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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Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans‚ which started to increase in the late 19th century and is projected to keep going up. Since the early 20th century‚ Earth’s average surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F)‚ with about two thirds of the increase occurring since 1980.[2] Warming of the climate system is unequivocal‚ and scientists are more than 90% certain that most of it is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse
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Poverty is a serious issue that has been going on for centuries. Every day there are people who die due to hunger but there are solutions to reducing‚ and even stopping‚ poverty. Global poverty comes in an abundance of shapes and sizes. One of the main sources of poverty is the lack of investment in the future at all levels. The manufacturer outsources to China because he does not want to invest in long-term employees. The government does not want to invest in quality employees through education
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Abstract This report studies secondary research to discover the effects of global warming and the consequences it has on sea levels‚ ice melting and the polar bear. Websites researched were NASA‚ ICUN‚ National Geographic‚ BBC News‚ The Independent‚ IPCC‚ Arctic Council‚ National Resources Defense Council‚ UN News and D.V.D. called ‘An Inconvenient‚’ truth. Evidence researched supports the conclusion that scientists believe global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a significant
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GLOBAL TERRORISM: AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS Monty G. Marshall INSCR Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research CIDCM Center for International Development and Conflict Management University of Maryland‚ College Park and the Center for Systemic Peace Draft: September 11‚ 2002 M.G.Marshall – Global Terrorism: An Overview and Analysis (Draft 09/11/02) Page 2 of 48 “Dulce bellum inexpertis” 1 – Erasmus Overview The subject of “terrorism” seized the world’s attention in late 2001
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Compare and contrast standardized‚ concentrated and differentiated Global Marketing. Critically evaluate each strategy with an example from a global company to illustrate the differences There is a tendency for international corporate-level strategies to be substituted for global marketing strategies; namely‚ multi-domestic strategy to concentrated marketing‚ global strategy to standardized marketing‚ and transnational strategy to differentiated marketing. However‚ the borderline lies as the former
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ISSN 0021−3624/2012 $9.50 + 0.00 DOI 10.2753/JEI0021-3624460210 Global Imbalances and Financial Crisis: Financial Globalization as a Common Cause Yan Liang Abstract: Global imbalances and global financial instability are tightly connected and can be traced to a common cause‚ that is‚ financial globalization within the current monetary and financial system. The paper argues that financial globalization contributes to global imbalances by impeding real exchange adjustments‚ inducing export-led
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Water‚ Life Cannot Exist Without It Water is the world’s most natural resource and without it there would be no life on earth. Nature limits our available supply of water. Virtually all of human uses require fresh water. 97% of the Earth’s water is salt water and only 2.5% is fresh water of which over two thirds is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The unfrozen freshwater is mainly ground water with only a fraction on the surface. Fresh water is a renewable resource but the world usage
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February 9‚ 2012 Global History & Geography HW#3 Ms. Pistone Pgs. 181-187 Q# 1‚ 2‚ 3 1. Terms & Names Han Dynasty: a Chinese dynasty that ruled from 202 B.C. to A.D. 9 and again from A.D. 23 to 220. Centralized government: a government in which power is concentrated in a central authority to which local
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aim of this assignment is to discuss the meaning of Born Global. Some firms are known as Born Global firms and various internal and external factors that encouraged these firms to be born global‚ what are the marketing strategies which lead to early international expansion of these firms and how they are differ from other and the risk faced by these firms in international market and the ways to tackle these risk. Web definition of born global: A firm that from its birth globalize rapidly without any
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