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Peterson, Patti McGill – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum fills an important gap in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Study, Curriculum Development
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Beaudoin, Michael F. – Open Learning, 2009
Consortia are increasingly popular mechanisms by which educational institutions may achieve organisational goals that might be especially challenging to accomplish individually. Such collaborations are intended to offer courses and services through combined resources and expertise. Consortia designed to develop and deliver distance education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Developing Nations
Casares, Pablo; And Others – 1988
An operational instrument was designed to approach the tasks of curricular planning and design of university programs in communication in Mexico, or elsewhere in the Third World. The instrument was designed by the Mexican team of advisors at the Workshop-Seminar on Curriculum Planning, held in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, in May of 1987. It was used…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Communications, Content Analysis, Curriculum Design
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Bowman, Mary Jean – Comparative Education Review, 1984
Lays out a framework in which microeconomic decision theory and elements of information/communication theory drawn from human geography and sociology are joined in an integrated approach to the analysis of the spread of schooling among the less developed countries. Tests the model on area variations in India, Brazil, and Mexico. (BRR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
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Murray-Lasso, Marco – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1990
Describes 12 constraints imposed by culture on educational software portability. Nielsen's seven-level virtual protocol model of human-computer interaction is discussed as a framework for considering the constraints, a hypothetical example of adapting software for Mexico is included, and suggestions for overcoming constraints and making software…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Copyrights, Courseware
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1993
This publication reports on a workshop to review and analyze existing practices in the design, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum in technical and vocational education (TVE). In the main working document, "Curriculum Development in TVE" (Tom Saluja), are the following: definition of curriculum development; description of how to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
2001
This symposium on human resource development (HRD) and small manufacturers consists of three presentations. "Toward a Model of Technical Assistance for Small Manufacturers: The Role of Performance Technology" (Dale C. Brandenburg) reviews literature documenting the need for technical assistance to small manufacturers, especially as it…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration), Developing Nations