Academic Dystopia: Knowledge, Performativity, and Tertiary Education

Knowledge Management Education and Training in Academic Institutions in 2012

Knowledge Mapping with Compendium in Academic Research and Online Education

This paper focuses on mapping information, ideas and arguments in virtual learning environments, as part of ongoing research into how this can contribute to distance education, open content learning communities, and distance research training. We introduce the idea of cartographic representations for learning, before describing the freely available Compendium hypermedia knowledge mapping tool d...

the effects of previewing and providing background knowledge on iranian university efl learners’ comprehension of literary and academic texts

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...

The Importance of Soft Skills: Education beyond academic knowledge

This paper makes a survey of the importance of soft skills in students’ lives both at college and after college. It discusses how soft skills complement hard skills, which are the technical requirements of a job the student is trained to do. The paper exhorts educators to take special responsibility regarding soft skills, because during students’ university time, educators have major influence ...

Academic-Practitioner knowledge sharing inside Higher Education Institutions

Small development projects (SDPs) were first launched in 2004-shortly after the creation of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Since then they have proven to be very popular and have introduced a range of innovative activities of benefit to higher education. Acknowledgements We would like to thank all of the participants and universities who shared case studies with us and other me...