Stimulating E-Learning in Europe: A Supply Chain Approach

In: A.J. Kallenberg and M.J.J.M. van de Ven (Eds), 2002, The New Educational Benefits of ICT in Higher Education: Proceedings. Rotterdam: Erasmus Plus BV, OECR ISBN 90-9016127-9This 'research in progress' paper examines a supply chain approach to stimulate e-learning in Europe. It builds on a recent study (van der Linden and van Baalen 1998), which found that it is possible to add a new dimension through distance learning to traditional pedagogical techniques. One of the unexpected side effects reported when using electronic mail was the disappearing of cultural boundaries. From a socio-cultural perspective within an increasingly international setting optimal e-learning requires a supply chain approach, in which face-to-face meetings play a critical complementary function to ensure that important clues such as body language and tone of voice are not filtered out (Lee 1994:143). A relevant issue for institutions of higher learning is whether or not it is desirable for ICT applications to complement or substitute traditional forms of management education (van der Linden and van Baalen 1998:15). There is an increasing need to interact in the complex international environment, which implies that students must obtain the skills to bridge five identified gaps in the polycontextual learning environment (Fenema, 2001). In the early 1990s the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University internationalized its curriculum. It is currently responding to the challenge of applying digital learning techniques to deliver management education. The diffusion of knowledge plays an important role in innovation processes. (Hertog and Bilderbeek (2000:222). This paper concludes with a summary and research agenda for higher education in the global knowledge economy

e-Venture: The Making of 21st Century European Learning Regions

In: A.J. Kallenberg and M.J.J.M. van de Ven (Eds), 2002, The New Educational Benefits of ICT in Higher Education: Proceedings. Rotterdam: Erasmus Plus BV, OECR ISBN 90-9016127-9Within the context of the evolution of 'Europe of the regions' this paper examines the role of higher education in the information age. It contrasts two perspectives on contemporary society in relation to higher education. Ritzer's (1998: 151-163) Post modern perspective which positions McUniversity in the Consumer Society of mega-malls, fast food restaurants, television shopping networks and infomercials. And Postman's (1999) perspective, derived from the eighteenth century, which re-examines our values and calls for a 'future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose.' Paradoxically, the world-wide information explosion and increasing global competition has resulted in the most enduring competitive advantage being created on the local level within the 'triple helix' (Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 2001), that is the emerging clustering of inter-connected firms, institutions of higher education and government (Porter 1998). A new feature of the triple helix is the increased need for higher education to connect and relate with industries and the government and exchange knowledge for funding. It requires the fostering of new partnerships and the adoption of new and better higher education strategies to identify potential 'complementors' with whom to co-evolve towards a value net, that generates a relation rent. The operation of the resulting system is e-Venture designed to support the rapidly emerging field of event management, a medium which responds to the needs of the consumer society and the values that provide meaningful purpose and contribute to the creation of cosmopolitan citizenship. The focus of the e-Venture project is on the critical linkage of both e-content in higher education and relationship management that enables the Triple Helix to support and realise ‘The Making of European Learning Regions'

Projected Destination Images on African Websites: Upgrading Branding Opportunities in the Global Tourism Value Chain

This paper explores whether websites that offer a global audience virtual access to watering holes in game parks afford African nations opportunities to diminish their international isolation as tourism destinations. The present analysis examines a sample of almost 450 tourism websites representing Rwanda, Uganda and Mozambique. Two aspects are studied in particular: the websites’ technical and social infrastructures, including website ownership and networks, and website content, i.e. the projected destination image and opportunities to bridge the main supplier-consumer gaps in the global tourism value chain. The findings indicate that there is substantial foreign involvement in Africa’s online tourism infrastructure; furthermore, that the current projected images tend to reproduce foreign stereotypes. It concludes that the potential for upgrading branding capabilities could be sourced in indigenous African cultural attributes, both high and low culture, and in contexts of the past and the contemporary

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