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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Tourism in India Tourism is the largest service industry in India‚ with a contribution of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the total employment in India. India witnesses more than 5 million annual foreign tourist arrivals and 562 million domestic tourism visits.[2][3] The tourism industry in India generated about US$100 billion in 2008 and that is expected to increase to US$275.5 billion by 2018 at a 9.4% annual growth rate.[4] In the year 2009‚ 5.11 million foreign tourists visited India.
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BA (Hons) Tourism Marketing Year 3 1.0 AN INTRODUCTION According to the United Nations definition of indigenous people‚ they are “descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived” (United Nations‚ 2011a). It is estimated that there are about 370 million indigenous people around the globe in over 70 different countries. They keep their own political‚ social‚ economic and cultural qualities and also their
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Chapter 1 The Project Background Introduction Technology is the making‚ modification‚ usage‚ and knowledge of tools‚ machines‚ techniques‚ crafts‚ systems‚ and methods of organization‚ in order to solve a problem‚ improve a pre-existing solution to a problem‚ achieve a goal‚ handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools‚ including machinery‚ modifications‚ arrangements and procedures. Technologies significantly affect
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A Creative Reflective Essay Relating My Understanding of an Article from the Cross-Cultural Journal of Psychology: TWO DECADES OF CHANGE IN CULTURAL VALUES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN EIGHT EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS (MICHAEL W. ALLEN‚ University of Sydney‚ Australia; SIK HUNG NG‚ City University of Hong Kong‚ China; KEN’ICHI lKEDA‚ University of Tolcyo‚ Japan; JAYUM A. JAWAN‚ Universiti Putra Malaysia; ANWARUL HASAN SUFI‚ University of Rajshahi‚ Bangladesh; MARC WILSON‚ Victoria
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Florence: Edizioni Polistampa‚2010. Mitchel Nora‚ Mechtild‚ Rossler and Pierre-Marie Tricaud. ’Introducing Cultural Landscapes ’. In World Heritage Cultural Landscapes: A Handbook for Conservation and Management. 15-30‚ Paris: UNESCO‚2009. No author‚ Culture and World Views‚ Unesco‚ URL: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Pages/default.aspx
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Education is everyone’s concern. In 1990‚ the United Nation Education‚ Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched Education For All (EFA)‚ the movement to provide quality education for all children‚ youth‚ and adults globally by the year 2015. The right to education is universal and extends to all children‚ youth and adults with disabilities. This right is enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the
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adalah tanggal yang sangat penting bagi bangsa Indonesia. Setahun yang lalu‚ tepatnya pada tanggal 2 Oktober 2009‚ UNESCO menetapkan batik Indonesia sebagai warisan budaya dunia (World Heritage). Pengukuhan ini sangat penting artinya bagi bangsa Indonesia yang saat itu tengah berupaya keras mempertahankan ikon-ikon yang menjadi identitasnya dari pengakuan negara-negara lain. Keputusan UNESCO ini lantas diperingati setiap tahunnya sebagai Hari Batik di Indonesia. Sejarah Batik Batik menurut etimologi
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Brief synthesis Enclosed between the high mountains of the Hindu Kush in the central highlands of Afghanistan‚ the Bamiyan Valley opens out into a large basin bordered to the north by a long‚ high stretch of rocky cliffs. The Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley comprise a serial property consisting of eight separate sites within the Valley and its tributaries. Carved into the Bamiyan Cliffs are the two niches of the giant Buddha statues (55m and 38m high) destroyed
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Describe and evaluate the negative social‚ cultural or environmental impact caused by tourism in a destination of your choice. Analyse the causes of this impact and judge to what extent sustainable tourism strategies and methods could eliminate or ameliorate them and thereby secure the long term future of the destination. The negative effects of tourism are widely publicised in a number of destinations worldwide; however it is often underdeveloped nations that are home to natural wonders of the
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