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 educa onal circles
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Elizabeth Kornobis Patagonia 2 Global Retail Markets October 20‚ 2015 Patagonia is a company prided on social ethic and global responsibility. When they develop a new product‚ they search worldwide to find factories that have the skills and equipment to do a quality job and deliver on time. There are four factors considered when choosing a factory; quality‚ business factors and environmental and social performance standards. Some examples of business factors might be technologies
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Global Warming The greenhouse effect‚ in environmental science‚ is a popular term for the effect that certain variable constituents of the Earth ’s lower atmosphere have on surface temperatures. It has been known since 1896 that Earth has been warmed by a blanket of gasses (This is called the "greenhouse effect."). The gases--water vapor (H2O)‚ carbon dioxide (CO2)‚ and methane (CH4)--keep ground temperatures at a global average of about 15 degrees C (60 degrees F). Without them the average
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Global Stratification There are many different income groups that make up the world. There is high income‚ middle‚ and low income groups. The high income groups average about 10‚ 000 to 25‚000 dollars a year. These include countries such as the United States and Switzerland. The countries in this group perform some sort of specalized work. The middle income groups average about 2‚500 to 10‚000 annually and account for as much as one-third of the worlds humanity. This group includes countries
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Protection on the Global Economy Protection is essentially defined as any action by national governments that will give an artificial competitive advantage to domestic producers over foreign producers. The opposite of protection is free trade‚ which occurs when there are no limitations to the free movement of goods and services between different economies. The main reasons for nations to reduce protection is to increase efficiency and productivity levels‚ but in reducing protection also comes with international
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What is the main cause of global warming? In the last century‚ the sea level has rose for about 17 centimetres. The rate in the last decade is however‚ nearly the double of last century. Major global surface reconstructions also showed that the Earth has warmed since 1880 and it’s still going on. Oceans are also warming up‚ due to the heat. Not only that‚ the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting‚ glaciers are disappearing and extreme weather events have occurred more often. All these
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Global Warming The topic of global warming has become one of the worlds rising issues and has recently become an important piece of the presidents’ annual state of the union speech. The most important step to end this issue is to recognize who’s causing it. It must be all the industrial nations fault? We can’t blame any one nation for the worlds ever so sudden climate change because this particular issue involves all of us and the only people to blame are ourselves. The climate has been going
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GLOBAL AWARENESS While a single challenging incident in a cross-cultural setting does not come to mind‚ I have had many experiences with people from different traditions and backgrounds all through my life. On a personal level - dealing with different cultural norms‚ languages and traditions on a daily basis has become second nature to me and an intrinsic part of my personality. India is an amalgamation and a macrocosm of sub-cultures with multiple languages‚ customs‚ religions‚ food‚ music
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Global warming There are already many natural disasters‚ for example earthquakes in Mexico or floods in Pakistan‚ probably the first effects caused by global warming. But that is just the beginning; the number of natural disasters will increase in the future. In my speech I tell you something about global warming and what we can do to prevent it. At first I define the term “global warming”: It is the change of the climate caused by the people for example the destruction of the ozone layer and the
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GLOBAL WARMING Global warming is one of the most challenging environmental problems today. It comes longer and more intense heat waves. National borders have no meaning for the atmosphere. The damage of the atmosphere makes harmful elements enter and travel around the world. And now‚ people are worried about the global effects of air pollution. Research shows that the earth’s atmosphere is changing in ways that could be destructive to our life. Pollution could be a major cause of this. One of
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