Research & Technology 2003
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1428918191
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Participatory research methods for technology evaluation: A manual for scientists working with farmers
Author: Mauricio R. Bellon
Publisher: CIMMYT
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9706480668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to farmer participatory research; An overview of the projects used as examples in this manual; Participation: identifying the places, people, and procedures for research; Diagnosis of farmers conditions; Evaluation of current and new technological options; Assessing the impact of new technologies.
Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology
Author: David H. Jonassen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1195
ISBN-13: 0805841458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of this handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into seven sectors, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly changing field.
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-07-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0309132967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology
Author: J. Michael Spector
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-07-03
Total Pages: 1005
ISBN-13: 1461431859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 4th edition of the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology expands upon the previous 3 versions, providing a comprehensive update on research pertaining to new and emerging educational technologies. Chapters that are no longer pertinent have been eliminated in this edition, with most chapters being completely rewritten, expanded, and updated Additionally, new chapters pertaining to research methodologies in educational technology have been added due to expressed reader interest. Each chapter now contains an extensive literature review, documenting and explaining the most recent, outstanding research, including major findings and methodologies employed. The Handbook authors continue to be international leaders in their respective fields; the list is cross disciplinary by design and great effort was taken to invite authors outside of the traditional instructional design and technology community.
Handbook of Research on Human Performance and Instructional Technology
Author: Song, Holim
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2009-10-31
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 1605667838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book addresses the connection between human performance and instructional technology with teaching and learning, offering innovative ideas for instructional technology applications and elearning"--Provided by publisher.
Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society
Author: J. Thompson Klein
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 3034884192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from simple of fashion? How can we distinguish between necessity and fancy? whims How can we differentiate conviction from opinion? What is the meaning of this all? Where is the civilizing project? Where is the universal outlook of the minds that might be capable of counteracting the global reach of the market? Where is the common ground that links each of us to the other? We need the kind of science that can live up to this need for univer sality, the kind of science that can answer these questions. We need a new kind of knowledge, a new awareness that can bring about the creative destruction of certainties. Old ideas, dogmas, and out-dated paradigms must be destroyed in order to build new knowledge of a type that is more socially robust, more scientifically reliable, stable and above all better able to express our needs, values and dreams. What is more, this new kind of knowledge, which will be challenged in turn by ideas yet to come, will prove its true worth by demonstrating its capacity to dialogue with these ideas and grow with them.
Changing Governance of Research and Technology Policy
Author: Jakob Edler
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781781957790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection analyses and comments on the development of the ERA, which seeks to co-ordinate national research and advance European wide projects. The contributors include leading scholars of European integration and technology policy and high-level administrators. They discuss the potential impacts, benefits and limits to research and innovation policy within Europe both in the short and long term. Moreover, the debate about ERA is placed firmly in the context of the overall changes at the European level.
Bodies in Technology
Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesign Models for Hierarchical Organizations: Computation, Information, and Decentralization provides state-of-the-art research on organizational design models, and in particular on mathematical models. Each chapter views the organization as an information processing entity. Thus, mathematical models are used to examine information flow and decision procedures, which in turn, form the basis for evaluating organization designs. Each chapters stands alone as a contribution to organization design and the modeling approach to design. Moreover, the chapters fit together and that totality gives us a good understanding of where we are with this approach to organizational design issues and where we should focus our research efforts in the future.
Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
Author: Wang, Victor C.X.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2012-10-31
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1466621826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the 21st century has seen, lifelong learning has become more important as many countries have emerged into learning societies. With these learning societies, adult and community education, along with new technologies, play a major role in shaping and reshaping their economic, political, and cultural realities. Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning addresses how technologies impact the combination of workforce education and adult learning. This comprehensive collection of research from leading authorities and front line faculty seeks to equip adult learners/employees with the right knowledge and skills to continue to contribute to the economy given the importance of the essential role of technologies.
