of universal education. Both public and private gains to investment in education are high: economic growth, individual earning potential, and health indicators are all positively correlated with education. Multiple forums, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have recognized primary education as a human right. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Education for All movement set a goal of universal primary and secondary education by 2015, a target
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results show that collaborative learning positively and significantly with interactive with peers, interactive with teachers and engagement which impact the students’ academic performance. Keywords –social media usage, collaborative learning, higher education and students’ academic performance. 1. INTRODUCTION The social media has become one of the most important communication means in recent times. However, social networking exist so as to provide communication among people regardless of the distance
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Paragraph - The Future of Technology in Schools The introduction of technology into the classroom marks a significant turning point in improving learning environments and getting students ready for a digital world that is changing quickly. The goal of educational technology in the future is to create an adaptive, networked learning environment that can accommodate students' varied demands, not just tossing devices and software into the classroom. Modern educational technologies like virtual reality,
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RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AT TERTIARY EDUCATION LEVEL IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATION FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION ABSTRACT The paper observes that Nigeria higher education Institution have fallen short on expectations, their product (Tertiary Education level) lack the skills required by the labour market and this trend results in mass graduate unemployment since they would have assisted them to be self reliant. The study investigated the relevance of higher level business education, human recourses management and
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competiveness. Some sociologists – Marxists especially have claimed that the real aim and result was to undermine comprehensive education and maintain inequalities. In the years 1980’s – 1990 the labour government imposed many education policies in order to improve the education standards and parental choice of Britain. When Labour came into power they decided to keep the education policies that conservative had already introduced. A major policy that was introduced was the national curriculum. The national
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we think, and it affects us all differently. Technology is advancing faster than anyone could have imagined 20 years ago. Some people are being left behind because they do not want to learn the latest in technological advancements. It also has an effect on our youth with how education is being taught in the 21st century. How do all of these advancements in technology affect our economy? There is a digital divide in our country's healthcare, education, and economics. Understanding the digital divide
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The ability of hierarchies to influence and shape many aspects of today’s society is often overlooked. Hierarchies such as formal education, technology and even Wall Street impact our society through promises such as becoming a successful individual in today’s world if you follow their ideal path. In the article “ Biographies of Hegemony” by Karen Ho, the author discusses with the reader how Wall Street, a powerful hierarchy defines what “smartness” means on most Ivy League campuses. According to
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Web Tools for Distance Education-Podcasting Podcasting Darlene LaBarre University of Capella Podcasting is one of the most recent uses of Internet technology. The term "podcast" is a mixture of the words iPod and broadcast with "iPod" being the name given to a family of portable MP3 players from Apple Inc. "MP3" is a frequent file format for electronic audio files. From an educational perspective the use of podcasts are limitless. Since creating podcasts is fairly easy and inexpensive, instructors
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Pandey to that of Transactional and Transformational Leadership Styles on the Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction of Customer Contact Personnel, by Emery & Barker to that of, The reality of Web-Based Interaction in an Egyptian Distance Education Course by Alaa Sadik. The article by Wright and Pandey outlined their view of leadership that is defined as transformational. Their structure of better performing bureaucracies has support of an elite level of transformational leadership. The
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Information management (IM) and technology is playing a very important role in healthcare today. There are both positives and negatives when it comes to the advancement in technology and IM. Nursing is one of the last areas in the business world to take advantage of the advances in both IM and technology (Roussel, 2013). The need to search through patient records, having access to nursing measures at the bedside, quick educational sessions, and the ability to mine data for quality measures relating
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