THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PASTURE PLANT RESOURCES: THEN AND NOW

Economic Development: Then and Now

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS as a separate branch of economics emerged at the end of the Second World War. During the dominance of neo-classical economics from the 1870s until the Keynesian Revolution of the 1930s, economists were more concerned with partial equilibrium analysis. They worked on the assumption that a free competitive capitalist economy would automatically ensure the maximisation of nat...

Professional Development: Then and Now

Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two indepe...

Heifer Development – Then and Now

In the Footsteps of Vavilov: Plant Diversity Then and Now

N.I. Vavilov’s theories direct present-day global activities in plant science, breeding, and conservation. His expeditions around the world located centers of diversity of crop evolution. Vavilov was one of the earliest scientists to realize that wild genetic diversity could be lost, through genetic erosion, reducing the possibilities for future crop improvement. To measure genetic erosion, Gar...

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

این پژوهش با هدف "بررسی وضعیت موجود آموزش عالی مجازی در ایران و راههای توسعه و ارتقای آن " و با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی و پیمایشی صورت پذیرفته است. بررسی اسنادو مدارک موجود در زمینه آموزش مجازی نشان داد تعداد دانشجویان و مقاطع تحصیلی و رشته محل های دوره های الکترونیکی چندان مطلوب نبوده و از نظر کیفی نیز وضعیت شاخص خدمات آموزشی اساتید و وضعیت شبکه اینترنت در محیط آموزش مجازی نامطلوب است.