OER for Blended Learning

The purpose of the 'Developing the Online Experience' module is to increase participants' awareness of blended and online learning techniques so that they become familiar with the various ways in which technology can be used to enhance the students' learning experience. Increasing awareness about OER enables lecturers to enrich their materials further and focus more on the ways in which students engage with the materials and in facilitating learning. OER have been used in various ways in the module 'Developing the online learning experience'; OER were integrated with other subject-related learning resources such as journal articles, book chapters and presentations from the face-to-face sessions. To encourage participants’ own use of OER, they were featured in a face-to-face session, - link to the Introduction to OER session: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=160120 - in which participants were asked to work in groups to evaluate the use of some of the most common OER material on websites such as OpenLearn, Jorum, MIT Courseware and more. Furthermore, learning activities - both group and individual - were based around Open Educational Resources as participants were asked to search, identify and evaluate an online, publicly available, structured activity that could be relevant to their subject area

Should employee participation be part of privatization?

Employee participation in the financial and managerial aspects of firms has increased as governments and owners have tried to enhance productivity, broaden ownership, or facilitate privatization transactions. Many developed countries are experiencing rapid growth in schemes to introduce or enhance various forms of employee participation. For example, about 11,000 firms employing 11 million workers in the United States have some form of stock ownership for employees. An estimated 500,000 employee profit sharing plans exist in the U.S., and participatory plans are a major element in the industrial policy of such countries as Japan and Sweden. In developing countries, plans for employee participation have emerged only recently. The effect of employee participation schemes on firm performance is mixed. Without privatization, evidence is strong that combining employee ownership or profit sharing with some direct participation produces a positive impact on firm performance. Employee ownership and other forms of participation do appear to ease privatization. Employee ownership provides a sense of security to employees that the risk of redundancy in the firm after privatization will be less. Where layoffs do occur after privatization, share ownership may complement a severance package. Share ownership also may mute worker opposition to privatization in those countries where employees believe that they have some right to ownership in the firm.Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Banks&Banking Reform,Labor Management and Relations

Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA

This brochure is one of a series on human resources practices and workplace accommodations for persons with disabilities edited by Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, Director, Employment and Disability Institute, Cornell University ILR School. The original brochure was written by Barbara A. Lee, Associate Professor, Institute of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was updated by Sheila D. Duston, an attorney/ mediator practicing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, in May 2001 and updated in 2010 by Beth Reiter, an independent legal consultant, Ithaca, NY, with assistance from Sara Furguson, a Cornell University Employment and Disability Institute ILR stu-dent research assistant

An SEA Guide for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and replaces the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The law focuses on using research evidence to improve teaching and learning and at the same time passes considerable authority from federal to state policymakers. This means that responsibility largely falls on states and localities to effectively make sense of and use research evidence in their decisions around school improvement, teacher preparation, principal recruitment, and family engagement. With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Overdeck Family Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation, the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) has developed Guides for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement

Administrative support staff in schools : ways forward

The aims of the research were to establish: • the impact of administrative support in school; • how teachers employ any time released by the presence of extra administrative support; • how the effective use of administrative support, including teacher time released, can best be used to support pupil attainment

The construction and administration of a questionnaire on children's reaction to educational television

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Studies in the life history of the 'Alala in captivity

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Building spelling power: word analysis lessons for grade 2.

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Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA

This brochure is one of a series on human resources practices and workplace accommodations for persons with disabilities edited by Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, SPHR, Director, Program on Employment and Disability, School of Industrial and Labor Relations – Extension Division, Cornell University. Cornell University was funded in the early 1990’s by the U.S. Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research as a National Materials Development Project on the employment provisions (Title I) of the ADA (Grant #H133D10155). These updates, and the development of new brochures, have been funded by Cornell’s Program on Employment and Disability, the Pacific Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center, and other supporters