Policy Brief November 2010 UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education GLOBAL TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO REFORM EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES CONTENTS: Introduction The forces driving publication and use of open educational resources From open educational resources to open educational practices Impacts on educational systems Recommendations INTRODUCTION Open educa onal resources (OER) have become a major focus of discussion and ac on within
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1 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL MARKETING SUMMARY A company that engages in global marketing focuses resources on global market opportunities and threats. Successful global marketers such as Nestle‚ Coca-Cola‚ and Honda use familiar marketing mix elements – the four Ps – to create global marketing programs. Marketing‚ R&D‚ manufacturing‚ and other activities comprise a firm’s value chain; firms configure activities to create superior customer value on a global basis. Global companies also maintain
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GE’s digital Revolution Redefining the E in GE Within 18 months of introducing the e-business initiative‚ Internet Week named GE the ~{!0~}Internet Company of the Year.~{!1~} How was GE to drive this ambitious company-wide program throughout its complex and diverse organizations so quickly and effectively? GE is a huge company‚ with 3 dozen of business areas‚ over 300 thousand employees and annual sales revenue as high as 129 billion in the year of 2000. It was the "social architecture" (culture
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Conclusion 3 References 3 1 Brief introduction to the topic Projects are run in most organizations to achieve some specific goals within the given timeframe and with dedicated resources. In the Hungarian subsidiaries of General Electric (GE) there are more than one hundred projects run parallel consuming millions of Euros and hundreds of FTEs; thus the quality of project delivery functions are crucial in order to achieve cost efficiency in operations and also quality outcomes. In the
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“Global Warming – Global Warming For Mankind” Global warming is the continuing rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Global warming is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere‚ resulting from human activities such as deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. The effects of global warming are that increasing global temperatures are causing a broad range of changes. Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion of the ocean‚ in addition
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strategy+business ISSUE 64 AUTUMN 2011 How to Be a Truly Global Company Many multinational business models are no longer relevant. Skillful companies can integrate three strategies — customization‚ competencies‚ and arbitrage —into a better form of organization. BY C.K. PRAHALAD AND HRISHI BHATTACHARY YA REPRINT 11308 features global perspective 1 How to Be a Truly Global Company by C.K. P r a ha lad a nd H r ish i Bhat t acha r y ya Photo illustration by Holly Lindem
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Global media institutions and global media flows. Media flows is a concept of flows researched on the balance of media exported‚ imported and in general disturbed between nations‚ be it nationally or internationally. Contra-flows were countries once thought as major clients of media imperialism such as Televisa (Mexico)‚ TV Globo (Brazil) And Canada (CanWest) now can export TV porgrammes and music to the countries around the world. This was known as media imperialism where smaller countries would
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Subject distributed equally across three (3) clusters: CLUSTER Arts and Humanities Social Sciences and Philosophy Math‚ Science and Technology UNITS 15 15 15 As approved by the Members of the UP Manila University Council on July 7‚ 2011‚ the following GE Subjects will be PRESCRIBED in all undergraduate degree programs of UP Manila. PRESCRIBED GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES COURSE NUMBER COMM I/KOM I COMM II/KOM II HISTORY I SOC SCI I MATH I * NAT SCI I * COURSE TITLE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (AH) CLUSTER
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Rise of GE BWS It formed the base of the GE as it provided the world with much needed currency stability in the post-war era. Under the system‚ all currencies were pegged to gold and since USA has 70% of gold reserves‚ the USD became a de facto currency of the world– 35USD to one troy ounce of gold. As gold prices does not fluctuate‚ the BWS provided a much-needed stability for monetary flows and thus the world saw an increase in trade and economic growth. It also created open markets to combat
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Global Warming [Client’s Name Appears Here] [Client’s College/University Appears Here] Date Global warming is a threat to earth and mankind. Global warming refers to the increase in the temperature of earth’s atmosphere. The increase in global temperature has been occurring in the past several years. According to Nardo et al.‚ author of Climate Crisis: The Science of Global Warming‚ “scientists noted that of the 21 hottest years recorded‚ 20 of which occurred
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