critical activities that may need cost savings to optimize benefits. The event is so big that it will affect many businesses not only during the event but for some time following the event, and for this reason it is important that the study looks beyond the event and makes projections on the likely outcome instead of the immediate output. The projection time will be assumed to be five years, although our team believes some outcomes will outlive the five-year period

Development Log - Wavestrip

This is a development log for ETM 547/647 Winter 2011