The gross increase in population will generally lead to adverse effects on the environment. In the anthology‚ A Forest of Voices‚ an entry titled "Is It Too Late?" by Anthony Weston deals with the history of legislation for the protection of the environment and stories of it’s destruction that are all too real. Seemingly‚ as the population increases‚ so should the level of intelligence for a sample population which would necessarily lead to a certain form of protection to the environment. It would
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IntroductionDuring the 1990s‚ considerable interest has been generated in the design of constructivist learning environments. The promise of these systems to leverage capabilities of technology‚ empower learners to pursue unique goals and needs‚ and re-conceptualize teaching-learning practices has sparked both provocative ideas as well as heated debate. Yet‚ problems in grounding designs within established theory and research are commonplace‚ as designers grapple with questions regarding epistemology
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RETAINING TALENT HCL’s Entrepreneurship Shergill of HCL Technologies feels the company has built employee programmes and policies that reflect their ’employee first‚ customer second’ strategic model. Shergill says the company fosters a culture of idea-preneurship that enables employees to generate creative insights and helps retain top performers. Their HCL Value Portal provides a forum for HCL employees and customers where HCL employees identify problems in a product and provide solutions that
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in the teaching and learning process. The benefits that accrue to students in universities and other learning institutions using e-learning are well documented. Over the past years in majority of countries‚ academic institutions and other institutions of higher learning have been diversifying in delivery of instruction to learners through internet media. These internet media include Virtual Learning Environment system (VLEs)‚ online classrooms and asynchronous distance learning amongst other growing
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following questions: * What are the advantages of having diversity in a collaborative learning environment? In a collaborative learning environment the advantages of diversity‚ or being diverse are far and wide. The differences that we all have are intriguing and that in it self can get a discussion started. Everyone has a unique way of doing things‚ whether it’s there style of work‚ language‚ or way of learning. Through collaboration we can use our differences to help strengthen each others
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Virtual Learning Environment Virtual Learning Environment is one of the many learning strategies or methods. Virtual Learning Environment or online learning is part of blended approach of leaning. The other methods include self-managed learning where a person learns independently with the help from tutors‚ peers and using course materials and a face to face learning method is a strategy where learning takes place in an actual classroom with the tutors. Online learning started four
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How does Action Learning Work? In most Action Learning programmes people work in small groups or sets of between 6-8‚ sometimes with an adviser or facilitator Action learning sets work by: Meeting regularly - The frequency and duration can vary depending upon these circumstances‚ the people and their problems. The set might choose to meet for a full or half day‚ weekly‚ fortnightly‚ monthly or six weekly‚ over 3 month‚ 6‚ 12 or 18 months. People in the set should decide how many meetings
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Virtual Learning Environment Introduction VLE can be defined as a platform that is used for learning and interaction between students and teachers by a developed online computer-web technology. There are some factors that instigated the development of VLE and it dates back as far as the internet development itself. VLE – Past‚ Present and Future Due to the need of improvement in educational systems and research‚ online learning has developed just as the internet and the World Wide Web has developed
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[Title] Executive Summary This report is based on the online & distance learning mediums‚ VLE’s. It’s focused on three open source and proprietary VLE software platforms: Blackboard‚ Moodle and Fronter. All three are analyzed by presenting their functions‚ advantages and disadvantages. The report concludes with a comparison of them and their position in the market share showing how these learning environments have developed over time. Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 4 Moodle
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Expressive Agents: Non-verbal Communication in Collaborative Virtual Environments Fabri M Leeds Metropolitan University Department of Computing The Grange‚ Beckett Park Leeds‚ LS6 3QS +44-113 2835161 Moore DJ Leeds Metropolitan University Department of Computing The Grange‚ Beckett Park Leeds‚ LS6 3QS +44-113 2837556 Hobbs DJ University of Bradford Department of EIMC Richmond Road Bradford‚ BD7 1DP +44-1274 236135 m.fabri@lmu.ac.uk d.moore@lmu.ac.uk d.hobbs@bradford.ac.uk ABSTRACT
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