Special Issue: Environment and Education

Special Issue on Ict and Education

Information and communication technology (ICT) is a principal driver of economic development and social change, worldwide. In many countries, the need for economic and social development is used to justify investments in educational reform and in educational ICT. Yet the connections between national development goals and ICT-based education reform are often more rhetorical than programmatic. Th...

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Guest Editorial Special Issue on Robotics Education

O VER the centuries, the engineering profession has evolved to meet the growing needs of society, resulting in demand for and creation of new engineering disciplines. Biomedical, environmental, aeronautical, and computer engineering are four examples of engineering branches that emerged to educate rising generations of engineers to find solutions to new challenges requiring a diverse set of kno...

Special issue on knowledge management for education

Davenport (1994) defines KM as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge” (p. 119). As knowledge workers use and learn from this knowledge, both individual and organizational performance and productivity are expected to increase. The challenges are not insignificant and are influenced by a variety of human, cultural, and technological factors. Knowledge management...

Special Issue on Diversity in Higher Education

cation and recent anti-affirmative action legislation that poses setbacks in college access for underrepresented minorities (URMs). One important misconception is that K–12 schools have sufficiently addressed past inequalities in providing URMs access to college preparatory education. This article attacks this misconception using the circumstances in K–12 schools and the University of Californi...